Posted by Jason Diamond I’d understand if you noticed that Pop. 1280 was named after Jim Thompson’s 1964 novel and maybe expected something more akin to Nick Cave’s early sludgy work, The Scientists, or a band that could score some of the earlier works of Jim Jarmusch. In all honesty, I was expecting something along those lines when I gave the band’s EP on Sacred Bones, The Grid, a first listen; instead, I was treated to something that sounded like Suicide and Swans […]
Morning Bites: Greatest 3-Minute Stories, Bellow in Chicago, 1984 Nick Cave, Cass McCombs, and more
Tonight is the night of nights. Vol. 1 and Nerve present the Greatest 3-Minute Sex Drugs, and/or Rock n’ Roll Stories at Bar Matchless. See you there? RSVP here. The Christine O’Donnell tour for her book, Making America Great Again, brought the woman who is not a witch to Piers Morgan’s show on CNN, where she ended up walking out during the interview because Morgan was asking her questions about things covered in her book. Roxane Gay’s brilliant essay at […]
Weekend Bites: Nick Cave to MTV, Nonrequired Reading, Wesley Stace, Soros Responds to Glenn Beck and More
Remember that time that Nick Cave told MTV that he didn’t want their stinking award? NY Tyrant takes the Best American Nonrequired Reading books to task at Vice. Wesley Stace talks to the New York Times. The cult of the sentence. George Soros finally responded to Glenn Beck’s (anti-Semitic) frequent attacks. Home cooking with Amy Sedaris. James Franco asks Judd Apatow how to host the Oscars. William F. Buckley on pot. NY Times Sunday Book Review Highlights Joyce Carol Oates’s […]
I Wonder How Nick Cave is Celebrating His Birthday
He’s probably at a crossroads right now, thinking to himself “am I a writer or a musician?” Whatever the case, we’d like to wish him a happy birthday in case he happens to be Googling “Nick Cave Birthday” right now.
Monday Stuff: Nick Cave, Jon Stewart, Superchunk, The Rumpus Take Over Brooklyn
At New York Magazine, New York Magazine hits it right on the head with the title for the Jon Stewart/Daily Show profile, “America is a Joke“: “Jon has chronicled the death of shame in politics and journalism,” says Brian Williams, the NBC Nightly News anchor who is a frequent Daily Show guest. “Many of us on this side of the journalism tracks often wish we were on Jon’s side. I envy his platform to shout from the mountaintop. He’s a […]
Good Week for Nick Cave Fans/Dorks
1. Bunny Munro television mini-series? 2. Track listing for Grinderman 2 is released along with teaser videos for first single: 1) Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man 2) Worm Tamer 3) Heathen Child 4) When My Baby Comes 5) What I Know 6) Evil 7) Kitchenette 8) Palaces of Montezuma 9) Bellringer Blues
Me and Bunny Munro, Several Months Later
Last October, I shared some thoughts on Nick Cave’s novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, from the point of view of a person who’s been a Cave fan for 15+ years. he has written a pretty good story, but 278 pages chronicling the life of a piece of human garbage gets old faster than a three minute song. Now, as I sit here with the sun shining into my room — opposed to the choking gray of Autumn — I’m […]
Bites: Bolaño and Borges, Nin on LSD, Nick Cave Photoshopped, the Greatest Metal Tour EVER, and More
I’ve loved just about every installment of “What Bolaño Read” over at MobyLives. Today, the late Chilean writers fondness for Jorge Luis Borges. Lit. Anais Nin on LSD’s value at Arthur. I only wished people had had time to study drugs as they studied religion or philosophy and to adapt to this chemical alteration of our bodies. Token magical realism “seems not just forced, but fashionable” says Alastair Harper of the Guardian. Go on over to My Old Kentucky […]