RVA punk in the mid-late 90s was a serious moment in US punk history. It’s a surprise it isn’t more nationally known. I chalk it up to marginality of region and multiplicity of style (less subtlety/diversity tends to export better I think). It was a tremendously creative moment in punk and had a strong effect on the younger generation If I had to pick a favorite from that era, it would easily be action patrol. You should find their records and listen to them in costume.
Growing up, I had my fair share of San Francisco Unified School District meals up until the 3rd grade when I discovered Bagel Dogs and Chef Boyardee Ravioli. But before those brown bag lunch days, I looked for unsuspecting classmates that were willing to trade their icees for the tasteless brown hamburger like things they would be serving every other day. For me, it was more about getting to try all the interesting desserts that would present themselves across those lunch counters than getting any nutritional sustenance that would last me throughout the day.
For those that still wonder what might your little brother or cousin might be eating nowadays, look no farther than What’s For School Lunch. The blog focuses on cafeteria fare from all over the world from China, Korea, Brazil and more. Who knew the Koreans were sneaking spicy squid into their lunch lines?
“We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.” – Tom Stoppard.
He was a man of vision and an innovator, and did much to raise contemporary DJing to the level of serious art.
DJ AM live in June at the Do Over June 2008: (via elieesco)
The French have always been a great source of inspiration, and certainly their recent art and music scenes have sprinkled more of their fair share of cultural influence across the pond. I was recently checking out Purple Magazine’s awesome blog and came across a post on the movie Salòalso known as The 120 Days of Sodom.
The movie is based off of author Marquis de Sade’s book Salò,originally written in the 18th century, and has been banned in many countries due to its graphic violence and sadism. The film focuses on four wealthy, corrupted facist libertines who kidnap 18 boys and girls and subject them to 4 months of extreme violence, sadism, and mental torture. Set in Nazi controlled Italy in the mid 1940s, film director Pier Paolo Pasolini has drawn much of the film’s storyline from Sade’s novel as well as from his own personal accounts of living in the Republic of Salò during the rule of Mussolini’s Fascist regime.
Often heralded as one of the most important films of the 20th centurty from film makers such as Martin Scorsese and Michael Haneke, this extremely graphic tale of perverse consumption connects the brutality of Fascism to what Pasolini saw as the brutalizing effects of the modification of sexuality under late capitalism.
Just downloaded the new Rocket City mixtape from Traps N Trunks. The Rocket City is Huntsville, Alabama (Incidentally the hometown of Bad Beat kingpin Bobby Evans). The mixtape is solid. Today’s mp3 selection is off that mix: “Think it Over” by Mr. Marcellus and ST 2 Lettaz evokes classic scarface and vintage Bun-B, and arranges the usual prop-house detritus of southern rap songs into a different sort of framework.
The French have always been a great source of inspiration, and certainly their recent art and music scenes have sprinkled more of their fair share of cultural influence across the pond. I was recently checking out Purple Magazine’s awesome 
