Dead Love: Strange Star...
“Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.” —William S. Burroughs Beastie Boy rapper Adam Yauch is releasing a documentary about William S. Burroughs. Burroughs, a Beat with amazing staying power, despite crimes, misdemeanors and major addictions … he died in 1997 … was revered by...
Dead Love: Another Vood...
While Ryu is hanging out in Haiti in the latest Dead Love serializations, I’m going to focus on the local “voodoo” scene, which means the flashlight hits San Jose’s VooDoo Lounge (14 South Second Street). The music is hip hop, R&B, soul, neo-soul, rock,...
Dead Love: Survival of ...
On an island off the coast of Delaware … the Irish are feuding, of course. This time it’s about zombies. In the latest George A. Romero zombie flick, Survival of the Dead, humans grapple with the age old question: Can you rehabilitate a zombie? Romero, the American filmmaker,...
Dead Love: Brain Power
Never underestimate the power of brains … at least in all matters zombie. For example, the 2010 Toronto Zombie Walk, which happens in October, will be raising money through the sale of some mighty sweet brains … well, brain brooches. Just a thing for those fashion zombies....
Dead Love for the Grate...
Maybe it was the skeletons and roses, I don’t know exactly why I had to check out The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New York Historical Society, but this celebration of a superband from the sixties did kind of carry me away. To where? To some oddly trippy, hippy place full of...