Byline: By DAVID POWELLDaily Post (Liverpool, England)
Bands like the Japandroids, PS I Love You, and Amazing/Wow are the stuff that rock music is made of, and I’m just a sucker for bands that really let their balls hang out. If you can’t say what you need to say in 3 chords and with shitty distorted singing, maybe you need to ...
seven days a week, you can do what you bloody well choose,” Eva Wotton reminds herself at the start of Argument with the East Wind (1986), the last of Joan O’Donovan’s three novels about older single women trying to find the place in the world that fits them. “...
I can’t help but push her buttons, she’s sexy as hell when she’s fired up. Or cooking dinner with Miss Polly, or… well, any time, really. Maybe having her work for me in my vet clinic wasn’t the smartest move I’ve ever made considering I can’t stop my body from aching...
Take the trouble out of choosing a rock and let your loved one choose their own! Yeah, yeah, we know that gift cards kind of get a bad reputation. But from a true rockhound, the idea that I can go into a dealer’s inventory and pick out something I LOVE is definitely exciting in...
You can see in the pic below where I added some water to my brush to add a darker tone. I didn’t want drips so I just let it dry. This is just the Cadmium Red: I don’t know about you, but I associate red with hearts, cardinals, blood, roses, or Santa Claus. I wanted to...
the guy behind the counter informing me the Enniskerry Inn was actually next door. I quickly exited onto the street and entered the next door along into the Enniskerry Inn only to be welcomed by the same guy behind a different counter exclaiming“can I help you?”.I smirked and retorted“...
It won’t diminish my passion for positive impact as I know this is just a given these days but time to let loose a little more with a tad less regard to costs, apprehensions, norms and ‘excuses’ we can put in our brains / my brain! Not sure I will be that much more unleashed...
In this image, for instance, it looks as though I’d captured a still of Mio moving her hand after playing a chord. I’m certainly not the first to write about Alter’s Mio Akiyama scale figure, but I can now lay claim to having the internet’s finest photographs when it comes to ...
“I was planning to mail this when we got to the Promised Land,” she said, “but something tells me I should mail it now. It may be a while before we get there. Besides, I’m starting to think that maybe anywhere can be the Promised Land, that even in this wilderness I am ...