I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that '80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over.

If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost.

I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage.