The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.

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.

Hating someone is giving them too much, just leave them alone.

When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.

Texas is as odd as it is vast.

I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.