April 6th, 2007
by Robert Starvation
Change is afoot (see previous post), so it’s appropriate enough that our last proper local blogger is the West Coast Editor of Revolver, a magazine famous for chronicling rock music, a genre that has oft been synonymous with transformation, reinvention, and yes, change.
Dan Epstein (who will have you know he’s an award-winning journalist who splits his time between Los Angeles and Palm Springs) drenches La Vie En Robe with his infectious enthusiasm for rock music, baseball, rock music, cable television and rock music. Indeed, this mutton-chopped enthusiast is wild about it, and is fortunate enough to be in a profession that allows him to rub elbows with its gods, demigods, one-hit wonders and hangers-on. This naturally makes for amusing anecdotes, of which he has many.
Epstein is a gifted writer - blessedly, those gifts have not gone to waste on La Vie En Robe.
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April 6th, 2007
by Re:Generator
After tonight’s forthcoming “Other Voices” installment, the series will be shifting its focus. Up until now, attention has been paid only to weblogs authored by individuals living within the arbitrary confines of the Coachella Valley, a roughly 30 mile long stretch of land hugging Southern California’s I-10 freeway. No longer. Just as Re:Generator the magazine is now free of the fetters of regionalism, so too is “Other Voices.” You have to allow that it gives us a lot more to work with.
Another development is occurring incrementally: the increase of weekend posts. Heretofore you may have caught one, perhaps two articles outside of the traditional work week, but as the site increases its momentum and takes on further contributors, so too should the volume increase. We can’t make any grand predictions; still, it couldn’t hurt to check back on days The Patriarchy™ hasn’t chained you to a desk.
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March 29th, 2007
by Robert Starvation
Ooo, a tastemaker blog that provides a shortcut around all that pesky thinking in favor of having someone you’ve never met tell you what’s worthwhile around the desert! That, of course, is one major flaw of lists, awards and year-end best of’s: something we were fully aware of when we compiled them at the end of 2006, but blew past with tongue planted firmly in cheek. If you don’t begrudge Desert Best for their approach, though, you’re in for a treat: it’s well constructed, expertly written and covers most - if not all - of the high-profile events that fill our calendars.
The blog’s tone is reminiscent of a carnival barker: bold and boisterous, with the air of a gussied-up salesman. Maybe KR, the omnipresent author, was one in a past life. Maybe KR will be reincarnated as a rock. Maybe we’ve inexplicably segued into theological speculation.
So it doesn’t pay one whit of attention to the non-Coachella music scene, and underground art events might as well not exist, but if you’re of a certain disposition (mainstream) and a certain age (45-plus), have we got a website for you.
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March 22nd, 2007
by Robert Starvation
I adamantly detest well-written, witty, and sometimes deeply personal blogging. Can’t abide it. The kind of searing prose that “Evil Jungle Prince” seems to easily conjure in Trailing Xtabay confounds my reptile brain; his international experiences make me deeply suspicious that he has allegiances with people that hate America, even if there is no way to prove it. I’m convinced there’s a special place in hell reserved for those who exhibit even a smidgeon of erudition. The ‘Prince doesn’t write about the things that matter to me: celebrity affairs, reality television, Oprah’s weight, hating Ultragrrrl.
Furthermore, cantankerousness isn’t nice. Everyone should be nice. Everyone should agree, all the time, in a hazy P.C. utopia sort of way.
Xtabay (pronounced “Shta-bye,” he claims) fails for me on so many levels. What need do I have of amazing and nuanced writing? It’s such a drag to read all those words. Can a local blog of quality be vacuum sealed inside a potato chip bag? I think not.
I’d diss Trailing Xtabay more, but I see an hour block of The People’s Court is on. L8RZ
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January 31st, 2007
by Robert Starvation
I will, for the sake of what little journalistic integrity I’ve accrued, disclaim any impartiality right off the bat. Andrea Lampman is part of the extended Re:Generator familia, and has done advertising work for the magazine in the past. We love her. Her husband loves her. Children love her. Even dogs love her.
Now that the elephant in the room has been cornered by animal control and taken back to the zoo, on to the essential truth of the matter. The truth of the Christian faith, St. Thomas Aquinas argued, surpasses the capacity of reason. Likewise, the truth of Andrea’s blog scout surpasses the capacity of awesome. It’s like awesome is zoned to only hold 100 people and Andrea brought in a party of 250.
scout is updated daily (at least it has for the last four days). Every post is replete with sparkling prose and enough cultural literacy to rightly make me feel like an uncultured git. Why are you still reading this? My write-up does her blog no justice! Go! Experience it firsthand! Pay her compliments! Pay her so many compliments she’s delirious with happiness, so when I break into her house to steal her Octavio Paz she’ll pay me no mind.
THE END
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