journals/publications: worthwhile places: sports and leisure: mail order: real stores: discographies: hangouts: other: old stuff:

journals/publications:
The Baffler - Chicago, literature/curmudgeonliness.
Blastitude - Chicago, noise/sports/noisesports.
So Far So Bad Dot Com - San Francisco, music/nuttines.
In These Times - Chicago, politics/leftiness.
Joshin' Blog [DEFUNCT] - Montreal, music/nudity.
Pure Rock Fury [DEFUNCT] - Chicago, metal/self-loathing.
Moby Lives - [Unknown Location], literature/commentary.
Pseublog - New York, music/sexual politics.
The New Yorker - New York, commentary/Upper West Side lifestyles.
Opprobrium - London (via NZ), music/baseless opinions.
Perfect Sound Forever [Unknown Location], music/history.
The Wire - London, music/music?.
Yeti - Seattle, music/literature.
Circular Sounds from the Blackout - Chicago, music/essays.
A Long Distance Bicycle Coast - Massachusetts, music/essays/design.
Signal To Noise - Vermont, music/crap.

worthwhile places:
Chicago Tunnel Company Railroad - The real Chicago Underground.
Corn Palace - Mitchell, SD; corn-ceptual art.
Crazy Horse Memorial - SD, monument to the oppressed.
Ellsworth Air Force Base - SD, monument to stupidity.
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument - SD, ditto.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial - SD, etc.
Music Ranch USA - KY, music/hilarity.
NYC Subway - so you don't get lost.
The Velvet Lounge - Chicago, Fred Anderson's incredibly awesome jazz club.
Wall Drug - Wall, SD; that's where the heck it is!
Yellowstone - 3 states.
Chicago L - Chicago, a history of quite possibly the most underutilized transportation system today.

sports and leisure:
Index of Hall of Fame Biographies - dispute arbiter.
Strike Three - baseball commentary.

mail order:
Anomalous.
Ecstatic Yod.
Forced Exposure.
Midheaven.
Edition Manifold.
Paris Jazz Corner.

real stores:
Aquarius, San Francisco (mail order, too).
Bent Crayon, Cleveland (mail order, too).
Hard-Boiled, Chicago.
Dusty Groove, Chicago (mail order, too).
Other Music, New York (mail order, too).
Twisted Village, Cambridge (mail order, too).
Weekend Records and Soap, Chicago (mail order, too).

discographies:
Free Jazz Research.
Saturn Web.
Takoma Records Discography.

hangouts:
Pataphysics Research Laboratory.
The Kingdoms of Elgaland/Vargaland.

other:
Big Lebowski sound files.
"Information Awareness" Office of DARPA - Your Tax Dollars At Work (Against You).
Lightness Demonstrations.
Mississippi State Democratic Party Ballot from 1948.
Record Collector Resources.

old stuff:
the following are issues of the Bard Observer which include reviews i wrote from 1996-1998. most of them aren't that great, and a lot of 'em are really embarassing, but here they are anyway, with the pdfs available for you to download (if you like that sort of thing):
9/20/96: Gastr del Sol. Page 12 of the pdf file.
10/28/96: DJ Shadow. Page 18.
12/11/96: Labradford, Jessamine. Page 10.
3/11/97: Interview with David Grubbs.
5/1/97: Pavement, The Red Krayola, June of 44, John Fahey, Jim O'Rourke, Oval.
5/20/97: Derek Bailey, Squarepusher, Third Eye Foundation, White Winged Moth, The Hat City Intuitive. Page 9.
10/6/97: Helium, U.S. Maple, John Fahey, Jim O'Rourke, the Geraldine Fibbers, Bardo Pond. Page 8.
11/3/97: Polvo, the Dead C., Tanaka-Nixon Meeting, Shellac, storm&stress. Page 10.
11/17/97: Stereolab, Turn-On, Mouse on Mars, Spring Heel Jack. Page 9.
12/15/97: Isotope217, Delarosa/U-Sheen, The Sea and Cake, Aerial M, Will Oldham, Jessamine, Windsor for the Derby. Page 9.
2/9/98: Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt, RLW, Ios Smolders and Ryoji Ikeda. Page 9.
2/23/98: Shellac, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Photek, Dianogah. Page 9.
3/9/98: Gastr del Sol, Oval/Christophe Charles, The Shadow Ring, Alexander "Skip" Spence. Page 9.
3/23/98: Create your own record review: Tortoise, L@N, Mouse on Mars. Page 8.
4/22/98: The High Llamas, Cornelius, Scott Walker, Pan-American. Page 15.
5/19/98: List of Thirty: Aphex Twin, Syd Barrett, The Beach Boys, Big Star, Captain Beefheart, Dock Boggs, Can, Cat Power, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, The Dead C., Devo, Doctor Octagon, Don Caballero, Nick Drake, Brian Eno, John Fahey, The Fall, Funkadelic, Robert Johnson, The Monks, Phil Ochs, Pavement, Public Enemy, Spacemen 3, Steely Dan, Scott Walker, Wire, South African choral music. Page 11.

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