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Pop Offensive spells EXCITEMENT!
The archived version of last week's Pop Offensive has been made available for streaming, which means that, if you go to kgpc969.org/pop-offensive, you can listen to it now, along with any of our...
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It's the FRIDAY'S BEST POP SONG EVER Podcast, Episode #8
It's difficult for me to express how much I love Syd Straw's version of the dB's "Think Too Hard." It is literally one of my favorite pop songs ever. Thus I am grateful that I have a podcast on which I...
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Creature (India, 2014)
Last Monday, I went vinyl record shopping with my nephew in the East Bay, and ended up in an Indian DVD shop on University Avenue, where the voluble sales clerk talked copies of Baahubali and Ek Tha...
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SO BAD IT'S GOOD is GO!
Just about a year ago, I published a little book called Please Don't Be Waiting for Me. It concerned a bunch of teenage punk rockers who went to Berkeley High School by day and went to punk rock shows...
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Podcast on Fire's Taiwan Noir Episode 27: Hello Dracula and The 36 Shaolin Beads
In the latest episode of Taiwan Noir, Kenny B. and I discuss Hello Dracula, Taiwan's casual, more friendly take on Mr. Dracula, and The 36 Shaolin Beads, a film I round in the dollar bin at Walgreen's...
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POP OFFENSIVE is TONIGHT!
You've been waiting for Pop Offensive episode #47 for so long... and now, here it is, sneaking up on you like a thief in the night. And as much of a hassle as it is to change your schedule at the last...
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Pop Offensive: All this and Kylie, too
I know I've said it before, but this time it's true. (After all, why would I lie to you -- wait, did I say would?) Wednesday's Pop Offensive was by far the most at once wildly eclectic and compulsively...
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It's the FRIDAY'S BEST POP SONG EVER podcast episode #9
On the latest episode of FBPSE, I cover a Pop Offensive perennial, "Italopop" by Ally. An infectious anthem celebrating the unifying power of pop music, it debuted on the world stage at Chile's Vina...
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A great good place to meet me
Now that my new novel, So Good It's Bad, is out and on its way into your sweaty little hands, it's time for me to hit the road and start pinching backs, slapping cheeks, kissing hands, and shaking...
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I am well aware that I am a slouchy, soft spoken monster, a point that is mercilessly driven home whenever I have to watch a video like the one below, which chronicles my book event at Oakland's Great...
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Pop Offensive is TONIGHT!
Yes, that's right; just when you thought your legs had stopped jitterbugging uncontrollably from my last episode, here I am to start you frugging anew with another collection of catchy and danceable...
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Featured Review: 3 Supermen vs. Mad Girl, aka Cilgin Kiz ve uc Super Adam...
Originally published 8/10/2014If you’re like me, you’re first thought, upon being confronted with 3 Supermen vs. Mad Girl, is going to be, “Just what exactly is this girl so mad about?” And if you’re...
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It's the FRIDAY'S BEST POP SONG EVER Podcast Episode #10: Fox on the Run
The latest episode of the FRIDAY'S BEST POP SONG EVER podcast is live.Anybody who knows me won't be surprised that I finally got around to Sweet, one of my favorite bands,. In this case I cover "Fox on...
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American Hunter (Indonesia, 1989)
If there were ever an action movie hall of fame, I imagine that there would be a hall dedicated to the humble microfilm, that tiny macguffin that has served as the catalyst for countless car chases,...
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