Bitter Old Punk

Awesome dream. I'm catering a party for a rich lawyer who lives in a shabby mansion atop Red Mt. I'm there setting the bar up, and I...

Afghanistan has a "Counternarcotics Ministry"? In other news, foxes to offer lessons in poultry security management.

So now I can post to my lame-ass blog from my iPhone. The world trembles in anticipation.

This is a test post.

You may have noticed that I just got an iPhone. No? Well, now you have, because I'm blogging about it. After having tweeted, texted, ema...

Be the first kid on your block to own Booker T.'s new record "Potato Hole" , featuring Neil Young and backed by the ever-lovin...

I don't go out of my way to promote local music, because 90% of it sucks. Vulture Whale does not suck. Their new record is out on Skybuc...

I guess I bought tickets online and somehow the local concert promoters harvested my email address so now I get the intermittent update on w...

Live Concert Video - Buzzcocks I'd point out a particularly good song, but the truth is the whole show is great. Pete Shelley now looks ...

Because I am deeply lazy and all I've done in recent days is read comic books and allow my girlfriend to prepare me delicious meals, I h...

When they put up a stream of Booker T. & the Drive-By Truckers with Neil Young , I make an exception.

... but The Darjeeling Limited has to have been one of the worst films I've ever seen. It was so bad it pissed me off. And I LIKE Wes A...

Bettye LaVette performing The Who's "Love Reign O'er Me" from the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors.

Remember back when police had to have a reason to hassle folks? Yeah, the good old days of the Fourth Amendment, which protected US citizens...

OK, this is just kinda creepy. Man, the God-botherers squick me out sometimes.

Click this link for Internet satori. It's especially good for just leaving open as a background tab and then when you get to that right...

So a friend uploaded the Hüsker Dü record Flip Your Wig for me to snag and now I'm listening to it through cranked headphones. The song...

Robert Christgau, writing in Slate, lists Brighter Than Creation's Dark as his number three record of the year, and "The Righteous...

Hee.

Imagine a compass. At the cardinal points are, starting at north and proceeding clockwise, Highland's Bar and Grill, Pete's Famous H...

I am sure I am not the first to say BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Here's the (101-count) indictment (.pdf). Langford's only accuse...

Here's a link to the complete Fleischer/Famous Studios Superman cartoons, made from 1941-1943. Lovely fluid animation, utter xenophobic ...

Lemmy, the Movie.

Gazing into my crystal ball, I predict: (Very Likely) The economic downturn will continue, consumer spending will dry up, the stock market w...

Fuck DC. I've nothing against Superman and Batman and Sgt. Rock (OK, I DO have something against Superman, but that's just me, not t...

The new Dillinger Four record is out, and it's pretty good. In fact it sounds just like an, uh, Dillinger Four record. Having given it a...

There's new local music blog called Bham.fm, and so far, it's pretty OK. Check 'em out. Maybe we'll see representatives of s...

Yeah. Blind Guardian is the greatest band in the world. Look, if you can't appreciate German power metal, then you shouldn't be disc...

And it's not pretty. (NY Times link, may require sign-in)

After months of deliberation, I have decided which candidate to endorse for the office of President. More information about my selection is ...

OK, I've been playing Fable II, and it's fair-to-middling awesome. It's definitely FUN, and that's the primary goal of a gam...

You sold out everything you believed in to be President, and now you're going to lose. You hired the people who pilloried you in South C...

According the BBC, half of the world's heroin supply is missing . There seem to be two main theories as to why this is: either some coun...

Maybe now we'll see a little accountability in the folks running our state prison system. This!

This (like many things) pisses me off: the Democrats are going to roll over and allow the moratorium on offshore drilling to expire next wee...

Joe King might be the only man left in America who understands punk rock. OK, y'all calm down, I'll wait. The Queers make PRETTY SO...

Here's a letter making the rounds among some conservative Christians these days. This is what passes for political discourse. If you don...

David Foster Wallace (DFW) is dead by his own hand. I'm not his biggest fan. I didn't like everything he wrote. I thought Infinite J...

There's an interesting set of articles up at The Chronicle of Higher Education with the delightfully terse titles " On Stupidity ...

Watch the beginning of the end of the world as the first beam circulates in the Large Hadron Collider LIVE September 10 (from 9:00 to 18:00 ...

This letter was written by a Wasilla, AK resident who is quite familiar with the woman who would like to be a heartbeat away from the Presi...

"When a man cannot get what he wants in one world, he finds it in another." -- Voltaire

Drive-By Truckers AND The Hold Steady together in concert! W00t! Saturday, November 1 at The Tabernacle in Atlanta! Tickets on sale now! I j...

I been reading the novel Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra , because it's a mix of several of my favorite things: a doorstop of a book; a ...

This is what I would have posted as a comment on the latest post at The Wandering Druid of Tranquility if his captcha were working: I neve...

All three of my loyal readers (OK, the two loyal ones and YOU, the shifty character in the corner) are hereby encouraged to check out a few ...

In the Birmingham News today, the lead story concerned a terrible mass killing that happened in north Shelby County. Five men were found wit...

I just signed up for Twitterfeed, and I want to see if the doohickey is properly affixed to the whatchacallit. There is nothing to read here...

Editorial headline in today's Birmingham News : "Troy King wants to end cockfighting". What's the matter, Troy? Tired of s...

Here at Bitter Old Punk Central, we're now monitoring the intartubes for the first reference to the New York Bretts. Stay tuned. UPDATE:...

Congratulations to Birmingham native Andre Tippett for his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Also, HOF congratulations to Darre...

I started this blog as a reaction to the absurd state-mandated brainwashing I had to go through following a conviction for misdemeanor posse...

Well, it looks like our notoriously prudish state attorney general may be less of a prude than we had believed. Rumors are swirling that Tr...