Creative Psychosis

If ever there were a five day vacation that defined extreme highs and lows, we just lived it at Lollapalooza 2008 in Grant Park, Chicago. In the end, we came out ahead, because we are back home with our positive memories.
That being said, there was a lot of frustration in dealing with the crowds, the [...]

** M. Sahm **
As the more casual fan of the Somrod duo when it comes to R.E.M., I was not disappointed in the least bit by last night’s show. It was high octane for most of the show, and I only sat down for 2 of the 27 songs (Houston and Let Me In). With [...]

Everyone has a band or singer-songwriter who spans a generation with them; the artist whose career runs through peaks and valleys along with your life. For me, that artist has been Nine Inch Nails.
I discovered the music of NIN as a sophomore in high school in 1991. A girl I was dating gave me a [...]

Hello, welcome to America. Before you may enter the country, you must eat this bucket full of clever jingles, catchy slogans, and singing cartoon pitchmen. But we swear you’ll feel better afterwards! We promise! Now go buy! Buy! Buy!
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If you think you can get away from [...]

Among the creative people of the world, there are many who dare to crossover. Those who try their hands at genres within the arts that they were not instructed on, or gained their fame in. Just think of actors like J.Lo or William Shatner who have made music albums, while inversely musicians such as LL [...]

Yes oh yes, the pop culture crackle, come drop a cartoon anvil on my chest. I want to make the same artificial crunch sound produced by a guy with a slide whistle in a backroom studio. I’d love to cave in just like the cleverly placed leaves over the empty grave trap. That’s the pop [...]

After using its massive capital to employ the best brain specialists around, Google Inc. has succeeded in using its web crawling technology to search through the brain of a human subject.
The braincrawling took place on July 4, 2005 and took approximately two hours and nine minutes. The subject, Paul Genigeti, received a small incision [...]

“The end is near, my little friend. I shall unscrew the cable from your brain and send you back to your bloated master.”
These are the words I might speak tonight to the last cable box in my apartment when it gets disconnected and returned to Cablevision. No, this is not a pitch that I am [...]

So the Live-8 concerts have come and gone, and the final day of the G8 summit is upon us. In light of the events in London this week, I sincerely hope all of the publicity of political leaders gathering together for singular efforts is not just one big puff of smoke blown up the world’s [...]

“That iPod will be the death of you, young man.” Not the words you’d ever expect to hear from your mother, but it could have been for a young man this past weekend in Brooklyn. Read about it in USA Today here.
I’m sure the Apple spin doctors are hard pressing to point out that the [...]

I happened to look at my high school yearbook (from 1994) this past weekend. I found it humorous that at the back of the book, there was a color section highlighting the important events from that past year. One such invention that was noted was about the Apple Newton being a revolutionary new device.
I did [...]

If you watched a lot of cartoons as a kid (and what Gen X-er didn’t?), then you remember the classic Bugs Bunny cartoon where Elmer Fudd brings Bugs home for dinner (rather, as dinner) only to have the “wascawwy wabbit” dupe him into thinking there is a terrible outbreak of “rabbititus” and that they must [...]

I recently got into a discussion with family about cell phones, and everyone was comparing their providers and models and so on. My uncle had a Nextel, and he was raving about the ‘Direct Connect‘, and how easy it was to communicate with co-workers while he was working on a contracting job.
While I was able [...]