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Jam Master Jay, king of the cross-fader, was shot and killed last night. that's awful news. run - dmc was hugely influentiual on me as a kid. I think I remember the specific instant when I realized this as an 11-year old. I was in the back of my family's van with my friend brad kelly and my mom was taking us the 20 mile trip to my school. brad had discovered run-dmc with me sometime in '83 I think, right along the time, or just after white lines and jam on it. we had a routine of rapping the songs along with the band over the van stereo, sometimes alternating the lyrics as the guys did. we both did the jam master jay's cutting and slicing. It was on one of these trips where I distinctly remember the power this type of new music had over me, loudly rapping the lyrics to hard times, inflecting the words we were saying yet having no idea the meaning the message these guys from Queens had written.

In 1986 I brought home my copy of raisin hell into the mirrorred kids play room in the basement of our house. this was where I kept my drums and basically explored and experienced music. I loved the album - loved it - on one hand it seemed so whimsical and flowing and yet it was so real and powerful. I played the tape repeatedly, then learned to play drums on top of it.

Luckily I got to see run-dmc in 1995 in athens ga. I jumped and rapped along to the music along with 300 white frat boys. It didn't matter to me, nor did it matter to run-dmc and jam master jay, who completely turned it out.

"god damn that DJ made my day"

RIP Jam Master Jay

this year has been a banner year for good music. here's my initial list. I haven't listened enough to beck's sea change, but it could find its way here before the year ends. a couple albums I haven't heard yet - the new wire ( or both new ones for that matter) and the new jurassic 5. the new sigur ros is really beautiful, but they sing in a made up language, which to me is a cheap way out of writing lyrics, don't you think?? actually, it's quite good and might find itself here too. what're yours?

excellent 2002 albums (in no particular order)

spoon - kill the moonlight
cornelius - point
gillian welch - time (the revelator)
fugazi - the argument
notwist - neon golden
sonic youth - murray street
wilco- yankee hotel foxtrot
the breeders - title tk
the hives - vini vidi vicious
interpol - turn on the bright lights
queens of the stone age - songs for the deaf
sleater-kinney - one beat
flaming lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots
guided by voices - universal truths and cycles
iron & wine - the creek drank the cradle

close but no cigar-
hot snakes - suicide invoice
avalanches - since I left you
jeff tweedy, glenn kotche - chelsea walls soundtrack

How I lived in a storage unit as a kid

we am space people is one of the more bizarre things I've seen on the net.
thanks jenny and swollen

oh my word this is really really funny.

hi folks,

kool bobby misses you all dearly. hopefully his koolness will have more time in the coming weeks than he has the past few weeks. he knows you're concerned, for he feels your worries when you check in to the korner every hour and see the kbk hasn't been updated in a long while. don't worry, kb's fine - lonely maybe, but otherwise fine. he'll be back, so I urge you all, please, get off the couch and get back to work, you're doing no good by eating and crying over this.

world peace please

KB

dashblankdash really outdid himself (herself ?) on this one. truly a classic. this keeps up and I see it wedged in The Sunday Funnies, tucked somewhere between The Family Circus and Mark Trail.

hours of entertainment

from filepile

The Online Film Critics Society names the top 100 sceen villains of all time. my question -- where is dabney coleman from 9 to 5 ?

Meet Gypsy The Red Chihuahua

hey let's make fun of somebody !

"play rock with a FEEL!",threatens this rock and roller in his craigslist ad for drum lessons. you, the student, can take comfort in that he is "very patience and friendly." his website makes it all worthwhile. be sure and check out the ball grabbin number titled in the mood and just see if you don't come out the other side FEELing rocked.

holy shit ! LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A jury awarded a record-shattering $28 billion in punitive damages Friday to a 64-year-old former smoker who sued Philip Morris Inc. for fraud and negligence.

go braves !