Redeye - Cocky boys do it doggy style February 01 2006 Local Music Features
Redeye - Lobbying for Royal Treatment January 25 2006 Local Music Features
Redeye - Cruisin’ for a bruisin’ January 18 2006 Local Music Features
Redeye - Party Over Here? Party Over There? Party Over Where? January 11 2006 Local Music Features
Everyone has a favorite hangover cure. For my frequent companion Uncle Wu, it’s cucumber salad and sushi, while I prefer Asian soups. Hell, for some it’s coffee, a cigarette and a shot. But no one I know would say it’s mid-morning pumping dance music. Just don’t tell that to Club RuSan’s.
Apparently, RuSan’s off Moreland remains the place to get rolls when you’re on rolls. Eurodance is not...
| more...Redeye - UnMasqing New Year’s Eve January 04 2006 Local Music Features
In an ever-budding and flushed city of nearly 5 million people, there are seemingly infinite ways to ring in the new year. Myself? I chose a ringing in my ears by catching heavy metal behemoth Mastodon, on a locals’ bill with Artimus Pyledriver and Gonzalez at the Masquerade.
How better to celebrate another year in Atlanta than at a long-standing, even if sometimes ostensibly shakily standing,...
| more...Redeye - From speakers to tweakers, and vice versa ... December 28 2005 Local Music Features
Germans do not get crunk. I learned this firsthand February 2002 in Cologne in a lavish labyrinth of a club located three stories underground. Cloistered with my friend Laura, six Jägermeister and Coke’s shared between us, I indulged the inclination to hunch up on my old high school crush in true Southern style.
First taking to Laura’s ass like it was the opposite charge to my magnetic ......
| more...Redeye - From mo’ Live in the ‘05 to Getting Your Fix in the ‘06 ... December 21 2005 Local Music Features
Redeye - My dirty dirty little secret December 14 2005 Local Music Features
It sounds like the premise for a bad Republican propaganda film. You spend a night in New York City shooting whiskey with siren-gorgeous lesbians, drink a dead zone into your memory and wake up the next morning on a strange floor discombobulated, face down and ass up with a button that says “Keep It Gay” pinned to your sweater.
But it wasn’t a GOP nightmare. It was just another Wednesday...
| more...Redeye - Sound Ideas and Unsound Thoughts December 07 2005 Local Music Features
Redeye - Keep on Truckin’ ... November 30 2005 Local Music Features
The South. To some people it’s verbena and honeysuckle; Faulkner and Flannery and Atticus Finch. To be Southern is to feel pride in your shame and shame in your pride; to move slowly enough to actually live but without blinders to the occasional difficulties. To be Southern is to recognize there’s progress to be made, and family to never let you forget it.
And where better to contemplate both...
| more...Redeye - Musicians, They Go Through Stages ... November 23 2005 Local Music Features
Man, it was a weekend for going both deaf and def. Fri., Nov. 18, saw the Whigs at Smith’s Olde Bar; Sat., Nov. 19, saw U2 at Philips Arena; and Sun., Nov. 20, saw Kanye West, also at Philips. Oh, and I saw ‘em all. Plus, there were assorted “... and surprise guests.” Wrote a little song about it. Wanna hear it? Goes sumpthin’ like this ...
Celebrating the long-anticipated release of the...
| more...Redeye - Some Dance to Remember, Some Dance to Forget November 16 2005 Local Music Features
So this week’s column is all about either being hip or shooting from the hip. And we’ll start with the hip shaking their hips.
Last week, I reported from Lenny’s, the Memorial Drive dive where the Selmanaires were celebrating a CD release. Well, I want to revisit that night to discuss Lenny’s long-popular Trashed Friday night “dance party” for pale skinny kids who enjoy “doing the...
| more...Redeye - Making Singles, Drinking Doubles November 09 2005 Local Music Features
Redeye - Brite lights, big city November 02 2005 Local Music Features
When I was younger, I worked at a nonprofit art cinema showing summer matinees for day cares. I saw “classics” such as Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer numerous times, and something about that helium-voiced tease made me wonder about the honey pot at the end of the rainbow.
Sadly, you can’t actually seduce a cartoon; all you can do is sit alone in an empty movie theater, your left hand well...
| more...Redeye - Together Again for the First Time October 26 2005 Local Music Features
It’s Thurs., Oct. 20, and I’m afraid I’ve got a rock. Not that I’ve got to rock. Not that I’m going to rock. I’ve got a rock. I’ll explain.
You know in “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” where the gang is trick-or-treating and as the kids survey their candy, Charlie Brown opens his bag to find only a single stone? Well, I’m taking visiting writer Tamara Palmer around town and, in...
| more...Redeye - From tha Chuuuch to da Palace October 19 2005 Local Music Features
It has come to my attention that there are people in this community that believe I not only have a snarky disregard for but may actually hate hipsters. And goths. Also fans of drum ‘n’ bass, trance and house. Let’s see ... it’s also been insinuated I hate yuppies. Oh, and you.
But the truth is, I don’t actually hate any of these groups. I’m just incessantly frustrated and publicly fuming...
| more...Redeye - Nights fall, spirits rise? October 12 2005 Local Music Features
Sincerity. Sometimes it seems as rare as hair on a naked mole-rat — the kind that’s all wrinkly like an old man’s scrotum. Image make you cringe? Hell, so do many of the scenesters I run across. So I spent the weekend thinking about sincerity.
My weekend started Fri., Oct. 7, at MJQ, because I believe the kids sincerely love hip-hop. Detroit’s Platinum Pied Pipers were in the Drunken...
| more...Redeye - A vibe to Imbibe ... October 05 2005 Local Music Features
So it was a Sunday afternoon, and I had just finished a grapefruit-ginger sugar scrub and apricot face mask — because you know how us girls do — when I turned on AMC’s “Women in Hollywood Movie Marathon.” And it was then, during When Harry Met Sally, that I was introduced to an innovative, arousing concept.
A moment in the film proposes that, in terms of dramatic recreation, dining...
| more...Redeye - Keeping Abreast of the Situation September 28 2005 Local Music Features
On Sat., Sept. 24, East Atlanta’s the Earl played host to “The Princess & the PBR,” part of the Traveling Charm School burlesque events organized by New York’s Jo Boobs and Atlanta’s own Torchy Taboo.
Around 10:30 p.m., the more-Star-Bar-than-Earl crowd scuttled into the back room for the sounds of Ray Campi, Th’ Legendary Shack*Shakers, Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys, and Atlanta’s Blacktop...
| more...Redeye - MÖtley crÜe’s Big top flops September 21 2005 Local Music Features
There are two things you should do only in private: masturbate with a microwave-warmed melon and play air guitar. But at the Mötley Crüe concert at Philips Arena on Fri., Sept. 16, I found myself surrounded by people motioning as if uncontrollably possessed to do both.
Bordered by equal parts busted-looking dudes, busty girls and bald heads — all wearing their nattiest and/or rattiest...
| more...Redeye - Rectum?! It Nearly Killed Him! September 14 2005 Local Music Features
So it was my birthday Sat., Sept. 10, but my first impulse was keeping it low-key to hokey. Ever since turning 25, when I was literally drenched in as much champagne as sweat, I’ve wondered if I should ask for an Asian massage parlour gift certificate to try and have a night as climactic.
I wondered that again approaching Cheshire Bridge Road, passing nondescript buildings where behind tinted...
| more...Redeye - You Didn’t Just Show You’re Crazy, You Showed Your Nuts September 07 2005 Local Music Features
Redeye - Trying to Thrive in ‘05 August 31 2005 Local Music Features
If you’ve watched network TV recently, you may have noticed that I’ve been receiving rave reviews:
“Fast and furious and tightly focused and blessedly short.” — Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
“This nifty, tense thriller ... brings together ... a relevant-sounding if thoroughly undercooked story.” — Manohla Dargis, New York Times
“Red Eye stretches believability ... more than...
| more...Redeye - Sticky situations August 24 2005 Local Music Features
After much clubbing mayhem, I recommend condoms by the bedside and glowsticks in the freezer. Because you never know.
Imagine you’re at a party and meet some sexy, sparkly peeps. They’re wearing cargo pants. You’re wearing cargo pants. They’re easily distracted by anything shiny and you can barely concentrate on them. But then your large pupils lock and instantly it’s like the world is a 45...
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