I forgot to mention it, but The Ballad of Christian Wolfcock, the most recent record by my one-day-a-year pseudo band, the Monkey Power Trio, debuted on the college charts a few weeks ago, which I think might be a first for us. [While we’ve always gotten played quite a bit by the likes of WFMU […]
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The Monkey Power Trio makes considerable headway despite serious challenges
Posted in Art and Culture, Monkey Power Trio, Uncategorized Also tagged Atlanta, Bad Monkey X, Canada, Christian Wolfcock, Cleveland, Feed Your Hunger, Hillary Clinton, Jep Clayton, kayaks, origin story, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, radio charts, The Ballad of Christian Wolfcock, Toronto, WCBN, WFMU 12 Comments
Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Jeff Meyers
What follows is our official exit interview with writer, filmmaker, and professional critic Jeff Meyers, who, earlier this winter, escaped Ann Arbor for Palo Alto, California. While in Michigan, Jeff, among other things, was the managing editor of Concentrate Media, and a film critic for the Detroit Metro Times. He also served as the president […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged A Clockwork Orange, A2 Civic Theater, adoption, Alan Moore, Ann Arbor Arts Alliance, Ann Arbor Hills, Ann Arbor is Overrated, Ann Arbor Public Library, blood plasma, Casanova, change, Charter Townships, childhood memories, comics, Concentrate, Contra dancing, Corrugated Films, DC comics, density, Detroit Metro Times, diversity, Donald Trump, Doug Schulze, dysfunctional families, economic segregation, Festifools, Film, film criticism, Fire Island, growth, Herbert Dreiseitl, Home Rule, horror, horror movies, hostility to change, income inequality, inequality, Issues Media Group, Jeff Meyers, Keith Jefferies, Krampus, Lance Henrikson, Logan Act, Lour Reed, memories of childhood, Metromode, Michigan film incentives, Michigan Film Office, microbiology, Mimesis: Night Of The Living Dead, nature vs. nurture, Newcome Clark, Palo Alto, Portland, public art, public transit, public transportation, Rosemary’s Baby, Sayville, Seattle, Shadow Art Fair, silos, Stranger Things, Straw Dogs, suicide, surgery, Swamp Thing, Tamara Real, The Blood of Love, the gay, the Stranger, Tio's, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, walkability, yellow curtain, zombie apocalypse 31 Comments
WCBN goes and One Louder with Skink
Greg Pratt, who I interviewed a week or so ago about his work with local homeless folks, is also a DJ on WCBN, and it was in that capacity that he sent me the following video a few days ago. That’s my old band, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, from back around 1991, when Ann Arbor still […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Uncategorized Also tagged 25 Suaves, Blue Snaggletooth, Christopher Guest, Greg Pratt, homelessness, loud music, Nigel Tufnel, One Louder, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Rainbow Vomit Family Band, Skink, Spinal Tap, Teenage Love and Murder, The Armed, The Avatars, WCBN 8 Comments