Tag Archives: David Spivey

The legacy of CBGB further unwinds into nothingness with Target’s East Village appropriation

By Mark | July 22, 2018

I try my best not to be too terribly sentimental about things. I understand that, no matter how much we might try to stop it from happening, everything changes. I know, eventually, everything wonderful and meaningful is destroyed and replaced. As I’ve discussed here before, though, there are certain things I find it difficult to […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Atlanta, CBGB, commoditization, East Village, East Village Grieve, Hilly Kristal, New Jersey, Nordstrom, popular culture, punk, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Stereogum, Stiv Bators, Talking Heads, television, The Patti Smith Group | 42 Comments

On finding myself in the Oregon darkness, not far from Ape Canyon

By Mark | August 27, 2011

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the prospect that we were surrounded by bigfoot. I had a ton of books about the evidence of their existence, and I spent a good deal of time traipsing around in the woods, thinking about them. Maybe it was all the episodes of In Search Of […]