Mental Notes: May 2003

HONG KONG–After finally working out a reliable way to get analogue cassette archives of radio interviews onto my machine, here they are streaming online, under the title Broadcast: The Eels’ E; The Posies‘ Ken Stringfellow; Weezer‘s Brian Bell; The 3Ds‘ Dave Saunders; Shonen Knife‘s Naoko Yamano; Butthole Surfers‘ King Coffey; Lush‘s Phillip King; Tripping Daisy‘s … Continue reading “Mental Notes: May 2003”

Mental Notes: December 2002

HONG KONG–Yuletide log? It’s sort-of bready and chocolatey with a donut-like hole in the middle and presumably hails from Germany. I recommend it. Tale of why-I’m-stuck-in-HK woe follows. It’s the usual Adm slapstick route of non-sequitur and “oh well, it could be worse.” But if anyone’s flush with cash out there, eh, spare me a … Continue reading “Mental Notes: December 2002”