CAN YOU PICTURE THAT?

My monthly DVD review column for OniPress.com can be found in The Buzz section.

I am also a reviewer for DVDTalk.com, and my reviews can be tracked here.

PORTLAND MERCURY

I have worked for The Portland Mercury since its inception a couple of years ago, and they are nice enough to have an archive on their website of my material.

Of particular note are the pieces on The Who, "Confessions of a Pop Junkie," "Music: Response," and my live review of Stephen Malkmus. With the latter, you might want to look at some of the future issues, as it generated a lot of hate mail (at some point, maybe I will print the original, more acidic drafts.) Also, you may want to check the following link for chapter 12 of Cut My Hair, if you have never read the book. Though, they erroneously credit the Mike Allred illo to Andi Watson.

Another erroneous moment: the Jimmy Corrigan review they said I wrote is not by me at all. Lies! My record reviews are not in my archives, and if you really care, you can likely find some of them by searching on my name and the words "CD Review."

WILLAMETTE WEEK

I also write for the Willamette Week. Their site is a little hard to navigate, so I found some links that I thought were worth checking out. They are here, basically in semi-reverse chronological order (and I left out stuff where I felt I was butchered by editorial red pens):

  • my article on Coldplay
    my review of Starsailor
  • my review of Ariel Schrag's Potential
  • an article on Travis (second on page)
  • a Belle & Sebastian review that, once again, pissed a lot of people off despite being positive.
  • a double review of Suede & the Manics that suffers from so much being crammed into so little space.
  • an article on Supergrass that I felt was somewhat of a breakthrough for me as a writer.
  • another controversial article, this time on avant-garde turntablist Eternal Golden Void and sparking controversy over the meaning of hiphop; also my first piece for a bigger paper and a lesson in working with an editor.
  • a Q&A with Chunky Rice creator Craig Thompson.
  • a review of Blur's 13
  • a review of Frank Miller's graphic novel, 300
  • Adachi's Short Program
  • the debut album of Black Box Recorder
  • A scathing attack on an easy target, Kid Rock, that many people liked

You can also read the paper's review of Cut My Hair. I still like the line about crabs in a whorehouse.

SAVANT

I did a couple of reviews at SavantMag.com back when Matt Fraction was putting it together:

POPIMAGE

I also contributed some to Popimage.com.

An excerpt from the interview and the entire opinion piece are both reprinted in Popimage I: A Year of Change, published by Cyberosia and available here.

While there, perhaps you should also pick up Kelley Seda's graphic novel, Rare Creature, which I wrote the introduction for also available here.

MISCELLANEOUS WRITING

I've contributed text pieces to various graphic novels, all of which are available through Amazon.

ARTBOMB.NET

My comic book reviews for this excellent website can be found here-- http://www.artbomb.net/contributor.jsp?cid=6

Warren Ellis also featured me in his Brainpowered column on the site.

UNPUBLISHED PIECES