secretly, i’ve always loved to sing, but only when i’m driving alone at night, when no one will notice. i finally went to karaoke for the first time last year, on my 31st birthday. it was so exciting and terrifying! for those of you who have never done it, TRY IT! it’s definitely something to add to your bucket list [...]
Nowadays, kids want to get famous and live the easy life. It’s a little different for the members of Band Class Heroes. They just want to play their music. The five teens are Union City, California natives.
back in the late 80's/early 90's, i was in middle school and went through a "gangsta" phase
By; Rafi Ellis Seven stars, said the Guts Man, seven stars for the seven hid deep within us like a birthday. I’d like seven stars, please, I henceforth told the ice cream man, but he misunderstood and sprinkled in sevens like a desert prince mystically releasing a handful of sand to the unknown nameless wind. I knew that wind once; [...]
By: Jackson Alberts Twenty-five years ago, Ronald Reagan ran an advertisement for his incumbency entitled “Morning in America.” It showed a productive and proud workforce sloughing forward into a sound economy and sturdy psychology. Looking back, that spot can hardly be viewed without a derisive chuckle. In “post-industrial nations,” that exclusive club of countries without anything to strive towards, a [...]
By: Andrew Dits “He who binds to himself a Joy Does the winged life destroy. He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity’s sunrise.” - WILLIAM BLAKE I. On the day you stake my heart thunder, rain. On the day I know your sin and resolve love it minutes before you call, on thunder and rain, the [...]
ever had one of those days? you know, where everything seems to fall out of place and you just want to crawl into bed to escape the nonsense?
I am sitting in a car and its dark outside. There are four people in the back seat of my car, 3 girls and a guy. To my right is that all too acquiescent view of the Los Angeles landscape, its dimed yellow lights, its low hills that run though the long valleys. We are all very hip, from mustaches to contoured prescription glasses to vintage clothing and summer dresses, its all hip as hop.
By: Rafi Ellis True couches is thy spine o, mine, true lips thy tongue oh, young; leave not no task undone, and sway the other one like swings on a swing tree, like thee and me and century. Whale heart is seldom yours (it bores, and bores), big bone leaves you alone, that narwhal cone, he’s too dry for your [...]
Lieutenant Martin and Sergeant Wambue responded to the call at 10:47. It was a little early for disturbing the peace. They were forced to leave the Park Slope Donut Hut without paying, for the third time this week. Martin pulled the blue and white over the grass of Prospect Park, splashing mud clouds on screaming children. They stopped when the crowd grew too thick to bumper out of the way.
