Punk Planet dot com - not battlestar galactica

Fi'dollah!

Costacide — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:29:38 -0500

For five whole dollars, I got spicy chicken on a stick, four spring rolls, and a bottle of water, all from street vendors today. I feasted like a Viking warlord underneath the platform of the LIRR while a parade passed me by...a delayed celebration of Chinese New Year's funded by a local church methinks. There was a dragon, and drums.

And in keeping my big trip outdoors fruitful...I managed to remember to buy mouthwash, as I'd initially planned to.

Rock and/or Roll

Costacide — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:05:55 -0500

I recently found an old tape by this band called The Youth Ahead.

I saw them on a bill years ago with a variety of ska bands in Long Island. The one dude who was singing had his baseball cap sideways.

I really liked this band, for some reason. The borderline diabetes saccharine pop-punk causes runs in my family.

I hope I don't have to take shots for this later on in life.

You care.

Bringin' The Hand Horns

Costacide — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:08:43 -0500

I recently was sent a link to a job posting online, for a locally based heavy metal news site/networking hub.

And now, even though when I was like 14 I made fun of heavy metal kids all the time and found myself alarmingly comfortable listening to nothing by Dave Smalley's bands over and over, I'll probably be doing a weekly column at this site.

I wonder how many times I can write about Disfear, Iced Earth, or the one time I saw Metallica when I was a kid before I get found out for not being very metal at all.

HOORAY FOR ADVENTURE!

Babbling like I pissed my pants and need some quarters to drink it off

Costacide — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:22:53 -0400

I have my first-ever reading this weekend.

I'm excited...I'm thinking I should get a gun to bring with me just to punctuate the somber attitude and serious material we shall be discussing (radical forms of dealing with grief and death) with the occasional "VIVA LA WHISKEY" and shot into the ceiling of Bluestockings in NYC.

Any suggestions?

the apparent power of internet voting (Blogger's Choice Awards)

Costacide — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:51:47 -0400

Go here;

http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/23497

Vote for my site, Late Night Wallflower (OK, technically "the site I write for sometimes that isn't actually MINE per se") so that we can finally fee loved.

Late Night Wallflower, started by Alfie, Elona, and Matt P has been in existance for over a year. We've managed to get some awesome stuff done since then, including interview with (NON-DEAD) Ian McKaye, Daryl Jennifer, Jeff from Modern Life Is War, photographer Chrissy Piper, reports on Different Kind Of Dude fest and THE Fest, as well as a ton of other shit.

"Vot

Top 7 Reasons Growing Up Now Would Suck

Alan Lastufka — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:08:33 -0400

If this sounds familiar, good memory. I originally wrote this as an article in Virus Magazine over a year ago. But now it exists in vlog format as well. =)

Shunning materialism is for hippies

Costacide — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:58:02 -0400

I've found that the rumors are true.

You really can't get jack-shit with an degree in English literature. Except of course, stuff that doesn't pay.

I've been spending a lot of time these past few months looking for a new job while still working at my current place of employment, a fairly cushy/flexible office gig that allows for things like getting drunk on Wednesday night and graduate school and writing columns for stupid websites that don't pay but give me an excuse to talk about the punk bands I saw the night before. However, it's an atmosphere of near-lacadaisical-ness (if that's a real word) that, combined with random bouts of sheer madness and last-minute deadline crunches, as well as working for genuine assholes, makes me want to take up hard drugs.

Venus Zine writes about Punk Planet

Alan Lastufka — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:40:27 -0400

http://venuszine.com/stories/arts/4414

They interviewed me for this piece, along with Jackson Ellis of Verbicide and, of course, Dan and Anne.

Corporate Sponsored Touring Comes to the Micro Indie Level

PAUL M DAVIS — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:11:18 -0400

The altruistic folks at Taco Bell just want all "local" bands (meaning what precisely?) to know that they're totally down for the scene with their "Feed The Beat" promotion, offering free food to select touring bands.

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.aspx?Feed=BW&Date=200708...

Quote:

"Last year's Feed the Beat was a runaway success in getting Taco Bell connected with some amazing bands," said Bob Fulmer, interim chief marketing officer, Taco Bell Corp. "What's great about Feed the Beat is there is no catch. No stickers on guitars, no need to become a Taco Bell talking head, we are simply feeding bands free Fourthmeal and supporting indie music."

member-owned cooperative not profitable enough

anne elizabeth moore — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:45:02 -0400

I've always been a little mystified by how a member-owned cooperative the size of Ace Hardware can function, although admittedly my experience is based entirely on Fred's Fabulous Fare, the IL State Fair all-meat, all-the-time cooperative food stand where I worked among co-op livin' vegans who changed their names regularly for a few years. But it looks like I won't have to wonder anymore:

“We believe that becoming a traditional corporation is the best path for our retailers and the company,” the Ace President and CEO Ray Griffith says.

But, says one Chicago store owner: “This has huge ramifications for the dealer base. . . "This clearly is a corporate takeover.”