Metal God Rob Halford of Judas Priest turns 57 today.
The Cherrybomb Birthday Brawl is back after a short Summer hiatus. Sorry about that, but these bits can be tough to bang out. And sometimes it’s really hard to decide who to put into my virtual ring of death. Originally, I was going to put [...]

David Ball, from Libertine.
Ball’s upcoming show, Libertine, opened on Thursday, August 21st at Babylon Falling in San Fransisco.  Ball says Libertine addresses our dependency on human relationships and their outcome, as well as broader aspects of social conflict. Damn, that’s pretty heady.
David Ball lives and works in San Fransisco. You can check out more [...]

Silver Jews, Sleeping is the Only Love. I could not agree more…
…and since we are speaking of such things as love, I have to confess that Silver Jews “Suffering Jukebox” is my favorite song of the moment. God DAMN that song is so pretty. SJ’s David Berman channels Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt when it comes [...]

Corneal tattoo, brow and * tattoo.
Tattooing the cornea. The words are even hard to type without shuddering. Tattooing the eye is done by injecting a syringe full of ink directly, into the cornea. Looking for a tattoo artist that will actually ink your cornea? Good luck.

Blue cornea tattoo behind blue eyes.
Medical doctors routinely perform [...]

Jessie B., Albert King, wood, cloth, plaster, metal and a real Flying V guitar.
Jessie B. (who’s full name is Jessie Buddell) says that her art is inspired by her deep love of music, especially Classic Rock and the Blues. Maybe that’s why she used a real guitar to create her portrait of Albert King [...]

Okay. GTFO is gonna be kind of short this week. I’m sick (not hungover, there’s a difference) and honestly, I am wishing death upon myself at the moment. So I guess it’s still sort of like being hungover in a way as I seem to remember praying for death a couple days ago after finding [...]

Rock Stars have always wanted to parlay their success into the Theater. It’s true. Think Meatloaf doing Hair and Rocky Horror or Paul Stanley playing the legendary Phantom of the Opera. Most recently, John Pettibone of Seattle Metal band Himsa, decided to depart the band after 10 years to play the role of Tony in [...]