Jimmy Bramlett

The only reason I really look forward to my birthday is that I get time off from work and that I usually rent an Airbnb out in the middle of the desert in the Joshua Tree vicinity with a pool, hot tub, and no one around for 5 acres. So here I am in Landers (or a bit away from it really) whose claim to fame was that it was the epicenter of a 7.3 earthquake in 1992 just hours before a separate 6.5…

From To Fuck you.

Occasionally, after reading certain books, when his disgust for daily life became particularly marked, he longed for the lenitive hours immersed in a cloister… There is just a clause in the above sentence in the first chapter for J.-K. Huysman’s The Damned (Là-Bas) that really stuck out to me: “when his disgust for daily life became particularly marked.” I had to go back to work today after two…

Surprisingly I have been watching the Dodgers during the NLCS against the Brewers. I haven’t been watching much baseball over the last few years, and since Dodger co-owner Todd Boehly bought my football team, Chelsea FC, and have since screwed them up beyond all recognition — they went from winning the Champions League in 2021 to being a laughingstock within two years. Since Chelsea has gotten…

A show in an upstairs bar on a Wednesday night at my age? I knew I was flirting with disaster when I bought the ticket last month, but I really did want to see Leaether Strip and Rhys Fulber. Also, I had bought Ratio Strain’s album earlier in the summer and made it a part of my listening rotation that’s included Tori Amos, Nine Inch Nails and Unwound. So I told my boss I would be working from…

It’s been a long time since I went to two different shows on two consecutive nights that was not a part of a festival. Back in 2001 after the All Tomorrow’s Parties fest was postponed because of 9-11, a bunch of bands scheduled alternate venues at the last minute because they were going to be in town anyways. On Friday there was the… Well I don’t know what to call it. I guess you could call it…

I’ve always been ambivalent at best about Independence Day here in the U.S. I’m fortunate to have been born here, and I suppose it’s better than being born in North Korea or Soviet Russia. I’ve been told all my life that the U.S. is the best country in the world, however, I never understood how you could figure that one out; what are you using to judge “the best?” I think Native and Black…

Well, maybe it’s not fair to generalize. But I finished reading Michel Houellebecq’s collection of articles Interventions 2020, and it proved that there are some things that me and a crusty right-wing contrarian agree with. “The purpose of the party is to make us forget that we are lonely, miserable and doomed to death.” “What could possibly justify gathering together?” “…with age, the…

I want to be left alone. I travel alone. I live alone (except for my cats.) As I get older, the more I don’t want to be around people. I live in the middle of Downtown LA, yet I make it my mission never to be in contact with anyone. I usually don’t give a fuck about this since it serves me well. I don’t have to deal with conforming myself to anyone’s expectations – it’s bad enough doing this…

Thanks to radar and radio issues at Newark Airport recently, my flight home on Friday was cancelled. I did reschedule it for early the next day, but that meant I had to spend an extra day in Newark. This was a trip where I went to the Dark Force Fest in Parsippany, NJ, then went exploring through New England, mainly Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. With an Audi A4 Quattro that I rented, I drove…

46. With the way things are now, I really had no desire to write about things, my life, whatever. As things continue on, I find myself feeling more fatalist? Nihilist? Well, hopelessness to the point of apathy, paralysis. What will happen will happen. We all die in the end, anyhow. Nonetheless, here is what has been happening as I have plummeted through my 47th year: I’m still mostly taking…

No one reads me aside from some friends. Every now and then someone will stumble across my words, but I’m a bore so they immediately go away for good. Imagine my surprise when I see that someone spent around five hours reading a whole bunch of my shit throughout the years. Wow. I mean, I do have about 27 years worth of absolute bullshit and egomaniac blatherings on here, so it’s not like there is…

Why didn’t no one tell me that Brainiac were touring again? Oh, because I only know one other person who listens to them, and I’m really not on social media anymore. To be honest, this was probably more improbable than Unwound reforming last year since Brainiac’s lead singer Tim Taylor died in a car crash in 1997. When I saw they were coming to the Regent back over the holidays, I knew I had to…

Hearing politics getting thrown around during this fire is tired. I’ve heard Rick Caruso, Patrick Soon-Chiang, Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom, Donald Trump all play the blame game. As irritating as it is, it’s not the thing that is pissing me off the most right now. While we all know the answer to this question, I don’t hear this being voiced at all: WHY THE FUCK DO WE HAVE TO CROWDFUND SOMEONE’S…

Well fuck man. That’s about all I can say after the last several days. Absorbing all the information, looking at fire maps, seeing the videos, hearing the stories, listening to the blame game. I’m numb. We were told a life-threatening wind event was going to happen beginning Tuesday afternoon. I knew this, and I think a lot of folks knew the winds were going to be bad. We’ve all lived through…

As I talked about in my thoughts after Berlin, I told myself I would get out of the house more often. Now is as good a time to start. I wanted to see Queer before it left theaters and saw that it was playing in the former Laemmle Sunset 5 theaters on Sunset and Crescent Heights in West Hollywood. Fuck. The time and money I wasted at that fucking Virgin Megastore during the early 2000s was…