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Michael BrettAbout Michael Brett Michael Brett, the Leper Messiah, resides with his wife in Evanston, Illinois. He enjoys pina coladas, getting caught in the rain, and going to bullfights on acid. You can read more of his work at http://Shambollocks.com. Columns
We All Know the Way to Sesame StreetIn the 2008 presidential election, America crossed the Henson Point -- the point where we are a post-Baby Boomer society. The Rockist calls for a champagne toast. [20 November 2009] (more The Rockist) Does Late Night TV Still Matter? Part 3In the third part of his never-ending odyssey of late-night talkers, the Rockist endures Kimmel and bits. [13 November 2009] (more The Rockist) Metal, Back from PurgatoryThe Rockist attends his most eagerly anticipated metal show in over a decade only to find... the Banana Splits? [6 November 2009] (more The Rockist) Crime, Delirium, and ParisIn the second installment of his overseas correspondence, the Rockist gets robbed. And this time, not by an American corporation. [29 October 2009] (more The Rockist) The ‘Ol Crotchety One Kicks It Transatlantic StylePopMatters sends its weekly culture columnist abroad, with hopefully a one-way ticket. [22 October 2009] (more The Rockist) Does Late Night TV Still Matter? Part 2Jimmy Fallon's Late Night will be a much more goofy, pop-culture centric, spontaneous affair than either his predecessors. [9 October 2009] (more The Rockist) They Came From DetroitFrom Marshall Crenshaw looking spiffy in a powder gray suit with matching fedora to ... Carnival Cruise ship reggae? [1 October 2009] (more The Rockist) If You’re Going to San Francisco…The Complete Monterey Pop Festival perfectly captures the dangerously unstable compound called rock music right before it exploded and permanently altered the American cultural landscape. [24 September 2009] (more The Rockist) Football v. Football: the NFL v. the PremiershipLike US football, English soccer fans observe their own ritual every weekend. I spent a weekend with fans of both sports to get a taste of exactly what drives and defines these most profitable of cultural endeavors. [17 September 2009] (more The Rockist) Does Late Night TV Still Matter? Part 1With the greatest shake-up in network late-night television since King Carson left his throne, now is a perfect time to ponder where late-night television is today. [10 September 2009] (more The Rockist) Drunk and DrivenDelilah's on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago is everything The Rockist wants in a bar. Loud. Comfortable. Cheap. [3 September 2009] (more The Rockist) Dear Mr. Denby: In Defense of Inglourious BasterdsQuentin Tarantino drives critics nuts because he loves movies. 'New Yorker' critic David Denby drives The Rockist nuts because he hates movies. [27 August 2009] (more The Rockist) Vinyl Dependent: The Needle and the Damage DoneThe independent record store lives another day. But how long can the vinyl lifeline continue to keep them afloat? [20 August 2009] (more The Rockist) “No Dad, What About You?!”: The John Hughes Generation ConflictJohn Hughes went to bat for us teenagers against the evil Baby Boomer adults and the damage their material expectations inflicted on the classic American nuclear family. [14 August 2009] (more The Rockist) ‘Green Onions’—The Greatest Single of All TimeBooker T. & the MGs found themselves together, in a city of segregation, in a time of severe racial tension, and recorded a progressive, utopian party song. [6 August 2009] (more The Rockist) Patrick Swayze and the Tao of DaltonRoad House takes us back to a much simpler world, a world where you can measure a man's virility by how well-groomed a mullet he sports and how much glistening man-oil he secretes while practicing tai-chi. [30 July 2009] (more The Rockist) Hipster Hatred Knows No BoundsOur new columnist and satirist Michael Brett, an 'old', curmudgeonly rock guy, recalls when he first noticed the proto-hipster. It was the Weezer show at the Aragon in 1994 [23 July 2009] (more The Rockist) |
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