"Independent music and art is one of the most important things in the world," Richard answers matter-of-factly when asked why he decided to start a record label. "So few bands on major labels are doing it for the music. On independent labels, music is made for music’s sake, art for art’s sake." Go to article

Billy died and I am now hurdling back towards reality, back to Pomona College and its gorgeous campus–SoCal’s own Eden. Unfortunately, it is still full of pestilence, weeds, deans and "involved" students. Go to article

While I know most people don’t get as into Paintball as I do, which probably reflects well on their mental well-being, I do feel that its something everyone should try. Two weekends ago now, maybe three, there was a Pomona College trip to the SC Paintball Village (scvillage.com), the "biggest Paintball Park in the world." Go to article

TSL: Are you drunk?

Edward Norton: I’m kind of stoned.

TSL: This is part of the interview you know.

Ed: Oh. No. Great. Go to interview

Several months ago, my house mate, Tina Masaba, asked us if we would mind having a gallery in our cottage. The request came as something of a surprise. Though my other house mate and I both knew that Tina was majoring in art, we were both fairly ignorant of her artistic production.
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I’ve started going out more with the boys, which has led to me feuding with the crew of girls I was hanging with. Girls suck, kinda. So, I guess I’m looking to resolve my difficulties with them, but I really don’t care. Go to article

helton Beatty, who served as Dean of Men at Pomona College for many years, died at the age of 98 earlier this month. A few days after his death, I happened to be sitting next to another Pomona College alumnus on a bus. My seat companion remarked that one night in the mid-60s, he and another student were jailed by Pomona police on suspicion of burglary, and it was Dean Beatty who, at 3:00 in the morning, showed up at the police station to bail them out. Go to article

One of the most frustrating and exhilarating realizations we must all face during the course of these formative college years is that we are beginning to form serious opinions about everything from politics to poetry–and that no two people are ever going to agree completely. Go to article

The thing about Britain that has to be the best is not, as Sarah Bird might contend, the press. It has to be the radio. I’ve never heard British radio, but the fact that the Glasgow/London quartet Travis’s new album The Man Who (Epic) went six times platinum over there says that somewhere, something is right at corporate audio HQ. Go to article

The show was one of the best I’ve seen in my few years of concert-going. The Wilshire is small enough to have an intimate feeling, and the acoustics were great. It was so refreshing to see a band honestly shocked by the adoration of their fans. Go to article

Does anyone hear a slide whistle above the guitar feedback? Oh, that must be the sound of Built to Spill getting dropped from Warner Brothers like a sack of rocks and throwing a live album together to finish out their contract. Go to article

We are bored in the Campus Center. There is no longer any temple of the student. The administration wanted to see a monkey-wrench between the legs of the girls walking by and the faculty a crystal bowl. So much for all that. We can read every type of promise into every type of face, Neil, concluding phase of morphology. The poetry of commercial advertising has lasted over seventy years. Go to article