Author Archives: christonucci

COPING WITH SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST: A STUCK IN NEW YORKER’S GUIDE

Perhaps you’ve noticed a tumbleweed or two roll through the vast wasteland of this week’s New York showlistings. Maybe all of your friends are out of town until next Sunday. Probably you’re there right now, taking a selfie at Whataburger. If you’re not at South By, this is likely a trying time for you. You’ve […]

DAVE

You may find this narrative familiar if you grew up in the Connecticut suburbs. You were young. You made friends. Some of them became your best friends. You went to each other’s houses and played each other’s video games and used each other’s pools. When you were old enough, your parents would take turns driving […]

ROSETTA STONED: JUDAS PRIEST IN TRANSLATION

When I was in Spain, I found this book of English to Spanish language Judas Priest lyric translations. I have selected some choice passages.    

I WAS AROUND

Someone on Kazaa had a full album for you to download. Everything was in perfect queue, loading in tandem, a Busby Berkeley chorus line cascading one by one into the pool of a hard drive. But maybe it wasn’t Kazaa. Maybe it was Limewire, or the one with the unpleasant red and orange color scheme? […]