Oh, autumn. Leaves changing colors, back-to-school, and cold weather. And a brand new batch of ridiculously dumb shows on television. Luckily for you all, I will give you my opinions on a few of the new upcoming shows. I can feel the enthusiasm.
ABC
• Cougar Town-starring Courteney Cox, Christa Miller, Busy Phillips, Dan Byrd, Brian Van Holt, Josh Hopkins, Ian Gomez. Wednesdays at 9:30pm. Courteney Cox and her scary looking face star in this show about the trials and tribulations of dating after divorce. So basically, ABC took the plot of …

1. You’re just so hot.
2. It’s been a while.
3. It’s this medication I’m on.
4. Fuck it, I’m tired.
5. I look out for number one.
6. Oh, I thought you were done.
7. It was my first time.
8. My insert relative here just died.
9. It was an accident.
10. What do you want from me? You know how I feel about Twilight.
–Racket Staff

This is not for the gear sluts. So you don’t have the budget to record at Capitol Studios…Big whoop. Elliot Smith recorded “Roman Candle” in his ex’s basement. Part of Rush’s “Power Windows” was recorded in a BARN. Check out these ten recording studio must haves for your home. They’ll look nice next to your lava lamp aquarium. (Yes, they make those.)
1) Pre Sonus ADL-600
You can splurge a bit on your preamplifiers. This hand-built two-channel preamp has been getting good reviews everywhere. I dig the sexy analog VU meter. …

Founder of ONELOVE For Music, Lee Waterworth believes “There Is An Art to Change.” The Saucy Englishman is about to deliver this message with a red carpet celebration of the United Nations’ International Day of Peace in Los Angeles on September 26, 2009. While the official Day of Peace is on September 21st, BOXeight studios in L.A. will showcase eight bands, independent films and a silent auction with 100% of the net proceeds going toward an organization called Global Angels.
It’s a campaign that Waterworth and a team of dedicated …

Top Ten worst ways to start a conversation
It happens to us all at some point- that special someone looks into your eyes, inhales deeply, leans in… And ruins your day. “Son of a bitch,” you think. “I knew that sore wasn’t from shaving.” Read on for our favorite ways to crush someone’s hopes and dreams.
1. We should talk…
2. I’m going to be completely honest with you…
3. Look, I was drunk…
4. I know I always said…
5. I was talking to my pastor the other day…
6. What is that?
7. You know how I went and got tested?
8. You know …

The Get Up Kids are from a simpler time, a better time. A time where “emo” conjured images of black rimmed glasses, argyle sweater vests and Chuck Taylors. Now, I hear “emo” and I get any number of bastard-demon-child subgenres, each more foul than the next. Between the skin tight black pants, the array of stupid looking facial piercings and splotchy hair dye jobs on even worse haircuts, I don’t know what to hate first. And don’t even get me started on the music that gets passed off for “emo” …

In retrospect, it should have been easy. My friend and I would walk in to the theater, pay our eight bucks or so, buy some pop-corn and laugh to our heart’s content.
That’s not how life works out sometimes.
Flashback two days ago. On a lark, “Margaret” and I decided to see Julie and Julia. To be more accurate, she decided to go, and I tagged along. We clambered into my Honda Accord- I dropped by her house about an hour or so before- and within a moment’s notice we …

Recently I had the good fortune to be able to take a month off from work, life, and school to simply travel the world as much as possible within that time frame. I somehow managed to successfully backpack all across Western Europe, and as a traveler in over 14 different countries my first fear even before I had finished planning my half baked trip was how I would be accepted as an American in this part of the world now that Bush is no longer in office.
Before I left …

The most jaw-dropping news of the week concerns Miley Cyrus. Apparently, someone likes her enough to stalk her. I am just completely perplexed by this. Someone can actually enjoy listening to her voice that much? Her stalker, 53 year-old Mark McLeod was arrested at his home in Georgia…oh that explains it. I guess his cousin already got married.
Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan are hanging out again. There goes Britney’s undies and Lindsay’s sobriety. It was nice knowing you.
Paris Hilton and Doug Reinhardt are back together. I guess they figured …

22 year old. College student. New Jerseyite. Significant other.
Adora is all these things.
She is also a nude model.
“I have been modeling since February 2009,” Adora- better known as Adora the Great to family, friends and fans- admits in an email interview.
Although the self-described burlesque pick up artist’s career has just started, the cherry-haired, leggy beauty has managed to create a reputation as one of the most-in demand pin-ups in internet porn, gracing some of the most popular sites on the Web to date. As …

To complement the international uprising of Harry Potter fandom is the incomparable genre of “Wizard Rock”- the underground music movement birthed by Potter fans. The July 17th release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth installment of J.K. Rowling’s literary brainchild, has sparked interest in wannabe wizards and robed rock stars that obviously like to read.
Although…this is not completely true. Despite its seemingly embarrassing geeky nature, I figured that there must be more to Wizard Rock than dressing up like Hogwarts students and having musicians pretending to be …

John Wayne Gacy’s paintings. Ed Gein’s Ghoul Car. Serial killer memorabilia is nothing new- nor are the legion of men and women who ply them, dating back to carnival shows in the 1940s and 1950s. But in the age of eBay and Pay Pal, access- to say nothing of the thousands upon millions raked from the enterprise- has made them more visible, even if the general public disapproves of them and the entrepreneurs who sell them.
Meet James Gilks. The part owner and proprietor of the Serial Killer …

Disclaimer: For the second installment of “Deck” we initially contacted Will Braun of Geez Magazine–the young guy we referenced in the post script to “Capes and Jeans”. But he wasn’t able to speak with us. We did contact his business partner Aiden Enns though. Enjoy.
At first glance, Aiden Enns does not seem like a disciple of cool. 44, bald, and sporting a gray goatee–according to a 2006 profile on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s website, (he’s 48 now) he seems every bit as un-with it as …

Elizabeth Wight, writer and creatively-driven mind, is the do-it-yourself front woman for the electro driven band, Love Grenades. She started developing her brainchild two years ago as a side project, which eventually became her full-time gig. Wight was heavily influenced by dance-punk band Le Tigre in forming the sound of Love Grenades. She writes, records, and arranges all the music by herself on her Pro Tools set up at home…Daniel Bedingfield style. From here, she began to share her music with others, attracting collaborators and producers such as electro producer, …

In honor of Fair Month I have taken it upon myself to compile for you a guide for the helpful identification, avoidance, and outwitting of the creature known commonly to man as “The Carney”. The Carney or “Carnival Folk” are a nasty and thieving bunch with malice in their hearts and pasts darker than the thickest brambles, who roam the countryside snaring unsuspecting prey in their cotton candied traps. Carnies are one rung away on the evolutionary ladder from their cousin- the Circus Freak. Like them, they are …

Michael Jackson is still evidently the only thing anyone can talk about. There are tons of Michael Jackson articles, ranging from the secret behind his death to every single one of his family members. He’s dead! Just let him be. Jesus. He was popping pills like a crackwhore to stay exceptionally scary-looking, and one of those drugs killed him. There, I solved the mystery of his death. Just call me Nancy Drew Jr. I’m just glad Melissa Joan Rivers made the first Molestor Michael joke, it means the …