Archive for August, 2009

August 25th, 2009

10 Great Twangy Duets

Maybe its country music’s long history of songs about heartache, or perhaps the sheer ratio of married couples in the genre, but there’s something about a slight vocal twang and a male-female duet that seems to go hand in hand. Whether it’s a couple fighting — slinging insults back and forth between the grooves of [...]

August 21st, 2009

(Not Really) The Box Office Top 10

Lame content alert! This is what happens when we get bored and don’t have any better ideas. But hey, it’s free, what do you want? You try running a website, jerkface. Besides, “Mad Men” and “Project Runway” are back on the tube. Who’s got time to write? We promise to have better ideas tomorrow. Or [...]

August 16th, 2009

Links! Photos! Videos!

Yahoo! offers up a round-up of great punk logos but leaves out Crass. Punk! Fun fact: The Misfits stole their famous skull logo from the poster of an obscure 1946 horror film. | Link
Allen Shellenberger, drummer of Lit, dies at 39. The band had the number 1 Modern Rock single of 1999 | Obit…

August 10th, 2009

Q&A: Author Marcus Sakey

We don’t cover a lot of fiction here at YuppiePunk World HQ, but we couldn’t resist the opportunity to chat with Marcus Sakey, self-proclaimed yuppie punk and award-winning writer of several well-reviewed thrillers including "Good People" and "The Blade Itself," which was one of Esquire magazine’s Top 5 Reads of 2007. His story seemed particularly [...]