Recent Posts from Tough Customer // Wire

Tough Customer // Wire — One of my favorite day dreams revolves around time travel. Not the kind of time travel where you are magically transported 100 years into the future so you can finally get that jet pack you’ve always wanted. And not the kind of time travel where ... read more »

Tough Customer // Wire — I’ve been in a strangely contemplative mood lately. All of a sudden it seems like everything is more important than it used to be. Or maybe it’s not. Either way, I find myself taking more time than usual trying to figure it out. The world seem... read more »

Tough Customer // Wire — I was talking to my friend Josh the other night. Josh was mad because he had just come back from visiting an artists’ retreat in the Marin Headlands, and he felt that the space and opportunity were being wasted on a lot of the artists in resid... read more »

Tough Customer // Wire — There has been many a phrase coined to describe the bare essence of rock n roll, but what I think it ultimately comes down to is taste. You can have the skills, but without the look and the attitude you’ll be stuck playing Steve Vai covers in ... read more »

Tough Customer // Wire — Two of my favorite bands are playing tonight at Slim’s. If you happen to be in or around SF, I highly recommend you check it out. The Whigs are a rock band band in the truest sense of the words. They play loud, charging songs that somehow manage ... read more »

Tough Customer // Wire — Nerds are funny. Throughout their early school years they ostracized, treated as social outcasts and left to hover over their books alone. Some of them seek comfort in computers or sci-fi board games and end up as 57 year old virgins dying of jun... read more »

Tough Customer // Wire — Here we are in the last waning hours of 2009 and I’m sneaking my top 10 list in right before they close the books for good on this decade. As with most things here at Tough Customer, this list will defy convention. You’re not going to see any of ... read more »

Tough Customer // Wire — If you’ll excuse me for a second, I need to talk some shit about the American consumer banking system. I know this is a tired old trope, but what’s the point of having a blog if you can’t use it as your digital soapbox every once in a while? Besi... read more »

Tough Customer // Wire — I recently got rid of all my CDs. After years of buying, trading and collecting albums, after dragging them across the country, after loading most of them onto my computer and after watching them gather dust for the last two years I finally decid... read more »

Tough Customer // Wire — For the first time in the history of mankind, more people now live in cities than in rural areas. For an urban planning nerd like myself, this is fascinating for so many reasons. A metropolitan city is like a giant organism itself, constantly gro... read more »

Tough Customer // Wire — Generally speaking, I don’t like to mix business with pleasure. This is mostly because I like to give all of my attention to the task in front of me. If it’s business time, then I make sure I handle my business. Likewise, if it’s time to party, t... read more »

Tough Customer // Wire — When it rains, it pours. At least that’s what it says on the side of the salt shaker, and lately I’ve found it to be pretty true. I won’t bore you with the details of my personal life, but I will say that in a matter of months I have gone from ha... read more »

Tough Customer // Wire — The brand new LP from the Brooklyn electro-pop phenoms comes out today on Tough Customer Records. The record is awash in gorgeous synthesizer riffs, dance floor ready drum beats and the band’s trademark cinematic sound. The lyrics pay homage to y... read more »

Tough Customer // Wire — Have you ever come across someone so messed up drugs that just talking to them made you feel high? That happened to me the other night. It was a really strange feeling. For the first three or four minutes I thought I was the one who was acting re... read more »

Tough Customer // Wire — I don’t get a lot of opportunity to watch TV when it’s actually on TV. With the exception of live sports events, most of the stuff I watch is way after the fact. I have a DVR full of stand-up comedy specials and old Discovery Channel shows that I... read more »

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Tough Customer // Wire — Let’s talk about the weather. The weather is one of those things that holds universal fascination for almost everyone above the age of ten. Put two strangers in a room and even if they have absolutely nothing else in common, they will be able to ... read more »

Tough Customer // Wire — As a general rule I hate hippies. They’re dirty, they have bad taste in music and they are often vegetarians. A hippie can talk for hours about the cosmic earth mother and the collective need for universal love without saying a single thing of su... read more »

Tough Customer // Wire — When I moved from New York City back to San Francisco, I was determined to try and make Bay Area public transportation work as well as the subway does in Manhattan. I had a car, but I left it parked out in front of my apartment. Instead of drivin... read more »

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