Aaron Small

May 25, 2005

Now Look What You ‘Punk-Ass Biatches’ Made Us Do

By Aaron Small

We've all had weeks from hell. Six papers finished half-assedly minutes before they're due, your boss griped about deficient pieces of flair, and that girl you met in psych section, yeah, she's never gonna call, no matte...

May 10, 2005

Confronting the Real World

By Aaron Small

Graduating this spring has its perks: I didn't have to scrounge for another overpriced apartment in I.V., the enemy known as general education requirements will be forever wiped out and distant family members who squeeze...

May 2, 2005

Don’t Talk to Me, I’m an iPod-aholic

By Aaron Small

You've seen 'em. They're everywhere. The kids with those white wires coming out of their ears, under vintage T-shirts, with the excess string wound around a tiny pack fastened to their belt.

April 14, 2005

Get Lost!!!

By Aaron Small

A mishmash of anecdotes, East Coast-style songs and muddled Platonic philosophy forms the blandish meat of the Civilians' drama "Gone Missing," written and directed by Steven Cosson.

March 3, 2005

Mazeltov!

By Aaron Small

On March 3-6, you better quit your kvetching, stock up on plenty of your bubbe's kugel and make the shlep downtown for the first annual Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival (SBJFF).

February 24, 2005

Interpol Live at SOMA

By Aaron Small

Hipsters fought among each other for position, pushing to get closer to the action as the SOMA stage filled with thick fog. Aphex Twin's "Milkman" cut out, a church organ sounded and five suits emerged from the abyss. Pa...

January 6, 2005

Teenage Angst Finds New Voice

By Aaron Small

Teenagers not yet old enough to buy cigarettes spill onto Hollywood Boulevard and wait for the opening bands to finish their sets and let headlining act Say Anything take the stage of the Knitting Factory.

January 4, 2005

Ever Wonder How It Feels to Sell Your Soul on Facebook?

By Aaron Small

On Nov. 24, I signed up and received a Thefacebook account. I know that since July you've been logging on three times a day to check for "pokes," reading inane updates to your group's message board, and have found the nu...

November 18, 2004

Growing Up Incredible | Another Lesson from Pixar

By Aaron Small

Admit it. Ever since the first time you saw Adam West on "Batman," you've been dying to know: boxers or briefs? If Spiderman got stoned and opted for a night out with Mary Jane instead of fighting crime in Manhattan, wha...

October 27, 2004

Keaton Simons | Currently | Reprise

By Aaron Small

"My intention is to be honest with my music - not to be ashamed of anything and to turn myself inside out." So says up-and-coming blues artist Keaton Simons, yet after hearing his five-song EP.

October 7, 2004

G. Love & Special Sauce | The Hustle | Brushfire

By Aaron Small

G. Love is back with his Special Sauce crew, who hustled and bustled to create a funky folk album, filled with easy grooves, harmonica-backed blues and Philly rap that pushes you to freestyle, even if you can't.