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2013 Stories by Jef With One F

• 5 Songs About Andy Kaufman NOT By R.E.M.

  published Jan 16, 2013

  Today would have been comedian Andy Kaufman's 64th birthday... assuming of course he isn't playing a really long practical joke on us all. Anyone else in the world and such a claim would be rightfully... More >>

• So What's God of War: Ascension Multiplayer Liker

  published Jan 16, 2013

  The latest entry in the God of War series comes out in March. Up until now it's been more or less of a perfect franchise. Sure, God of War III suffered a bit, it was the Return of the Jedi of the thre... More >>

• Gothic Council on Being Almost "Normal"

  published Jan 16, 2013

  There's something that happens every holiday season that always causes me to damage my eyes through excessive rolling. The Wife With One F is a tremendous baker, known far and wide for her ability to ... More >>

• The 5 Most Important Years In Goth Music: 1986

  published Jan 16, 2013

  Over the course of the week Rocks Off will be looking at the biggest years for goth music and exactly what they meant for the genre. Goth history does not have a lot of supergroups, unfortunately. Ro... More >>

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  5 Beloved Pop Cultures Seen Through the Eyes of White Supremacists (sNSFW)

  published Jan 15, 2013

  I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not an insane Neo-Nazi, even though statistically speaking someone reading this right now probably is one. Here's how I know that. A l... More >>

• The 5 Most Important Years in Goth Music: 1983

  published Jan 15, 2013

  All this week, Rocks Off will be looking at the biggest years for goth music and exactly what they meant for the genre. Just as Bauhaus was breaking up, a place in England opened up whose gothic impo... More >>

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  The 5 Most Important Years In Goth Music: 1979

  published Jan 14, 2013

  All this week, Rocks Off will be looking at the biggest years for goth music, and exactly what they meant for the genre. Like any good structure, goth is built on the foundations of other previous cu... More >>

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  4 Ways American Video Games Retconned Japanese Culture

  published Jan 11, 2013

  My best friend in high school was a guy named Carlos, and he had a somewhat interesting attitude towards culture shock because unlike a lot of people we knew in east Houston he had actually been depor... More >>

• Houston Kickstarter Round-Up: January: Robots, Stephen King, and German Food on the Go

  published Jan 10, 2013

  Once a month we'll be bringing you a look at some of the best local Kickstarter campaigns in order to let you know what's getting ready to be unleashed through the help of small investors. Sasquatch ... More >>

• American Horror Story: Asylum: Free to the End of Your Rope

  published Jan 10, 2013

  Do you know why Texas Chainsaw Massacre is brilliant, and why House of 1,000 Corpses is an underrated gemr It has nothing to do with the violence, the horror of cannibalism, or the nature of the kills... More >>

• Video Game Atlas: Myst Island

  published Jan 09, 2013

  Once a week Art Attack will offer you a handy little travel guide to the fictional worlds of video games. Name: Myst Island, Myst Series Population: Less than 10 Government: None The problem with ... More >>

• Black Dahlia: 5 Songs for a Famous Murder Victim

  published Jan 09, 2013

  Sometime between this day and January 15 in 1947, a young woman named Elizabeth Short was brutally murdered in Hollywood. She was nicknamed The Black Dahlia in the papers, who portrayed the 23-year-ol... More >>

• 6 Degrees of Separation from Daredevil to Disney: A Prophecy Fulfilled

  published Jan 09, 2013

  Back in August we were pleased to announce that Marvel Studios, and by association Disney, had reacquired the rights to Daredevil. That means that Matt Murdoch can finally make his way into the expand... More >>

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  Top 10 Theories About the New Doctor Who Companion

  published Jan 07, 2013

  ... ... Is it April yetr Nor ... ... How 'bout nowr Damnit. What you just read is the play-by-play brain of a Whovian as we all sludge through time the slow way and in the right order, waiting for th... More >>

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  5 Video Games That Would Make Fantastic Ballets

  published Jan 07, 2013

  The Wife With One F is a ballet fan and has been trying to interest me in attending some of Houston's by-all-accounts excellent performances for years. My opinion on the matter is that if I want to se... More >>

• Bonus Rocks Off 100: Nortnii Rose, Houston Ska's Greatest Hope

  published Jan 04, 2013

  Welcome to the Rocks Off 100, our portrait gallery of the most compelling profiles and personalities in the far-flung Houston music community -- a lot more than just musicians, but of course they're i... More >>

• 30 Seconds with Wo Fat's Kent Stump

  published Jan 04, 2013

  From the bowels of the bayou comes Wo Fat, rock and roll that oozes, pulses and frankly makes me want to storm a compound. Good, good stuff if you're in the mood to hunt Bigfoot in the Big Thicket. I ... More >>

• The New Escatones 45 Is Indeed Out of Sight!

  published Jan 04, 2013

  Yeah, I should probably be beaten badly and left in an alley to think about what I did for making that pun, but trust me; The Escatones' "Out of Sight/East Beach Stomp" is indeed worth the price of th... More >>

• Video Game Atlas: The First Kingdom of the Unfinished Swan

  published Jan 04, 2013

  Once a week Art Attack will offer you a handy little travel guide to the fictional worlds of video games. Name: The First Kingdom of the Unfinished Swan, Unfinished Swan series Population: Virtuall... More >>

• A 16-Bit Version of Doctor Who's "Blinkr" Why Yes, Thank You!

  published Jan 04, 2013

  Awhile back I was lauding some of the excellent modern TV shows remade as classic video games. Of course, most of them were actually just animations done in the style of old-school gaming, not actua... More >>

• Negative Utopia Gets All Self-Determinist Up In Here

  published Jan 03, 2013

  It's a well-known fact that most band names are essentially gobbledygook, but here at Rocks Off we're working hard to find meaning in the oddest monikers. Negative Utopia is only six months old as a ... More >>

• American Horror Story: Asylum: Burn, Waiting for the World to End

  published Jan 03, 2013

  Don't mind me. Just quoting my favorite Cure song is all. Warning, spoilers to follow more than usual. To business then. Asylum has been on vacation for a while, sparing us a New Year's Eve-themed ho... More >>

• The Rocks Off 100: Ramblin' Chase Hamblin, the Man Who Will Be Paid

  published Jan 03, 2013

  Welcome to the Rocks Off 100, our portrait gallery of the most compelling profiles and personalities in the far-flung Houston music community -- a lot more than just musicians, but of course they're i... More >>

• Happy Deathday, Edgar Cayce! 5 Songs For Our Favorite "Seer"

  published Jan 03, 2013

  On this day in 1945, a psychic named Edgar Cayce suffered a stroke that killed him. The famous sleeping prophet, who worked in Texas during the 1920s, was hailed far and wide for his abilities to heal... More >>

• Whyr Call to Older Forces On "The Water You Walk"

  published Jan 02, 2013

  Welcome to a whole new year of music videos here at Rocks Off. Last year had some of the best we've ever covered, so there's a high bar set for 2013. Let's start strong with Whyr and a cut from their ... More >>