Email Author Joe Hon

1995 Stories by Joe Hon

• Play till You Drop

  published December 21, 1995

  Making a living off of other people's music has a way of snuffing out ambition. After all, regardless of how flashy, funny and technically adept... More >>

• Digital Bloating

  published December 7, 1995

  Okay, I'll admit it: I'm a slave to technology. When laser discs resurfaced in the late '80s, I couldn't pass up owning one of the magical... More >>

• Rotation

  published August 17, 1995

  Bjsrk Post Elektra The eccentric voice of Bjsrk, with its range and variety of accents and enunciations, could make a reading of... More >>

• 1995 Houston Press Music Awards

  published August 10, 1995

  best new act The Jinkies If you didn't see this one coming, you forgot to look both ways. This past year has seen The Jinkies win every... More >>

• Rotations

  published July 13, 1995

  Michael Jackson HI Past, Present and Future, Book 1 Epic Records A bluish gray statue of Michael Jackson stands defiantly on the... More >>

• Third Time, Semi-Lucky

  published May 25, 1995

  When an action movie proves to be a success, there's almost inevitably a sequel. And hey, if it works twice, why not try for three? Unfortunately,... More >>

• War Games

  published May 18, 1995

  With their latest offering, the post-Cold War thriller Crimson Tide, the creative team of director Tony Scott and producers Don Simpson and Jerry... More >>

• Royal and Righteous

  published May 11, 1995

  One evening this March, Killian Sweeney and Noah SkYess were discussing future projects for Willis, the glam rock band they were then both part... More >>

• Hot Love

  published May 4, 1995

  There's a happy ending to A Pyromaniac's Love Story; this film is a fairy tale after all, albeit a modernized, live action version of Fractured... More >>

• Belly, Going Up

  published May 4, 1995

  Back in 1991, Gail Greenwood was among the capacity audience that had packed a small club in Newport, Rhode Island, to see the much-hyped debut... More >>

• Rotation

  published May 4, 1995

  Various Artists Till the Night Is Gone: A Tribute to Doc Pomus Forward/Rhino It says a lot about the dubiousness of the form... More >>

• Simply Beastie

  published May 4, 1995

  When the Beastie Boys came through Houston almost ten years ago, we sure did give 'em a good ol' Texas welcome. Their first album, Licensed to... More >>

• Chopped to Death

  published April 27, 1995

  The casting of Nicolas Cage as Little Junior in the thriller Kiss of Death might seem at first to be foolhardy. Cage as a bad guy? More... More >>

• Rotations

  published April 20, 1995

  Juliana Hatfield Only Everything Atlantic It's appropriate that performances by Juliana Hatfield appear on the soundtracks for... More >>

• Action by the Book

  published April 13, 1995

  There's no denying that Bad Boys follows Hollywood's action comedy formula by the book. But where most films only end up bombing in the process,... More >>

• Into the Tank

  published April 6, 1995

  Based on the cult-fave comic series by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, Tank Girl is more a psychedelic fusion of comic and film than a movie... More >>

• Mom Muse

  published March 30, 1995

  In the mid-'80s, both the Pixies and the Throwing Muses emerged from the Boston music scene as forerunners of what would eventually become... More >>

• Rotation

  published March 23, 1995

  D-Knowledge All That and a Bag of Words Quest/Warner Bros. MTV told us poetry is making a comeback, but where then are all the... More >>

• Rotation

  published March 16, 1995

  James Carr The Essential James Carr Razor & Tie Records James Carr is one of the few '60s soul men who actually deserved the... More >>

• The Road from College

  published March 9, 1995

  You never know when that phone call's going to come that'll change your life. Even if the call isn't to you. That's what Jack O'Neill and... More >>

• Audience Reaction

  published February 23, 1995

  It's time for "Punitive Damages," everyone's favorite segment of the game show Payback Time, where scumbags get what's coming to them. Today's... More >>

• The Preacher Returns

  published February 2, 1995

  For the (still) far-too-many people unfamiliar with the work of Gil Scott-Heron, the seminal black musician and poet was repackaged last year --... More >>

• Baseball's Rough Beast

  published January 19, 1995

  While Tyrus Raymond Cobb may or may not have been the greatest baseball player of all time, there's no question that he was the meanest player in... More >>