Email Author Mark Driver

2001 Stories by Mark Driver

• 2. So long Napster

  published December 26, 2001

  TIME WAS, YOU couldn't enjoy a media outlet without a peeved rock star shaking a jewel-encrusted fist at a lens and cursing the... More >>

• Steaks and chops

  published November 28, 2001

  TOMAHAWK, DJ SWAMP Graceland, $15 9 p.m. Sat., Dec. 1 ZIPPY WOW, we... More >>

• Raw tuna and bourbon vomit

  published October 24, 2001

  AFTER A LONG WEEK tending bar at Mario's down in Burien (12803 Ambaum Blvd. S.W., Burien, 248-3113), I am ready for my night out.... More >>

• You stupid suckers

  published September 19, 2001

  AH YES, FASHION. That temporary cycle of poop. That finger in your eye. That sharpened screw twisting meanly in your gut. Are you... More >>

• For those about to rock

  published August 22, 2001

  SEATTLE METAL ONLINE ANNIVERSARY PARTY Planet Hot Rod, 7403 Pacific Highway, Fife, 253-926-3599, free, all ages... More >>

• Over it

  published June 27, 2001

  When it became clear that being the "Global Lifestyle Destination for CyberYouth" was as stupid an idea as it sounded, the dot-com I worked for... More >>

• Chaos control

  published June 13, 2001

  MAYHEM Graceland, 262-0482, $18 adv. 6 p.m. Fri., June 15 More >>

• Eat my wake

  published May 23, 2001

  ANOTHER BUCOLIC Seattle springtime: Willow branches beneath I-5's breaching of Lake Union nod their approval in a light breeze. Yellow... More >>

• The Browser

  published March 14, 2001

  It used to be that recording your music meant expensive studio time and hours burned begging some pizza-eating knob-twiddler to take the '80s... More >>

• Rocket science

  published March 7, 2001

  THE WEEKEND ROAD TRIPS my friends and I used to take centered around this torture: Each passenger would bring one tape, which was played... More >>

• Geek Box

  published February 21, 2001

  Nobody told me that Klamath Falls, Ore., wasn't on I-5. Not that it was anyone else's responsibility. It was me being dumb again, and when I... More >>

• Napster dead? Beware the worms

  published February 21, 2001

  The RIAA's crack team of lawyers chomp on log-sized cigars and clank their three-finger martinis in victory. They have reason to celebrate:... More >>

• Metal in a bottle

  published January 24, 2001

  I WAS IN DENMARK once—Copenhagen, to be more precise. One of the world's best record stores, to be even more precise, but the... More >>