Flinching Time: Warren Zevon and the Vast Indifference of Heaven
Report and Interview by Gerrie Lim, Big O, May 1993
SPRINGTIME BLOWS AN idiot wind here in tinseltown, a change of seasons ridden with uncertainly as hay fever breaks out, pet animals act skittish, and everyone ...

Life After Gish: Smashing Pumpkins Play Their Generation's Blues
Report and Interview by Gerrie Lim, Big O, December 1993
SO THIS IS Generation X, I'm musing to myself in the lobby of the Hollywood Palladium, as I contemplate the horde of kids who have come ...

Warren Zevon: The Mutineer And His Bounty
Interview by Gerrie Lim, Big O, Spring 1993
LIKE ALL GREAT writers, Warren Zevon likes to quote his own favourite great writers. Graham Greene, for instance, who called his own belief in Christianity "a ...

Phair Enough: The Girl From Guyville
Profile and Interview by Gerrie Lim, Big O, February 1994
This is the story of Liz Phair, the "new" gal in town who shocked the music biz flack and functionaries when she gave GERRIE LIM a ...

Kip Winger With A Protein Shake: The Punknology According to Beck
Interview by Gerrie Lim, Big O, April 1994
THOSE OPENING NOTES attempt to warn you: a slinky salvo of slide guitar and then some hip-hop percussion, and then some dude starts rapping, wending up ...

Rapid Eye Monster: R.E.M. and the Reconstruction of New Fables
Interview by Gerrie Lim, Big O, September 1994
IF ROCK LYRICS ARE the fragile touchstones of this post-punk era, one concisely summarizes all the aspirations and angst of these psychically shifting ...

Hanging On A Star: In Memory of Nick Drake
Retrospective by Gerrie Lim, Big O, November 1994
HIS MUSIC IS as evocative and haunting as ever, though much of his life remains mysterious. Nick Drake died 20 years ago this month, on November ...

Patti Smith: The Power And The Glory, The Resurrection And The Life
Interview by Gerrie Lim, Big O, July 1995
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon.
In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
– Patti Smith, "To The Reader," introduction to Early ...

Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now
Review by Gerrie Lim, Big O, April 2000
TO PUT IT MILDLY, the new year's most surprising new album has arrived. And it comes from Joni Mitchell, the woman who wrote Woodstock and once ...

Alive And Well In Argentina At Last: The Mirth, The Music, The Magic Of Zalman Yanovsky
Memoir by Gary Pig Gold, Big O, December 2002
I KNOW AT LEAST one of his fellow supposedly-lovin’ Spoonfuls resents the situation to this day, but whenever Zal Yanovsky appeared on stage alongside John Sebastian, ...