A-Sides With Jon Chattman: Doing Some 'Magic' With Only Son


Now that Disney has purchased LucasFilms and a new trilogy is coming, it should come as no surprise that the man behind the Chewbacca is eager to return to his Star Wars roots.
Every season it's delightfully unavoidable. It's on for 24-hours, and you watch it at least twice. It's kind of heroin for holiday spirit. Why wouldn't you want to see the leg lamp again? Bunny pajamas. The tongue on the pole. You'll shoot your eye out, kid.
"Live it up...You're growing up." That's a quote pulled from "Where the Kids Are," an throw-caution-to-the-wind hit alt-song by Los Angeles-duo Blondfire.
Like Sleigh Bells but lighter, Matt & Kim but less quirky, and absolutely nothing like these chicks (I do miss them), Frank + Derol are a twosome breaking through to the mainstream.
In the summer of 1984, my parents took my sister and I to see Gremlins, and it scared the bejesus out of me - whatever the word "bejesus" means. An av...