SPOILER WARNING FOR THOSE NOT CURRENTLY WATCHING THE SHOW ON AMC I am sitting here listening to TV on the Radio’s latest album Dear Science, specifically track ten, DLZ. I cannot hear this song ever again and not think of what was yet another of the best scenes I have EVER seen in a series. … Continue reading
The Knife’s Opera, new Black Francis and a bunch of other goodies
If you have never been to Joshua Tree National Park and you live anywhere in the Southwestern United States I am going on record now as suggesting you go. So close to ‘civilization’ meccas such as Los Angeles and Phoenix Joshua Tree, smack dab where the Mojave meets the Colorado Desert is a strange, otherworldly … Continue reading
I know you will read a lot about KICK ASS elsewhere on this and other sites – in fact it is shaping up to be a HUGE movie and the inundation of media surrounding it will no doubt soon make blogs like this seem like piddly little drops in the word-ocean* of the www. And … Continue reading
A little less than a year ago my younger cousin Charles made an interesting assessment during the course of a fairly weighty, late-night ale-fueled conversation. He is twenty-five: “My age group is going to be the last one to associate music with something tactile.” This is, when you stop to think about it, fairly obvious. … Continue reading
I’m just going to say this now and get it out of the way – I think Ti West is one of the best directors living and working today. In spite of that Ti West’s middle movie, TRIGGER MAN, has sat on my que for months. Why? Because I’m a creature of mood more than … Continue reading
Just like everyone else I have my guilty pleasures. Today I will talk about one of them. Doggiestyle: Snoop Dogg Guilty? Yep. Why? Where to begin? First, no matter what, gansta rap irritates me because it relishes in the quagmire of lowest common denominator – Constant swearing, which on a good day usually describes my … Continue reading
Generally speaking I don’t watch a lot of war movies. When I was in junior high I was into them because I was really influenced by Larry Hama’s GI JOE comic, and although a comic book based on a toy line, Hama did his research and the book’s portrayal of the effects of Vietnam on … Continue reading
I do not know Matt Pike of High on Fire personally, however every couple years I invite him into my home to kick me in the balls. I like this. The first time I heard about High On Fire was during the great ‘Stoner Rock Quake’ of ’99, when Man’s Ruin Records seemingly came out … Continue reading
Recently I noticed the first season of the 80’s GI JOE cartoon hit DVD again. Now, I am not foolish enough nor nostalgic enough to buy these things, but it got me thinking about the show again. For years in the 90’s I looked back on particular episodes with that hazy awe those of us … Continue reading