Once again, I dig into the big box (and elsewhere) to find old records to listen to and blather on about. This volume branches out a little bit past the usual piles of hair metal and mid-nineties pop rock into one of the more embarassing musical phases of my life, which is something, coming from […]

A few more records I’ve been pulling randomly from my big box o’ CDs and listening to on long drives: ♦Halfway There: A Central Pennsylvania compilation: For a couple of years in the mid 90s, Central PA had something of a renaissance of original music. Music that people noticed and appreciated. People like record company […]

I spent my evening taking in a screening of Super 8. Good movie; sort of like a lost Spielberg classic from the early 80s. Great sound design, and very evocative of the type of film it pays tribute to (even if such tribute is sometimes a little too on-the-nose). If you happen to find yourself […]

More little record reviews. I hope I’m not repeating myself. ♦Never The Bride: I bought this record after hearing the band’s amazing version of “Goin’ to California” on Encomium, a Led Zeppelin tribute album. I know very little about them, other than the fact that they’ve got a vocalist with an amazing female rock voice; […]

Being off the road last week, I had less time than usual with my car CD player (at home, I’ve been mostly pushing Pandora Radio through the Roku box, which is convinced that I should really like Eminem’s “Love The Way You Lie,” and damn, if it isn’t growing on me), but, here’s the latest […]

…it seems. Sometimes, being alone is the best way to be. I kinda love this song, always have. The whole Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars record really, but especially this song. And it’s just kind of speaking to me right now. ♫ Halalalalalala <plink> <plink> ♫

As I’d mentioned previously, we spent the weekend at Balticon doing the geek thing. Generally, I believe a good time was had by all, though I will freely admit that a long-weekend convention is probably about twelve to eighteen hours longer than I’m used to or (more likely) capable of handling without a little bit […]

Once again, a couple of short thoughts on some records: ♦Damn Yankees – Don’t Tread: Jack Blades (Night Ranger), Tommy Shaw (Styx), and Ted Nugent, all relatively heavy hitters in the 70s and 80s, joined forces in the 90’s to form this “super group” and had several hits, a couple of which were on this, […]

♦Elvis Costello – Brutal Youth: Remember the BMG mail order CD club? The one where you got a little catalog and a postcard every month and if you didn’t return the postcard by a certain time (and sometimes even when you did), they’d send you (and charge you for) a CD you didn’t necessarily want? […]

For your consideration, a theory about the curious intersection of music, film, and the passage of time, courtesy of Steve Haden at the AV Club: …director Robert Zemeckis used Lewis’ “The Power Of Love” in the biggest box-office grosser of 1985, Back To The Future. Conceding that I was likely giving Zemeckis and his co-screenwriter […]