Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
It was a successful 5-day weekend. Lots of relaxation, lots of record spinning, and some good time spent in the basement working on new music. My wife is better, but still dealing with post-Covid stuff. Mainly an annoying cough she can’t give the slip. I didn’t end up going to the Y, but I did […]
Read More Long, Cold Weekend…Future Forecast? Not Looking GoodDespite never quite knowing what I was watching, David Lynch films were an important step in my cinematic journey. His movies were both almost child-like and also extremely disturbing. Some of them were more straight forward, while others were puzzles you had to put together in the dark, and with missing pieces to boot. They […]
Read More David Lynch : 1946-2025Well we are in the thick of it, folks. The cold has arrived and plans on sticking around for a bit. It’s currently 10 degrees with a nice northerly wind that slaps hard every time I open the door at work. Within about 5 minutes the indoor temp on the dock went from 65 to […]
Read More In The Cold, Doing The Work, Missing My Four-Legged FriendAs soon as the opening salvo “The Night The Screaming Began” on Alone 1980s brand new LP Blood From The Black Gate starts up you know what you’re getting into. From the buzzsaw synths to the banshee howl to the menacing rhythmic pull the ride has begun, and there’s no refunds. Touches of Pentagram Home […]
Read More Alone 1980 : Blood From The Black GateScottish post-punkers Franz Ferdinand hit at just the right time back in the early 2000s. They emerged out of the early 2000s post-punk/dance punk revival which included The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Killers, Interpol, LCD Soundsystem, and a slew of other bands that dissipated into a cloud of unrealized dreams. Franz Ferdinand stood out […]
Read More Franz Ferdinand : The Human FearThe latest to drop from the great Library of the Occult is a sweet treat for all you lovers of 80s slashers, sleaze, and sweaty exploitative art. Canadian filmmaker and composer Chris Alexander has offered up Body Double, a sweat-drenched slab of sleazy 80s film score work. While not a re-imagining of DePalma’s great 80s […]
Read More Chris Alexander : Body DoubleI was a pre-teen and teenager in the dark days of the mid-to-late 80s. For a kid that wanted his music loud, fast, and marginally offensive the powers that be wanted to make it as hard as possible for a 14-year old to get his slab of expletive-strewn metal. When I first started buying music […]
Read More Free As A BirdI love the fact that no matter how much music you think you know about, or how vast your knowledge is there’s always something new to you just around the corner. I’ll go months not discovering anything new(or new to me), and then all of a sudden like a “Eureka!” moment something new hits my […]
Read More Cate Brooks’ ‘Prismatics’The year has gotten off to a great start. It’s begun with good old Covid. We’d had plans to have my best friend come over on New Year’s Eve. You know, some tacos, some movies, maybe spin some records, and maybe some classic video games to scratch that early 80s arcade itch. But I was […]
Read More New Year, New CovidGoing to close out my 2024 coverage on this Friday, January 3rd with just a list of movies seen and books read. We really dig into 2025 next week, but for now I’m rounding out all the movies and books I’ve enjoyed this past year. Nothing fancy, just lists. More lists and lists and Liszts […]
Read More Things Seen And Read in 2024 : Movies and Books Edition