If Miles says so…

…then it shall be. I’ve got some picking up to do on this Friday evening. But that’s all right because I’ve got a couple Breakfast Stouts up in the freezer to help ease that cleaning into chill mode. No, it’s not eggs and bacon liquified and fermented over a hot Midwest summer. It’s actually a […]

Random Thoughts Part III

There’s one Christmas that sticks out from my childhood more than any. It was the Christmas I received the Spiderman Rescue Helicopter. This thing was massive. You know those Barbie Corvettes they used to sell to little girls that grew up to be big girls with huge expectations? Well, this helicopter was that big. Big […]

My Bloody Valentine: Live at the Aragon Ballroom

It’s not very often that one gets to see legends on stage. Not only that, but legends as prickly and fussy as a guy named Kevin Shields. A guy that took 22 years to release a follow-up to a record that pretty much helped create a genre. Sure, the argument can be said that Ride […]

Antiphon is sorta brilliant…

I’m on my third spin in a row of Midlake’s newest album -and first without former singer/leader Tim Smith- Antiphon. I will admit that when I first heard the album on NPR’s First Listen I was a little worried. Not that the album sounded bad. That’s not it at all. It’s just that nothing was […]

Discovered :: Miles Davis’ Pangaea

If you’ve never been to Jazz Record Mart on Illinois St in Chicago, you don’t know what you’re missing friends. It’s a chunk of vinyl history tucked into a small building that if you blinked you’d miss it. I’ve been there three, maybe four times and each time I end up leaving knowing I could’ve […]

Trick-Or-Treat 2013

Candy schuckin’ was postponed till tonight due to inclement(crappy)weather. Good thing, cause we had a hell of a time. I’ll post more later, but here’s our evening.

My Bloody Valentine This Sunday!

It’s been well over a year since my wife and I have gone to a concert. In fact, it was March of 2012 when we went to see Dr. Dog in Indianapolis. It was a great show, and we paid the extra $20 for each of us to get a seat in the old folks […]

Happy Halloween

I’m not sure how Halloween is going to be in your neck of the woods, but in mine it’s not going to be all that great. Rain, rain, rain…wind, wind, wind…blech, blech, blech. The city went so far as to cancel trick-or-treating tonight and moved it to tomorrow, which is probably a good idea. My […]

BoC

I’ve been trying to figure out what it is about Boards of Canada that draws me to them. I’m rather perplexed by my obsession with this band. There aren’t catchy melodies, or headbanging riffage, or even lovesick ballads. Their songs consist of breakbeats, old synths, and sampled educational films from the 60s. Why would I […]

A Halloween Tale…

When I was 14 my best friend and I decided we wanted to try an Ouija board. Yeah I know, “Don’t mess with things you can’t surely understand.” Well, when you’re 15 years old you don’t give a s**t about common sense and things of that nature. I didn’t believe in that sort of stuff […]