Neal And Jack And Adrian And Robert And Tony And Bill And Me

I’m not sure what’s a popular opinion and what’s an unpopular opinion when it comes to King Crimson, but in terms of eras of the band my absolute favorite one is the 80s reincarnation with Adrian Belew. Discovering and obsessing over Adrian Belew’s 80s solo albums back in high school was the starting point. Once […]

Easter Monday(April Fool’s Day)

Greetings. How was everyone’s weekend? How was Good Friday/Easter Sunday? We don’t really celebrate Easter around here. Mainly because we’re not religious, and I feel that celebrating Easter with ham and scalloped potatoes and jovial merrymaking isn’t the right thing to do when you aren’t doing it for real. I don’t want to be piggybacking […]

Hancock Live, Party Like Adults, Walking the Dog, Road To Nowhere

How often can you say you’ve seen a legend perform live? I mean, someone who’s changed the face of their chosen art? Someone who helped to define an era and influence and inspire countless generations after them? I would say for me it was once, and it was Friday night. I was lucky enough to […]

A Family Tradition

This was the typical scene at a Hubner Thanksgiving celebration. It was spent with the four of us(Dad, Mom, my older brother Chris, and me) and my paternal grandparents. It was never anything too crazy; turkey, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, stuffing, and rolls. There’d be a pumpkin pie, and my grandma usually brought something […]

Painting, Road Trips, Spinning Tunes, And Buzzing Amps

Not a particularly exciting weekend, but not bad either. Every Friday I go into it thinking I’m going to make the most of it. No wasting two days away from work sitting around doing nothing. But really, that’s all I want out of a weekend. I want to do nothing; no obligations, no responsibilities, and […]

Lousy Smarch Weather

It feels to me like this has been the most inconsistent winter we’ve had in years. We had one stretch of truly brutal cold back in January and that was pretty much it. One big winter storm, plus some polar vortex-like frigid cold all in one weekend and week then that was it. By the […]

‘Summerteeth’ Turns 25, Pye Corner Audio Worship, And Faex Optim Filling A BOC-Size Hole

25 years ago this past Saturday I was sitting in a mildly dumpy hotel room in Fresno, California wondering what the hell I was going to do with myself. I’d flown into town for work. I was Distributor Inventory Auditor for a Midwestern orthopedic company in the late 90s. In simple terms, I traveled to […]

I Could Use Some New Boards Of Canada Right About now

Last Boards of Canada album came out in 2013. It’s been 11 years since Tomorrow’s Harvest arrived and gave me hope for the future of electronic music. It was the first BoC album to come out since I’d gotten into them, which was 2008. Before that the last new full-length Boards album was 2005s The […]

Road Trip, BBQ, Sunday Jazz, Birthday Celebration

Weekend came and went as usual. The space/time/weekend continuum continues to baffle and astound my regular guy brain. I’ll never quite understand how five days feels like 10, while two days feel like an afternoon nap. And yet despite that glaring disturbance in the force I’m still 50-years old with a sizable 401-K, a nearly […]

Friday Check-In : March 1st Edition(Watching The Wheels)

Hard to believe it’s March 1st. I mean, if I’m being honest I’m still trying to catch up from Christmas. The fact that it’s now March of 2024 is kind of insane to me. The last four years all feel like a big, messy blur. Four years ago we were looking at the real possibility […]