“This Was An Important Place in Their Lives” : ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ 45 Years Later

If asked what my top five movies were, I’d first say “That’s an impossible question, dammit!” But eventually I’d relent and give it a real go to make that list. A top five would definitely have Silence of the Lambs and Apocalypse Now. It would also have George Romero’s Dawn Of The Dead. Depending on […]

The Horror…The Horror…

I’ve been making a concerted effort to watch horror movies this month. Every weekend I’ve been watching something horror-adjacent. The last few years I feel like I’ll watch a couple movies and that’s it. I mean, what kind of horror fan am I if I’m only watching a couple spooky movies during the spookiest time […]

Nice Weekend, Spooky Tunes, Looking Better

This was probably the best weekend I’ve had in almost two months. That heaviness I’ve been carrying around seems to have lifted. A major reason for that is that my 20-year old daughter seems to be doing better, her heaviness and sadness over the whole dog debacle is diminishing. She’s still pissed at what the […]

Friday, Looking Back In Anger, Aging, Gut Feelings

It’s been a long few weeks and I’m pretty wore out mentally, emotionally, and existentially. Between the fiasco with the dog(yes that dog again), the drama at work with “when will we close?”, and my looming 50th birthday I feel like I’ve been walking a tightrope. My wife stayed the night at my daughter’s place […]

You Lose Some, You Lose Some(But You Also Kind Of Win)

After a month and a half of hand wringing, evidence gathering, restless nights of sleep, and hesitant optimism(everyone else, I’m more of a reluctant pessimist or doomed realist) we had our day in court trying to get our daughter’s puppy back from the shit stain ex-boyfriend in small claims court. What we hoped would be […]

Upgrading To The 21st Century

Life tends to evolve, shift, and upgrade right before our eyes. Sometimes it even does it when we’re not watching, so the next time we turn around its as if we’re living in some strange, new existence. I’ve always tried to keep up with the times. I never wanted to be left behind, yet it […]

Another Weekend Laid To Rest

The weekend wasn’t bad. It moved along like it was in a hurry(as usual) to get back to whence it came, but that’s par for the course. That’s the nature of the weekend; here and gone like Haley’s Comet. Friday afternoon is but a distant memory(did it really happen?) I sometimes feel like it’s the […]

Dualing Cassettes

Not sure if I should be as excited as I am, but you know what I don’t care. I ran over to Ignition Music this morning with my wife and picked up a used Sony Dual Cassette Recorder. It’s a little over 20 years old, but it’s a clean looking machine. And by the fact […]

Radiohead, James Bond, And Growing Up A Little Sad

A couple days ago I was rifling through Youtube when I searched ‘Radiohead “Nobody Does It Better”‘. I vaguely recalled hearing Thom and company cover the Carly Simon Bond theme years ago on some live bootleg, or possibly in some fever dream while sick with a gifted virus. Turns out it wasn’t my fever-y brain […]

October

Fall was making its presence known even before this past Sunday, October 1st. About a week and a half ago I noticed pine needles beginning to cover the driveway, then the front yard. For me, growing up in a pine woods there was no surer sign of fall than pine needles falling. Even more than […]