Wanderlust(and drywall dust)

Hello friends. Man, what a long week it’s been here in the hundred acre wood. Have you ever had that experience of going on a week-long holiday only to return to your place of employment and find out there’s pretty much the entire previous week’s worth of work waiting for you? Well, if not I […]

Vacation Nation : The Aftermath

So who told me that it would be a good idea to spend four days in some hillbilly mansion in the woods with my parents? Who was it? Cause I’m going to tell that person to go to Hell. In a hand basket even. So yeah, my four days away from it all wasn’t nearly […]

A Touching Display

The first time I heard Wire’s 154 I have to say I wasn’t all that impressed. In fact, I felt I should’ve spent my $14 on another Kraftwerk CD instead of on this “art rock/punk” band. It was 2007, and I was in the throes of a Spoon binge after the release of their Ga […]

Personal Solstice

Summer break has arrived. The kids are staying up and sleeping in, while mom and dad are still tired at 9pm and are ready for bed. Still, we try to keep up. We want the fun factor to be as high as possible. There’s only a handful of these summer breaks left before we’re reminiscing […]

The Space Jack Hummer

I’m not entirely sure what drew me to Ben Zimmerman’s The Baltika Years. It may have been the album cover, which was all white with what looked like confetti all over it. Maybe it was the fact that one of my new favorite record labels, Software, was putting it out. Or maybe it was the […]

Bonsoir

Morality doesn’t exist. Only morale. -Hannibal Lecter Really nothing better than hearing these words when you walk in the door straight off of a day’s work, “Hey. You got a record in the mail.” Man, it’s like Christmas at some random time during the year. There’s a brown cardboard square with something very wonderful inside. […]

Alone and I

Seems like it’s been days since I sat down to write. In fact, it’s been three days. I’ve been outside the last two days doing years worth of procrastination landscaping. I know it’s much easier to do the work a bit more often, as opposed to waiting 4, 5 years and doing it all in […]

Phantasmagoria

There’s a handful of movies that have stuck with me clear back since I was an annoying asthmatic kid with one too many make-believe friends. Star Wars, The Exorcist, The Fog, The Shining, Dawn of the Dead, and Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. These were movies that had a real impact on me. It was never comedies […]

When Tuesday Throws Rain At The Beach

Here I am, on a perfectly warm and non-moist day and I’m sitting inside writing and listening to music. Shouldn’t I be outside? Shouldn’t I want to be outside, slinging dirt or digging holes or pulling weeds or something? It seems like I should be anyways. Truth be told, I spent four hours outside yesterday […]

Mean Streets

Sorry you cinephiles, this isn’t a post about Martin Scorsese’s classic film. No, this is far less cool. So uncool that I’ll probably lose some longtime readers. Yes, what I’m going to write about will probably shatter quite a few preconceptions you all may have had about me. I’m not the debonair, suave, and dangerous […]