Pisces Birthday(s)

21 years ago my wife and I had left an appointment at the OBGYN, what would be our final OB appointment before our “son in the oven” was to be introduced into a strange and quickly declining world. But it was 2005, and at that time things seemed to be moving along nicely. We had […]

Repeated Viewing Returns 2/21 With ‘Break The Faith’ : Listen to The FRenetic “Flying Ointment”

Alan Sinclair is one of the OGs of the imagined soundtrack world. For years he’s been releasing era-perfect records as Repeated Viewing, slabs of haunted and cursed wax that emulate a world of scuzzy late night movies that had higher budgets for recreational drugs than for special effects and proper cinematographers. But the one thing […]

Took Some Days Off, So I thought I’d get Sick

At this point now it seems like it’s a given that if I take some time off I’m going to get sick. It’s the vacation playbook; take a couple days off for a nice 4-day weekend and 24 hours in I’m going to start feeling like crap. It was the case last week, as I […]

Lovelock’s ‘Business And Pleasure’

So do you remember that scene in Tom Holland’s great Fright Night when Chris Sarandon’s suave and terrifying vampire Jerry Dandridge seduces Charlie Brewster’s girlfriend Amy Peterson back at his lair? The music playing was sexy, sultry, and mildly disconcerting, a vibe of both “come hither” and “run for your life” all in the same […]

Greetings From Planet Flu

Well it didn’t take long to catch one of the many awful viruses that are floating around. Started the week out okay coming back from the holiday break, but by Monday evening I started feeling sore all over. Muscles in my chest and back felt like I’d been used as a punching back, and my […]

Wolfmen Of Mars : The Obsolete Illusion

I think the first time I’d ever heard Wolfmen of Mars was on a compilation called SNDTRK, which came out back in 2016 on the now long dead Disco Cinematic Recordings. There was a who’s who of heavy synth artists on that album including Slasher Film Festival Strategy, Xander Harris, Repeated Viewing and an East […]

SML, Jeff Tweedy, Tortoise, Makaya McCraven Incoming : Year In Music Not Done Yet

So I’ve gotta say, 2025 has been an amazing year for music. While most other aspects of this year have been, well, less than stellar, music has been that one shining glimpse of hope that the world is moving on. I’ve been pretty happy with movies as well this year, but music has been what’s […]

Free Speech Warriors…Hello?? Is This Thing On??

Remember when the Right was all about free speech? Back when trolls like Alex Jones and that Milo whatever his name was were banned from Twitter for their hate speech? All these camouflaged, bearded weekend warriors on the far Right were screaming about silencing voices? Well now those same couch potato pundits are laughing at […]

“Tell Your Friends”(for Otto)

Whenever I hear Dr. Dog’s “Tell Your Friends” I’m reminded of my wife and I’s trip to Colorado last summer. We were there to see Dr. Dog play at Red Rocks, that was the main point of our journey out west. The week in Denver leading up to the Thursday evening concert was not a […]

I Think This Is Winning

Man, it’s been a hell of a few weeks. We started out the beginning of July with a sick kid that was in and out of the ER/hospital for two weeks. Juggling schedules, taking vacation days, sitting around in hospital rooms waiting on docs and nurses to administer meds, taking care of the dog, and […]