Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
I hate it when my gut is right. Was I hoping for a different outcome? Most certainly and without a doubt. Am I dumbfounded by the results of yesterday’s election? I am and I’m not. I’m shocked that despite all that’s come in this election cycle(including violent rhetoric, felony convictions, the whole Nazi thing, etc…etc…) […]
Read More Hmm…Well…The air feels a little heavier than it should. There’s a sense of doom and gloom all around, covering the view like a low hung fog. Thick as split pea soup, it seems to cover any chance of seeing what lies ahead. I’m living in a time that me 20 years ago could not even […]
Read More It’s All Heavy, ManThe 5 days off was much needed. No major appliances or vehicles broke down, no family emergencies, and no injuries. So I’d say it was a successful fall break. Of course the King Crimson show was the highlight. Still reeling from that one, and probably will be for some time. Halloween was pretty uneventful. My […]
Read More Long Weekend, New Music Coming Along, Election WeekAll Hallow’s Eve is here. I’m sitting in the living room at 9:30 am on Halloween Day, rocking a solid 5 hours of sleep. No, it’s not that I had a bad night of sleep. It’s that we didn’t get home till 1:30 am last night and I didn’t end up falling asleep until after […]
Read More Halloween 2024 : Beat Tour, Spooky Movies, StaycationThere’s something about Halloween that has always felt sacred to me. Of course being a kid and going door to door getting candy from neighbors and strangers alike was pretty magical. So was heading out with a friend or siblings and that feeling of ghoulish camaraderie as you all huddled in a group, fighting off […]
Read More Halloween WeekIt was a good weekend. Even if it wasn’t great it still would have been great since I only work two days this week and I’m off for my own little fall break. I’ll clock in and out Monday and Tuesday, then after that I’m off the rest of the week. Wednesday my wife and […]
Read More Good Weekend, Friend Hang, No Hot Water…And TunesWe are less than a week away from Halloween. The best stuff always goes by way too fast, doesn’t it? We wait and anticipate the spooky season for most of the year that when October 1st arrives, November 1st shoves its way to the front of the line. I’ve been working on a little music […]
Read More Collins : VHSTim Heidecker, one half of comedy duo Tim and Eric, is secretly a pop songwriter and musician. Well, it’s not really much of a secret these days. After releasing albums like What The Brokenhearted Do and High School the comedian/actor known for his absurdist humor and surreal characters has established himself as a great songwriter, […]
Read More Tim Heidecker : Slipping AwayThe radio was everything to me growing up. In that weird space between being a little kid listening to Disney records on a red, white, and blue Fisher Price record player to stacks of heavy metal cassettes being blasted through a GE boom box, the radio was my main source of musical nourishment. I was […]
Read More RadioIn lieu of reviews or talking about my overwhelming existential fear of what’s going to happen in a couple weeks at the polls, I thought I’d talk about a handful of records I’ve recently spun at home. It’s something I used to do on here years ago but seem to have fallen out of the […]
Read More “What’s Spinnin’?” Recent Vinyl Spins