Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
Man, it’s a gorgeous Saturday afternoon. Groceries are bought, the house is cleaned, and the lawn mowed. Sitting on the porch with some ice water trying to bring my body temperature down to normal. I mean it’s beautiful and all, but it’s also pretty damn hot in the sun. There’s sweat where there shouldn’t be […]
Read More Saturday’s view from the porch…It’s not often I get excited about horror films anymore. More often than not they’re pretty much crap. I’ve talked about my lifelong love/hate relationship with the horror film genre. It started as a kid and has followed me up into adulthood. Though now, I’m much more pickier than when I was 12, 13 years […]
Read More Horror That’s Not Horrible: James Wan and his GhostsWe are officially halfway through the year. A little past that point, actually. Since we spoke last time Easter, Memorial Day, and the Fourth of July have passed. We’re only a month away from the final episodes of Breaking Bad, there was that whole Game Of Thrones thing, and the wonderful James “Tony Soprano” Gandolfini […]
Read More My Favorite Albums of 2013: Six Months InDo you ever have those really strange dreams where you wake up from them and you still hear noise ringing in your ear from it? Like, you can’t quite recall what just went down in your subconscious but you know something big did. You can recall colors, places familiar but where you’ve never stepped foot […]
Read More Daniel Wohl-Corps ExquisWhen you compare Smith Western’s self-titled debut from 2009 with their brand new long player Soft Will the progression is pretty staggering. Going from a Nuggets-like lo fi overblown sound with songs such as “Dreams”, “Boys Are Fine”, and the Gary Glitter-meets-The Troggs “Girl In Love” to something like Soft Will’s “Idol”, a crisp, clean, […]
Read More Smith Westerns-Soft WillEleanor Friedberger’s first words to us on her new long player Personal Record are “I don’t want to bother you”, and I believe her. She seems like the type of gal that would rather keep her business to herself. She seems like more the listening type than the talking type. Yet, when she gets going […]
Read More Eleanor Friedberger-Personal RecordOnly two more days of my great week away from the land of clock punching and spinal implants. I have to say that this was exactly what I needed. My goal was to completely forget about that place I call “work” and just de-compress for a week with my kids. No big trips…no time schedules […]
Read More a long, strange trip…Yep, it’s that time of year again. Time for our annual, or semi-annual, or whenever we feel Iike getting rid of a bunch of crap garage sale. Come one come all. See the amazing ten year old Oshkosh jeans…only 1.50!! And look, is that a well worn Barbie with nappy hair? You bet, and it […]
Read More S**t For Sale….or for my friends not in the lower 48, Happy Thursday! For those of us that are in the lower 48, today’s the one day of the year where grilling your food over an open flame is mandatory and every man, woman, and child must light at least one fuse that is attached to some […]
Read More Happy Fourth of JulyYes, you read that right folks. Jhubner73 is on vacation. No more clocking in, driving fork lifts, answering doors, listening to pig-faced rats tell me what to do on a daily basis. No sir. I’m free. Free at last to sleep in. Free at last to walk around in my boxers till 11am. Free at […]
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