Dream House

I often dream of houses. I dream about my parents house, where I grew up, most of the time. Rarely do I dream about the house my wife and I built 30 years ago and where we raised three kids, 3 dogs, and a lifetime of memories. My dreams typically drop me off at my […]

Tron, NIN, and nostalgia for a simpler time.

I have no feelings either way about Tron. I wasn’t blown away as a kid when I saw the movie(I didn’t actually see it till I was well into teen-dom). And when the 2011 sequel reared it’s retro-futuristic head my reaction was, “Mmm. Cool.” And so when the third film in this series of sci-fi […]

In my house of pain Top Jimmy is always hot for teacher. So jump

You have those all time records. The ones that no matter how many years, decades have passed you’re still entangled in those songs from your misspent youth. I was a pre-teen in the mid-80s, and I started buying albums(cassettes) when I was 10-years old. I was always a fanatic when it came to music. I […]

Gloomy Friday

We’ve made it to another Friday. It’s the working persons favorite day of the week. That is, unless you work one of those 4 day on, 3 day off schedules, then I have no idea what your favorite day of the week is. It’s definitely mine, followed shortly by Saturday. Sunday? Debatable. We’ve been in […]

Hot n Cold…Cold n Hot

Here I wax ecstatic about the weather and how different it was 40 years ago when I was a kid. Old man yells at clouds sort of thing.

Spook Me? Spook You!

Two days from Halloween. Seems like it was only 367 days from the last Halloween, but I guess time does fly when you’re having a stressful year, huh? What was I doing last Halloween? Well, I think we had just gone to the great BEAT Tour in Indianapolis on October 30th, and Halloween had landed […]

The Prince Of F*****G Darkness : RIP Ozzy

Imagine being 6 or 7 years old. Still quite impressionable and easily rattled by the creepy, eerie, and otherwise “dark” side of existence. Your older brother, 12 or 13, throws a record on mom and dad’s turntable and says “Listen to this.” The needle drops and from out of those Pioneer tower speakers comes 100 […]

So Damn Hot

With each passing year I’m of the opinion that we as a planet are cruising for a bruising, in the form of overwhelming heat. I had my share of super hot days as a kid in the 80s, sure. We had upper 80s and 90s, and there were a few trips to Kings Island and […]

Songs From Childhood : Living Rent Free In My Head

There are songs that stay with you for life for very specific reasons. Hearing a tune on the radio at a pivotal point in your life; maybe a death, a birth, a break-up, a declaration of love. These songs become more than the sum of their parts to you because they’ve grown roots in a […]

A Cut And A Shave

The first haircut I remember was at some barber shop downtown in an old house. You had to take stairs on the outside of the building up to a small room with 2 barber chairs and a crusty old guy waiting with little patience. I imagine him as a barber in the army giddily cutting […]