Running

Running is starting to become easier for me. Maybe it’s that I’m getting healthier as I get older. Or maybe it’s that I’m scared. Scared of what? Mortality. I’m “runnin’ from the devil”, perhaps. You get older you get closer to the big sleep. It’s inevitable. It’s gonna happen. “I’m still relatively young. I’ve got […]

A Post-Halloween Tale

I suppose one could come to the conclusion just by browsing the hallowed halls of jhubner73.com that I do enjoy the creepy, the dark, and the eerie. Soundtracks of old films that freaked me out as a kid don my vinyl collection like blood dons shower curtains in 80s slasher films. I still get a […]

Spouting From The Fringes of the Universe or Why I’m Me

You know, I try to pride myself on keeping up on music. It’s one of the few things I’ve always been reasonably knowledgeable in. It’s been something that was bred into me, actually. I can remember parties in the basement of my parent’s house when I was 4 or 5 years old and hearing Zeppelin, […]

“I love you, I’ll always love you.”

Sometimes I tend to get caught up in my own little whirlwind of everyday chatter. Get up, make the coffee, pack the lunch, wake the family, drive to work. Then it’s do the work, make the money, pretend you get along with everybody, get through the day. After that it’s sweat at the gym, […]

Fighting Dragons With Stratocasters

Last week was a hell of a long week. I’m not even sure if it’s really over. There’s a possibility I’m still at my desk last Tuesday and I’m currently in some sort of state of suspended animation. I’m stuck in-between the space/time continuum bookends like some discarded copy of The Canterbury Tales or What To Expect […]

Ridiculous Vinyl Purchases Part II : “Don’t Wanna Dream No More”

Occasionally you just need to step in the wayback machine, regardless of what hell hole it’s going to drop you off in. Sometimes you need to own your past and say the hell with it. I’ve been doing that a lot lately. No more red-cheeked embarrassment over something I liked when I was 14. At […]

Growing Up Gory : A Horror Film Adolescence

I have to say that I was surprised and saddened to hear that Wes Craven died just a little over two weeks ago on August 30th. I mean, this guy’s films pretty much informed my movie viewing during my pre-teens and teen years. When he had a new movie dropping it was an event. This […]

Lords of Karma

So one of my oldest pals says to me today, “new satriani today. i’m a bit afraid. when was his last innovative record?” That got me thinking about the guy(Satriani, not my pal.) Of all the “shredders” that emerged from the cloud of White Rain and spandex back in the 80s I always felt Joe […]

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 […]

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 […]