Conan the Terminator

I think it’s safe to say that most everyone’s first glimpse of Arnold Schwarzenegger was as Conan the Barbarian. Muscle-bound, loin cloth-wearing Cimmerian warrior that liked to slash armies into mince meat by day and get it on by firelight with the mannish Cimmerian ladies at night. The film Conan the Barbarian was released in […]

Coffee and Donuts

Being somewhat incapacitated with the wonky back has shown me one very important thing and that thing is that I could get used to doing nothing. Man, what have I been thinking all these years with the constant motion of doing this or that? I always had to be doing something; clean the dirty dishes, […]

Betrayed In The Octagon

I was trying to remember the first time I heard Oneohtrix Point Never. You see, that’s what I do in my spare time, people. I sit around and try and remember pointless drivel like “What year did ‘Paris, Texas’ come out?” and “What year did I drive 5 hours to Peoria, Illinois to see Rush […]

Ghost Story

I realize there’s been a lot of talk about horror soundtracks around here lately, but that’s just where I’m at right now. You dig? But listen, everything I’ve talked about up to this point is nothing compared to what I’m about to discuss. Yesterday I received in the mail what is easily the greatest horror […]

Psychic Driver and The Candy Machine

I may have had all last week off but I didn’t get through it completely unscathed. After some serious house painting I must have pulled a muscle in my back as most of the week I had a funny little twinge between my shoulder blades. As long as I didn’t turn too quickly left or […]

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 […]

Ridiculous Vinyl Purchases Part I : Morton Subotnick’s ‘Silver Apples Of The Moon’

I think it’s safe to say that if you’re a vinyl collector/lover/addict/sociopath, then more than likely you’ve got a few “Whaaaa????” purchases in your collection. Sometimes curiosity, nostalgia, melancholy, uncontrollable urges, madness, and even possibly pride pushes us to snag some record that you may listen to once and then shove it into the record […]

Ask Him Why He Killed My Brother

It’s Friday night. It’s the beginning of a three-day weekend. It’s time to sit back and chill out, if only for an evening…or three. Labor Day weekend is fast becoming my favorite three-day weekend. It used to be Memorial Day weekend, but things have changed. Things were said…feelings were hurt. Listen, we had some good […]

Demonia

Oh hey, big surprise, I’m talking about another horror soundtrack. Yet another colorful vinyl filled with music that scored gory, misogynistic, and over(and under)-acted Italian horror films in the 70s. I know what you’re thinking, “Enough is enough, pal. What’s wrong with you? Is your brain scrambled or something? Enough with the gore scores, already!” […]

Wanderlust(and drywall dust)

Hello friends. Man, what a long week it’s been here in the hundred acre wood. Have you ever had that experience of going on a week-long holiday only to return to your place of employment and find out there’s pretty much the entire previous week’s worth of work waiting for you? Well, if not I […]