While I started to cut my teeth on the world of music in the 70s as a pre-teen and pre-tween, it was the 80s where I found myself truly being exposed to a lot of different things. The decade is … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 11: The Best 1980s Song
Everyone’s experience with music is unique in a lot of different ways. I’ve found over the years that when I click with a musician or group, it’s that particular “discovery” that resonates as their best work going forward. If they … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 10: The Michael Bolton Question
One area that’s still fairly uncommon overall, especially from larger creatives, are the multi-disc/tape/album releases. I still remember very distinctly my surprise as a youngling when Pink Floyd – The Wall was released as a two-cassette piece. Then I started to … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 9: The Best Multiple Disc Release
As part of our effort to help folks have a wide range of things to talk about since the pandemic began, we’ve been running 30 Day Challenges since last spring. We run these in the hopes of drawing folks from … Continue reading The Soundtrack Of The Avocado
One of the things I remember fondly from my younger days with my friends who were heavily into music were their complaints about the first generation or so of CD releases. There were certainly technical hurdles and companies that cut … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 8: The Best Album Artwork
The journey to enjoying music can come in many ways. Sometimes just a simple piece of gear, like your basic radio, will deliver all you need. And you may have some of the best memories associated with that. For some, … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 7: Your Favorite Playback System
Welcome to the weekly TV thread! As I’ve long said going back to the earliest days online doing this, one cannot live on anime alone. And compared to twenty years ago, there’s so much more content out there now and … Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread
Before we dig into a few other areas, we’re going to work through some of the decades to talk about our favorite song. It’s not always going to be one that might define a decade, but there’s a song from … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 6: Best 1970s Song
Before we dig into a few other areas, we’re going to work through some of the decades to talk about our favorite song. It’s not always going to be one that might define a decade, but there’s a song from … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 5: Best 1960s Song
Before we dig into a few other areas, we’re going to work through some of the decades to talk about our favorite song. It’s not always going to be one that might define a decade, but there’s a song from … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 4: Best 1950s Song
One of the things that always got me each year is how there really does feel like there’s a song that’s representative of summer, or is just so popular it gets defined as “the” summer song. This goes back years … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 3: The Best Summertime Song
2020 has been terrible when it comes to concerts but there have been a lot of great streamed performances and Zoom-style concerts put on and a host of other events. We’ve got a two-part question here today when it comes … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 2: Your Favorite Concert
Going into the 30 day music challenge, we’re definitely going to encourage folks to share video links to various songs when they come up. One of the big goals is to try and expand things for all of us and … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 1: Your Favorite Song
As we wrapped up the Video Game challenge yesterday, we typically follow that up with an epilogue day of it’s a 31-day month. These tend to be a fun chance to reflect on the month that was and talk about … Continue reading 30 Day Challenge: Best Challenge Of 2020
Welcome to the weekly TV thread! As I’ve long said going back to the earliest days online doing this, one cannot live on anime alone. And compared to twenty years ago, there’s so much more content out there now and … Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread
And with that, we’ve now come to the end of another of our 30 Day Challenges! The Video Game Challenge ends today and we’ve enjoyed wrapping some of these up with the question above, what gaming means to you. I … Continue reading 30 Day Video Game Challenge Day 30: What Gaming Means To You
The field of videogames is one that offers a lot of different things to experience and one kind of game that I got exposed to early on left a big impression on me. While I was never able to actually … Continue reading 30 Day Video Game Challenge Day 29: Your Favorite JRPG
The MMO experience is something that I really haven’t had in a long time and a part of me desperately misses it. Way back in the 90s, I used to GM on a text-only MUD that was the precursor to … Continue reading 30 Day Video Game Challenge Day 28: Your Favorite MMO/Experience
After looking at the anime side of things yesterday, where there are far more game related shows than live-action, we’re looking at the realm of videogame movies today. These… have not had the best of reputations going back to the … Continue reading 30 Day Video Game Challenge Day 27: Best Videogame Movie
There was a time, for me, back in the late 90s when I started reviewing anime DVD releases that there was a wave of video game based properties that were coming out. It made sense in that they were popular … Continue reading 30 Day Video Game Challenge Day 26: Best Videogame Anime
Yesterday, we talked about Christmases past and memories of things related to gaming that dominated either our youth or later that really stuck with us. Today, being Christmas and me expecting that not a lot of you will be online, … Continue reading 30 Day Video Game Challenge Day 25: Your Christmas Gaming Haul
