Anyone for some Drum ‘n’ Bass? My previous few Artist Spotlights were on musical acts that changed over time. This one, however, is about a musical act that found its lane and pretty much stayed in it. And that lane … Continue reading Artist Spotlight – Lightning Bolt
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon … Continue reading Werewolf XXIX: The Roaring Werewolves, Day Four: Blood-Dimmed Tide
And would it have been worth it, after all, After the cups, the marmalade, the tea, Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me, Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a … Continue reading Werewolf XXIX: The Roaring Werewolves, Day Three: Revelations
I originally approached this Spotlight with a bit of snark, wanting to draw the reader in with jokey shenanigans. But I realized that’s dishonest. I don’t enjoy the distancing effect of irony or insincerity when it comes to things I … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Michael Bolton – (Yeah, You Heard Me)
And I have known the eyes already, known them all— The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase, And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin, When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, Then how should … Continue reading Werewolf XXIX: The Roaring Werewolves, Day Two: The Plot Thickens.
This episode is simultaneously a throwback and a gigantic leap forward – a throwback because it’s the first episode that was made for season two, so the whole thing is a little rough around the edges in terms of voice … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Two, Episode Four “Two Cars In Every Garage And Three Eyes On Every Fish”
Gor’ blimey, strike a light and welcome to the artist spotlight of Chas n Dave. Pioneers of ‘Rockney’ music, which is rock and roll, pop and boogie woogie thrown together. In a Cockney accent. They are a weird act in … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Chas and Dave
Review courtesy of Pauli The Mars Volta are a polarizing band. Rarely will you come across anyone assessing their ambitious mish-mash of prog, post-hardcore, Latin, metal, funk, and whatever else with an “Eh, it’s alright.” Either you are transported into … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: The Mars Volta
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels … Continue reading Werewolf XXIX: The Roaring Werewolves, Day One: Bon Voyage?
“It seems to be OK for musicians to act, but it doesn’t seem OK for actors to play music.” — Rob Mailhouse, Dogstar Is Dogstar a celebrity vanity project? Or is it a legitimate musical act, hampered by the celebrity … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Dogstar – Not That Terrible After All
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and days of hands That lift and … Continue reading Werewolf XXIX Signups: The Roaring Werewolves
Given the number of people who had died in their beds, Flubba felt it was probably safer for him to stay away from his room. With how few of them were left and one Order spy still at large, it … Continue reading Werewolves XXVIII: Lord Voldemort and The Final Day (DAY 6)
Hello Guacs and welcome back to the Top Moments thread. Sorry it went missing last week. I had a funeral to attend in the morning and it kind of set the whole tone of my day to a shitty one … Continue reading Top Television Moments and Weekly TV Discussion Thread
The Order was growing more confident. With the Squib gone, that was one less threat against them to worry about. If they chose whom to kill carefully, there was a good chance the two of them could make it out … Continue reading Werewolves XXVIII: Lord Voldemort and Don’t Let the Good Guys Win, Dammit (DAY 5)
Oh, here we go! The Treehouse Halloween specials would become an iconic element of The Simpsons, and in fact would continue to be the most popular part of the show even when it went to seed: out-of-continuity episodes parodying horror stories, sometimes getting … Continue reading The Simpsons, Season Two, Episode Three, “Treehouse Of Horror”
This Spotlight has another long tangent that is more about me than the music, so you can skip the first few paragraphs and start where I say OKAY if you wish. Over a year ago, I posted my first Artist Spotlight about … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Bonnie Pink (Redux)
After few more chapters the 40 minutes long dystopian arthouse movie used to open the latest tour is over. Just when the metaphor for Distorted Angels and the messiah about to save the world settles in your mind, a rather … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Archive
There didn’t need to be discussion tonight, as the Order knew immediately who they needed to kill if they were to escape this house alive. Together, they burst into Mello’s room, wands out. “Give up now,” one of them cried. … Continue reading Werewolves XXVIII: Lord Voldemort and Everyone is a Drama Queen (DAY 4)
Bill Irwin is a perhaps unique multi-hyphenate in an entertainment field full of people who claim to do multiple things. Sure, plenty of actors have co-written scripts or directed an episode of a TV show, but how many of them … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Bill Irwin – Robot Clown Tony Winner
Weak sunlight had barely begun streaming through the windows when the rest of the group was awakened by the sound of shouts and gasps coming from the drawing room. “What is the meaning of this?” Lord Voldemort hissed as he … Continue reading Werewolves XXVIII: Lord Voldemort and Things are Getting Interesting (DAY 3)
Album: Knock Knock Artist: Smog Released 1/12/99 Knock Knock, the seventh album from Smog (AKA Bill Callahan), ranked #233 on our Album Poll. I think only two of us voted for this. In fact, that other person’s inclusion of Knock … Continue reading Album Club: Smog – Knock Knock
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