My Little Pony: The Ticket Master
OnI’m a brony. And I don’t care who knows it. But there are a lot of bronies around, and here three of ‘em help you through all the episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Not that you should need any…
A Brief Thought About Those Weird 1950s Reducing Machines
OnEvery so often, I just try to figure out exactly how they thought those 1950s Reducing Machines, the kind where you stand on it and a belt goes around and shakes your stomach, would actually, uh, work. Well, to be fair, the…
Forgotten Records Presents: The Band Without The Face, Part 2: Wall of Voodoo
OnCover of Seven Days in Sammystown It’s a story older than Rock ‘n’ Roll itself. A band makes their bones around a charismatic frontman. Maybe he writes the songs. Maybe he just sings them. In either case, he’s the face of the…
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Pt. 1 & 2
OnI’m a brony. And I don’t care who knows it. But there are a lot of bronies around, and here three of ‘em help you through all the episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Not that you should need any…
YOU WILL SEE SUCH PRETTY THINGS
OnI know, I know, it’s old news, but I was just thinking about this online… prank? If that’s the right word? I’m not sure it is. But anyway, it was a ongoing-though-ended thing called “The Wyoming Project”. The story was that, a…
On Not Having Depth Perception
OnImage via Wikipedia It’s really weird. Not having depth perception, I mean. Well, it IS weird, but I’m used to it, since I’ve pretty much had it for 30 years. So, yeah. But what I’m talking about is how I was talking…
Forgotten Records: The Band Without The Face, Part 1: The Heads – No Talking, Just Head
OnIt’s a story older than Rock ‘n’ Roll itself. A band makes their bones around a charismatic frontman. Maybe he writes the songs. Maybe he just sings them. In either case, he’s the face of the group, the one the people come…
Review: Yes – Fly From Here
OnIt may be no coincidence that Yes’s prodigal guitarist Steve Howe bears an uncanny resemblance to The Crypt Keeper. After all, Yes is one of those bands that refuses to die. Every time it stops, someone manages to reanimate the corpse. Over…
Another Dream: The Country Guy Murders
OnSo, I had the last dream of the night, or rather the last dream that I remember of the night, since, after all, dreams tend to last much shorter than they feel like they do and all, nor do we remember all…
Review: They Might Be Giants – Join Us
OnI want to like this album more. This album makes me want to like it more. Join Us is an excitable album. It jumps up, bounces around the room, and says, “Hey! Look what I can do! I’m everything you could possibly…