My Little Pony: Griffon The Brush-Off
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…
Selected Memories of a Scott McCaughey Concert from 7 years ago.
OnScott and John Ramberg playing “Ghost Tarts of Stockholm”, including all of the Fa-fa-fafafa bits, which actually went for a pretty long time. The song “Got You”, which is one of my favorites from “Let The War Against Music Begin”, and me…
Forgotten Records: The Band Without The Face, Part 4: The Velvet Underground – Squeeze
OnImage via Wikipedia 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 group, the one…
Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft: Juno/Atlas V NASA Tweetup
OnImage by nasa hq photo via Flickr In early July 2011, I was licking my wounds after seeing the final space shuttle launch in Titusville, FL, and quite frankly I was getting rather depressed over the decline of manned space travel in…
My Little Pony: Applebuck Season
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…
Review: The Spudmonsters – Stand Up For What You Believe In
OnMaybe it’s me, but I don’t really understand what motivates a band with a sense of humor to stop making fun music. The Spudmonsters first album is loaded with amusing and fun numbers like “Garbage Day,” and “Repo Man.” Now, after over…
Who Is Buñuel's Successor?
OnImage via Wikipedia Hey, I was thinkin’ a little while ago: Is there anyone who anyone thinks is a potential successor to Buñuel? My vote: Michel Gondry. Partly because I figure the next generation of surrealist filmmakers is going to come from…
Forgotten Records: The Band Without The Face, Part 3: The Doors – Other Voices and Full Circle
OnCover of Full Circle [Vinyl] 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 group,…
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…