Jim

No Reason, No Conscience, No Understanding

I’ve been threatening for years to make a non-metal Halloween mix, to contrast with the totally metal mix I made 5 years ago, “When churchyards yawn, and Hell itself breathes out,” which is completely excellent btw and you should listen to it too! Well I finally did it but I’ve been too damn lazy to…

Red Wedding LOL

So much schadenfreude. Thank you @RedWeddingTears for curating this outburst of anguish and rage. My favorites are the people rage-quitting HBO, like this Mediaite writer, though people threatening violence to GRR Martin, David Benioff, DB White, or other random people associated with the show are a close second. There is an interesting subgenre of people…

We get no second chance in this life

RIP Jason Molina I don’t have the deep connection to you and your music that a lot of my friends do, but I liked what I heard of it. Especially the song Captain Badass. Chicago Reader AV Club Pitchfork Slate RVA  Billboard  Rolling Stone   

My favorite albums of 2012

So here we are, a year later, 2 weeks into 2013 and well past time for me to post my Top 20 albums of 2012. A note on process: I choose these albums using a highly unscientific semi-random pseudo-bubblesort method, taking into account my initial impressions, whether they grow or fade on me, how I’m…

Drinking Music for the weekend

Earlier this year I wrote a post on my other site, I Grok Grog, about good beer music and reposted it here. Well I’d always intended to do it up as a full podcast but those take effort and time, time that could be better spent actually drinking and listening to music. But some of the…

Good Beer Music

crossposted from I Grok Grog I like beer. I like music. But for some reason, when you put the two together, it often turns out badly. Let’s face it, there are a lot of jackass beer songs out there. From that beer song that everybody claims is by Weird Al when you know it totally…

Good Beer Music

I like beer. I like music. But for some reason, when you put the two together, it often turns out badly. Let’s face it, there are a lot of jackass beer songs out there. From that beer song that everybody claims is by Weird Al when you know it totally isn’t, to that bad metalcore…