My Best Albums of 2008 Show! These are the albums I have decided are the best albums that a) I’ve listened to, b) have an official 2008 release date, and c) are full-length LPs, not EPs or compilations. Since I listen to a broad variety of music, some of the segues are a little jarring. … [Read more…]
Halloween is almost upon us. As is the mode of our society, the day has become a celebration of consumer culture, with cheap plastic costumes filling the shelves at your local walmart, children begging for whatever character is at the top of the Nickelodeon pyramid this year. But in the same way that many … [Read more…]
Since the last time I posted here, I’ve put up a couple of mixes over at Radio Gen1us. Head on over there and check them out! In other news, my family’s annual Labor Day hog roast is this weekend and man, am I looking forward to that. Piles and piles of great food. Just the thing … [Read more…]
Way back in the day, a bunch of kids thought rock and roll was boring and started playing some super fast, sloppy, but extremely catchy rock and roll and breathed new life into a music scene that kept throwing different repackaged versions of the same 3 bands at the music consuming public. That music … [Read more…]
Damian was out there playing too, I don’t know why the pics I took of him didn’t come out as clear as I’d have liked. Here are a couple: Then we stopped and picked up some ice cream to take home with us, and I snapped these on our way.
Alright. It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. I have a few in the works, an alt-country mix, a show about great drumming performances, some others. But they are still unformed. Today I had an epiphany. I just want to rock your faces off, that’s all. So I put together this mix. … [Read more…]
…in which I take you on a sonic adventure through the beginning, end, and aftermath of a trainwreck relationship. No one relationship in particular, I’ve been married so long I don’t remember any others, really. 🙂 But this is a mix that not only progresses through a series of moods but which also purports to … [Read more…]
Now that the world has ended, what happens next? Thanks to the miracle of MTV, we now have some answers. I have been wanting to do an 80s mix for a while, and as I thought about those songs and that time in my life, I found that the music and the videos for the … [Read more…]
A couple of them actually. Brewing, bottling, and watching men in shiny flying armor pummel the crap out of each other. No photos though. Hopefully I will document the next brew session photographically as well. Well the weekend was successful, though not without its hiccups. For example, when digging out my all-grain brewing equipment … [Read more…]
I plan on brewing my second batch of the year, and my first all-grain batch in a few years. I’ve put together what I think will be a decent little recipe for an Oatmeal Stout. I tried making on once before but I tried it as an extract-based recipe, and you just can’t do extract … [Read more…]