And a little Musical DecadeDance….

Happy New Year!  *The Decade Dance: A Personal Top 230. My Top 23 Albums of each year from 2000 – 2009      Artist                                 Album  2000    1 Anniversary    Designing For A Nervous Breakdown 2 Placebo     Black Market Music  3 Modest Mouse    The Moon and Antarctica  4 Mojave 3     Excuses for Travellers  5 On      Shifting Skin  [...]

The end of another DecadeDance

Moving halfway through September and trying to get to right now before right now is next year. Let’s make it quick…. I’m going to try something different here – and add all the images at the end… I’m also going to avoid writing about all the nights of sitting around watching 30 Rock, going for [...]

drivin thru the summer

Ok, got about 2 months to get down here, and it’s time to do it now. Start out…. July 23rd. Heading to ye olde Comic Con. Get outta work and drive down to San Diego. We hit the Tractor Room for some great food, and then hole up in our little Holiday Inn.       [...]

like a walk in a scary metal park

Long time no say…. But that’s just because I’ve either been too busy or too lazy. Sometimes I just need to do nothing, y’know? But here I am, trying to get this little bloggy corner updated before the summer hits too hard… We’ll pick up way back in May Time. May 9th – it was [...]

Family Anvils and DJ Dogs

Ok – catch up time. It’s almost Mother’s day, and it’ll be the middle of summer before you know it. So, let’s skip back with a spring in our step to the pre-Europe days of March 2009. I had been hinting at some black kites changes, and I hate to say that my paranoid mind [...]

london, budapest, paris, london.

So there’s more words to fall before the trip, and a few from after, but for right now, we’ll take a little step out of time, like it’s an episode of Lost or something, and hit just that one week where Shelley and I shoved as much as possible into a week long European Vacation. [...]

sometimes kites can crash

so it’s been about a month since the last update, and some things have happened, some things haven’t happened. same as it ever was, eh? First off, i mentioned some “band drama” last time i wrote about things going on. well, in a quick little nutshell, since it’s been over a month and nothing seems [...]

New Red Alert Reviews

so, there’s some new words about music up, as i’m back on track with some of my musical journalism: a nice (i think) Einsturzende Neubauten review at the Red Alert… see also: Supersuckers, Bomb The Bass, Alejandro Escovedo, International Jetsetters.

the ice in boston is pretty

here we are, heading towards the end of january 2009, and already many changes. new president. that’s a big one here. i hope it all goes well. but to get from the last post to right now, we gotta start last year. december ’08. the 17th and the 18th – 2 nights of metallica in [...]

that old end of the year listy thing

ok, so – i haven’t been as involved in the new and hip tunes as i used to be… i’m trying to keep my ear open and all of that, but sometimes it gets a little difficult. i also managed to hear a lot of music that just didn’t quite manage to get me excited. [...]