The first new material from Krash Slaughta since last autumn finds our man dropping a tuff 45 featuring two dope ATCQ remixes. And what else to call that but ATCK a.k.a. ‘A Tribe Called…

The latest casualty of the streaming wars is The Bird and the Bee’s 2015 album Recreational Love, which unceremoniously disappeared from Qobuz sometime recently. The album still shows up, but lists…

Link to the book Review Overall: 4/5 : One of the better Tchaikovsky novels but definitely has the same pros and cons as all of them - truly amazing worldbuilding, mediocre characters and plot, and…

And now a word from the Wife: Because You Guys Asked! And…we have already funded! To my shock, I received a great deal of encouragement about the idea of doing a Kickstarter for an anthology to…

My latest video juxtaposes two very different historical stories that were going on at the same time.

I present here for your listening pleasure a lost classic from my own iteration of The CD Era: Naked Intruder’s album Deadclown Hatecrime. It’s an album I’ve often looked for since I donated all of…

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU Chapter Summary: Rush and Johan's final fight begins near the Well. Word Count: 1212 Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS ( Chapter…

Footage from Permissive (1970), featuring the music of Scottish post-psychedelic group Forever More. Alan Gorrie, the singer and bassist of Forever More shown here, went on to found Average White…

From the desk of Benji Welner in Dallas, TX. Neptune's Fortune by Julian Sancton. Finished on July 22, 2026. Rating: ★★★★☆ I can’t recall how I stumbled upon this book. I do know that when I bought…

Altogether now… 1. Sam Fender & Olivia Dean – “Rein Me In” Twenty-two weeks at number one, and still miles ahead of any competition. It has dropped more than the market…

I spotted this lovely vintage 1973 Dodge Charger on a bike cycle ride in the suburbs to Copenhagen. The post 1973 Dodge Charger appeared first on Micski.

Sometime in August 1979, I was travelling with my father by train to London, when I first saw posters advertising the Ralph Bakshi animated version of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The…

Originally written in Dutch (there’s not much dialogue anyway.) About a lonely old dude who visits art museums for inspiration. The author was in graduate school for arts when he did this book.…

(26 Nov 2003) – Season 3 Episode 11 (Serial 163)

Arctic noir, so reminded me of that season of True Detective with Jodie Foster that was set in Alaska. I frequently complain about things being too long. This one was too short. Great read but I…

Talking about old books about naval warfare and HMS Dreadnought.

Mark Ruffalo attacks Paramount’s Jewish owners, prompting the company to condemn his rhetoric for invoking antisemitic tropes. Continue reading Mark Ruffalo’s Inner Antisemite Hulks Out Over…

.post details{ padding:5px; background:#4002; & h2 { display:inline; font-size:200%; } } "[T]he movie is structured to be moving towards these multiple climaxes, to put it in the parlance of the…

     As a child, one of my favorite television shows was the science fiction series Star Trek (the original series), which I have written about previously. I was too young to have seen…

As a toddler, growing up between Louisiana and Houston, I remember listening to the radio with my parents, and the announcers would tell me one critical fact about each band: where they were from. I…

Onyeka Nwelue, Home Affairs: A Novel (Bayan Street Books, 2026) Not many novels are set in Pietermaritzburg, especially amid the […]

In 2006, a group of thieves performed what is considered one of the most famous and smart bank heists in the history of Argentina when they rob the Banco Río branch in Acassuso. Good crime comedy,…

This is an EP with a set of rare mid-10s-era remixes of k.h.d.n. tracks; some very dark techno, definitely among their darkest sound. These are rare enough I didn't have an easy time finding a…

Some readers may recall that, next month, the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) will get the jump on the Opening Gala , when pianist Garrick Ohlsson will join SFS musicians in the first Chamber Series…

Brian's third visit this year, was to Hobby Lobby (similar to our Hobbycraft, but ours carries less of the kind of stuff we're about to look at here), where he found some useful sets of classic…

08.13.26 to 08.20.26AlbumsMTTM - The DiverBetaBlueX - DVRK BLUESheljit - Tang DynastyImaginary Flying Machines - Princess GhibliJoe Hisaishi - Laputa: Castle in the SkySally Dige - Holding the…

Anyone who knows me, follows me on social media or reads this blog knows how much I love metal. Like everyone however, I have diverse musical interests and cannot live...

Gloriously epic Indonesian stadium crust from 2017 that would have destroyed a musty Midwestern US basement in 2004. From the stunning tempo changes in "Eviction Warning" to the anthemic black metal…

How do you introduce new characters in your films? “Hey, that’s my car!” This is an incredible idea. At the peak of anguish, the protagonist’s uncontrollable tantrum is beginning to erupt. What could…

"Faithless Street" by Whiskeytown Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What's a song you associate with your biggest mistake? - Faithless Street by Whiskeytown No,…

This is our third visit to The Good Earth , the Feelies ' 1986 masterpiece of pastoral indie jangle which, as I've spouted ad nauseum, is one of my absolute favorite, most frequently-played records…

Nina Simone live at Casino Kursaal, 16th June 1968. Remembered this one while thinking about the Before trilogy of films.

Last weekend, I noticed that Cold Storage turned up on Kanopy. I had been mildly interested in it when I saw a trailer for it sometime earlier this year, but...

Listening To Lost Weekend by Phoebe Bridgers. The album I was most looking forward to this year. I love it. Kill Me is my favourite track. It sounds like Fake Plastic Trees if it were sung by The…

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W o there's a little something for everyone this week, and there's no better place to begin than at the beginning! <sp

Release Date: June 2026 RRP: 12,100 yen One of the main reasons the original 2011 release of S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Ryuki was so popular is that Bandai Tamashii Nations made the surprise decision…

This week sees a substantial science fiction audio drama.

It&#8217;s time for another Kpopalypse album review! This time we&#8217;re looking at Orange Caramel&#8217;s Lipstick&#8221;! It&#8217;s well-documented that Kpopalypse.com has been a big stanner of…

A tale of Gods and Monsters to be sure. It's interesting that the body hopping Ultra-Humanite wound up in such a hairy form, given that he was Superman's original bald headed foe - before Luthor lost…

Some time ago I wrote about how I decided to read the novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. It was some time in May that I started reading it. Given the length of the book and the fact that I chose to…

From: Mad Max: Fury Road Genre:&#160;Movies Who said it?: Mad Max The story behind the quote: This quote comes from the 2015 post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie, Mad Max: Fury Road. The film is another…

Letterboxd has a very strange feature on their account stats page which shows you the "nanogenres" you have watched the most in the current calendar year. Perplexingly, the stats page does not…

I had been stuck for the past month up till yesterday of wanting desperately to make music but only being able to make a couple 8 or 16 bar loops that went nowhere. I would make loops, quit, then…

Continuing a series of short playlists started about seven years ago. Back then a solo venture, now as a sequence of tracks discussed within a close circle, actively brainstorming the next selection…

It will surprise no one who&#8217;s reading this that I picked up this book in addition to Aestred Thurga. I really enjoy Sororitas stories. Sure, they can sometimes fall into the same traps as…

These songs feel like guys shouting at each other across a bar, each with a good idea, and the whole thing barely but strongly holding together, making a simple statement of both past and present.…

Once upon a time western heroes ruled the day. Pulps, radio, films, and ultimately television and comics were dominated by the genre which generated hundreds of iterations of the western hero. One of…

My reading this past month has been very fragmented, and I blame Catherynne M. Valente.In an early-August posting (or &#x201C;toot,&#x201D; as they are known) on Mastodon, she mentioned that voting…