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Ahhh, Memorial Day weekend has come and gone, and I enjoyed many adventures with Alex Lucard and his compadres from the Twin Cities. Nothing like a spin through kitchy Wisconsin tourist goodness to fill a three day weekend. For those who haven’t been, The House on the Rock is absolutely stuffed with weirdness, but you [...]

I think I already did this meme but I was cranky. But I’m not cranky this time around. In fact, I’m just a little bit too happy. 1)Total number of albums (CDs, tapes, records, 8 tracks, etc) that you own: Actual physical CDs: around 200 or so Digital albums: I’ve long since topped 7200, closing [...]

Lucky Star This was the first I had ever heard of Madonna. I saw the video and I could not get over how cool this chick was. How old was I, about 6 or 7? My friend Rhonda and I spent a lot of time in her bedroom teaching ourselves the dance from the video, [...]

Thanks to James, I’ve got a couple of promo songs from the new DT disc. These Walls (edit) I honestly wish all DT songs were around the 5-minute mark, not just as an edit. They do well when they write cohesively. Anyway, that’s off the topic. The song itself… well, this isn’t Train of Thought. [...]

I would like to start by fully apologizing for placing my Amazon Wish List in last week’s column. I’m not a whore for gifts, even with my birthday being tomorrow. I hate getting older. But… I like stuff. I grew up loving Madonna, so you bet your ass that I’m a Material Girl. Still, I [...]

A stupid story. There are lots of song lyrics pages on the internet. For the most part, they are all copied and pasted from each other. This drives me positively apeshit when I see a really awful transcription somewhere, full of misspellings and incorrect homophones. Sometimes, one should expect to find multiple (awful) lyrics copies, [...]

The first track from the new Project Hate disc, “At the Entrance To Hell’s Unholy Fire,” has been posted on their website. Holy shit. Holy, holy shit. http://www.theprojecthate.net I’m biased as they’re one of my favorite bands and all, but wow… there is some CRAZY SHIT going on during this track. I’m simultaneously driven to [...]

It was my birthday at age 10 when I received a copy of Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet from my dad. Granted, it was a dubbed cassette with Wang Chung’s Mosaic on the other side, but it was the greatest thing I could have ever received. See, that particular Bon Jovi album was going to [...]

Hammerheads. The jukebox. There are many fine drinking establishments in my corner of the midwest (because, to be honest, there’s nothing to do here but get drunk and/or have sex). One of our favorite haunts is Hammerheads. There are many reasons for this: ambience, pool tables, dart boards… oh, who am I kidding. We go [...]