At the end of this Christmas holiday, I had some time to be outside and feel the crisp air on my cheeks. The cold weather tonight is knocking loose a few odd memories, particularly this nugget from the year 1984 which, dare I say, is the golden age of heavy metal and hard rock. Dokken …
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Space Black
You should probably know this: I secretly adore this band Black Mountain. Their Vancouver-meets-high-desert-rock sound hits me in the yes-yes place every time. “Space to Bakersfield” is the closing track on their latest album, “IV” (2016), and is arguably the best god-damned soul jam I’ve heard in a long, long time. This live session recording …
Amen
Adverb for agreement and consent. Amen.Statement of “so be it”. Amen.Punctuation to a long prayer. Amen.That is the past. These are our hopes. This is our intent. Amen.Please let us move on, dream on, go forward into the dark night. Amen.Pushing to the sunrise of our souls, of our world. Amen.Leaving all our shadows behind. …
Twist and Burn
Dancing in my darkened kitchen to DKMD’s “On the Other Side” at at 12:30am while heavily drunk on whiskey is the best my day has been. I’m busting moves I didn’t think I had. Honestly, I think I feel shitty through the rest of the day because I burn my brain’s dopamine at night when …
Celluloid Smudges
You know you’re a film buff living in a film town when you can watch an indie film and your experience with the storytelling is diminished because you’re distracted by all the fingerprints of independent films. You’re watching the drama, but in your mind, you’re backtracking and imagining all the location decisions, the directorial compromises, …