Love it or hate it, the AMC hit The Walking Dead features some of the best songs of any television series in recent memory. I’ve provided a decent sampling of the very best for you below. Is there anything that… Read More ›
Music 
American Culture Potpurri
Before Senator Jim DeMint decided to leave the Senate for the think tanks, it was quite a week, culturally speaking, for a lot of us. By now we all know that last weekend a clearly angry and agitated member of… Read More ›
Sunday Morning Acapella
A little treat for you all – real people singing real songs, using their real voices: Straight, No Chaser ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight”
Are You Ready for a Total Socialist Government?
Sometimes a simple question can become complicated. Perhaps the question should be, “Have we adjusted to the cultural change to the point that we are ready for a different form of government to control our new culture?” The culture sixty years… Read More ›
Imagine If You Will
It’s been over three decades since John Lennon was shot. A tragedy regardless of who he was, but almost as tragic is the sort of rose-colored hagiography that surrounds the thinking man’s MopTop. He skimmed through Marx’s Communist Manifesto and… Read More ›
Strawberry Fields Forever
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of viewing the exhibits on display at the Monroe Gallery of photography in Santa Fe, New Mexico. One of the last vestiges of quality in a town packed with art galleries, Monroe… Read More ›
Using Art to Promote the Profane
This morning, I opened my email to a digest posting from one of my favorite conspiracy theory/big bank blog and info web-sites, The Daily Bell. Usually, to get to the useful information you have to side-step some pretty out there… Read More ›
The Left Is Re-Writing the Social Contract
One of my left-wing nut friends from high school posted on Facebook a Paul Krugman article from The New York Times on Thursday titled “The Social Contract.” Krugman’s basic premise is to agree with the Warren Buffett stance that since… Read More ›
Labors of Love – Lost
Last weekend, as part of a family tradition, my mother and I trudged to a local all-purpose orchard and picked seventy-five pounds of peaches (due to the hot weather this year, they were absolutely gorgeous, too). Twenty-five pounds of sugar… Read More ›
Feds Raid Gibson Guitar for Using American Labor
We have at least one change from Obama; the Justice Department raided Gibson Guitar for using American labor in its Tennessee plants, not for using illegals. Feds Raid Gibson Guitar for Using American Labor provides details. Seems the fancy rosewood in… Read More ›
What’s Up With (Dead) 27-Year-Old Rock Stars?
WINEHOUSE JOINS ELITE GROUP OF DIRT-NAPPING ARTISTS It was only a matter of time. British singer Amy Winehouse was found dead today at her London flat. Not a surprise. She was 27 years old – not a surprise, either. Weird? Yep…. Read More ›
Attack of the Weiner Man
IN HONOR OF WEINER’S BEST WORK HITTING THE WEB TODAY So – it didn’t take our friend Andrew Breitbart long to find a way to get Weiner’s weenie on the web – and play the victim at the same time,… Read More ›
Amazon Letter To Labels: Cloud Drive Locker Has Boosted MP3 Sales
Many good people are working on their own alternatives to Amazon’s proposed locker service (Michael Robertson, for example), but it’s nice to see a heavyweight take on the music industry regarding lockers, places where one can store their music and… Read More ›
Muslim World Music Day-April 12, 2011
For twenty-four hours on April 12, 2011 an important and massive effort will be made to record approximately 50,000 recordings of Muslim music. That God (Jewish/Christian) given instinct moving within the human breast that swells to make us categorize and organize… Read More ›
Agent Orange Tribute
What’s kind of funny about the surf punk band Agent Orange is that they have a great studio sound and have had a decent following for over twenty years. You then go to see them live and it’s like going… Read More ›
[Video] John Carpenter – ‘One Last Long Goodbye’ (Echo, Los Angeles 2/14/11)
John Carpenter and his crew are about the freshest thing to come into Los Angeles in quite some time. The scene is simply better for them being here. They tore up The Echo on Valentine’s Day, and Joe Albanese, erstwhile… Read More ›
[Video] Francisco Guerrero Marín – "Ariadna" (1984)
We covered a Renaissance composer with the same name in the previous post. This one was a 20th Century avant-garde composer who died at the age of 47 in 1997, which was a pity, as he was beginning to look… Read More ›
Bahrain security forces fire on defiant protesters
Poor Bahrainis. They want to eat and have housing, or so report the press. What you really have here is the fact that Shia and Sunni can never live together, and will only work together if the enemy is so… Read More ›
Congratulations To MUSE
… for being awarded a Grammy for Rock Album of the Year! I’m happy to say that, when I first heard “The Resistance”, I knew it was destined for acclaim…
Corporate America
Who can stop de-evolution of the human race? Look at you, Corporate America, you’re in disgrace Globalize; cigarettes, business jets, you love it Maximize; but you can take your bottom line and shove it Gotta get away (gotta get away)… Read More ›
