Upside Down and Inside Out

Upside Down and Inside Out

OK, they’re a bunch of hipsters, and the music, while fine, is not to my taste, but OK Go is known for some very wild optical and other tricks in their videos. And, how they pulled it off.…

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#MetalMonday

#MetalMonday

A friend of mine in High School handed me a mix tape full of various rock music, and on the second side of said tape, he included the song I’m linking to here. Until that point in time, while I had a minimal familiarity with Iron Maiden, etc., I had no idea that metal could be anything but Scorpion-glam, or annoyingly noisy stuff (with some exceptions for Priest and Maiden) compared to Floyd, Led Zeppelin, etc. Holy shit. I can blame my love for both symphonic and power metal on this one damn…

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Making Music Great Again? How About our Books Too!

Making Music Great Again? How About our Books Too!

I really, reallycannot find much to add to this epic takedown of modern pop music [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2016/11/why-modern-pop-music-rapes-your-ears.html] by the Didact. So, of course, I’ll endeavor to try anyway. It’s not just music that’s getting (provably, in complexity of lyric, melody, and melodic structures within a song) stupider – and please dotake the time to watch the Paul Joseph Watson video in that posting – it’s our reading entertainment as well. A long time ago, on…

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#MetalMonday - Drowning Pool - Bodies

#MetalMonday - Drowning Pool - Bodies

While I was disappointed by the abrupt and somewhat Deus Ex ending to Ringo’s otherwise entertaining “Black Tide Rising” zombie series, there are a number of scenes in it (as well as a lot of dropped red and purple pill knowledge that can be seen through the placement of lampshading that authors buying into grrrrl power would never insert) that are just epic. Having lived near Jax, and visited the waterfront downtown where a critical scene takes place, I get a huge shit-eating whenever I think…

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