The 1978 Kiss “solo” albums are pretty infamous for how they were marketed, developed, and received, rather than for the quality of the released product. They all shipped Platinum, which means the distributor released over a million copies of each of the four records… and when most of them didn’t sell all that great, they…
Egypt erupted into civil conflict as Mubarak cracked down on his people and all we heard from the “rebels” was ‘Where is the world? Where is America??’ Same with Libya and Ghadafi. ‘Why isn’t America helping??’ Then at the first opportunity these animals storm our embassy and slaughter our citizens. FUCK THESE PEOPLE. Syria can…
One of the most endearing elements of Thin Lizzy’s legacy is that you could never quite pigeonhole them with a single sound. They ran the gamut from their early folk-rock to dalliances in R&B, FM radio rock, soulful balladry, near metal intensity, and nearly everywhere between all points in their career. The common thread woven…
Well I’m back from running the Disneyland Half Marathon, spending 5 nights in Southern California doing the whole tourist experience: sightseeing, sun-worshipping, marveling at the actual existence of mountains, eating way too much, staring down hyper-inflated security guys at House of Blues in Hollywood, plenty of funky alcoholic beverages, machaca!, crashing rooftop parties, recreating classic…
Technically, this is a quick update from 35,000 feet above Seymour, TX. God bless in-flight Wifi. Anyway, I loathe typing on an iPad as the gimped Apple archtitecture responds to keystrokes much slower than I can type. Grr. So I refrained from any updates while I was away. God knows, I tried… Anyway, as a…
Well I’m just about 95% packed for California. Got the running gear in the carry-on, the rest in my larger rolling luggage, electronics set to go, and sure enough, the lungs send me the 4-1-1 that we’re not getting enough oxygen. For those of you new to the whole Hokeyboy experience, four years ago I…
Rating: 8 / 10 There is a meticulous degree of staged composition in Nicolas Winding Refn’s utterly compelling Bronson, one which runs almost counter-intuitive to the narrative’s freewheeling nihilistic bent. This story of Britain’s most infamous prisoner, played with ridiculously brutish theatricality in a masterful performance by Tom Hardy, doesn’t really tell us a thing about…
I like being born into the last generation that was able to appreciate vinyl LPs in a non-retro, non-ironic manner. I got my first CD player in 1988 and that was just the beginning of the end of vinyl for me (and for vinyl as a whole, which gave up the ghost to CDs soon…
Hi. Friendly neighborhood Hokeydude here. So the big run at Disneyland is pretty much here! Boots, Shyla and I leave Friday morning, Virgin America direct to LAX, where we’ll be met by Ann (who WILL earn a blog nickname before next Wednesday), and then it’s 5 nights in Southern Califnornia. Hope to get in a…
Twenty years ago today, I learned how utterly powerless we insects are in the face of a planet getting totally fucking massive bugfuck pissed. I saw the Fist of God smash buildings, destroy homes, wreck ecologies, lay waste to majestic rows of organic life that had stood for centuries, and leave the allegedly most advanced…