NONALIGNMENT PACT

This chair I’m sitting in, it’s pretty comfortable. My jaw is numb from like the upper right-hand side through my cheek to the surface, across the right side of my lip, and most of the way down just about to my bottom jawline. I’m at the dentist, and I wouldn’t be here on this day [...]

When I signed on to this blog in what is fast approaching two years ago I was pretty into it. I appreciated the challenge of coming up with something music related every week that I thought would not only be readable but would also keep me interested. Obviously this sort of wish won’t always come [...]

First off, sorry for posting late today, my home is a madhouse. Cycles. Sometimes we just have to let gravity have its way.
Last Thursday I attended the At the Gates show at Warehouse Live with my soon to be departing friend, Chris. At the Gates is a celebrated death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, whose [...]

After watching the documentary film, Heavy Metal in Baghdad, about the ridiculous labors of Iraq’s only documented heavy metal band, Acrassicauda, I felt both impressed, if not inspired, and also somewhat annoyed.
Let’s start with the good stuff.
In the late 90s, a group of Iraqi friends got together and decided to ape their heroes and start [...]

Yeah, this post is about as late as can be. I moved this past weekend, and with three children to take care of for the length of this month, let’s just say that time is at a premium.
And oh man, about this move. We are in the belly of the beast here. We extricated ourselves [...]

It was his birthday. You should know that he has a thing for birthdays. Who knows why? Birthdays have a certain resonance for him.
It was his birthday, and this time she was going to break tradition and give him something to remember.
He was in bed, sleeping the sleep of a great bear, dreaming dreams of [...]

I think it’s interesting how there are people in the world of music that will float just beneath your radar for many years and then suddenly pop up to the surface and finally grab your attention. My latest addition to this club is a Canadian metal guy named Devin Townsend.
I know that me talking about [...]

Every here and there I get a wild hair up my ass and have to head over to Billboard to check out their top album charts. I think it’s the same principal behind probing an ulcer inside my mouth with the tip of my tongue. It’s such a sweet, sweet pain. I will openly admit [...]

I have never understood guitar collectors. These fucking guys who amass an enormous assortment of guitars have always left me wondering what exactly it was they were looking for. Imagine the idea of a guitar built in 1957 causing grown men to shell out thousands upon thousands of dollars in order to own one. Most [...]

I’ve been up in this motherfucker, writing blogs once weekly for a long damn time now, and while I tense up at the mere mention of this thing drying up, I would be lying if I said there weren’t lean days. I’ve had more than my share. More importantly, my writing is either turning a [...]