Month: April 2020

Empty Tankard is like my favorite song. Gloriously over the top German Thrash Metal.

I just finished Hell House by Richard Matheson. I’ve long been a fan of his. I Am Legend is one of my favorite books and his episodes of the Twilight Zone were some of the best. And this novel was equally great. It’s a ghost story about the most evil haunted house in the country… Read more Hell House

Lately I’ve been posting new music I’ve been buying, but today I listened to Iron Maiden’s Somewhere In Time, because I happened to see this poster of the Album. I had it on tape and CD almost from when it first came out and it’s always been one of my favorite covers. There’s just so… Read more Iron Maiden – Somewhere In Time

I’ve been shrinking a lot of these album covers, but I really like what’s going on in this one so leaving it a bit larger. I love that all the bandcamp albums come with the digital artwork so I can easily upload them. Power Trip are a band from Texas playing some hard and heavy… Read more Power Trip, Nightmare Logic

Space Eldritch horrors and a nice heavy rock soundtrack. I want to watch this movie. Traveler are from Canada and released this album this month. Cementing my idea that good music is still being made, if you want to find it. Their last album seems to have a similar theme so it’ll probably be just… Read more Traveler, Termination Shock

Skyryder is a band from the UK that has a cool, old school sound. I have no idea what’s going on in this album cover and don’t care. It feels like some late 80s early 90s video game nirvana. This music has a cool vibe to it. It’s a small disc, 5 songs of normal… Read more Skyryder

Nuke is a thrash metal band from Detroit. I knew I’d like it because Detroit makes lots of good bands. This rocks fast and hard and has a nice fun atmosphere to it. If we ever can go to concerts again, I’d go see them. The album is from 2016 and I don’t see that… Read more Nuke, as in more new music

Back in my ill-spent youth, I loved buying new music. In junior high/high school it was cassette tapes and then later switching to CDs. One of my first tapes was Quiet Riot’s Metal Health. I listened to that tape so many times on my Walkman while riding my BMX bike around town in the mid-80s.… Read more Buying New Music

It’s a weird experience spending all day every day all locked up, which is a weird thing to write when I’ve done much longer times without going out. But something feels a little different. Well, it’s probably that I’m having to work all day every day. It’d be nice if I could be isolated to… Read more Another Day of Home

I like reading about how other writers think about writing. It makes me feel like I’m being productive without having to write anything. Dirty, little cheat, if you ask me. Chuck Wendig writes with a great deal of foul mouthed style and I think there’s a ton of useful information in this book. Some of… Read more The Kick-Ass Writer