It is difficult to exactly pin down the style of today’s song. A melancholy ballad from Rainer Fassbinder’s 1970 disaffected “noir” The American Soldier, it sounds nothing I can quite put my finger on. With over the top lyrics (especially […]
In 2018 I did a post called "The Top 5 BEST Black Metal Cover Photo Cock Shots"--a tribute of sorts to a somewhat less rare than you would think trend in the black metal underground. …
I really don't know much about The Beach Boys, beyond a general distaste for "oldies." "Wouldn't it Be Nice" seems like a fine song, but I haven't even listened to the rest of Pet …
Westerns have been featured on My Favorite Movies™ many times, so today's film making the cut despite being a fairly minor John Wayne western should be no real surprise. The fact that it's about …
Despite my best efforts, I must admit that many of my musical tastes occasionally stray past the DISCO line in the sand that all metalheads are conditioned to never cross. False or not, Disco …
Classic films were a product of a different time. Different fashion, different hair styles, and different attitudes towards casual misogyny. So, when attempting to critique the look of the men vying for our attention in …
Certain motifs come up over and over again when one consumes a great deal of machismo drenched media. Whether it is an action movie, a Badass Book, or an epic poem, it is a …
Eric Rohmer could easily be my all-time favorite film director. Granted, his movies are mostly just long psuedo-intellectual conversations between hot French twenty-somethings that are filmed without affectation or adornment. But, one could learn just …
I've talked before about how little exposure I had to pop music growing up. With no radio and only my Astor Piazzolla and Baroque cassette tapes to listen to, most of the music that …
I am pretty new to Kung Fu movies--only really diving in after a Covid cult movie watching binge last year. Since then, I've watched many more "classic" kung fu films, and have really grown …