Germs were a hardcore band that were probably best known (at least to those outside the punk scene) from their infamous appearance on The Decline of Western Civilization. In that documentary (covering the LA punk scene in the late 1970s), […]
I am fully aware that even the "frightening" black metal outfits are mostly just kind of silly and impractical (depending on how extreme they go with the carpentry nails). But, if you can buy …
I know, I know, the real blunder here is pursuing a graduate degree in the humanities, but if we move past the obvious, my time spent obtaining a masters degree in film was filled with …
Uriah Heep, I had always assumed, was one of those bands like Molly Hatchet. You know the bands I'm talking about, the ones whose music is light years behind the potential of their album …
I read many different types of books, but what I love to read the most is a truly badass book. From the day I first opened up an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel as a child, …
I went over the mechanics (in exhausting detail) of my favorite card game Tichu last time, but today, to drive home just how good the game is, I wanted to talk about some of my …
Though my board game tastes definitely skew a certain direction, you don't always have to hide a great game system behind a mountain of plastic to get my attention. Today's game, a partnership climbing card …
Goth, like black metal, went through a few waves on its journey from post-punk bands with bad hair to emo kids dancing under bridges (still with bad hair). Today's band, Switchblade Symphony, comes from …
Heavy metal has always been just a little too white for it to ever claim any level of racial enlightenment. And, when you take a genre that is already just a tiny step down …
Russ Meyers, infamous for low budget titty movies, took a foray into modest budget titty movies with 1970's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Not only was it, like the rest of his oeuvre, …