Lists
IO5M 8: The Top Five Best Metal Songs About Trains
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. This time I take a look at that most venerable of heavy metal lyrical topics: trains. Actually, despite being literally “heavy metal”…
Read MoreIsley Reviews the 2011 Oscar nominees (plus best movies of 2011 list!)
Here we are at Oscars time again, and here I am reviewing all the best picture nominees again. Kind of reminds me of Valentine’s Day, everyone knows it is a bullshit holiday and yet it still gets talked about far more than it should come February. Still, for what it is worth, today I will…
Read MoreIO5M 7: The Top Five Best National Anthems
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. So it was Christmas morning 2012 and I had decided to take a break from writing Grim Midwinter Necrohymns to play with…
Read MoreIo5M 6: The Top Five Movie Villains of all Time.
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. Today, in honor of this year’s Halloween costume, I thought I’d take a look at some of my all time favorite movie…
Read MoreIo5M 5: The top 5 most awesome, badass and/or sweet Jack Reacher moments!
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. Today I look at a fictional badass named Jack Reacher. For those unfamiliar with the number one New York Times bestselling author…
Read MoreIO5M 4: The Top 5 American Directorial Debuts.
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. Today’s post takes a look at my all time favorite directorial debuts from American film directors. I though about just doing plain…
Read MoreIO5M 3: Isley’s Top 5 Blunders with the Opposite Sex.
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5″ list on a quad-yearly basis. My storied past with the fairer sex is full of many tales great and bold. However, I have to admit that not all such…
Read MoreIO5M 2: The Top 5 Hitchcock Set-pieces
Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where I come up with a new “top 5” list on a quad-yearly basis. Today I’ll be looking at some of my all time favorite set-pieces from the undisputed set-piece master, Alfred Hitchcock. (Note: most of these…
Read MoreMailbag Monday 16
Hello dear readers, it’s MAILBAG MONDAY again! On this special day I will search through my mountain of reader mail and answer the five most pressing questions! What’s that you say? Do I really get that much mail? Well, I’ll admit…the contact section of this website doesn’t get used that often, but, one of the…
Read MoreIO5M 1: The Top 5 John Wayne Performances!
I’ve been a little unsure about what to do with the Infrequently Occurring 5th Monday (aka “you are lucky I don’t just make it a double Middle Earth Monday”) whenever it crops up. Things started off well enough with Diminished Fifth Monday, but by the time I started writing stuff like Fifth Alpini Regiment Monday I realized I…
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