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Folk music comes in many forms and while most of them are a basically just that dude playing acoustic guitar in Animal House, it’s still one of my favorite styles when I’m not listening to beats of a heavy kind. […]

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European Black Metal by Country – A regional breakdown
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I'm in the middle of a built-in record shelf project to house my vinyl collection, and, because I'll finally be able to consolidate all of my various overflow shelves into one place, I'm getting pretty …

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It's time for another Movie-watchin' Kumite as 8 more films battle for cinematic supremacy. Once again, I'm sticking with the "all movies must be new to me" rule (though I HAVE seen Golden Voyage …

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Memes I Missed 23: More Metal Memes
October 31, 2023

I know I just did a "going through my C://users/Isley/desktop/organize/RANDOM/desktop_stuff_to_organize folder and posting a bunch of random memes I found" post, but I had a few more memes of a heavy kind. As usual, …

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Spaghetti Westerns are not my favorite Form of the Western cinematic experience. Which might be surprising since I usually enjoy a fair amount of cynicism in my films, but for me nothing can beat …

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Memes I Missed 22: Memes I Made
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I don't make a lot of memes, but from time to time I find myself jumping on photoshop and whipping up some stupid shit. Usually it's initiated by some half-baked idea that will, at …

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My Favorite Movies 80: Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966)
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My Favorite Movies 79: El Dorado (Howard Hawks, 1967)
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