It’s been a while since I downloaded any music from iTunes to replace things long lost. The Jesus and Mary Chain’s landmark album Psychocandy (1986) had been one that I was looking for and it’s been added to iTunes. I forgot how damn good this album is. The iTunes review’s phrase “bliss-out shoegazing” is spot-on [...]

As a test of the DVR box that I had installed and hooked up to my projector, I recorded The Eye, which was playing on the Independent Film Channel the other day. This film had a lot of potential, and although from Hong Kong, it can be placed within the recent (and waning) J-Horror [...]

Printers Alley in downtown Nashville is historically known for the bars, clubs, honky-tonks, and strip joints, but those days are long over. It’s still registered with the National Historic Registry and it’s on tourist maps. According to this fairly interesting NYTimes article, the last strip joint there is likely being forced to close down. And [...]