Required Listening: Rumble! The Best of Link Wray
Link Wray, armed with fuzz and power chords, was one of rock n’ roll’s first wreckage makers. A sinister take on Duane Eddy’s more…
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Review: Office Ladies
What’s more fun than watching your favorite episodes of The Office over and over again? Re-living those classic moments when Jim put Dwight’s stapler…
John Witherspoon 1942-2019
It’s always sad to lose a beloved celebrity– but it stings especially hard when it comes without warning and is someone that, although you…
Review: The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse is the second feature from acclaimed indie horror filmmaker Robert Eggers. Eggers first gained notoriety for 2015’s The Witch, a period-perfect film…
Required Listening: Rain Dogs
There are two kinds of folks on this rock: Those who love Tom Waits and everybody else. Tom Waits fans have a… Well, I…
Read This: White Trash Cooking
White Trash Cooking is a tell-all of the country kitchen– kind o’ like a Hee Haw version of Foxfire… Or what might’ve issued forth…
Crucial Cinema: The Others
If you’re in the mood for a haunted house thriller, this is one of my favorites. The Others, starring Nicole Kidman, is a Spanish-Gothic…
Required Listening: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
I used to keep two copies of Ziggy Stardust— one to enjoy at maximum volume, one to gift at a moment’s notice. It is,…
Read This: World War Z
Max Brooks (son of Mel) became the 21st Century’s guru to all things zombie with his 2003 macabre and oddly practical manual, The Zombie Survival…