What’s on My Shopping Radar (Part 3: Discogs!)

The stuff I have marked on Discogs is probably the most “simple” in many cases, and down to a matter of “I think it might be cheaper to buy here than on Amazon–third party sellers either way, because it’s not readily available otherwise.” Plain Ol’ Albums on CD Slim Dunlap – Times Like This (Medium Cool […]

What’s On My Shopping Radar, Part 2 (Not Actually on Current Radar)

Or: Music Part A – 80s (lots of it), “General” Indie, Japanese completism, and a pinch of metal Now we hit on my actual, notoriously intense, wishlist on Amazon. Because it is largely about “filling the gaps”, it’s pretty easy to condense some of the time, as will become obvious. It does, however, address those things that one […]

What’s On My Shopping Radar

I decided on that title, because “My Christmas List, Part 1” has some implications that aren’t what I intend. I just thought it would be neat to break down what I’m eyeing strongly and why¹ to give some insight into the ever-shifting weirdness of my interests. So, without further ado, here is “Part 1,” also […]

My Week [or so] in Music

Well, this is awkward. You’d think I’d slip up due to a dearth of content. Instead, three albums came out alongside my normal reading, and it comes with commentary on gaming, too, because why wouldn’t it? First, the music: Released [last] week were Hate Eternal’s Infernus, Ghost’s Meliora, and The Sword’s High Country. Either you’re into modern metal […]

My Week in Media

Hello! I’ve been pretty significantly away, having moved across the country to take up a new job and finding a bit of a social life alongside it. Normal concerns–cataloguing my collections and experiencing them in their given manner (reading, listening, watching, playing)–are also difficult to get around, but a revived digression from social media and […]

My Own 2014 Top 20 of Music (#10-1)

So, this will at least complete (part 1 here) my top 20 music releases of 2014 (you can see what I drew from here), a relative first, in its way, as I’m actually commenting on them all and what have you. The numbering has been agonized over, but remains fluid, because I rarely make ordered […]

My Own 2014 Top 20 of Music (#20-11)

I’ve never successfully written about a year’s choices in any kind of meaningful fashion, and the last time I tried, I got through about #10-#7 (and then I hit Carcass’s Surgical Steel, and writing about metal in the way I write about music is not an easy thing to do, for some reason). However, some […]

I Don’t Need Pride of Place, But in Your Good Books I Think I Might Rate a Page

Is it frivolous to comment on things when I should theoretically be commenting tomorrow, in the passionate throes of New Books Are Out Wednesday¹? Well, of course, the answer is: who cares? So, onward and upward! Most important news is, I’m afraid, music-related, and not comic book related: after comments, photos, and statements insisting that […]

Oh No, Can It Be? We’re Heading for a Heatwave

My listening has been really passive and boring–oddly, close to the listening I did years ago, which I’ve been wanting to get back to. A shuffle of 5 or so albums in the car (a burnt copy of No Coast which includes my digital copies of the Forgetters 2×7″ and J. Robbins’s Abandoned Mansions acoustic EP, The Wombats […]

New Titles and Some Other Stuff!

Yesterday I got in my copy of Braid’s No Coast on vinyl, which means I release myself to listen to my digital copy, too (why I have this “rule”, I don’t know–I guess so the vinyl has freshness, like sticking to getting something the day it’s officially released. Some ritual is nice!). It’s really good, living […]