I thought this was going to be about Val Kilmer at first but I didn't expect Mike Hurley to be mentioned. Thanks to you, he was put on my radar and I enjoyed seeing him at a show down the road a coupl

What a loss - he was such a joy, on record and live. If you haven't been acquainted, start with First Songs and go from there... there's a lot!  But even his last album from 2021 (The Time of the Foxg

I recently learned that Howard Shore was the band leader for SNL in its early years

so many highlights, including prince jammy literally riding the boards the whole time and beenie man's reaction to hearing that johnny osbourne was in the room.

hehehe... never made me think of a large intestine. Back in one of my former lives as an industrial mechanic, I spent years working with such components. As a cook, I once washed the large intestine (

New generation, custom built record cleaning device using a high quality dry steam cleaner and a pottery wheel, rotating the record at 85rpm, while a cooling nuzzle floods the surface with a jet of ic

its 2025, like where the fuck did the time go… jesus i remember “worrying about y2k” and it seemed like a few months ago… as time rolls by, it reminds me of when i used to think my mom was old (when i

I got dumped by a girl back in the 80s and spent the gift voucher I'd bought her on "In The Dark" (It had Grover Washington Jr. on one track)...  Then went backwards (where you had to dig and ask the

there's a lot of great/interesting beats and verses on this 

I’m a federal employee. Have been for 20 years. I love my job and I’m awesome at it (which I should be after 20 years). 

G. Keith Alexander - Sneakers '73 (produced by Roy Ayers)

Yeah, just a little scary! The job losses, but also the ways these institutions are being scaled back/torn down - the impacts of those changes are going to be more random, but there certainly will be

If you are searching for “amazing-deep unknown danger genre” (AKA music that sucks), you should check out Waxidermy. They can tell you about ethno-honkey, arctic throat-singers, new age moves, etc. De

are you guys trolling or is this real? Without the US, Iran would still be Persia and a whole lot of other bad shit would have never happened, like the Taliban for example.

Yeah, the Persian v Iranian thing in the US is real. I knew a guy from Chicago who always said he was Persian, and he explained it with that exact reason - that people looked at you funny if you said

If you are searching for “amazing-deep unknown danger genre” (AKA music that sucks), you should check out Waxidermy. They can tell you about ethno-honkey, arctic throat-singers, new age moves, etc. De

This is a weird question. I never even thought about "how". I just got interested in something and followed it. Digging is one part of it, for sure, but also just following the things that you like ab

in 2004 this made the news for a couple days due to the Thatcher connection and because it seemed to be scripted right out of Dogs of War. E. Guinea's presídent has been in power since 1982 btw and ho

Haha, I knew that Frederick Forsyth made up the country name and I am partially familiar with the history of Persia. I just was confused about the proper demonym since the woman who cuts my hair uses

Also my family and I are talking a trip to Europe in 18 days. London, Brussels, Bruges, and Paris. I know it’s too much for just over a week but I wanted them to experience as much magic and beauty as