In spite of thousands of years of interaction, the dynamics between men and women remain roughly the same.  As evidenced by this video, the rules of the game are just as they were in the beginning, and the results are nearly carbon copy. Continue Reading

Aside from sporting jackets with feathered shoulder pads, Brandon Flowers has been flying under the radar for the better part of 2010.  But in September, the lead singer of the Killers will release his debut solo album that will surely have teenage hearts cracking wide open for the entire first semester.  The first single, “Crossfire” is a run-of-the-mill love song that unsurprisingly plays like a Killers tune.  Lyrically, the portrait of a relationship “caught in a crossfire between heaven and hell” is uninspiring, but who cares….he’s sooooo dreamy! Continue Reading

Between the years of 2003 and 2007 I engaged in perhaps the guiltiest of all guilty pleasures, The O.C. A teen hyper-drama surrounding the posh, yet somehow troubled lives of Orange County’s youth, it may as well have been subtitled, “Mo Money, Mo Problems.”  Originally promising myself (and I was not the only one) that I would “see what it was all about,” the show quickly became a staple in my life. Continue Reading

If you don’t care for my top 10 album selections, maybe you’ll prefer my choices for top 10 tracks.  Or maybe you’d rather suck it. Continue Reading

Here’s another video that ranks on my all-time list.  Not much in the way of cinematic art, but the menagerie of concepts is genius.  Through numerous viewings I have concluded the following (listed in chronological order): Continue Reading

What starts out as a southern-friend ramble ends up the rollicking cousin to The Rolling Stones “Sympathy for the Devil.”  Each features an extended segment of searing guitar solo and raucous honky tonk piano.  The Stones’ added “woo-woos” and Mick’s high-pitched howls are among the superfluities that flesh out their record’s waning moments. Continue Reading

Nearly three years after their last release, In Our Bedroom After the War, Stars are shining again with their latest full-length, The Five Ghosts.  One of many Broken Social Scene off-shoots, Torquil Campbell and Amy Millan provide the vocal front for the Montreal-based five-piece.  Continue Reading