Make Like Murder starts us off like a proper metal band should-with lots and lots of noise. Absurdly fast guitars, double bass like a badass and the kind of growling screaming that doesn’t even pretend to sound like words. The lead guitarist looks like a shirtless surfer, but also shockingly reminiscent of David Patrick Kelly from The Warriors. ( Read more... )

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On Saturday Night, I went out to see Gabe’s band, Bock’s Car, play at the National. Gabe had impressed upon me that this could be something of a Big Break for the band, and I couldn’t not go and support him in an endeavor like that. I just didn’t count on all those other bands being there…

( Bock's Car )

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I was sitting outside the Room of Substandard Pleasures at Anime Mid-Atlantic 2008 when Ant hunkered down with me and blew my mind as sure as any gunshot. “Dude, why don’t you write a rant about how people at anime cons lower their standards.” I hadn’t ever quite thought about it like that. So simple. Deceptively simple. Simple in that slick, ( Read more... )

I can see the headlines, later tonight ( Read more... )

BUT! Before you read this, go back and comment on my AMA 2008 write-up from yesterday ( Read more... )

Richmond smelled like burning chlorine when we laid our tires across I-64 tarmac.

( Feel the burn! )

Some of you...especially the ones who've been reading since I first started this thing...some of you know that I make my annual assessment of the Anime Mid-Atlantic convention. Some others of you know that it was just this past weekend ( Read more... )