Yup, I know... I pop up here randomly from time to time and promise to visit more. Well, I shan't make promises I can't keep but I will stroll through here as and when I can. More often in the future, of like, just 'cause. Facebook has lost its luster for me and other sites are... mostly meh ( Read more... )

My. It has been a while. Wow. I wonder why I don't visit here more save that my life in the offline world has been majorly busy ( Read more... )

Y'know, I keep meaning to come back here... regularly. Eventually things may settle enough for me to do so. Or I'll move to Ottawa where I'll be so damned bored that I'll be here constantly ( Read more... )

I've been watching, listening, thinking... and now I'm going to be unpopular because I'm going to write what I think. Do keep in mind that as far as politics go I'm a right-sided, imperialistic bastard. It's why I don't open my mouth about politics often... I get tired of the leftists gushing tears and invective all over me while I wait for them to ( Read more... )

By request *chuckle* the Polaris set list for the Saturday night dance. We had... we were figuring roughly about 500 people in the dance at peak, with 300 to 350 on the dancefloor. When we wrapped at 3amish, there were still 70 or 80 folk tearing it up to the music ( Read more... )

Yup, it's about time, innit? Okay... well, I could go with something recent or something old again and the coin came up... old-ish ( Read more... )

I keep meaning to get back to this place, this LJ... but FB keeps eating my skull. MMmm crunchy skull. Now with added something something ( Read more... )

Everything here is my opinion. You're allowed to disagree. Heck, you're encouraged to ( Read more... )

I'm going to kick off these reviews with a band that was doing Steampunk music even before the subgenre was a 20th century revisioning. I was introduced to this group in the late 1970s by a friend in the small town of Kemptville and had the positive joy of seeing them play live on their ONLY tour in late 1981/early 1982. If you're old enough you ( Read more... )

So as I talk with people and dig around and learn new things with respect to Steampunk, I thought I'd begin writing the stuff that I've wanted to begin writing. And with that in mind, allow me to present a topic close to my heart: music. Particularly, I shall take a long look at Steampunk Music ( Read more... )