The sins of the father being visited upon the children?

Finished this month:
"Power of the Dog" by Don Winslow. Wow! Winslow is my new favorite author after having read this novel about the war on drugs. Will move on to "The Cartel" next. His writing style is James Ellroy-esque but not quite as stark and stripped down.

Living in Hollywood, I am always passing by Scientology buildings. It amazes me how this, ahem, church, manages to get so many beautiful women to be members. They must have low self-esteem or something…

Went there in 1998, I believe, to see Cheap Trick.
Great time, even the local bands opening were a lot of fun.
Aerosmith was there and came out and did a song with CT.

The AV Club

The Geicko gekko first appeared in 1999.

Nice interview because I do love me some Cheap Trick. Been listening to them since the summer of 1979 when you couldn't escape hearing "Budokan" tracks on Chicago radio.
But the interviewer is way off in saying "Voices" was their first slow song. That would be "Mandocello" from the first album. Definitely a ballad.
I…

"Can you honestly tell me you forgot? Forgot the magnetism of Robin Zander, or the charisma of Rick Nielsen"

I once had a teacher who called Prohibition "a 20th Century solution to a 19th Century problem."

Dickety? Highly dubious!

After reading the first volume of Mark Lewisohn's biography of The Beatles one of the things I came away with was that George was the one most changed by the whole experience. Most likely because he was the youngest of the four. In the book, you could get glimpses of how John, Paul and Ringo even when they were in…

That boy ain't right…

"There's this persistent Boomer myth that he was some great progressive and could've changed everything for the better…"

If you have 6 to 8 weeks to spare, you should read Vincent Bugliosi's 1,600 page book on the Kennedy assassination. As good lawyers do, he goes into details on all the conspiracy theories and tears them apart. The first 200 pages alone detailing the events of the four days of the assassination and the aftermath are…

Saw "Hail, Caesar." While I liked it, I would consider this to be second tier in the Coen Brothers filmography. There was just something a bit off about the movie, like all the threads did not add up to a full story. The scene that gave me the biggest laugh was when Mannix met with all the religious leaders to get…

Come on, Bart.

Took a vacation day on Friday and that afternoon went for a second viewing of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." While I enjoyed the movie as much as the first time around - I had this big spontaneous smile on my face when the Millenium Falcon makes its appearance - there was one part of the plot I began to question -…

I spent October 1997 travelling around Australia, including a week in Cairns, the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef.
I went out to the reef three times, once scuba diving, twice snorkeling. On the final snorkeling trip I was happily paddling about, looking at the coral and fish and when I popped my head out of the…

This is where I take the opportunity to say that I used to work in Woodstock albeit I started a year after the movie came out. But there was still the residual affects of the movie, such as the photos of Bill Murray in Angelo's restaurant on the square (no longer there btw; the restaurant, not the square) and the Tip…

"Who controls the British crown?