X-Mas Music All Time Top 20!!!

I’ve posted about Christmas music on here in the past.  I have taken the liberty of creating an all time top 20 (with a few honorable mentions thrown in) of Christmas songs.  For your perusal, and listening pleasure:
OK, first, honorable mentions:
“Do They Know it’s Christmas” by Band Aid.  This is on here because it’s so [...]

[Old Time] Music – A Bit of Nostalgia

Last night, after I posted the earlier bit about running, my Missus had a run in with the cat.  The younger of the felines enjoys using the corner of the wall in the dining room as a scratching post.  To get him to stop, when he does this we spray a little perfume that my [...]

A matter of only hours…

I am almost within 24 hours of the Morrissey show…right here in my own fair city of Pittsburgh.  Nay-sayers will complain and say that Moz has bailed on the last 2 Pgh shows and he’ll cancel tomorrow.  Ahhhhh, those of little faith and less loyality.  I’ll be there.  And it will be wonderful.
The record is [...]

New Sounds…

Three recent musical acquisitions have made my life a little better this week.  They are (in no particular order):
 

PROPAGANDHI -’Supporting Caste”  My my my.  Still excellent, angry when they need to be, poignant, interesting and thought provoking when they should be.  I had kind of let this band fall off the radar for me for [...]

Of India and Inaugurations … cold weather living …

So much happens so quickly.  The Steelers Nation is in a frenzy.  I’m a bit sad that it won’t be a Turnpike Superbowl, but what can you do.  Philly.  It’s Inauguration Day and I am hoping that the systemic limitation of the job won’t discourage the folks, young and old, who supported the 44thpresident.  Listening to [...]

NERDLINGER!!!

As December rolls on I find myself re-discovering my inner nerd.  (He never left, of course…it’s just that now it’s OVERT.)  Evenings at home read like a Kevin Smith daydream…watching hockey, reading graphic novels, watching movies about graphic novels. 
…Yeah…I know. 
I’ve always LOVED the idea of the superhero Dare Devil.  He is the man without fear, after [...]

So much…

It’s been a year this week that A Casual Web Log has been up and running.  Thanks for reading!
Last week was a busy one, for sure.  Likewise the Thursday before, I went to a hardcore show.  Check out Have Heart.  They are from Boston and they do it right.  I had never been to a show [...]

The Rev and the Ref…

My man Andy…AKA the Rev. (of Dispatching The Promised Land blog-fame) commented about my recent dream entry (the last post) and how he finally got the musical reference (…for those of you NOT from the Keystone Commonwealth with a history of legitimate stone wash…of course Dokken).  It got me thinking about how many of the titles for the posts on [...]

Bragg pt. 2 … That Philadelphia Sound

Last weened the Missus and I did weekend #2 with Billy Bragg.  The Keswick Theater hosted the event.  It was slightly larger than the State College affair, but it was none-the-less an entertaining show.  The set list was similar, with maybe one or two changes (He didn’t play “Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards” but [...]

“…are you taking over or are you taking orders?”

I had an all around wonderful weekend.  Between going to the Billy Bragg show on Friday night, pumpkin picking (and later carving!) on Saturday, and playing football on Sunday, it was a good one.
The Billy Bragg show in State College was absolutely amazing.  It was so good in fact, that the Missus and I decided [...]