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I say this because apparently there’s some YouTube clips of Paul Stanley getting very cheezed off in concert. First off, some background.  I’ve seen two KISS concerts in my lifetime, and both of them were at the arena downtown.  The first show was during KISS’ reunion tour, and featured the classic lineup of Gene Simmons,…

It started last week, when our gas man came over to clean out the gas boiler. This is something they do on a regular basis. I thought nothing of it. The next morning, I noticed that our hot water was almost non-existent. I contacted the gas man to see if there was an issue, since…

Or at least that’s what’s happening in this fantastic little art clip from Patrick Jean.  This is a short film called “Pixels,” and I came across it while checking out the aintitcool.com website.  Thought I’d share. In this clip, imagine if the aliens from Space Invaders, the blocks from Tetris, and the antagonists from Donkey…

Okay, first off… I get it that today’s modern musicians can’t come up with their own sound. They have to rustle up a sound from a 1970’s R&B track, whether it be a riff, a drum break, or even altered vocals, to create their own music. Take for example, the popular “Empire State of Mind,”…

If I had known I would be receiving this e-mail from the Times Union, I would have exercised second thoughts before joining its blog universe.  I would have stayed at my old blogspot.com website, or I would have just posted stuff on my chuckthewriter.com homepage. This morning, I checked my e-mails and, surprise, I received…

I wasn’t completely concentrating on the tournament this week.  Granted, that’s not an excuse, but in the interest of fair disclosure, I had something very close to me almost die. It was my car. While pulled up to a stop light Thursday morning, my 1991 Pontiac 6000 sounded like everything was fine.  But then, as…

I was monitoring my flickr page today, and saw that there was an unusually high amount of hits for people looking for one of my photographs.  It was a photo of Johnny Maestro, the lead singer of the doo-wop groups The Crests and The Brooklyn Bridge, that I took in 2008 at the Vocal Group…

As seems to be the wont of various bloggers to come up with a list of their favorite 20 songs from an era or their favorite 15 Happy Meal toys from McDonald’s, I have come up with a list of what, from personal belief, are my ten favorite motion picture comedies.  These are the films…

It was probably one of the most influential two-minute songs of the late 1960’s.  For from the opening line, “Give me a ticket for an aer-o-plane,” to the closing sound effect of a jet plane taking flight, the Box Tops’ classic “The Letter” was the first major hit for singer-songwriter Alex Chilton. And from that…