There’s an old joke that goes like this. “If the bands Smash Mouth and Nickelback were trapped on a sinking ship, who would eventually be saved?” The answer – “My eardrums!” Ha. But let’s face it. One of the most played out songs of the last 15 years has to be Smash Mouth’s “All Star.” …
Read MoreEktachrome rises from the dead…
Five years ago, I lamented the demise of Kodak Ektachrome film, a beautiful slide film with amazing tonal quality and grain. I thought I would have to live on Fuji Velvia (the last mass-produced slide film) and old frozen Ektachrome stock. That was until recent news. According to PetaPixel, the company that holds the Kodak…
Read MoreBest of our TU Independent Blogs, January 5 2017: Ten for Thursday
It’s Thursday, and you know what that means. Yes, including meaning another episode of The Big Bang Theory on Channel 6 tonight. It’s time for me to go through the blogs written by the Times Union’s independent and community bloggers, the ones that write for this portal for the joy and love of sharing their…
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January motivations
Trying to stay motivated while you’re waiting for surgery is brutal. But I have to persevere. There’s no other way around it. Get up in the morning. Write a blog post. Then go on with my day. And it’s tough. I know that there’s so many issues ahead that I must counter. But I have…
Read MoreShould I follow the “Emerald City” yellow brick road?
Apparently this new television show has been years in the filming, years in the writing, and years in the anticipation. NBC plans to air a ten-episode limited series that features a re-imagining of the classic The Wizard of Oz in a futuristic, fantasy setting, with the show called Emerald City. Here’s a sneak clip of…
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Faith and Frost at Frontier Town
This is my one chance to try this. My one and only chance, in this one and only location. And if I screw this up… for sure, I’ll never get another opportunity. Never. Because the location will disappear as soon as the bulldozers and the demolition crews arrive. I must prepare and I must persevere.…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Let me see some OMD
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – better known as OMD – was the synth-rock band that was part of the “Royal Flush” of British synth-pop groups – you know, the collective that included Human League, New Order, Heaven 17 and Depeche Mode. What I enjoyed about OMD was their early marriage of surreal lyrics and…
Read MoreRonnie Spector: For Every Kiss You Give Me, I’ll Give You Three
This article was originally written by Chuck Miller for Goldmine magazine in 1998. At the center is a voice. A voice that could wring emotion out of any lyric; a voice that could capture an audience and share the emotions of ecstacy and pain and love and longing. A voice that has evolved over the…
Read MoreIt doesn’t stand for Advance 1 Chuck…
Flashback. Last November, while I sat in a hospital bed trying to figure out what happened to my foot (spoiler alert: it’s broken), I received even more distressing news. My diabetes – which I thought I had kept under control – was completely out of whack. And one of the biggest offenders … was my…
Read MoreBest of our TU Independent Blogs, December 22, 2016: Ten for Thursday
Good morning all. Are you ready to enjoy the best blogging experiences the Times Union has to offer? Especially from their independent and community blogging crew, who write about things that are important in this world, whether on a global or a minute scale, and share these thoughts with all of you. First off, I…
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