Here’s how this works. The “Royale With Cheese Movie Club” is based on my having not seen the film Pulp Fiction until a couple of years ago. Yep – I saw it after everyone else in the whole wide world had seen it. So after that film, I added a few more films to my…
Read More“Amish Mafia” Episode Review: Amish Exorcism
Amish Exorcism. Yeah. I swear by all that’s holy, if I hear one note from Mike Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells” during this episode, I’m going to throw a pitchfork through my flatscreen. But it’s time once again for everybody’s favorite trashy faux-reality “docu-fiction” show, the show that mixes the Sopranos with the bucolic, pastoral world of…
Read MoreDream Window #6: The Beacon
Belief is the hard part. Understanding is the easy part. And somewhere inbetween those points is faith. Faith in God, faith in the world, faith in nature and all of its beauty. And part of me felt that a Dream Window honoring faith and belief in a higher power would be perfect for an upcoming…
Read MoreGetting power to the tower
Last Tuesday, I finished up some work and then headed toward my 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt SS so that I could visit my girlfriend Nicole. As I got in my car, I noticed that the street lights and house lights in my neighborhood began to simultaneously flicker. Then they all went out. Five seconds later, the…
Read MoreTomahawks? Really?!? Tomahawks???
I do a lot of work with the National Basketball League of Canada, they have eight different teams in the league and the playoffs are just two weeks away. On Wednesday, the league announced that a ninth franchise, based in Ottawa, would join the NBL for the 2013-14 season. And as new teams will do,…
Read More“The Lenten Meal” – my latest splitfilm experiment
I had some success recently with a splitfilm project, in which I ran two rolls of 35mm film parallel in my Agfa Clipper Special f/6.3 camera. The images exposed all the way to the sprocket holes, and I was able to digitally assemble each one. Now comes the next step in the project. I want…
Read MoreDefinitely a “long distance dedication”
During my workday, I tend to listen to streaming audio stations through my computer. You can have your Pandora and your Spotify; for me, it’s fun to listen to radio stations from other parts of the country – WCBS-FM in New York City, KROQ in Los Angeles, WOGL in Philadelphia, for starters. And then I…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Where have I heard that before?
On this edition of K-Chuck Radio, we’re going to examine where you might have heard some of rock and pop music’s most iconic riffs and identifiable lyrics, as well as some “alternate” versions of songs you might not have realized ever existed. Example one. This is musician Larry Coryell, performing a song called “Half a…
Read More“We Cut Keys”
I’ve driven past this house a few times over the years – mostly if I want to go from downtown Albany to uptown without hitting every traffic light on Central Avenue. In that case, I’ll drive up Clinton Avenue, give a wink to the building at 165 Clinton Avenue that was my old high school,…
Read MoreThe return of Lebanon Levi and the Amish Mafia
Remember Amish Mafia? The TV series on the Discovery Channel that purports to tell the story of an Amish / Mennonite band of protectors of the Plain faith in Lancaster County, Pa.? You know, the show with “Lebanon” Levi Stoltzfus and his crew of enforcers? The show that brought new meaning to the term “Amishploitation”?…
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