Saturday Spins: The Beatles Rubber Soul
I know I placed the “underrated” moniker on this album, but that is through the lens of a casual fan of the Beatles, not a fanatic.
Category: Saturday
Saturday Morning Gaming: Doom 2016
I now have a new computer and I wanted to see what it could do and, holy cow. Doom (2016) captures the joy of playing Doom back in 1993.
Saturday Spins: Steve Earle’s Ghosts of West Virginia
Earle’s goal on this album was to cut through a lot of that and attempt to understand, not condescend to, the dualities that exists in one state in particular, West Virginia.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Building The Dream Box Aftermath
The Good News: I built my dream box.
The Bad News: I deleted all of my saved games.
Saturday Morning Gaming: On Building A Dream Gaming Rig
Building a dream PC is like going to Build-A-Bear. Instead of just picking out a hat you’re asking about the CPU, and Motherboard, and…
Saturday Morning Gaming: Disco Elysium
Disco Elysium is like if David Lynch did Planescape: Torment as a Detective Story in one of the nicer parts of Hell
Saturday Spins: Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love
The Boss decided to look inward in the summer and fall of 1987 after his marriage to actress Julianne Phillips went down the shitter.
Saturday Spins: Justin Townes Earle In Memoriam
It is pretty hard for me to listen to this album and think that the world will not get any new music written by Justin Townes Earle
Saturday Morning Gaming: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 is out and it is amazing. If you miss the old PS2 days of the game, you need to pick this up. The gameplay is as good as you remember.
Saturday Morning Gaming: XCom 2 and the Long War
I got sucked back into XCom 2 and am using the Long War mod. Holy cow, this is an amazing game. (And Steam currently has it on sale.)
Saturday Morning Gaming: Let Them Come
You are a guy with a machine gun and a handful of other stuff at your disposal and there are aliens attacking your position.
Saturday Spins: Dan Auerbach
An mix of rock, Americana, & 70’s style soul/psychedelic rock, from start to finish Dan Auerbach’s Waiting on a Song is truly a masterpiece.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Cognizer
Cognizer is a free game, phone-friendly, that will let you feel dumb, ~30 seconds at a time.
Saturday Spins: Bright Eyes
I texted my good friend and told him it sounded like early Bright Eyes, but with better production and sound engineering.
Sunday Spins: The Texas Gentlemen
Do you like Little Feat? The Band? Early Sir Elton John? Then you will for sure like this little band from Texas
Saturday Morning Gaming: Cogs in the Machine
I’ve been playing Factorio for years in Early Access, it’s been an essentially complete game for quite a while
Saturday Spins: The Weird
What does a disgraced Vice President, break dancing, and an international farting contest have in common?! They are all on records on my shelves
Saturday Morning Gaming: Tower Defense Minimalism
A tower defense game that will have you yelling “okay, just one more try… just one more try…” until you force yourself to turn the system off and go to bed.
Saturday Morning Gaming: The Turn-Based vs. Real Time Debate and Missionforce Cyberstorm
Real Time Strategy vs. Turn-Based Strategy in the days before ubiquitous internet.
Saturday Spins: Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways
With this release Bob Dylan became the first artist to chart in the Top 40 in seven consecutive decades
