Saturday Spins: Leon Bridges Good Thing
Leon Bridges occupies a space or two because I dig his particular brand of soul. It’s not too poppy, and it isn’t too experimental to seem like it’s a parody.
Category: Saturday
Saturday Morning Gaming: Something To Get You To Thursday (Fallout 3 vs. New Vegas)
A comparison between Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas gives one of the best examples of Doing It Right versus Missing The Mark.
Saturday Spins: Son Volt’s Notes of Blue
You know when you’re dealing with the blues, you’re gonna have to eventually deal with the devil.
Saturday Morning Gaming: The Steam and GoG Black Friday Sales!
This weekend is the Black Friday sale at Steam and GoG.com and it’s a great opportunity to get the stuff that you miss from your youth (or just stuff that flew under your radar from a few years back) for a deep discount.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Pinball (Virtually)
Ever since I was a young man, I played the silver ball.
Saturday Spins: Dwight Yoakam’s Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.
This was my Dwight Yoakam gateway drug…I like guitars, Cadillacs, and depending on what one considers “hillbilly music,” I like that too.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Zero Gravity Space Potato Puzzler
I’m playing Kosmokrats and having a wonderful time.
Saturday Spins: Rage Against The Machine’s The Battle of Los Angeles
This week the randomizer was in a bit of a mood and spat out an excellent record from my youth: RATM’s The Battle of Los Angeles
Saturday Morning Gaming: Replaying Dead Space
Going back into the vaults to play an old sci-fi horror game from 2008: Dead Space.
Saturday Spins: Dawes North Hills
Have you ever had the opener actually being better than the main act? While Dawes was performing, we knew they were something special then.
Saturday Morning Gaming: The World Of Darkness and Non-combat Centered Gaming
It’s nice to have games that are based in conflict but not combat.
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.
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
