Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in August.
I’ve been a little unsure about what to do with the Infrequently Occurring 5th Monday (aka “you are lucky I don’t just make it a double Middle Earth Monday”) whenever it crops up. Things started off well enough with Diminished Fifth Monday, but by the time I started writing stuff like Fifth Alpini Regiment Monday I realized I could probably do better theme-wise.
So today I’m starting a brand new feature for “Infrequently Occuring 5th Monday”: the top five list. It’s no secret I love lists, so I should be able to sustain a “Top Five Monday” list for quite a while. It’s also no secret I love John Wayne, so let’s start things off right! (more…)
Welcome back to everyone’s favorite www.isleyunruh.com Monday feature! Middle Earth being the place of enchantment and wonder that it is, each month I will use my love of fictional cartography to transport you to another time and place. So why not take a moment to fill your head full of knowledge that will have no bearing at all on the real world?
This month I’ll be discussing Drúwaith Iaur and its mysterious inhabitants. (more…)
I always have to stop myself when I say I like “all kinds of music”. Because, honestly, that just isn’t true, there is really only one kind of music I like. No, not [just] Black Metal, I’m talking about music in a minor key. I mean, I’m a pretty happy guy, but there is something about sad, sad songs that just does it for me. I don’t dislike Vivaldi’s “Spring” and “Fall”, but I far prefer “Summer” and “Winter” (guess which seasons he writes in a minor key). “Satisfaction” is a fine song, but I’d rather listen to “Paint it Black” any day…you get the idea. Basically, it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that sting [of soul crushing sorrow and sadness].
This month on Minor Key Monday I’ll act like one of those guys who thinks he discovered Johnny Cash:
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Welcome back to Mid-Month Metal Masterpiece, where I discuss a different classic Thrash, Death, Black or just plain “Heavy” metal album on the 15th of each month. Of course, I’m an old school fellow, so don’t expect to see a lot of stuff post-1996 or so. Each installment will be accompanied by several short sound clips illustrating important sections of the album. Anyway, it was either this or a new Daily Metal Reviews section. Consider yourselves lucky I chose the path of moderation.
This month I’ll discuss Gorgoroth’s 1997 album Under the Sign of Hell. It’s one of the few black metal albums that can be accurately described as “kick-ass”. (more…)
Welcome back to Internet Meme Monday! What is a meme you say? Well, as I understand it, a meme is similar to a gene, except instead of passing on genetic information it passes on cultural ideas. A meme can take many forms, from a catch phrase to a hand gesture, but the type of memes I’ll be looking at every second Monday of the month are “internet memes”.
On the agenda this month? I take a look at how everyone’s favorite Wyld Stallyn having a sad day somehow turned into the new hot meme of the summer! (more…)
Hello dear readers, it’s MAILBAG MONDAY again! On this special day I will search through my mountain of reader mail and answer the five most pressing questions!
What’s that you say? Do I really get that much mail? Well, I’ll admit…the contact section of this website doesn’t get used that often, but, one of the perks of wordpress stats is that I can see the google search terms that people use to find my site. And I’m going to go ahead and pretend that these search terms will count as reader mail, since they are often entered in the form of a question. So as you read these, remember that each “question” was something that someone actually typed into google that brought up my site as a hit which they then clicked on thus letting wordpress stats report to me the search they used to find my site. I could make up the questions myself, but it turns out the actual google searches are far better than anything I could come up with!
This time I answer the questions:
So, without further ado, it is time to dig into the old Mailbag to see what kind of things have been on my reader’s minds in the last month! (more…)
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in July.
To those who stuck around for the whole Choir Class Spinoff Crossover Special, this is the post you’ve been waiting for. What, you didn’t think I’d do a crossover special without a jock blog did you? Well this isn’t just any Jock Blog, this is Jock Blog as told by Chet’s fecal-centric friend Chris. As Chet tells it: “even though he can be a little wierd [sic] about shiting [sic], Chris can also be pretty awesome about shiting [sic].” But enough about Chet, let’s let Chris tell the story about just where all those wadded up balls of wet tissue paper came from, and how they ended up on top of Khaine’s cape in its ceiling tile hiding place!
Welcome to part two of my Choir Class Spinoff Crossover Special! Today we’ll take a look at what the plucky Ms. Kockenlocker had to say about what happened during the choir class chaos. Will we finally discover what all the flying paper was? Read on to find out !
Welcome to the first part of the Choir Class Spinoff Crossover Special! Today we’ll take a look at how Khaine’s younger sister Chloe saw things during the disastrous choir class.
Will all the mysteries be revealed today? Or will you have to wait for the final two installments of the Choir Class Spinoff Crossover Special for all your questions to be answered? Read on to find out!
Previously in Goth Blog:
Goth Blog 4 - Khaine just wanted to use Friday’s choir class to sing his apology song to his younger sister, but Chloe did not seem to notice since she was too busy arguing with Ms. Kockenlocker. A mysterious hail of wadded up paper then threw the class into chaos.
My very first foray into internet blogging was Goth Blog, the fake journal of a high school goth kid. And now, 5 years later, I figured it would be fitting to return to the land of Center Valley High and Goth Blog for my 200th post. However, this isn’t just a normal Goth Blog post, it’s the start of a new Spinoff Crossover Special! So, come back every day this week for a new post from the ever growing Center Valley High cast of characters to find out what really happened in today’s post!
With that said, let’s let the Tales of Center Valley saga continue with GOTH Blog 4 – Hey Little Sister! Look no further if you are in the mood for something rather silly that is full of black nail polish, nerdy references, capes, teen drama and plenty of horrible poetry!
Previously in Goth Blog:
Goth Blog 1 - Our hero Khaine introduces himself and his one true love Thorn. Alas, but the gothqueen Thorn does not return his affection and his attempt to woo her with a public poetry reading in their English class goes disastrously awry.
Goth Blog 2 - After nursing his wounds all summer Khaine returns to school to find, horror of horrors, Thorn has joined the pep squad. Sorrow turns to rage which turns into an epic plan to ruin the school’s pep assembly. Though it goes disastrously awry (as usual) Thorn (having recently quit the pep squad) is impressed by Khaine’s rebellious gesture and agrees to be his girlfriend.
Goth Blog 3 - Khaine discovers that having a girlfriend is not as easy as he thought it would be when Thorn attempts to get him to light a giant flaming pentagram at the school’s fall formal. Though they mutually chicken out the gymnasium mysteriously burns down anyway (see Snob Blog 3.5 for the details). (more…)
Welcome back to everyone’s favorite www.isleyunruh.com Monday feature! Middle Earth being the place of enchantment and wonder that it is, each month I will use my love of fictional cartography to transport you to another time and place. So why not take a moment to fill your head full of knowledge that will have no bearing at all on the real world?
This month I’ll be discuss the famous fords of the river Poros, the gateway to the realm of Gondor from the South. (more…)
I always have to stop myself when I say I like “all kinds of music”. Because, honestly, that just isn’t true, there is really only one kind of music I like. No, not [just] Black Metal, I’m talking about music in a minor key. I mean, I’m a pretty happy guy, but there is something about sad, sad songs that just does it for me. I don’t dislike Vivaldi’s “Spring” and “Fall”, but I far prefer “Summer” and “Winter” (guess which seasons he writes in a minor key). “Satisfaction” is a fine song, but I’d rather listen to “Paint it Black” any day…you get the idea. Basically, it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that sting [of soul crushing sorrow and sadness].
This month on Minor Key Monday I fess up to my secret love of goth music. Why you ask? Maybe I just felt the need to share…or maybe there is another reason coming at the end of this month…: (more…)
Welcome back to Mid-Month Metal Masterpiece, where I discuss a different classic Thrash, Death, Black or just plain “Heavy” metal album on the 15th of each month. Of course, I’m an old school fellow, so don’t expect to see a lot of stuff post-1996 or so. Each installment will be accompanied by several short sound clips illustrating important sections of the album. Anyway, it was either this or a new Daily Metal Reviews section. Consider yourselves lucky I chose the path of moderation.
This month I’ll discuss Venom’s 1982 album Black Metal. It’s not black metal, it’s not thrash, it’s just a pure metal classic. (more…)
Welcome back to Internet Meme Monday! What is a meme you say? Well, as I understand it, a meme is similar to a gene, except instead of passing on genetic information it passes on cultural ideas. A meme can take many forms, from a catch phrase to a hand gesture, but the type of memes I’ll be looking at every second Monday of the month are “internet memes”.
On the agenda this month? I try to come up with “Where is your God now?” pictures without offending “a lot of my best friends”. (more…)
Hello dear readers, it’s MAILBAG MONDAY again! On this special day I will search through my mountain of reader mail and answer the five most pressing questions!
What’s that you say? Do I really get that much mail? Well, I’ll admit…the contact sectionof this website doesn’t get used that often, but, one of the perks of wordpress stats is that I can see the google search terms that people use to find my site. And I’m going to go ahead and pretend that these search terms will count as reader mail, since they are often entered in the form of a question. So as you read these, remember that each “question” was something that someone actually typed into google that brought up my site as a hit which they then clicked on thus letting wordpress stats report to me the search they used to find my site. I could make up the questions myself, but it turns out the actual google searches are far better than anything I could come up with!
This time I answer the questions:
So, without further ado, it is time to dig into the old Mailbag to see what kind of things have been on my reader’s minds in the last month! (more…)
Here are some two sentence reviews of the movies I watched in June.
Welcome back to everyone’s favorite www.isleyunruh.com Monday feature! Middle Earth being the place of enchantment and wonder that it is, each month I will use my love of fictional cartography to transport you to another time and place. So why not take a moment to fill your head full of knowledge that will have no bearing at all on the real world?
This month I’ll be discuss the great inland Sea of Rhûn. (more…)
I always have to stop myself when I say I like “all kinds of music”. Because, honestly, that just isn’t true, there is really only one kind of music I like. No, not [just] Black Metal, I’m talking about music in a minor key. I mean, I’m a pretty happy guy, but there is something about sad, sad songs that just does it for me. I don’t dislike Vivaldi’s “Spring” and “Fall”, but I far prefer “Summer” and “Winter” (guess which seasons he writes in a minor key). “Satisfaction” is a fine song, but I’d rather listen to “Paint it Black” any day…you get the idea. Basically, it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that sting [of soul crushing sorrow and sadness].
This month on Minor Key Monday I’ll take a look at a random mournful song I heard on a random industrial compilation: (more…)
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