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07.09.10 by Widge @ 4:13 pm  On our recent road trip, we made lots of interesting discoveries. One of my favorites was this gem: Carter's Antique Toy Museum in Zionsville, Indiana. About seventeen miles from Indianapolis, it's a building with three floors that holds a single collection of toys. But Jebus, what a collection. Entire cases of Lionel train cars, a basement full of coin-operated rides for kids, and even an animatronic tree that will give you nightmares. Also in the basement, two ancient lightgun arcade games and bumper cars--both of which you can utilize with your admission. It's amazing. It's like a better organized toy version of what I assume the Ackermansion must have been like. I hope to get an interview with the owner soon, as I think he could use some help. Taxes and expenses of running the museum are just eating away at his wallet to the point where he might shut down the museum at the end of the year. Go check out the photo album of 90+ shots that I've stuck over at our Facebook page and you tell me if you want to see that happen. If you're anywhere near the place, it's worth checking out. It's pretty damn amazing. Here's their official site. Categorized as: Headsup
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07.05.10 by Widge @ 2:27 pm  ScottC posted this to Twitter and he was dead-on. It is sort of custom-made for me. Not only is it Alice in Wonderland, which I dig and which we've explored before, but it also involves zombies. And with this site, one of our few consistent editorial stances is that "If it's undead and bleeds, it leads." So how could I say no to Alice wielding a pair of katanas and going to town on some zombie denizens of Wonderland? The Zombies in Wonderland shirt is fantastic. Also of note is an awesome Ghostbusters-referencing shirt that ordinarily would be right up my alley as well, but as you will quickly see, "Something Strange in Your Beverage" is on a blue shirt. Maybe on the reprint they'll get it right. Categorized as: Headsup
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07.04.10 by Widge @ 11:11 pm There are a lot of things out there you can buy. We try to give you the information you need to make an educated purchasing decision. Because we have no lives. If you find the info here to be of use, do us a favor and purchase stuff from Amazon through us. Especially if you were going to buy the stuff anyway. That gives us kickbacks, which help pay for things. Like the server. And coffee. And therapy. Thanks.
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06.26.10 by Widge @ 4:05 am There are a lot of things out there you can buy. We try to give you the information you need to make an educated purchasing decision. Because we have no lives. If you find the info here to be of use, do us a favor and purchase stuff from Amazon through us. Especially if you were going to buy the stuff anyway. That gives us kickbacks, which help pay for things. Like the server. And coffee. And therapy. Thanks.
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06.18.10 by Widge @ 2:40 am There are a lot of things out there you can buy. We try to give you the information you need to make an educated purchasing decision. Because we have no lives. If you find the info here to be of use, do us a favor and purchase via Amazon through our links. That gives us kickbacks, which help pay for things. Like the server. And coffee. And therapy. Thanks.
Cinematic Titanic continues their onslaught on your mind. Not only are they continuing to perform their riffmongering sessions live but they keep rolling out DVDs of the live shows, both for the people who caught them live and want the performance for posterity (like myself) and those who didn't get the chance to catch them in person (which you should do--it really is good). And this is Danger on Tiki Island, of which I got to catch their first live performance--and it was good then. So the DVD has honed it to a razor sharpness. Not only that, but you get a backstage look at CT with the "Between the Riffs" mini-docu. This is good stuff. Snag your copy here. It's worth it. Categorized as: Headsup
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06.15.10 by Widge @ 4:02 am  Muss and Turners is our favorite restaurant in the Atlanta area. We will "find" reasons to eat there. We will often drag out of town people to it--that's a good reason. And just having a long day--another good reason. That's why we found ourselves dining their last night. I often try to look for interesting draft beers. And I spotted this one on their list: "Southern Tier Mokah, CO" The description: "Sweet Imperial Stout with strong elements of coffee & chocolate; flavor notes of vanilla and cognac." I dig stouts. I dig chocolate. Coffee and I, as you might imagine, go way back. So this seemed like a no-brainer. But Aaron, our server, who is wise, advised me to try a sample first before I just dove in. And as I said, he was wise. Because this is not a stout you have with a dinner. This is a stout you have for dessert. Seriously. As I told them "strong elements of coffee & chocolate" is understating it. It's like the answer to the question of "Would you like some beer with your coffee and chocolate?" It was so sweet I don't think I could manage a whole pint of it. He also snagged me a sample of bleu cheese and I tried it with the beer and that was amazing. Categorized as: Headsup
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06.13.10 by Widge @ 11:12 pm  The rumors are true. We are getting closer to some kind of 2 Skinnee Js resurrection. I can feel it. Why do I say this? Because they've revamped and relaunched 2SJ.com, with news, bios, photos and a webstore out the smacked ass. All twelve official CD releases are now available to download in MP3 or FLAC formats with cover art and liner notes. $.99 a track. Not only that, but there is an array of real CDs, DVDs, sets, shirts, posters and a "Vintage Vault" featuring Merch Out of the Distant Past (insert echo effect). I can personally vouch for the 2 Skinnee playing cards. We used them here at the Technocave just the other night. As you can imagine, the Vintage Merch is in short supply, so snag them as you can. Categorized as: Headsup
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06.02.10 by Widge @ 4:14 am There are a lot of things out there you can buy. We try to give you the information you need to make an educated purchasing decision. Because we have no lives. If you find the info here to be of use, do us a favor and purchase via Amazon through our links. That gives us kickbacks, which help pay for things. Like the server. And coffee. And therapy. Thanks.
Life premiered on the Discovery Channel here in the States in March. It's a BBC nature documentary, which tells you a few things right out of the starting blocks. First, it looks amazing (and it does). Second, a crapload of work went into making it (quite true). And chances are you're going to get narration by David Attenborough. Well...yes and no. The version that aired here stateside is narrated instead by Oprah Winfrey. Categorized as: Headsup
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05.26.10 by Widge @ 4:59 am There are a lot of things out there you can buy. We try to give you the information you need to make an educated purchasing decision. Because we have no lives. If you find the info here to be of use, do us a favor and purchase via Amazon through our links. That gives us kickbacks, which help pay for things. Like the server. And coffee. And therapy. Thanks.
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05.20.10 by Rob Levy @ 11:31 pm  Every once in awhile a comic book catches my eye at the comic book store that's so disturbing, so weird and so ultra bizarre that I cannot ignore it. This is the case with Henry & Glenn Forever, a comic so odd, so inventive and yet so morally wrong I could not put it down. The premise is simple: Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig are "close friends" and "roommates" who just happen to live in suburbia. Their neighbors just happen to be Hall & Oates who are Satanists. Told as a series of vignette comics that hold nothing sacred, this is a great collection of odd and bizarre strangeness of such brilliance that it cannot be ignored. Each page is funnier then the one before it and you never, ever know where it's going. Igloo Tornado is the collective of artists and madmen behind Henry & Glenn Forever. They are clearly warped in that brilliant way that good comic creators just aren't anymore. The book not only takes the piss out of Rollins and Danzig, it mangles their self worth and celebrity beyond recognition. Fans of DIY fanzines and punk rock will love this. So will anyone looking to have a great and hearty laugh at the expense of all things Rollins or Danzig. This is some really great crazy stuff. Categorized as: Headsup
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