Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
He's long gone now, but when I was a kid it seemed like Vincent Price was everywhere.
The legendary American actor made a career for himself as the face —...
Thunder Pie | Red Dope Make You Fall in Love with Peasants
“Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.”
— William Butler Yeats
In the evening, I take my wine in a jelly...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
My day job is doing traffic reporting on the radio in Canada's capital. Whenever anything happens near the intersection of Sussex and Boteler, I always make some sort of...
Next Week in Music | Oct. 24-30 • New Books
Are you in the mood for a little light reading? Good — ’cause if there's one word that describes next week's lineup of new books, it's light (though at...
Thunder Pie | The Walkin’ Talkin’ Two Tavern Hams in a Past Life Country...
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
— E.L. Doctorow
Moving onto the porch, out into the sharp morning, timing the school bus, trying to mess with the gap with...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
Recently I acquired a set of 1970s quadraphonic headphones and got an engineer pal to give them a once-over. Listening to my SQ vinyl copy of Wish You Were...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
I didn't know Labradoodles were howlers. I always imagined that to be mostly a hound or Husky thing — but I've had two in a row now with a...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
Yesterday I picked up an $8 copy of the last Pretty Things album — well, the last one before their modern attempt at a comeback/reunion. The bass player in...
Thunder Pie | The Dash-Fire Days of Private Deviney (Part II)
“A prison taint was on everything there. The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement.” — Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
Sitting...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
My pal and musical collaborator Jordon messaged me on the weekend with an image of an album which he described as “Most certainly the worst music album I have...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
Recently I managed to find a 2021 reissue of the marvellous 1990 World Party album Goodbye Jumbo. I wore out my CD copy from high school and haven't had...
Thunder Pie | The Dash-Fire Days of Private Deviney (Part I)
“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.” — Helen Keller
In the woods...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
During the early days of the pandemic I decided it was finally a good time to catalog my record collection on Discogs.
A few hours into the process, which took...
Back Stories | My 2012 Interview With Loretta Lynn
Sad news out of Nashville today: Country legend Loretta Lynn has died at age 90. In a statement, her family said she died at home in Tennessee. “Our precious...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
For the past year or so I've been telling my girlfriend I'm "refining" my record collection — weeding out stuff I don't want anymore and replacing it with new...
