Dracula, 1931
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Ed Wood, 1994
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The Body Snatcher, 1945
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The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935
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A Mile of Ground
[bandcamp width=100% height=120 album=1734092368 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false artwork=small track=2659915277] A girl carries water in a gasoline can A mile to the well, another back again She didn’t ask to be born in this place She didn’t ask, but she carries the weight A boy in Nebraska stares up into space Feels misunderstood, he dreams […]
The Masque of the Read Death, 1964
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Why I Won’t be Reading “Go Set a Watchman”
I love Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, and have for some decades now, ever since I first read it. What I also love is that Harper Lee knew when to call it a day. Ralph Ellison also wrote one brilliant, landmark novel, Invisible Man, but spent sixty years and the rest of his life generating thousands of […]
Here’s to the State of South Carolina
I have too many thoughts about the white supremacist terror attack at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, to get them down in any coherent way, and besides, Jon Stewart said it right, anyway. He also said that he knows the country well enough to know it’s not going to actually do anything […]
Go Set a Railroad Man?
Am I crazy, or does the cover of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman resemble the cover of our album The Ghost of John Henry? To Kill a Mockingbird means a tremendous amount to me, as it does to millions of other people, and though I’m firmly in the camp that there’s something fishy in the release of Go […]
New Year, New Record
As I’ve discussed in previous posts, Sci-Fi Romance’s third album has been written for a while now, but life has prevented it from being recorded…until now! Right before Christmas, we went into the studio for three days and broke ground on the new record. We got six songs in the can, and have a few more […]