Metal Dad - Hardcore for Life

Nothing Gets You High When You're Hungry For Love

The Morning Drive - Todd Rundgren A Wizard, A True Star


I know I've written about this album before but it is one of my favorite albums of all time. TR could have cranked out a collection of songs just like "I Saw the Light" after the relative success of Something/Anything? but he chose to explore using the studio like a musical instrument. And while this LP was a portent of some of the prog-rock excesses of Utopia and later solo excursions I return to it quite regularly.

One of the best live shows I ever saw was Utopia at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago circa 1974. They had recently pared the group down to four members and they played a three hour show with no opening act and a 15 or 20 minute intermission. A highlight of that show was their take on "Something's Coming" from West Side Story. A good version of it can be heard on Todd Rundgren's Utopia's Another Live.

Tags: AWATS, Current Listening, The Morning Drive, Todd Rundgren

Punching A Gift Horse In The Mouth

or The Morning Drive - Charles Bronson Complete Discocrappy

117 tracks clocking in at under 90 minutes is a great soundtrack for the drive to the salt mines.

Tags: Charles Bronson, Current Listening, Powerviolence, The Morning Drive

An Interesting Idea

"if regular visits with prostitutes kept the political class from launching trillion-dollar war- and welfare programs, and financing Fanny, Freddy and the Fed—I would personally contribute to a prostitution fund for Washington whores.
The prostitutes would be the patriots. …”

Ilana Mercer

Tags: Ilana Mercer, Inspirational Quotes, Politics, Prostitutes

United & Strong

Bridge Nine is re-releasing Agnostic Front's Live At CBGB on 7/17/12. If you want to know what NYHC is all about listen to these guys.
H/T Stephanie Marlowe

Tags: Agnostic Front, Bridge Nine, Hardcore, New Releases, NYHC

¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo!

I'm quite proud of my Anglo wife. Of her own volition she dug out our flag and put it out on the front of our house. It's a timely point of identification since one of her Facebook friends saw a picture from #1 Son's graduation yesterday and asked Mrs. Metal Dad if I was an Orthodox Jew!


Tags: Cinco de Mayo, Family, Pictures

Oh Happy Day!

Congrats to #1 Son for graduating from university with a degree in actuarial science.


Even Dalton shared in the celebration


Tags: #1 Son, Family, Graduations, Pictures

Theological Quote Of The Day

“The Church has always been at its best when it is standing in opposition to the governments of the world, and at its worst when it is working in collaboration with them.”
– Vox Day

H/T El Borak

Tags: Inspirational Quotes, Politics, Theology

Keeping Us Safe From Terror

A flyer given to municipal employees of one of the northern Chicago suburbs. I think I should probably steer clear of Skokie for the next few weeks.


Tags: Chicago, NATO Summit, Statist Thugs