OK so this technically isn’t rock but it’s Classic and I love these songs. Mike Post and Pete Carpenter were responsible for just about every great TV theme song of the 1970s and 80s. Mike Post was a well respected session musician and musical director of the Andy Williams show in the early 60s. He was a member of Kenny …
Pardon our dust
Strange things are afoot at the Cheese Magnet. We’re upgrading the site so you’re going to see an entirely new look. Things will be a little sloppy for a day or two while we get everything under control so cut us some slack, OK?
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
PULP COVER FRIDAY GOES ALL GUMSHOE! Though my major fictional interest is sf and fantasy, I’m also minoring in mystery. Basically, I’ve been spurred on by the constantly luscious buffet that is Ebay, so I’ve been picking up the odd mystery-crime-detective magazine here and there (Did you know that ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE alone has OVER 700 ISSUES??!!). I don’t …
Cool Actor of the Week: Tilda Swinton
Many words have been used to describe Scottish actress Tilda Swinton: “daring”, “unconventional”, “unpredictable”. The word I find myself most often using is “fearless.”
Revisiting Firefly, Episode 2: “The Train Job”
ScottD: We’re back with the second installment of our episode-by-episode deconstruction-and-discussion of the Firefly series. And we hope you’re having as much fun as we are as we watch the episodes again — or, in Tanzi’s case, for the first time, lending this exercise his fresh reactions — in an attempt to identify the elements that make this series such …
Classic Rock Sunday: Sam The Sham and the Pharaohs
Sam the Sham (aka Domingo “Sam” Zamudio, a Mexican-American out of Texas) and the Pharaohs burst on the music scene in the summer of 1965 with their monster hit Wooly Bully, the first American song to sell over a million copies during the British Invasion. As the story goes, Sam wanted to write a song that people could do the …
Kamen Rider Dragon Knight Season 2?
I thought I’d share this very cool fan-made opening credits sequence for the (sadly) non-existent Season 2 of Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, the TV series I wrote a bunch of episodes of. This was made by Randy Ly, and I think it’s pretty snazzy.
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
PULP COVER FRIDAY PRESENTS THE MOST SCHIZOPHRENIC MAGAZINE EVER! It’s not unusual for a magazine to change it’s title, or even its editorial slant, or sometimes even its genre. Though technically it was a digest rather than a pulp (smaller sized, trimmed paper edges, and published outside of what is generally considered to be the pulp era, which basically ended …
Cool Actor of the Week – Adam Baldwin
With our continuing series on Firefly starting a couple days ago, we figured it might be a good idea to give the Cool Actor of the Week nod this time to Jayne Cobb himself, Adam Baldwin. I’ve been watching Baldwin since the opening weekend of his first movie, My Bodyguard, way back in 1980. Seems at the time I remember …
The Truth Was Out There: “The Invaders”
The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them. For him, it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue …
Revisiting Firefly
Tanzi: A few weeks ago Scott and I went back and rewatched the Battlestar Galactica pilot. We both enjoyed it so much we decided to revisit another great science fiction series: Firefly. I say revisit but the truth is I’ve never actually seen an episode. I know I risk losing some geek cred with that admission but it’s the truth. …
Classic Rock Sunday – The Fleshtones
All right, up front here I’m gonna admit that this is a band I know almost nothing about, aside from the one LP that I own, Hexbreaker! (1983) which I bought upon its initial release and still play today. But that record is a freaking monster and there’s no excuse on Earth as to why I don’t own more of …