Tag: 1980s

• January 30, 2013

  Writing

  The Next Big Thing: Bark at the Moon

  I was tagged by poet, writer, and mushroom photographer Ariel Gordon to take part in the Next Big Thing Blog Hop, so today I’m going to chat about my work-in-(interminable)-progress, Bark at the Moon. (Before I forget, I’ve tagged Angélique Jamail, Noree Cosper, Jóhann Thorsson, and Peter Dawes, so hop on over and visit. And while I…
• January 14, 2013

  Metal Monday, Music

  Metal Monday: Faster Pussycat’s Faster Pussycat

  If you want to understand why glam metal was so popular in the late ’80s, you should listen to a band that had more bite than Poison and better sense of the absurd than Cinderella, which is to say: Faster Pussycat. Named for the Russ Meyer movie Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill! the band was just…
• December 17, 2012

  Metal Monday, Music

  Metal Monday: Def Leppard’s Hysteria

  With an album as popular as Def Leppard’s Hysteria, the memory of when you first heard it may be overshadowed by the point at which you became sick of it. As with Def Leppard, so went the fates of pop metal — they reached their height of fame with Hysteria, released in 1987, and it’s…
• December 10, 2012

  Metal Monday, Music

  Metal Monday: AC/DC’s Who Made Who

  A compilation album may not often make it onto a “best of” list, but I’ll always be  biased when it comes to AC/DC’s Who Made Who. It was a Christmas present in 1986 and my gateway album into the world of heavy metal. Once I’d heard it, I never looked back.
• November 5, 2012

  Writing

  Dear Teen Me: Don’t quit writing

  Dear Teen Me: When I look at you, just about to hit Grade 12, I think, who is that skinny kid? And right, the hair. I’m going to try to put this in such a way that won’t make your trademark stubbornness (which got you through that nasty, soul-crushing period of self-doubt and depression in…
• October 18, 2012

  Metal Monday, Music, Thunder God Thursday

  Thunder God Thursday: Jon Mikl Thor

  I first had the opportunity to talk to Jon Mikl Thor back in 2005, while he was in the midst of a gruelling tour and had recently suffered an onstage accident in which he was nearly electrocuted. Despite that, he was very upbeat about his music career and made for a great interview. The only…