I am a geek.  I like Geek culture. I like geek discussions.  I like Geek activities.  There are all kinds of sub groups of geeks.  I belong to several but one geek group I am very proud to be a part of is Movie Geeks.     While some geeks might be uncomfortable saying they are a fan of certain genres of film, I have no troubles saying that I love musicals.  I have been a fan of musicals as long as I can remember.  I love...

    I must admit I find it incredible that I am up at 12:30 the day after xmas writing a blog post.  I felt like I needed to write this while it was fresh on my mind.  The way I feel right now though I think it will be fresh on my mind for a while.  I treated the family to a movie the evening of the 25th.  It has sort of become something of a tradition.  Presents, family time, a meal and then off to the movies.  This years agreed...

    Part of TV that we usually gloss over or ignore is the proverbial network promo spot that usually takes a small bit of commercial air time in between regularly scheduled programs.  Here in TN I ignore most of these also, save for one.  As a child growing up in the south, it was never a sure thing that snow would appear during the holidays.  Likewise not living in a large urban cityscape wih huge buildings chock full of animatronic...

   Well, it’s my birthday on November the 13th.  I always find myself looking to the past when my birthday rolls around. I was born in 1973. I personally have never really looked into the events of my birth year so I thought I would research a bit and share my findings.  Turns out it was a rather amazing year and not just because I was born.  Here is the list of factoids I discovered. Some of my favorite movies were released in...

    I am a self professed MP3 snob.  I love music.  Almost all kinds.  I believe that somewhere in my 120 GB collection I have every genre and every style of tunes one can possibly imagine.  I love collecting music.      Recently I had a pretty dramatic hard disk failure and it put my collection in serious jeopardy.  Luckily I have triple redundant backups of ALL my important computer files, music included.      The last few...

   I watch a lot of late night TV and being the busy guy that I am, I usually pick up on new music from these shows.  I hear a great song and then go investigate the band and viola I find music I like.  Lately I have noticed what I perceive as a really sweet trend.  I am a child of the eighties.  That  high alto singing coupled with the electronic sound of what was then new sythesizers and sometimes a smattering of drums and heavy...