Kaki King — Everybody Loves You

7/10 About ten years ago, I was up late as per usual, watching a cadre of late night talk shows. The musical guest on my longtime favorite, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, was a young woman named Kaki King. She played this song. Needless to say, her insane guitar skills blew me away (I also

So Much For J

Good grief, J. I’ve been working on you since September of last year. You’ve presided over some rough times in my life. But, hey, J! You’ve lifted me up! I never knew how good you truly were! You are incredible! Your albums received 18 “10/10″‘s. EIGHT-TEEN!!! That is insane! I think that is more tens

The Nicsperiment’s Summer Break Movie Mini-Reviews, Part Two

I (emphasis on I) had so much fun doing two-sentence movie reviews of all the films I saw during the early part of last summer, I’ve decided to do it again. With no time to watch any films during the spring, I’ve used whatever free time I’ve had at the start of the summer to

Louie Is a Great Show

Louie2014 FX NetworksSeason FourScore: 9/10 I recently caught a repeat of the last few season three episodes of  FX’s Louie. FX re-aired the episodes in anticipation of the show’s then upcoming fourth season. I really enjoyed them, remembered I have DVR now, and set the upcoming season to record. It ended Monday.Wow. Louie is a

A Fridge Nuked Nearly a Decade Ago: Reevaluating Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Every now and then a South Park episode sums up the feelings of a generation.  Airing after the summer of 2008, “The China Problem” clearly lays out almost every 70’s and 80’s kid’s opinion of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. For most, the film was the figurative raping of a legend.Indiana

The Juliana Theory — Love

6/10 Few bands deserved major label exposure as much as the Juliana Theory did in 2003. The band had put in grueling touring hours, and had released some truly stellar work on indie label, Tooth & Nail Records. Their time in the sun had arrived. Unfortunately…The Juliana Theory’s Epic Record’s debut album, Love, falls prey to just about every pratfall posed

The Juliana Theory — Music From Another Room (EP)

8/10 The Juliana Theory’s Music From Another Room is another piece of great early 00’s work, this time in short form.The week my best friend died in a car accident, I bought three albums: Blindside’s Self-Titled debut, my own personal copy of The Juliana Theory’s Emotion Is Dead, as well as The Juliana Theory’s freshly released EP,

The Juliana Theory — Emotion Is Dead

10/10 The third and final installment of this loose review trilogy of artists in “the zone” is on Brett Detar, previously of The Juliana Theory. Emotion is Dead is the Juliana Theory’s second full-length album. While Detar’s bandmates obviously have a lot to do with Emotion Is Dead‘s musical success, Detar always seems to be

Joy Electric — The White Songbook

10/10 The second artist featured in this review trilogy of artists in “the zone” is Ronnie Martin, who writes music under the moniker “Joy Electric.” Martin was unfortunately born both 15 years to late and 15 years too early, as he could have easily composed music for NES games in the 80’s, or could have

Josh Garrels — Love & War & the Sea In Between

10/10 I don’t like folk music. Sorry, I guess. I don’t like bluegrass, or any of that stuff, either. It puts me to sleep. Following this logic, I should not like Josh Garrels’ music, but music and logic have little to do with one another. Josh Garrels began creating Love & War & the Sea