Butch Walker -- "Cigarette Lighter Love Song"When I try to explain exactly what this man's music means to me, I just want to show people this clip. This is from a show in 2003 at Atlanta's Variety Playhouse, between Walker's first and second albums. The place was packed with fans, and I

"If you've listened to FM radio any time in the last 15 years, you've probably heard a Butch Walker song -- though you probably didn't know it at the time. In 'Drinking With Strangers,' Walker recounts his days of bein

Just a few days ago, Butch Walker's book/"memoir" Drinking with Strangers hit the shelves. Being a huge fan of all things Walker puts his name on, I shouldn't have to say that I'm pretty excited about this. I'm a few pa

Last night, the people (or person) behind the Grindhouse Film Festival series screened the relatively unknown blaxploitation-horror gem, Sugar Hill. Not being too well-versed in blaxploitation (just like

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Last night was the opening for No Dust Here, a group art show I'm taking part in. For the show, a number of artists were given old record albums and asked to reinterpret the cover(s) however they saw fit, using whatever medium they wanted. As usual, my medium was photography. Here are side-by-side comparisons of the

A few more entries in my favorite overlooked albums listMorrissey -- Kill UncleAfter Southpaw Grammar, this album probably receives the most ire and criticism o

Recently, PopMatters posted an article on "10 albums that supposedly suck, but don't" -- which got me thinking of my own list of personal favorite albums that are often looked down upon or ignored by long-time fans. So

The Wunderful Ed Luce -- creator of the Wuvable Oaf comics -- was recently interviewed over on

I've recently posted some information on No Dust Here -- an upcoming group art show/project I'll be taking part in during August -- over on my photography blog.

Thanks to the glory that is Janus Films and their continually outstanding Criterion Collection...um, collection -- I've recently been turned on to the staggeringly beautiful weirdness that is

I've recently started moving my vinyl collection into the digital realm; it's been far easier than initially thought, and it's also reacquainted me with some long lost friends and long lost gems.So, I thought I'd share these wonders with anyone who happened to be interested:I've started tossing them

I've recently started another blog, over in the Tumblr universe. It's nothing but scans of all the various concert/movie/event tickets I've held onto over the years.It can be found at:http://ticket-taker.tumblr.comCome on over!

This past weekend was the 2011 Stumptown Comics Fest. Again, I volunteered for a few hours during the festival in exchange for free entry. Saturday, I spent my time chatting and catching up with friends, sported my Vic Boone hoodie to try and raise awareness for an awesome upcomin

For the second outing of my Theatre Appreciation class, we went to see Michael Hollinger's play Opus performed by Portland Center Stage. I've been to a few PCS performances, but not many of their contemporary productions -- I've seen them perform King Lear, The Importa

This semester, I'm taking a Theater Appreciation class, wherein we will be taking in numerous productions throughout the Portland area. The first one of these was Theater Vertigo's production of Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine -- an American Expressionist piece from the 19

Also, it seems a new Obits record has slipped in under the radar.And it's a good one -- it doesn't cover much new ground since the first one, but the band sounds tighter and more confident as a whole.

Last weekend, I rented Wes Craven's last offering -- My Soul to Take Take.What could have been a pretty decent teen slasher film turned out to be little more than Wes Craven trying to remake Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street, by way of Virginia Woolf's The Waves -- a group of teen

This is "rough" edit of my final project for my Final Cut Pro / video editing class. We were to edit together a montage, choosing one of four sets of criteria.Mine is a montage that attempts to tell a story.It is based on Peter Walsh's dream sequence from Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. T

Jay a video by G C Lee on Flickr.

Last night, I headed to the "After Dark" series of the Portland International Film Festival to catch Rubber -- an English-language French film about an abandoned tire who, after becoming sentient, discovers that he has telekinetic abilities: so, he (his name is Robert) travels the country side making various animals

...and I'm back.These days, my spare time is more and more infrequent. And that means things such as blog posts become more and more infrequent as well.But, to catch up -- -- I spent some time in Alabama, celebrating Christmas with my family. I try to make it down that way once a year to visit

This evening, I leave Portland for a week in Mobile, Alabama; this is the first time in six years that I have been able to visit my family for Christmas. Working retail, I'm not afforded a lot of options, so if I want a nice holiday, I'm usually stuck with Thanksgiving.But, this year I gave Christmas time a shot.

Last week, I had a customer tell one of my co-workers that he "just [was] not a fan of Gary's."As a response, I have started up a Tumblr "blog," simply call Not A Fan.

My Top 10 Albums of 2010 (in alphabetical order):Allo Darlin'A wonderful album by a wonderful band that proves what I've been trying to tell people all along -- when done right, twee pop can make your heart melt and your k

This evening, I caught the Stephin Merritt/Magnetic Fields documentary, Strange Powers at the Hollywood Theatre. It left out quite a bit of the band's story -- cutting out most between the first album and 69 Love Songs -- but above all else, it was a fun, competen

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