Are you looking to take your Christmas experience to the next level! … Hell, I’m not even sure what that means, but I do know that there’s a healthy dose of Christmas jams and some exciting introductions to some great pulpy short stories. Not everyone likes Christmas the way I like it, but if you like it as a healthy mix of candy, nostalgia and presents, with a healthy sprinkling of ghost stories, horror and rock n’ roll, this might just be the episode for you. And if all that sounds terrible … Shoot me a message cuz I’m truly interested in what curse and winding road through the dark web lead you to our doorstep this Christmas.
if glenn wins the sexypoll i will draw soooo much sexy glenn art on god. it will be the only thing i draw forever. i will feed the glenn fuckers for millennia please i need this
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone in the classic rock family, and anyone else who comes across this. I’m wishing all of you the very best for 2024—nothing but peace, love, and happiness ❤️
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a... Porsche 356 Janis Joplin style, whereby her roadie Dave Richards painted the convertible version exactly like this in 1968. Seen on the streets of Hamburg and it is my Christmas bauble of the year. I wish I'd had a better camera with proper sound to hand...
Kiddo has been collecting vinyl records for a couple of years now. When we realized it wasn't going to be a quick fad we helped them lean into the hobby, upgrading the turntable, making space in their room, encouraging their purchases, etc. For Xmas this year we got them, among other things, a bunch of new records. We also made them this book. The intro page I wrote explains it best. The text is pasted below and the images that follow are its contents.
“Well, when you like something, it's an opinion. But when I like something, it's a manifesto.”
- “Pike St. / Park Slope” by Harvey Danger
It’s never been enough for me to like music. I need to LOVE it. I need to FEEL it. I need to internalize the experience of listening to a song or an album in such a way that it rewires my neurons and rewrites my DNA. I need it to be good enough to change me on a fundamental level. I suppose that’s why I don’t hold too many casual opinions about music. If it’s worth my time, then it’s worth a leather-bound dissertation on what it means to me and why it matters.
One of the things that excited me most about being a parent was getting the opportunity to share music with my child. Not just to teach them about what music I loved, but how and why I loved it. I wanted that child to see the connections I made between experience and lyrics; between emotion and melody and learn how to make those same kinds of connections themself. Seeing the way YOU feel and experience and love music at a cellular level has been, for me, one of the great rewards of parenting. Even if I fail at everything else, I take comfort and pride knowing that I’ve helped teach you to appreciate the profound effect music can have to entertain, to soothe, to comfort, to hurt, to remind, and to transport us through space and time.
"Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time."
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
In this book you’ll find your mother’s and my thoughts on our favorite albums. Not just OUR all-time favorites, but specifically our favorites that are also YOUR favorites. As you add to your collection, we will add to this book. Feel free to add your own, and to write anything you like about the music that you love in the pages in the back. If my voice is the melody that drives us forward, and your mother’s heart is the rhythm that holds us together, then you are the harmony that completes and elevates our song.
I'll try to start a tradition over here, which means we'll have KISS' Christmas edits every year, between days 23/24 :D
Anyways, it's Christmas Eve already? Damn... Oh well, me and everyone from KISS wish you all a merry, shiny Christmas and a happy, rocking new year!! Lots of love, you guys! <3 🌟