The First Seven Inches Are Always The Hardest (Diaphragm Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Crimes Against Music (Zip Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Faceless (Republic). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Using highly paid consultants instead of a traditional “mom,” America picks up its bedroom and cleans out its closet. Carl F Gauze witnesses this trend with the aid of HGTV.

A Native American president! Fart jokes! Midget rentacops! Carl F Gauze takes a deep slug from this unhealthy bottle of urban surrealism and wonders if he’ll live to regret it.

Banda Sonora (Sound Track) (Accretions). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Electronomicon (Cleopatra Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

A woman and her son find solace in an apocalyptic cult… not necessarily light summer reading, but Carl F Gauze seems to have enjoyed it.

Love and death and Satanism play out against the bloody background of the Russian Revolution, and Carl F Gauze was there.

Food and Jazz attract the professional set to the Winter Park Farmers Market. Them, and Carl F Gauze.

Carl F Gauze delves into the past with this interesting collection of writing by prisoners from the 19th century.

A short film and demo on henna body painting in a dark and smoky bar. Just the sort of place you’d expect to run into Carl F Gauze.

The Sky Above and The Mud Below (Carrot Top Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Forty-five minutes of motocross jumps crashes, and other mayhem, backed with a metal sound track. Carl F Gauze wipes off the grit and squints into the camera.

I Am Not Job (WTLL Records Distribution). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Carl F. Gauze doesn’t need CSI, he’s got Heather Dune Macadam’s The Weeping Buddha, a tightly written muder mystery revolving around modern forensic science and traditional police leg work.

Michael Moore’s newest documentary examines guns and violence in America, and concludes a lot of people are dying. Carl F. Gauze locks and loads.

Houston, We Have a Drinking Problem (Honest Don’s). Review by Carl F. Gauze.

Down the Old Plank Road: The Nashville Sessions (RCA / BMG). Review by Carl F. Gauze.

Carl F. Gauze explores Lileks.com, a site that collects the images and memories of pop culture over the past 50 years.