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The End. I liked it. I was pretty skeptical for much of the final episode – over the course of it I was becoming increasingly worried that what they were building to was an alternate Universe where everyone from the show would get to live happily ever after… Continue reading
I'm having one of those days where I fall into the bitstream of the internet and don't make it out until I have become completely overwhelmed by sheer volumes of amazing music. I've been on an album buying frenzy lately – buying and ingesting to the point… Continue reading
Now with a title like that I ask you ladies and gentlemen, how the hell can you go wrong? You can't. The Brotherhood of Satan is a perfect example of that subtle style of camera exposition so well-helmed in the early-to-mid nineteen seventies and… Continue reading
No, not the same show. That would have been… insane. Not that the Fuck Buttons weren't insane, so let's begin there. Tuesday: I get out of work and hustle up into Silverlake to meet up with my friend Chris. We share beers with some old friends and then… Continue reading
If I hear a better rock album this year I'll be shocked. My god, this is just… I don't even know how to try and encapsulate the way this album makes me feel – perhaps a bit like I felt when I first heard The Pixies. But The Besnard Lakes don't sound… Continue reading
I go through my moods with beer the same way I do with music and movies – warmer weather brings out lighter brews such as lagers and ales while the year end creep into colder weather turns on my desire for stouts, porters and the like. Wheats and White Ales… Continue reading
I'm sitting in Columbus Airport in a starbucks waiting for a flight. Through the house speakers is a steady, non-threatening mix of ‘chill-out' music; a neutered continuous breeze of hi hat, fluttery bass and just-barely there vocals in every… Continue reading
I will never forget the first time I saw the Coen Bros. film Fargo. I hated it. And you will probably recall, perhaps from your own experience with the film, just how much seemingly everybody loved it. Well, maybe not everybody, but everybody in the kind of… Continue reading
Fact: the rate at which our access to and handling of information is speeding up exponentially. Of course, right? And Fact: The previous, if accepted as fact can be seen as having changed the way we consume and process the aforementioned information,… Continue reading
Wow, now that's some picture, eh? Some of you out there will know the film Alucarda, the 1978 Mexican horror film directed by Juan Lopez Moctezuma. I did not until recently seeing it mentioned here:… Continue reading
Master is a title we bestow upon those who excel and/or define their provocations. Think ‘Master craftsman' or ‘Master of Ceremonies'*. But by its very nature this title is transitory: within this filthy prison we call ‘time' those people… Continue reading
Dillinger Escape Plan reminds me of some massive cyborg amalgamation machine – the foundation to the unit was laid down on 1998's Under the Running Boards and perhaps more specifically 1999's Disasterpiece Calculating Infinity, but ever since then the band,… Continue reading
