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As most of us keen on observing the music industry know every couple of years something becomes retro and The Spectacle latches onto it and dry humps everyone's ear drums with it ad nauseam. The 80's* made an unfortunate comeback a couple years ago – it… Continue reading
Mr. Ferrell, Why do you persist sir? You have to know that you are not funny. You have to. How could you not? Does the flower not know of it's beauty? Does the killer not know what he/she is? In nature the occurrence of perfection is a glistening, powerful… Continue reading
I have been waiting for the new novel by China Mieville for what feels like forever. Finally last week City and the City came out and I picked it up and WOW! You know how sometimes when it's been a while since you've read an author and you worry that maybe… Continue reading
I know a lot of folks were psyched when Charles Thompson, better known as Frank Black, aka Black Francis reunited with Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering for a bunch of new Pixies shows a couple years ago. I had a couple chances to see them but passed… Continue reading
The title of this blog is taken directly from the dialogue of the X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie. I went with this title* because I still cannot believe I heard someone in this post-Dark Knight Hollywood exclaim something as laughable as ‘Blow him to… Continue reading
Okay, I'm a little bit… no scratch that – I'm really torn here. A couple years ago when I heard Alice in Chains was touring again I did a double take. Wait, I guess I it will help if I take a minute to say that that Layne Staley's death has been the… Continue reading
Before Richard Kelly's film Donnie Darko I was not the kind of person who could make a statement such as "blank is my favorite movie'. This kind of declaration seemed absurd and dramatic to me, similar to saying ‘blank is my favorite band'. I simply… Continue reading
So I've been hearing about Sunn 0))) for some time. I think I first saw the strange symbols of the name on Warren Ellis' White Chapel forum (connected to his Freak Angels web comic page) where all manner of cool folk go to talk about interesting stuff and… Continue reading
It's been awhile but Takashi is back from the future and we're ready to go forward… er, backwards to the infamous 1988!!! In 1988 Grant Morrison was asked to take over the writing on DC's DOOM PATROL. I found Morrison during the last run of THE… Continue reading
So last year at some point my wife forwarded me a trailer for a movie named CTHULHU. I was excited, even though I knew it would suck. I mean, aside from Stuart Gordon's DAGON and John Carpenter's IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS there really are no movies based on… Continue reading
If Megatron or any of the other transformers characters looked like a transformer instead of like a bunch of old computer parts thrown together and animated. I mean, if it was Junk-gar or whatever the motorcyle guy from the junk world who John Moshitta, Jr.… Continue reading
(Spoilers for Laid to Rest below)Mr. Hall, I do not understand this. After reading the article about your movie Laid to Rest in the April issue of Rue Morgue magazine, to which you apparently contributed some comments, I was really looking forward to seeing… Continue reading
