Ladies and gentlmen, the one and only Andrew WK has one-upped himself (and just about every other musician) once more. Following on the heels of his J-Pop cover album and Gundam tribute album, AWK has written an entire album of “spontaneous solo piano improvisations” (or SSPIs as he calls them) inspired by his ‘55 Cadillac. I’m talking about eight tracks that…
Told you I’d explain this guy in a later post.
Gackt Camui is an Okinawan musician, composer, lyricist, poet, author, actor, designer and model. Usually referred to by his mononymous stage name, GACKT. He is known for his work with Malice Mizer, and for his solo artist career after leaving Malice Mizer. In addition to Japanese, he has performed in English,…
Sure it makes sense. But the fact that the mouse and the wolverine are now owned by the same company is as depressing as it is inevitable.
Will they keep their hands off of the comics? Will there be new rules to make Marvel even more family-friendly? I don’t know what the ramifications are yet, but I don’t like this one…
By Jeremy Kotin
1. Inglorious Basterds (2009)
I can’t believe how much I enjoyed this movie. The thought of a fantasy revisionist history taking down Hitler seemed so indulgent to me and a useless exercise, but in the capable and overly film literate hands of Quentin Tarantino, the two and half hour experience is close to euphoric. The opening chapter (oh yes, there are chapters)…
By Hawkes Klein
I hate the above commercial so much! (I know Morgan mentioned it earlier because of the song, but I’m talking about the premise!) You meet a short European dude who clearly hasn’t bathed in anything fancier than a Bahnhoff in weeks and he cell phone stalks you all the way home? You know what happened the day after this? She…
The first article I read when I woke up this morning saddened me to no end. It was NPR’s report on the end of an era, also known as the last airing of Reading Rainbow. Amazingly, Levar Burton has been taking a look in books for the past 26 years. That means when I was just starting to read, this show…
By Peter Brauer
Thank you Mr. Onion for making me laugh for so many years. This fake news is priceless. (Disclaimer: Theodore Barrett, the Former White House Press Secretary is my dear cousin Jay Potter. So my opinion is completely biased.) But you should watch this and draw your own conclusions about its hilarity.
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
Fantasy Freaks & Gaming Geeks is a thoughtful discourse on lifelong gamers, and the appeal of these worlds they reside in. A life of Dungeons & Dragons from a young age leads Ethan on a journey around the world to meet others with similar (if not more impressive) passions, and find out why they do what they do. Revelatory and…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
The life of the data roaming vagabond is one most of us engage in on a daily basis. You’re in a park, coffee shop, or even your house. You’re either dizzy from looking for a way to link up to the web or too lazy to open your laptop. Either way the shiny little device in your hand is trying…
Matt Ellsworth and I met while making Second Skin, a documentary I directed on virtual worlds. He’s one of the boys from Indiana who loves to game. Our conversations over the years have led to a few things, one of them was finding a common love for Johnnie Walker Black Label, and the second was a penchant for postulating about…
The geek have officially inherited the Earth, as was prophesied in Psalms 37:7 (more or less) so many bearded men ago. It’s a fairly recent thing, having happened somewhere between Google’s ascent to ubiquity, the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the eyebrow-raising popularity of Weird Al’s White & Nerdy. And since history is told by the…
How much does James Cameron ride George Lucas’ dick? Only enough to base an entire movie, Avatar, on the final battle sequence from the last good film in the Star Wars franchise, Return of the Jedi. Each film has its ragtag band of native creatures, each film pits basic bush weaponry against mechanized slaughter machines, each film has exploding trees.…
Come with me, friends, to another time. Let’s say 1998ish. Ross and Rachel rule the airwaves, ER is hailed as the Best Drama Evar. As the sun sets on Seinfeld, critics mourn its passing, proclaiming that we’re not likely to see a show of its brilliance ever again.
I watched an episode of Seinfeld yesterday. It’s still funny, despite the canned…
I sincerely hope I made every attempt to be fair and honest and if I left off a film you love, please know that it was not with malice and there are only ten spots. I even split them into two genres because taking any of these off the list kind of made my heart hurt. Also, feel free to…