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. … Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
Tomorrow marks 100 days since the BP oil spill in the gulf. I know they “successfully” capped it, but as long as that sucker is still leaking, I’m saying there is still an oil spill. But this disaster got me thinking a lot about the good old days of folk – when popular music regularly included anthems… Read More
When I was in my formative high school days, going to the Warped Tour was a highlight of the summer. Just old enough to drive, we’d pile about 9 bros and skateboards into mom-duke’s Ford Exploder and drive at high speed to Fitchburg or some other pseudo-municipality in middle Massachusetts, blasting Rage Against The Machine and… Read More