All Things To All People
Longer form pieces.
Alright so I?m terrible and didn?t manage to write this little column last week ? my second week into it?that?s a bad sign I will admit. But I?m back and ready to try my hand again. In all honesty I tried to…
Image by PhineasX via Flickr I’ve long been intrigued/interested by Dada and Surrealism. When the TODCRA comic strip, Film Funnies, was being created, we’d often do a comic based on the idea of The Exquisite Corpse. The Corpse is a dada/surrealist parlor…
Hello & welcome to What It Is! This is a column that I’ve been telling myself I should start for awhile (ever since Matt asked me to contribute to the site!) but just haven’t really known what to talk about — then…
Isaac Hayes has probably been the greatest discovery I’ve made since my record collecting took a turn for the serious. Not being familiar with anything by the Black Moses I was blown away by the two songs included in the film “Dead…
A Report by D.J. Sylvis, Age 36 Originally published in my now-defunct zine, ‘Monkeyman’.
Why do I collect records? I ask myself this from time to time (usually when I?m feeling as though I?m wasting a whole lot of money) and it?s at times like tonight that I realize exactly why I do. I?ve recently been…
Music… We all love it or else you probably wouldn’t be here. For me I think that it was those weekend afternoons I spent washing the car with my mom listening to Casey Kasem & then Rick Dees count down the top…
I’m a huge fan of Chris Morris; for those who don’t know who Chris Morris is, he’s an awesome British satirist who typically does stuff about the media. His most (in)famous work is probably the 2001 Brass Eye special, “Paedogeddon”, a TV…
A while ago, I dreamt that I was talking to a cute sort of indie-rock type girl on a bus, and she was working on a game show. I didn’t actually get to see any of the game show — it was…