When I watched The Animatrix, it was because my dad rented it; of course, this statement shouldn’t be taken as meaning that I didn’t want to see it – after all, I was planning on seeing it at SIFF, but it was…
Image via Wikipedia Before I get started, this review contains a lot of spoilers for He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not. Do not continue past the cut if you care about such things. I originally had these all in ROT13, but that does…
Cover of Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America In case you don’t realize, today is Buy Nothing Day. If you don’t know what Buy Nothing Day is, well, it’s pretty self-explanatory; it’s a day in which you buy nothing. Why is it today?…
Image via Wikipedia I work graveyard shift, and so when I get home, there’s nothing on, since it’s 6.30 AM. So I tend to turn on PBS, when it’s doing all of the children’s shows. And I’ve come to the conclusion that…
George Jones via last.fm One of the most important questions of all time are of the form “Who could win in a fight?”. Wars are even often fought on the basis of it. So, in that tradtion, I want to know who…
Cover of Bear v. Shark I read a lot. I enjoy reading, and I tend to find myself in situations where reading is about the best way to spend time. Since I read a lot, it should follow that I must also…
As far as I am concerned, one of the worst bands that became inexplicably popular is The Judds. I’ve never been able to tolerate their music — the performances are terrible, the session musicians always sound like they want to die, and…
Cover of Magnolia [Blu-ray] [Purchase DVD] NOTE: This contains Spoilers for Magnolia! Do not continue further if you haven’t seen it and plan to! I personally list Magnolia as one of the all time biggest pieces of deplorable cinema it’s been my…
A while ago, the Grand Illusion in Seattle screened The Frau Plastic Chicken Show aka Nexxt. The basic setup: It’s an episode of a TV News Magazine Show looking at the Serial Killer phenomenon, featuring the person A Clockwork Orange was based…
[Purchase DVD] Sometimes when I can’t sleep, my brain wanders to thinking about lots of things. Sometimes it thinks about the horrible, horrible, horrible movie Battle Royale, and all the billions of things wrong with it. I figure that if I actually…