Review: The Bunny Boy
OnSo, we’re stealin’ the idea from the Sparks Project and doing one with probably even more records out there — The Residents! And this time we’re changing it up a little bit — we’ve got two hardcore Residents fans in me and…
Category: Reviews
Reviews of albums, movies, books &c.
Review: Comix, Essays, Graphics and Scraps: From Maus to Now to Maus to Now
OnIt might be a little odd to have an Art Spiegelman book that doesn’t have a whole lot of comix, and mostly essays, but it works. Comix, Essays, Graphics and Scraps: From Maus to Now to Maus to Now is a catalog published…
Review: MC Breath – The Mysterious Stranger
OnMC Breath is from Providence, Rhode Island, and his third album The Mysterious Stranger is a good introduction to his rapping and sampling skills — and not just because it’s available for free download. MC Breath has a great flow, but is…
Review: Anamanaguchi – Endless Fantasy
OnAnamanaguchi and I have a history. They are, officially, the Band I Keep Missing. Twice I went to one of their frequent local (Brooklyn and Manhattan) shows, and got there after they had played. Once I showed up and saw a whole…
Review: Man of Steel
On“What’s wrong with me, Mom?” Superman is an icon of comic books. Superhero comics, and arguably comics in general, are what they are today partly because of him. Had he not come along, comics as we know them would be something altogether…
Review: Making WET
OnI guess I have a soft-spot for weird, short-lived magazines. I’ve talked about how much I love RAW here before, and now I’ve just read Leonard Koren’s book Making WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing about, well, making WET: The Magazine of…
Review: The Idea Factory
OnBell Labs was awesome, and Jon Gertner’s new book The Idea Factory sets out to prove this simple fact. The Bell Laboratories (funded by AT&T when they were a government-sanctioned monopoly) was the place where vacuum tubes were improved and ultimately replaced…
Review: The Voice of Midnight
OnSo, we’re stealin’ the idea from the Sparks Project and doing one with probably even more records out there — The Residents! And this time we’re changing it up a little bit — we’ve got two hardcore Residents fans in me and…
Review: “Q.U.E.E.N” by Janelle Monáe feat. Erykah Badu
OnWe will create and destroy ten art movements in ten years. That’s what’s being typed in the new video for Janelle Monáe‘s brilliant single “Q.U.E.E.N.”, with Erykah Badu. And if anyone’s going to do it, it’s Monáe and her cohorts at Wondaland. …
Review: Any Similarity To Persons Living Or Dead is Purely Coincidental
OnI think I’ve mentioned before that Liquid Television was both hugely influential on me and kinda turned out to be an animated version of RAW. And it was Liquid TV where I first saw the work of RAW and, later MAD contributor,…