All Things To All People
Reviews of albums, movies, books &c.
Like the movie it captured on the printed page, Howard The Duck (ISBN 0-425-09275-5) has been doomed to ridicule. Unlike the movie, however, far fewer people remember it or know that it ever existed in the first place. This is a true…
Devo (Photo credit: Pinc Floit) When a band records a TV theme song, it’s very often a throwaway thing. Probably the only band that treats their theme song work with any level of dedication is They Might Be Giants, and even [T]hey…
Cover of Third Reich N Roll So, 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…
Cover of Not Available So, 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…
Cover of Meet the Residents So, 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…
Any long term relationship requires some common interest. The one thing my girlfriend and I really differ on is music. I like almost everything she’s subjected me to, but I can’t say the reverse is true. This is why the announcement of…
The first, and most important thing you need to know about POLYSICS new album, 15th P, is that it features a cover of the classic DEVO B-side, “Mecha-Mania Boy” with vocals by DEVO’s own Mark Mothersbaugh. Based on this alone, it is…
There’s a quote I particularly like from Neil Gaiman about writing children’s literature: “Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn’t something you do for money. It’s something you do because what children read and learn and see and take in…
Lost Season 4 Jeffrey Lieber, Damon Lindelof, J.J. Abrams Any Which Way You Can (1980) Buddy Van Horn There A re a few things happening on the island, and just as crazy things happening off the island with the Oceanic 6 in…
There are the 50 Best Movies I saw for the first time, or practically the first time, in 2011. There are a few I had technically seen before, but either couldn’t remember them at all, or felt that I experienced them in…