All Things To All People
Reviews of albums, movies, books &c.
It’s a story older than Rock ‘n’ Roll itself. A band makes their bones around a charismatic frontman. Maybe he writes the songs. Maybe he just sings them. In either case, he’s the face of the group, the one the people come…
It may be no coincidence that Yes’s prodigal guitarist Steve Howe bears an uncanny resemblance to The Crypt Keeper. After all, Yes is one of those bands that refuses to die. Every time it stops, someone manages to reanimate the corpse. Over…
I want to like this album more. This album makes me want to like it more. Join Us is an excitable album. It jumps up, bounces around the room, and says, “Hey! Look what I can do! I’m everything you could possibly…
Cover of English Garden Is it really a trivia question when everyone and their grandmother knows the answer? If the question is “What was the first video played on MTV?” I would have to say the answer is no.[1] Babies fresh from the…
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 Rev. Syung Myung Me: And thus, the Sparks Project draws to a close. Or at least a nap that’ll probably be a year or two long, depending on when there’s a new Sparks album. Admittedly, if I had my…
I never thought it’d turn out that I’d be for enforced, mandatory child labor. But then I read Axe Cop, the comic written by a 6-year-old, and drawn by his 30-year-old brother, and honestly, it’s convinced me that we need to get…
Song-poems are super interesting. They might not always be good (though there are some definite diamonds in the rough there), but it’s such an interesting concept, even if it IS mostly just a way to separate suckers from their money. I’ve wondered…
Image via Wikipedia As a radio guy, it’s kind of strange that I’m not into podcasts. I don’t know why, I’m just not. But there is one that I do listen to every episode: The They Might Be Giants Podcast. In fact,…
Question: how do you follow up on two action-packed novellas in which clairvoyant women solve strange cases and leave considerable destruction in their wake? If you answered “why, you write a full-length novel for those two women and turn the dial on…