All Things To All People
Reviews of albums, movies, books &c.
Cover of Seduction Of inmar Bergman [Vinyl] Who don’t love Sparks? I suppose the folks who don’t know who Sparks are might not love Sparks, but that’s only because of plum ignorance. But REST EASY, reader — we’re here to set you…
What’s better than a great movie? Three great movies. However, three movies usually take longer than one to watch — but as director Neill Blomkamp shows us, this is simply a guideline rather than a rule. With District 9, Blomkamp (with assistance…
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…
Kure Kure Takora (or Gimme Gimme Octopus, as it’s known in English) is a 1970s Japanese kids’ series of something like 260 short films, each about 3 minutes long, give or take. It’s one of the most surreal things I’ve ever seen on…
Cover of Exotic Creatures of the Deep Who don’t love Sparks? I suppose the folks who don’t know who Sparks are might not love Sparks, but that’s only because of plum ignorance. But REST EASY, reader — we’re here to set you…
Image via Wikipedia Jeff Altman‘s one of those folks who tends to just pop up all around but you never seem to notice him. I’m not really what you’d all an Altman fan (his use of soft-focus and his sound design drives…
Image via Wikipedia Lady Gaga continues to be awesome. It’s good to know how some things can more or less stay the same, even though it’s only been a few years. Born This Way is proof of this, and also might just…
Image via Wikipedia Before he gave the world The Dirty Pair, sci-fi author Haruka Takachiho created a space opera series focusing on a team of galactic mercenaries called Crusher Joe. Crushers, the mercenaries in question, would do anything for a client if…
Cover of Hello Young Lovers Who don’t love Sparks? I suppose the folks who don’t know who Sparks are might not love Sparks, but that’s only because of plum ignorance. But REST EASY, reader — we’re here to set you straight by…
Image via Wikipedia The Wild Blue Yonder is about, well, ultimately, Herzog‘s idea that mankind will never find anything interesting in space. Ever. We can’t get far enough, and who knows if there’s anything actually out there anyway.