Review: Archer, Season 1
OnImage via Wikipedia Last winter, I ended up getting really sick with the flu; I stayed home from work for almost a week and barely even left my bed, let alone my apartment. This was not exactly what you’d call fun, but…
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Review: Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins
OnCover of Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins 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…
Review: The Human League – Credo
OnIn the last few years, the music world has seen comebacks by a number of bands and artists often categorized, not terribly accurately, as “80’s” music. The covers a varied lists of acts like The B-52’s, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Gang…
Review: Xavier: Renegade Angel
OnImage via Wikipedia When Wonder Showzen was cancelled, many people wondered what’d be PFFR’s follow-up to it — and they were probably expecting another sketch-comedy show, perhaps with a similar hook. Instead, they got the intentionally-poorly-CG’d Xavier: Renegade Angel, a 15 minute…
Review: The MAD Morality
OnThe MAD Morality is an odd duck amongst the world of MAD paperbacks. Originally published by the Christian-based Abingdon Press in 1970 and receiving a second paperback edition by Signet in 1972, it’s remembered more as an oddity amongst both MAD and…
Review: Al Jaffee's Mad Life
OnAl Jaffee is one of the most talented cartoonists in the world; not only is he a great artist, but he’s incredibly clever. After all, he’s the guy who not only invented the Fold-In, but has done over 400 of the things….
Review: Below Code
OnTerre Thaemlitz is pretty cool, and he’s got his own label, Comatonse , and has had it for a long time. For the 10th anniversary, he compiled Below Code. The original release was a CD in a DVD case filled with postcards…
Review: God’s Angry Man
OnImage via Wikipedia I’d been wanting to watch God’s Angry Man for a while, now; after all, it’s a documentary on a televangelist [SFW, despite being rotten.com] made by Werner Herzog. So, you know, it’d stand to reason that I’d be all…
Review: Interior Design
OnWho 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 reviewing ALL the Sparks records…
Review: The Spine (and related EPs)
OnCover of The Spine 2004 was an active year for They Might Be Giants; in April, they released the Indestructible Object EP as a teaser for their new full-length album The Spine, which came out 3 months later, along with a companion…