All Things To All People
Reviews of albums, movies, books &c.
Image via Wikipedia John Gorka is totally awesome. John Gorka is a folk singer dude from New Jersey who has been folk singing since like the late 70s/early 80s and has been having albums put out since like the late 80s/early 90s….
Image via Wikipedia In 2005, Studio Bones brought to the Japanese airwaves a rather unique science-fiction animated television series entitled Eureka Seven. The series ran from April 2005 to April 2006 and followed the lives of Renton Thurston and a young girl…
[Purchase Book] It seems that a good compilation is quite possibly harder to put together than a single creator book. With a single creator book, there’s only one set of tastes to worry about — whether or not the reader’s will match…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase T-Shirt] Charles Nelson Reilly is pretty amazing. If you don’t agree — I would argue that you don’t know who he is. He’s perhaps most known for being hilarious on Match Game or perhaps as Hoodoo in Lidsville,…
Cover of Grave Robber’s Daughter [Purchase Book] I’ve loved Richard Sala‘s stuff for a really long time — even before I knew I did, when I was watching his Liquid TV shorts, “Invisible Hands”. He’s got a great visual style that’s hard…
[Purchase Book] This is the first volume of Craig Yoe‘s Arf series I’ve read (and the first in the series) — but I can tell I’m going to look for the others, Arf Museum, Arf Forum, and Comic Arf. The subtitle of…
Cover of Inherent Vice [Purchase Book] When I was first deciding that I was going to check out Thomas Pynchon, a lot of folks pointed me to his shortest novel, The Crying of Lot 49. I need to re-read it, but at…
Cover of Sirens of Titan The Sirens of Titan is Kurt Vonnegut‘s first foray into young-adult fiction — perhaps a genre he should have spent more time with, considering the success of this book. His skill at characterization is in full-force, particularly…
1st edition (publ. Giulio Einaudi) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) [Purchase Book] Italo Calvino‘s novel, The Baron in the Trees is what it says on the tin. The title’s not metaphorical; it’s actually about a Baron who lives in the trees. The book reads…
Cover of Alec: After The Snooter [Purchase Book] I like autobiographical comics — particularly ones that seem to fit the diary feel. Sure, there’s a lot of awful ones, but that’s true of anything. When it’s done right, though, they’re typically deeply…