All Things To All People
Reviews of albums, movies, books &c.
Cover of Sex and Death 101 [Blu-ray] Movies and TV Shows I watched between the end of April and end of July 2009: Sex and Death 101 (DVD via Netflix) – I rented this mainly because Simon Baker is fucking adorable. This…
[Purchase Comic] I last reviewed issue #4, and now here’s #5, a mere 10 months later! Of course, Michael Kupperman‘s been busy, with the collected volume of issues 1-4 in full color AND the [adult swim] pilot of Snake ‘N’ Bacon. And,…
[Purchase Book] Even though, like most people, I loved Maus, I think it was Breakdowns that really cemented me as a fan of Spiegelman’s work. So I was pretty excited when it turned out that McSweeney’s was publishing a three-volume set of…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] Despite being an atheist, I find Christian culture interesting. I’m perhaps not terribly well-versed in the Bible, though I’m not exactly a Jack Chick unsaved character who has never heard of this Jesus Christ guy. While I…
Given that the 40th anniversary of Apollo 13 was a week ago, I recently re-watched the 1995 movie Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks as the happy-go-lucky, all American, apple-pie mission commander Jim Lovell, Bill Paxton as the brash LEM pilot who won’t…
[Purchase Book] It seems to me that MTV did exactly two things right: Music videos and animation. Sadly, they don’t seem to do either anymore. Hell, Cartoon Network’s even stepping away from showing all animation. (I heard that the new head of…
It’s not very often you find a coffee table book of nothing but staged photos of corpses. Or, rarer still, one corpse in many different settings. In fact, I’m not sure how many coffee tables Who Killed Amanda Palmer will be on…
Cover of 25 O’Clock [Purchase 25 O’Clock] [Purchase Psonic Psunspot] I have to say, of bands that don’t actually exist, the Dukes of Stratosphear are probably my favorite. Particularly since they found a way of actually releasing a couple of records in…
Cover of Brüno [Blu-ray] [Purchase DVD] Before I start the real review for this movie, I want to mention the one thing I did not like about it, just to get it out of the way before it feels like an interruption…
Cover of Taking of Pelham One Two Three [Purchase DVD] If there’s a good thing about remakes in general, even ones that aren’t very good, it’s that they can rekindle interest in the original. I’ve basically heard nothing but bad things about…