All Things To All People
Reviews of albums, movies, books &c.
[Purchase DVD] If you didn’t know this already, Joe Shishido is AWESOME. This is one of his first starring roles (you might remember him as the puffy-cheeked rice-smelling Number 3 hitman in Branded to Kill) and it’s clear that he deserves the…
Cover via Amazon [Purchase VHS] Sometimes Seijun Suzuki‘s fame in the US (albeit cult-levels of fame) can do other Nikkatsu directors a disservice; the story goes that Suzuki was the true artist and the other films weren’t anything special. While Suzuki was…
Cover via Amazon [Download Single] I’m very anal about how I organize my music. It’s a simple system: Albums are organized by artist, and by date of release. If an album is by a artist with a proper name, say, David Byrne,…
Image via Wikipedia Koreyoshi Kurahara was one of the hourse directors for the Japanese studio Nikkatsu — perhaps most known in the US from the Criterion and Home Vision releases of Seijun Suzuki and Shohei Imamura‘s films. Nikkatsu was primarily a genre…
[Purchase Book] Russ Meyer has come around from being thought of as a mere exploitation film maker to a low-budget film-making maverick. Though in each way, both are correct (with the exception of the word “mere”), he was more than that. Russ…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase DVD] In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by three separate, yet equally important groups. The police who investigate crime, the District Attorneys who prosecute the offenders, and the Goddamn Batman. This is their story.
[Purchase Book] I am a Batman fan. I’m not the biggest one on Earth, nor the most knowledgeable, but I’ve always had a soft spot for him. The argument I always use is that he doesn’t actually have superpowers like Superman does…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] David Mitchell‘s books seem to alternate between linked short stories and straight-forward novels. His first and third were Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas, and his second and fourth were Number9Dream (which I haven’t yet read, but have heard…
Image via Wikipedia Here’s another hypothetical mix CD, this one called “Jeff Bridges… I Don’t Need No Jeff Bridges To Put Music To My Poem!” The title’s taken from one of my favorite Tom Goes To The Mayor episodes (though, really, they’re…
[Purchase Book] The original novel Z is a bit hard to find anymore; it’s ostensibly in print, but I’ve never seen it in a bookstore; I found one of the early paperback edtions in a used bookstore after a few months of…