All Things To All People
Reviews of albums, movies, books &c.
[Purchase CD] Have these guys really been doing this for ten damn years now? POLYSICS have, really, been been making DEVO inspired rock and roll for a good solid decade. They’ve been around longer than The Beatles, but have had less drummers…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase Comic] Michael Chabon‘s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay was an outstanding novel that took a fictionalized account loosely based of the lives of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of Superman. The titular characters of…
Cover of The Mirror of Love [Purchase Book] Alan Moore is a genius. This isn’t something that should be considered news to anyone. It’s practically a given, a truism. He may have had a misfire or two (unfortunately, A Disease of Language…
[Purchase CD] What do you do when you become an overnight, one-hit wonder with a bizarre song that is, allegedly, about masturbation? If you’re The Vapors, you go back into the studio and record a concept album about heartbreak, cult leaders, and…
[Purchase Book] Short answer: Yes. Icelandic cartoonist Hugleikur Dagsson (and no, I have no idea how to pronounce that; you’ll have to ask Björk) does little one-panel cartoons in a very simplistic style. The cartoon on the cover of the book (for…
[Purchase Book] Full Disclosure Time: This book was written by Ivan Henley, whose name you may recognize as a Kittysneezes contributor. (In fact, I’d hope you WOULD recognize it, as he wrote the piece before last.) However, I had nothing to do…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] I’d never read anything by Jonathan Lethem before — in fact, I didn’t even realize he was considered a sci-fi author until recently. Like a lot of people, the first I became aware of him was with…
[Purchase Book] Osamu Tezuka truly is the god of manga. The attention to detail is simply staggering, and he produced his hundreds of the thousands of pages of manga over the decades the long, hard way. Sometimes, when reading his work, one…
Well, it’s certainly been a while. If it’s any consolation, the downtime has allowed me to dig in the stacks and find a real rare gem. You won’t find this little bugger on CD on Amazon.com any time soon. No, friends, this…
[Purchase Book] The first two chapters of Brian Biggs’ Dear Julia would work very well as a spoken-word recording. The tone put me in the same mind as Coldcut‘s “Mr Nichols” from Sound Mirrors — not least because of the opening setting…