All Things To All People
Reviews of albums, movies, books &c.
Cover of Batman: Anarky [Purchase Book] Anarky is a DC Comics collection of some of the stories featuring that character that ran in some of the Batman titles. The stories are all written by Alan Grant, the creator of the character; sometimes…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase CD/MP3s/FLACs] While I’ve been a big fan of Nine Inch Nails, I’d often noticed that I preferred the instrumentals like “A Warm Place” or “La Mer” to some of the vocal work. Not because of Trent Reznor‘s voice;…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] Oliver Sacks‘ newest book is, like many of his best, more a collection of vignettes and essays than a single cohesive narrative. Given the breadth of the subject matter — how the brain reacts to music in…
Cover via Amazon [Purchase DVD] There’re a lot of complaints typically thrown at musicals. Some people say that the songs are overblown and hokey. Others say that the songs don’t emerge organically out of the action; no one, in real life, just…
Cover of Persepolis [Purchase DVD] [Purchase Comic Book] I admit, going in, I was a little apprehensive about whether or not I would enjoy the film of Persepolis; I hadn’t yet read Marjane Satrapi‘s comic and I often don’t find these types…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase DVD] I’ve long been drawn to the idea of Z; I first heard of it when I was young and my family would always have the Leonard Maltin Movie & Video guides. I would spend hours flipping through…
[Purchase DVD] It’s probably pretty obvious, at least to those who know me, that I’m a pretty huge Negativland fan. I’ve got loads of their posters in my room at home, pretty much everything they ever put out (a notable exception is…
Cover of Ghostwritten [Purchase Book] After reading David Mitchell‘s Cloud Atlas, I knew that I had to read his other books. So, I went back to the beginning. (Honestly, I don’t think I planned it that way, it was just the next…
Cover via Amazon [Purchase DVD] Seijun Suzuki is a master director. You’ve probably seen Branded to Kill in the rotator to the side — and trust me, that’s earned. It’s an outstanding film, and my favorite of all of his (at least…
[Purchase Book] I suppose that if you don’t like the Pixies, you won’t really care about this book. And that’s fine. If you don’t think they were one of the greatest bands of the 1980s, you’ll probably get really sick of people…