Comic Review: Jeremy
On[Purchase Book via Lulu] Full disclosure here, folks — I’ve known Calamity Jon online for a few years now, and before I knew him, I did a piece on Gone & Forgotten, his Classic Comic Makin’ Fun Of Site, for my college…
Category: Reviews
Reviews of albums, movies, books &c.
Film Review: Battle Royale
On[Purchase DVD] Sometimes when I can’t sleep, my brain wanders to thinking about lots of things. Sometimes it thinks about the horrible, horrible, horrible movie Battle Royale, and all the billions of things wrong with it. I figure that if I actually…
Review: Duck Stab
OnImage via Wikipedia [Purchase CD] In 1972, an anonymous group of musicians from Shreveport, Louisiana released their first single, “Santa Dog” — but not in the normal fashion one normally goes about releasing a debut single. This band pressed up 300 copies…
Book Review: I Am A Strange Loop
On[ Purchase Book ] Douglas Hofstadter was one of my favorite authors in high school. After Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, I devoured all his other books I could find. His last, Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of…
Review: The Official Secrets Act
On[Purchase CD] For a while, it seemed that whenever I’d go to a used record store, they’d always have a copy of Official Secrets Act by M. Strangely enough, none of his other records. I think I ended up giving up looking…
Review: REVENGE!
On[Purchase CD] It might be bad form to open a record review by praising the album art rather than the music inside, but, well, most records don’t have album art as good as REVENGE! If I were to give an award for…
Film Review: Zoo
On(Purchase DVD) Zoo is a documentary on an infamous incident in Enumclaw, WA where a Boeing engineer died from a perforated sigmoid colon after having intercourse with a horse. With that out of the way, feel free to make all the jokes…