The Opposite of Phil Oakey: Top Five Darkest Synthpop Songs
OnCover of Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey Most people are familiar with the light hearted, pop oriented synthpop songs from the early 1980s; “Don’t You Want Me” by the Human League (NOT the early, darker incarnation of the band) and pretty much…
Film Review: Wise Blood
On[Purchase DVD] A bug-eyed young man in an imposing black hat stands on the hood of a rusty car with tailfins, on a street corner in a run-down city. He’s preaching, loudly, to a crowd of scruffy passersby who look like they’ve…
Gravity's Rainbow, 100-150pp., Matt's Take
OnThis is the part of the novel where I stalled out last time — or, rather, just a bit farther. At this point, I was reading, enjoying the combinations of the words and sentences, but not really comphrending anything. This time, I’m…
Comic Review: The Cowboy Wally Show
OnCover of The Cowboy Wally Show [Purchase Book] Kyle Baker is probably most known for Why I Hate Saturn which… I haven’t read yet. But The Cowboy Wally Show was his debut graphic novel, and my second (or perhaps third) experience with…
Nivea’s New Ass Cream, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ass
OnMy ass. 31 years of torment and tumultuous body hate have come to this – me gazing at my ass ceaselessly in the mirror. It used to be a quite nice ass, when I was around 22 years old – no cellulite,…
Eurovision 2009 Live Blogging!
OnTo break in the new Kittysneezes Twitter Feed, we’re going to LiveBlog Eurovision! It starts at 12 Noon PDT, which is, as I type, in about an hour and a half. Once it’s over, I’ll copy/paste it into here, and we’ll be…
To Wrongly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
On[Purchase DVD] By now, I’m sure, many of you have either seen the new Star Trek film, in theatres, or are at least eagerly contemplating doing so on the enthusastic recommendation of your friends. I saw it two nights ago, but even…
Gravity's Rainbow, 50-100pp., Matt's Take
On[Ben’s been murdered at work, so his posts will be along shortly.] It’s in these pages that the story begins to get a little bit more explanatory; not fully so, given that we’re only a 7th of the way in, or, perhaps…