Interview: Manda Rin
OnCover of My Dna Manda Rin was one-third of one of my favorite bands, bis — perhaps most known in the US for doing the theme song to The Powerpuff Girls, though they did have 3 very successful full-length albums (the first…
Book Review: Death From The Skies
OnImage via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] You wouldn’t expect a book with the subtitle “These Are The Ways The World Will End” to be particularly cheery, but it is. Philip Plait is most known for his blog (and book) Bad Astronomy, and he’s…
Manga Review: Disappearance Diary
OnImage via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] When one sees or hears the name Hideo Azuma, one either immediately thinks of lolita manga or simply asks, “who in the hell is that?” He’s known as being the “father of lolicon,” with many of his…
Book Review: Overnight To Many Distant Cities
On[Purchase Book] For a long time, I’d been somewhat interested in checking out Donald Barthelme‘s work. I’d heard him referenced near and by some of my favorite authors — most recently, an issue of McSweeney’s was half-devoted to him. Recently, in a…
Film Review: Funeral Parade Of Roses
OnImage via Wikipedia Funeral Parade of Roses is Toshio Matsumoto‘s first feature-length film, after finding much success in the world of short films and documentaries. This film is a huge influence on Stanley Kubrick‘s adaptation of A Clockwork Orange — a double…
Game Review: Trauma Center: Under The Knife 2
OnImage via Wikipedia [Purchase DS Game] The great thing about the Nintendo DS is that while it’s a hand-held system, it’s got enough power to be a decent standard system, too — along with a lot of great games for the system….
Review: Thigmotactic
OnImage by Chuckumentary via Flickr [Purchase CD] The new Negativland album is quite different than all their other albums — if absolutely forced to pick a comparison, it might be something like Dispepsi jammed through Points. If you’ve heard those albums, you…
Fashion “Design”
OnI’m not a person who is interested in fashion at all. I just don’t get it. This is most likely obvious if you’ve ever seen me. If I had to actually dress in a style that wasn’t just “Band-shirts-and-dockers-or-jeans-that-cover-body”, it’d probably be…