Book Review: The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye
OnImage 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…
Manga review: Osamu Tezuka’s Apollo’s Song
On[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…
Forgotten Records: Suburban Lawns – Self Titled
OnWell, 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…
Comic Review: Dear Julia,
On[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…
Comic Review: Batman: Anarky
OnCover 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…
Interview: Black Daisy
OnTroy Nelson and Cody Hurd are better known as Black Daisy, a Seattle comedy group with a flair for the absurd. (They are also sometimes known as Voltage Periscope, a parody nü-metal band.) They’ve been gaining fame, both locally (having done some…
Review: Ghosts I-IV
OnImage 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;…
Book Review: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
OnImage 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…
Nyanko The Movie 2
OnNyanko The Movie 2 I’ve been thinking about ordering this, but I’m afraid it’d be my own personal Infinite Jest. It’s a movie about cats. The synopsis from the page: Fuji TV’s hit program Mezamashi Doyobi (“Wake Up Saturday”) presents Nyanko the…