All Things To All People
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…
Nyanko 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…
I know this is really old, as apparently it was so popular that they made a version for the Xbox 360 and are working on DS and PSP versions, but this flash game is actually really pretty…
One of the folks at work turned me on to this great video of Trent Reznor, Jeordie White, Peter Murphy and Atticus Ross doing a cover of The Normal’s “Warm Leatherette” live in studio. Check it out.
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…
The video opens with one of those cheap plastic placards reading: “[BAND NAME] DISTRIBUTOR’S MEETING” (perhaps letters would be missing; maybe band name misspelled, depending on the name)
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…
Image by Mot via Flickr As promised in the Our Favorite Things review, there would be more about the CD that comes with the DVD by the 180 Gs. It’s an absolutely jaw-dropping collection of Negativland songs covered by a 5-or-6 piece…
Here’s the thing. I don’t really like pancakes that much. I am not into the whole spongy, doughy, eggy sweet thing for breakfast. I mean, pancakes are alright I suppose… but I have never ordered them in a restaurant. Also, pancake mixes…