Music Video Treatments: Chores
OnA band goes around helping out people by doing their chores with the Power Of Rock. For example, the band comes upon a guy trying to get a bucket of bricks or something to the second floor of his house, through a…
Forgotten Records: The Vapors – Magnets
On[Purchase CD] What do you do when you become an overnight, one-hit wonder with a bizarre song that is, allegedly, about masturbation? If you’re The Vapors, you go back into the studio and record a concept album about heartbreak, cult leaders, and…
Comic Review: Should You Be Laughing At This?
On[Purchase Book] Short answer: Yes. Icelandic cartoonist Hugleikur Dagsson (and no, I have no idea how to pronounce that; you’ll have to ask Björk) does little one-panel cartoons in a very simplistic style. The cartoon on the cover of the book (for…
Book Review: Captain Exetre: Escape From Achrinom
On[Purchase Book] Full Disclosure Time: This book was written by Ivan Henley, whose name you may recognize as a Kittysneezes contributor. (In fact, I’d hope you WOULD recognize it, as he wrote the piece before last.) However, I had nothing to do…
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…