Your Friend, Bigfoot
OnA Report by D.J. Sylvis, Age 36 Originally published in my now-defunct zine, ‘Monkeyman’.
Film Review: The Bourne Ultimatum
OnCover via Amazon [Purchase DVD] The latest Bourne sequel, The Bourne Ultimatum, has a very final-sounding title. First off, no worries – they set it up for another sequel. They’re not sending this cash cow out to pasture! I’m not sure what…
Film Reviews: Six scenes I like from movies I've seen
OnCover of Stalker: A Film by Andrei Tarkovsky NB: CHOCK FULL OF SPOILERS When people ask me what I thought of a certain movie, I am often forced to describe it in the most general terms: “It was kind of OK”, “I’d…
Book Review: Ocean Of Sound
On[Purchase Book] Will Johnsen loaned me this book after an interesting conversation we were having about music, copyright, and collage, amongst other things. One of us had mentioned David Toop — I can’t recall which — and it turned out that we…
Film Review: Harvey
OnCover of Harvey [Purchase DVD] Harvey is one of those films like My Neighbor Totoro that is so completely good-natured it’s impossible to hate. In fact, I would find it hard to see someone who didn’t find it utterly charming. It’s a…
Why I Collect?
OnWhy do I collect records? I ask myself this from time to time (usually when I?m feeling as though I?m wasting a whole lot of money) and it?s at times like tonight that I realize exactly why I do. I?ve recently been…
Lost America
OnThese photos look like my dreams. I think the “roadside” pics are my favorite, closely followed by “urban exploration.” Related articles by Zemanta A Grisly Discovery (ask.metafilter.com) The subterranean sprawl of New York City’s Freedom Tunnel [Mad Urbanism] (io9.com) Happy Fourth of…
Review: Sleepwalk
OnI wrote all sorts of gibberish yesterday about this record and today I take a breath and start again. Scribes. The name implies what we (Him and I) do. Hell, it is what many people do. We write. Everybody writes. Some just…
DVD Review: Sound Mirrors: Videos & Remixes
On[Purchase CD/DVD] Last year’s Sound Mirrors was an outstanding album. Coldcut have long been among the best producers/DJs/whathaveyou, and while Sound Mirrors was quite a different turn — I often described it as a record by a band with the same guys…