All Things To All People
Since the return of Alita, the titular Battle Angel, and her eclectic group of friends, we’ve been treated to a series with a few interesting ideas and a large number of lumbering, slow-moving expanses of non-story overstuffed with oddball characters and fighting…
I like albums that sneak up on a listener. Sirens, the fourth record by Christopher Bell is like that. Bell uses his looped vocals to create textures along with his cello. The result is a record that sounds like some sort of…
I just found out today that Bob Casale, or Bob 2 of DEVO passed away last night from heart failure. I’m absolutely heartbroken, and I’m listening to my DEVO records all day today. Bob 2 is the only member of DEVO I…
I always have enjoyed Nathan Rabin’s writing — first at the AV Club and now at The Dissolve. His memoir The Big Rewind was outstanding, as was his book on Weird Al. (And, of course, his My Year Of Flops project for…
Sometimes, I find it odd that there were not more comprehensive collections of music videos by bands released during the Golden Age of DVD. Plenty were released, though they were largely cash-in budget titles, with little regard to quality, curation, or historical…
Edward Ka-Spel‘s brilliance with The Legendary Pink Dots is to introduce us to isolated characters and then immerse us in their world-view through expansive and mysterious soundscapes. He begins with the most restricted, infinitesimal point of consciousness and then slowly expands it…
Listeners of Crush On Radio know full well my love (as well as Andrew’s) of Primus and the work of Les Claypool. So it should have been a given that I’d be picking up the new album Four Foot Shack from Les’…
This almost feels like a companion volume to The Idea Factory — the other side of the phone company. Phil Lapsley’s book, Exploding the Phone, is an absolutely fascinating book on the history of phone phreaking, or exploring the phone network (and…
“Hey, I’d like to write for Kittysneezes!” Is this you? If so, then that is AWESOME! A+ on your hastily arrived-at desire! Contact me via the Contact Page, and I’ll give you more details and get you set up with an account! …
Hey, everybody! Your Internet TV Pal Ted is back, and this time, he’s talkin’ eggs! Apparently there are opinions to be had about eggs! Who knew?!