Interview: Paul Rugg
On[This interview was conducted in May of 2010, and was on the site for a while… but somehow disappeared. So I’m posting it again. So check it out, perhaps for the very first time! – Ed.] Paul Rugg‘s a great comedy…
Review: The Wild EP
OnThe Wild is the new EP (and his third release overall) from Lewis Watson. His previous EPs were called It’s Got Four Sad Songs On It BTW and Another Four Sad Songs; despite the naming convention change, The Wild isn’t necessarily a…
Review: The Point (Definitive Collector’s Edition DVD)
OnThe album version of The Point, Harry Nilsson‘s children’s fable, was an integral part of my childhood. I have many fond memories of listening to that record with my dad, thrilling to the story of Oblio, born pointless in a world where…
sanity check: idea for a video game
OnWe got this letter from the Internet Browsing Club: [tell me if this is sane and interesting] game based on the “paperclip maximizer” thought experiment, as featured in My Little Pony: Friendship is Optimal. I have no idea what it looks like….
Review: Blackfish
OnI remember visiting SeaWorld as a kid. I grew up only a few hours north of San Diego, so that’s the park where we would go. SeaWorld was never quite as much fun as a trip to DisneyLand or Knotts Berry Farm or Magic…
Review: The River of Crime!
OnSo, we’re stealin’ the idea from the Sparks Project and doing one with probably even more records out there — The Residents! And this time we’re changing it up a little bit — we’ve got two hardcore Residents fans in me and…
Interview: Joshua Fried/RADIO WONDERLAND
OnJoshua Fried is a composer known for doing innovative work that’s still very danceable. He’s also done remixes including songs by They Might Be Giants and Chaka Khan. In the 1980s, he was signed to Atlantic, which resulted in the 12” single…
Review: Nanobots
OnI am willing to make this declaration about Nanobots, They Might Be Giants’ newly-released 16th album: It is the one of the absolute best things they have done in the last 18 years. As someone who builds my life around this band,…
The Fluffy Virus
OnEvery so often you realize that you’re more or less living in the future, and that the future is pretty neat. In fact, most times it’s pretty great, except for two things: a) In the future, everything is – for whatever reason…
The Residents Project Supplemental Edition: Bad Day on the Midway: The Book
OnIn case you don’t remember, we didn’t really care much for Have A Bad Day, the soundtrack CD to the Residents‘ CD-ROM game Bad Day on the Midway. And it didn’t help that of the three of us, none had actually played the game…