Review: Gyo
OnI was first drawn to Junji Ito’s work by finding a copy of “The Enigma of Amigara Fault” online. At first, I thought it was a scanslation of a story not available in English otherwise… but as it turned out, it was…
You Are About To Enter A World
OnI love movie trailers. No, seriously, I love them. I love to see how a feature length film is summarized and marketed. I have favorite trailers. I have favorite trailers that are for movies that I don’t even particularly like. I haven’t…
The Bowler Roast Beef
OnI’m not a sports guy. Not by any means. I don’t know much of anything about just about any sport. I don’t go to games. I don’t even watch them on TV. Not even the big important games. If I were in…
Review: The Suicide Cult
OnIn the later 1970s, dozens upon dozens of ‘true-crime’ books flooded the shelves, riding a new wave of popularity and searching for their own fifteen minutes of fame. Kilduff and Javers, reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle, compiled their stories exposing charismatic…
Review: David Bowie: Rare and Unseen
OnDavid Bowie’s one of the most interesting artists, and has been for about 40 years. This is not news. In fact, it’s too bad that he hasn’t done a new record since 2003’s Reality (his follow-up to the brilliant 2001 Heathen) —…
Ambien Review #9: Exit Through the Gift Shop
OnExit Through the Gift Shop (2010) – 35mm Banksy 8.5 Brian Eno is helpo=inh ,r=mr gsther my thoightd, zHere;s the problem, whrn I try to delete letters I hit the = instesd. So now, when you see an =, you know whs=at…
Review: Angst In My Pants
OnCover of Angst in My Pants (Reis) Who don’t love Sparks? I suppose the folks who don’t know who Sparks are might not love Sparks, but that’s only because of plum ignorance. But REST EASY, reader — we’re here to set you…
Review: Trek Stars Go West
OnIt’s not difficult to find the reasoning behind a compilation like Trek Stars Go West – it’s a well-known fact that when Gene Roddenberry first came up with the concept behind the original Trek series, he described it as a western set…
Being Fine With Being Fat
OnImage via Wikipedia or, A Return To Being One Of The Horde Of Headless Overweight People On Bad TV News Reports About The Obesity Epidemic I’ve been fat for most of my life. When I was in my early twenties, I decided…