What’s Thin-Film Solar? The Future Today
Last century, solar power struggled to enlighten the renewable resource community. This year, it’s downsizing to thin films you can put on your car and your body, shining the way […]
Articles by Morphizm
They Might Be Giants Blinds With Science
The two Johns of They Might Be Giants have been captivating my mind and spine for over 25 years now. Lately, they’ve been hooking kid brains with several smart but […]
Resurgent Autolux Shreds Sonic Envelope
My new favorite band is back at last. Which is stellar, considering its criminally underrated debut Future Perfect dropped in 2004 and tied Sleater-Kinney’s deafening The Woods for album of […]
Mortgage Underwater? Just Walk Away
No one likes a bad investment, especially when everyone has been making them. The housing meltdown was built on a house of cards called securitization, and it ruined the global […]
The Next Drowning of New Orleans
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] Ivor van Heerden is the professor at Louisiana State University’s Hurricane Center who warned the levees of New Orleans were ready to blow — months and years […]
Kim Deal Embraces The Breeders’ Fate
I caught up with the Deals to talk about Bob Marley, Jessica Simpson, the digital-analog divide, and the end of the music industry as we know it.
Expert Who Predicted Levee Break Fired
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] There’s another floater. Four years on, there’s another victim face down in the waters of Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Ivor van Heerden. I don’t get to use the […]
McCartney to Israel: Give Peace a Chance
“I’m bringing a message of peace, and I Think that’s what the region needs.”
Mew Makes Music For Mindfuckers
Sometimes you hit the home run, and sometimes you don’t. Denmark’s Mew hit it out of the park on its last album, a concept head-trip called And the Glass Handed […]
Happy 40th Birthday To Me? Super, Girl!
My bio shot is a picture of me when I was closer to thirty. I’m still looking for a replacement. After turning 40 on Saturday, I think it might be […]
Metric’s Emily Haines Ponders Earth’s Erotic Apocalypse
One of my favorite bands in the world is Canada’s Metric, which is led by the irrepressible Emily Haines. She’s smart and sexy with a gift for poetry and philosophy. […]
Girl In A Coma: It’s Serious
Man, I’ve got many interviews in the bag that I’ve yet to float on Morphizm. This was a cool one, with a Texas trio of growing power, who happen to […]
Love and Rockets Get Love and Rock
Love and Rockets are one of the underrated bands of the ’80s and ’90s, often overshadowed, unfairly or not, by their gothic forebears Bauhaus. But the space-rocking trio still had […]
Cops Have Lost Their Minds With Tasers
Dude, I’m so happy to be done with my major piece on tasers, and the shock-happy cops that use them, for AlterNet. Talk about your endless bad news. Every day […]
Miyazaki’s Sweet, Surreal Ponyo
A fitting distillation of the filmmaker’s ecological awareness.
Rest in Peace, Les Paul (1915-2009)
A rock and tech legend passed away today. I charted his influence in short form on Wired, mostly because words can’t express one man or woman’s influence, especially one like […]
Land and Water Grabs In The Age of Climate Change
The economic valuation of land and water has increased in concurrence with both price commodities and the ravages of climate change, whose droughts, wildfires and other extreme environmental events are quickly shrinking what’s left of the planet’s arable land and clean water
Metromixed! Portugal The Man, Modest Mouse, The Dandy Warhols
Dude, I’m writing so much that my eyes are falling out. Well, my ears too, considering how much I’ve been writing about music lately. In fact, I’ve reviewed several releases […]
A Decade Later, The Iron Giant’s Weaponized Soul Still Stirs
The Iron Giant is beyond naivete or political correctness. It’s a hilarious, tear-jerking and sci-fantastic analysis.
Happy Anniversary, The Iron Giant!
A decade ago today, one of my favorite directors Brad Bird made an animated sci-fi film for children of all ages which utterly annihilated cliche and convention. To date, it […]
Dinosaur Jr. Rules the Rock Farm
Dinosaur Jr. plugged the ’80s back into distortion and riffage, and changed music for better in the process. Then, it fell apart. But now, it’s back together again, and the […]
After Watchmen, What’s Unfilmable?
This list of five books and comics that may now inherit Watchmen‘s mantle as what Alan Moore called the most “unfilmable” texts around was a popular read.
Questions Swirl Around Medical Mess
[Viggo Mortensen, Perceval Press] In the U.S.A., at this time when at least an incremental step is being considered by Congress toward legally guaranteeing that all citizens have some form […]
A Note From Pixies’ Black Francis
I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
David Beckham: Hollow Man?
[Amy Bass, Morphizm So here’s what I said to Alexi Lalas after reading Grant Wahl’s book, The Beckham Experiment: How the World’s Most Famous Athlete Tried to Conquer America. When […]