Battling Extinction With The Linguists
Finally got to dip back into academia and matters of substance for Wired. This time, I talked language extinction and the digital age with a linguist from the movies. It’s […]
Articles by Morphizm
Sea Levels Are Rising: Time to Decide Which Coastal Cities Are Worth Saving
Coastal cities, most of the Earth’s most densely populated cities, are due for a drowning.
Mr. Lif Walks the Talk
“Whether you’re a suit with a desk job or a creative artist, you are still programmed to work. You can never ultimately escape from your responsibilities.”
The Thermals Transmit Warm, Poppy Punk
What can I say? I am a sucker for Portland, and its myriad bands. The Thermals are one of its best, sure-shot pushers of power-pop, or pop-punk, or whatever they […]
Pontiak’s Stoner Rock Is Sweet And Loud
Pontiak, Maker [Scott Thill, Metromix] Pontiak fit in just fine with past purveyors of atmospheric riffage like Kyuss, Earth and the like. The 13-minute-plus title track on “Maker” is a […]
Pop Lifer Robyn Hitchcock Dreams of Oslo, Synesthesia, Snow
Robyn Hitchcock is a gentleman, an artist and one hell of a prolific songwriter. From his work in the ’70s with The Soft Boys to his escape-minded recent effort Goodnight […]
Aceyalone Rejuvenates Lonely Hip-Hop
Aceyalone is one of hip-hop’s unsung virtuosos. No longer. On the freestyle vet’s latest effort The Lonely Ones, every soul genre is freaked and every song is stunning. It’s still […]
Indigo Girls Get Bitter, Beautiful
Catching up with my Metromix reviews. This one was a mellow pleasure.
How Long Will China Buy Our Debt Economy?
It started with a joke, but quickly went viral everywhere from the South China Sea to the White House.
Happy Birthday, The Matrix!
The movie took cyberfiction staples like those found in William Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy and mashed them together with anime, wire-fu, postmodernism, metaphysics, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulations, and a torrent of other texts and contexts.
David Lynch Launches Transcendental Television Site
“The anger that I had when I first started meditating in 1974 lifted in two weeks. It kinda just went away.”
Grant Morrison Gets Deep On Superman, Batman, Cosmology, Crisis
From mind-warping revisions of comic book heroes in All-Star Superman, Batman R.I.P. and Final Crisis, to pop-cultural and philosophical exegeses like The Invisibles, The Filth and We3, brainiac graphic novelist Grant Morrison is a master of the Gordian-knot narrative.
Wolverine Celebrates 35th Anniversary With Art, Animation, Controversy
Whether he’s mashed through the art filters of Dali, Warhol or that dude who painted the dogs playing poker or kicking much ass on the new animated series Wolverine and […]
Watchmen Box Office Still Looks Solid
But the dystopian comic blockbuster isn’t dead yet. Far from it.
Can We Weaponize Earthquakes? We’ll Find Out.
I have been known to mash my science and scfi-fi before, usually because it is usually sci-fi that leads to sci in the first place. But give me a chance […]
Metromixed! Looking For Horror? Two Words: Chris Cornell.
Happy Friday the 13th! Now are you ready to be scared out of your underwear? Chris Cornell just made a crunk album. I am not kidding. That horror awaits you […]
Cult Status, Comic Sales Could Boost Watchmen Box Office
But there is one wild card working in the Watchmen film’s favor, and it is a glaring one: The comic.
Watchmen’s Clockwork Origins Span Comics, Lit, Film, Physics
From Mars’ Galle crater to comics, literature, music, politics and even quantum physics, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons borrowed from a stunning wealth of sources.
Watchmen Tunes Merge Comic, Cash
The slightly good news is that some of the music that made it into the film, but not the comic, didn’t make it to the soundtrack. The bad news? Some lousy songs made both the film and the soundtrack, but never made the comic at all.
Watchmen Film Straddles Fine Line Between Loyalty, Heresy, Hope
If only it were that simple.
Wonder Woman Plays The Sex Card
Wonder Woman is an ancient goddess with a sexualized back story.
Metromixed! Black Lips, The Whip, The Prodigy Make Noise
Man, I’ve been on a reviewing tear lately, especially for my pals at Metromix, who publish my love online and in the papers. From the retro garage thrash of Black […]
Tearing Down The Century of the Self With And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
So for the band’s latest effort, named after Adam Curtis’ The Century of Self, I went on the blitz for Wired, Metromix and Filter.
A-Rod and Phelps: A Tale Of Two Drugs
[Amy Bass, Morphizm] Let’s just get this first part out of the way: I hate Alex Rodriguez. Always have. It’s partially a Red Sox fan thing, and partially a, well, […]
Vetiver’s Dream Folk Grows On You
Call if freak folk, call it nu-folk or just call it whatever the folk you want. But mellowed, measured folk is back with a vengeance. Andy Cabic’s Vetiver is one […]