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 […]
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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.
Climate Change’s Firestorms and Deep Freezes
Those who would argue that these are isolated events do so at their own peril. The more time passes, the more both examples of extreme weather resemble two sides of the same fearsome coin known as catastrophic climate change.
New York Times Bites My Watchmen Rhyme, CNN Bites Something Else
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen is definitely a visionary comic. But is Watchmen director Zack Snyder a visionary filmmaker, just because he’s adaptating the seminal graphic novel for the […]
The Clone Wars: Most Action-Packed Series on Television
You have what follows below in a nutshell.
You Should Already Know: Mercury Rev
A trip down Mercury Rev’s memory lane proves to be an uneven romp.
R.I.P. Patrick McGoohan, Television Visionary
Be seeing you.
The Prisoner Reboots the Panopticon
I spent last week chatting up actors Jim Caviezel, Ian McKellen and other principals behind the reboot of Patrick McGoohan’s culturally influential sci-fi allegory The Prisoner — and it was […]
Show Obama The Money
[Scott Thill, Morphizm] UPDATE: My fine fellow journos at the Huffington Post have syndicated this post there. Hop on, stir it up, spread the noise. “This disaster is not set […]
Memo For Obama: Save Our Earth
Let’s be real: Barack Obama can’t change the world on his own.
There’s Plenty For Me At Plenty Magazine. Too Bad It’s All About Bad Enviro News.
During a time of occupational upheaval, I seem to have managed to escape the type of disaster that other journos have been subjected to. In fact, I’m working more and […]
Best Of 2008, The Playlist
What a year. My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver returned, Juana Molina and Marnie Stern spacetracked my brain strange, the playlist goes on. Speaking of here it is. Some of the […]
R.I.P. Listening Post (For Now)
Well, the economy did not leave my life unscathed, although I have worked hard to keep it that way. Wired decided to shutter its music blog Listening Post, which I […]
Post Up! Best Xmas Tune Ever? Stephen Colbert and Willie Nelson’s Ode to Weed
Click the video at right, if you want to skip my pontification. But those of you who have kept track of my spiels for Wired on Stephen Colbert’s riotous A […]
Jesus Forgives The Beatles
It’s nice that you finally got around to forgiving John Lennon for boasting that The Beatles were bigger than Jesus, who we admit has a birthday coming up. But you might have wanted to pick a better time than the 40th anniversary of The White Album.
Beware, The Pentagon’s Robot Hunters!
How does the robot pack decide which human is cooperative and which is not? Welcome to the wonderful, dystopian world of defense pork.
Best Music of 2008? You Tell Me
from Femi Kuti to Deerhunter to Juana Molina and onward, there’s a lot of best to best.
Post Up! The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne Works Toward Personal Freakout
I spent the last couple of days swimming in The Flaming Lips, interviewing front man Wayne Coyne and checking out his deranged holiday events, Christmas on Mars and March of 1,000 Skeletons.
The Prisoner, Freed At Last
I am hiding from the world, using Patrick McGoohan as a human shield.
Ask DJ Shadow Returns!
LONG BEFORE DJ Shadow became an electro-hop legend, he was answering questions online from scrubs like me. Where did you get the guitar riff for “High Noon?” Who the hell was Colonel Bagshot? Do you owe David Axelrod back pay? Then he got too busy to bother.
Autolux Gets Lost In Transit
I covered All Tomorrow’s Parties New York remotely from Los Angeles for Wired, because the My Bloody Valentine-powered package show was just that awesome. But for the last four years, […]