Great Northern Seeks The Lynchian Light
Los Angeles thrives on space rock, but local heroes Great Northern filter it through David Lynch’s Twin Peaks gothic pop for good measure. I reviewed the band’s latest effort for […]
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Grand Duchy, Black Francis’ Family Affair
So I rapped with the pair for Rolling Stone and reviewed the disc for Metromix. All is well.
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 […]
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.”
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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.
I Apologize, Juana Molina
If Molina continues to impress like this, she’s going to demand her own terminology.
R.I.P. Patrick McGoohan, Television Visionary
Be seeing you.
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 […]