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Author Archive
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How To Save The Oscars
It’s not that someone thought a bunch of speeches, bad jokes and a dead people montage would make compelling television; it’s just they hoped no one would notice how boring the whole thing was if they showed 20 shots of Bjork in a swan costume.
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Custard – A History Vol. 1
The jaundiced confection, in fact, never joked and could pack away even the more questionable of folk meats with ease, and by all accounts filled the halls with sighs of content.
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A&SB Interviews Built by Snow's JP
“I started writing songs and wanted some pictures for my Myspace page that proved there was a real band behind these songs … so I got my friends together and took some pictures of them. Then I realized that they actually played instruments, so we decided to make it official and do it for real.”
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Love Is All You Need
So you’d think when the Swindie band Love is All caught my eye, I’d atone by devoting this blog post to their uniquely Scandinavian roots. I can tell you they are from Gothenburg, and I have looked at a dot with that eponymous title on an array of Google Image Search maps. Also, we have Gothenburg metal to thank for Metalocalypse, so it must be alright.
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Everyone Wins. Except For James Taylor
Taylor greeted my visit to his website with a Telethon-style video, imploring me to sign up for an e-mail newsletter and punctuating his every word with a hand gesture (for unknown reasons, but maybe it’s like how old people feel the need to shout into telephone receivers when they’re calling long distance).
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Mother 3: Theatre of The Absurd, With A Moral
We are much less lenient of papier mache coconut trees in the films we watch, perhaps because a photograph can be mistaken for life. Or perhaps because our collective conscience demands, in return for the horrific expense incurred in making a movie, at the least, consistent coffee cup levels. In Mother 3, you can ride a coffee table.
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I'm Hallucinating A White Christmas
I would summarize the plot for you, but all you need to know is: It’s the resulting explosion that would occur if David Lynch and Frank Capra had teamed up to make the musical adaptation of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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It May Not Be Literature, But It’s Edited Better: Mother 3
If you want to experience the sequel to the beloved SNES game Earthbound, you’ll have to work a little.