Aug 30, 2017 Music Resplandor Reissues Now Available From Saint Marie Records Peru’s Resplandor helped open my eyes to the true global nature of shoegaze.
Aug 27, 2017 Best of Opus Miscellany Ingmar Bergman vs. The Spirit of Our Age What happens when we make ourselves the highest goal of our own existence?
Aug 25, 2017 Video Games Sky Rogue Fills the Sky with Nostalgia and Lots of Polygons I’m itching to relive the Top Gun and Iron Eagle fantasies of my inner fourth grader.
Aug 25, 2017 Movies TV September 2017’s Best Streaming Titles, Including Pulp Fiction, Requiem for a Dream, Robocop & The Lost City of Z Coming soon: Quentin Tarantino’s masterpiece, Ben Affleck’s modern noir, Tim Burton’s Dark Knight, Atreyu, TGIF, and many more.
Aug 19, 2017 Music In Rotation: For Wishes, Slow Dancing Society, Billow Observatory, Macross 82-99 (Review) Sparse, intimate folk/slowcore, nocturnal cinematic ambient, airy electronic music, and anime-inspired future funk.
Aug 18, 2017 Reading Weekend Reads: Donald Trump & Evangelicals, Charlottesville, Biblical Literacy, Prince’s Official Purple & more Also: Waiting for your favorite authors, the allure of magic, publishing trends, shoegaze protest, and the dark matter enigma.
Aug 16, 2017 Music Domino Reissues Two Classic Hood Albums on Limited Edition Vinyl 1998’s “Rustic Houses, Forlorn Valleys” and 1999’s “The Cycle of Days and Seasons” can be ordered from Norman Records.
Aug 12, 2017 Reading Weekend Reads: DuckTales, Star Wars Forevermore, Firefox’s Future, Transhumanism & Religion Also: Novelists tussle on Twitter, improving Apple’s Safari browser, Facebook and the Church.
Aug 12, 2017 Best of Opus Web Development It’s Time to Adopt a Block-Oriented View of Website Content Management Think of a webpage as a collection of discrete, self-contained blocks of content — and edit it accordingly.
Aug 8, 2017 Music The Majesty of the Flesh by Lee Bozeman (Review) The simple fact is that any new music from Lee Bozeman is a gift.
Aug 5, 2017 Reading Weekend Reads: iZombie, A Ghost Story, Shoegaze History, Battle Royale’s Legacy, Hayao Miyazaki’s Storytelling & more Also: Your new favorite typeface to hate, revisiting David Lynch’s Dune, gritty modern reboots, whither Google Fiber, and the downside of constant communication.