March 2011 Archives
Awesome trailer for the upcoming season of Doctor Who
Will Oldham, Gregory Brothers, Derek Webb Reimagine Sufjan’s Seven Swans
A wedge of indie artists come together to cover Sufjan’s classic folk/worship album, with all proceeds going to a cancer charity.
Game Over: A classic video game death montage
Now you can relive all of those moments that came right before you pumped the machine full of another stack of quarters.

Plainspeak by Aaron Roche, Tim Hinck (Review)
A lovely blend of warm, earthy folk and left-field experimental music.

July Skies, Avrocar, El Heath appear on Guidance Records’ Japan benefit compilation
Epic45’s New Album, Weathering

The Tragic Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, Rob Bell, C.S. Lewis, The Last Lovecraft & Dragon Age 2
Trailer for Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s newest, Kiseki
Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s new film centers on two brothers who hope to bring their family back together… and trains.

Last of the Country Gentlemen by Josh T. Pearson (Review)
Pearson’s songs pull no punches as he chronicles all of the ugly, nasty, and shitty things that bring about a relationship’s end.
Birds & Batteries’ awesome remix of Toro y Moi’s “Still Sound”
New trailer for Makoto Shinkai’s Children Who Chase Lost Voices From Deep Below is a lovely work
Elsewhere: Mark Driscoll & video games, anonymous comments, the Holy Ghost, the reality TV apocalypse & more
CaPC Update: “Japan, Pearl Harbor, and the Wrath of God” & Grace Notes
H.P. Lovecraft Film Roundup: The Whisperer in Darkness, Die Farbe, The Last Lovecraft
Guillermo del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness is no more
The director has confirmed that his long-awaited H.P. Lovecraft adaptation is dead.
CaPC Update: “Character Flaws and the ‘Final Frontier’”
The future will never be as cool as Shadowrun
The First Appleseed XIII Trailer Looks Rather Underwhelming
I had hopes for Appleseed XIII, especially after the lackluster second movie, but it looks pretty underwhelming.

CaPC Update: “Character Flaws and the ‘Final Frontier’”
My latest Christ and Pop Culture article looks at the flaws in Star Trek’s vision of a flawless humanity.

Elsewhere, 3/4/2011: Rob Bell & universalism, Jack Kirby, Pinboard, Divorce, Human Trafficking & more
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