May 31, 2017 Best of Opus Personal Sometimes You Really Can’t Go Home Again The demolition of my childhood home and the impermanence of memory.
May 27, 2017 Reading Reading: The Cure’s Best Songs, Seeing Star Wars in ‘77, Facebook’s Latest Debacle, Trump’s Declining Speech & More Also: Marvel’s comic woes, revisiting ‘Code 46,’ an atheist biopic, pretentious movies, the Republicans’ pro-life fail, and living the Lego dream.
May 22, 2017 Anime Netflix’s Blame! Adequately Captures the Spirit of Tsutomu Nihei’s Cyberpunk Manga (Review) But those hoping to see lots of the manga’s vast, dystopian weirdness may be slightly disappointed.
May 21, 2017 Movies Are Netflix’s Movies Less Legitimate Than Studio Movies? Methinks some people need to be a little less pretentious concerning the art form’s integrity.
May 20, 2017 Reading Reading: Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus, Star Trek: Discovery, MST3K, Fearing the Alt-Left & More Also: Screwing over creatives, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’s narrative flaws, saving old TV shows, redeeming nostalgia, touring Apple’s new campus, hand-coding CSS, and a better pro-life approach.
May 18, 2017 Music Sincerely, Future Pollution by Timber Timbre (Review) Timber Timbre’s music is dark and disquieting, and intoxicating precisely because of that.
May 17, 2017 Best of Opus Music PWR BTTM’s Disgrace Reminds Us That Separating Artists From Their Art Is Difficult Art can be transcendent — but enjoying it in spite of the artist’s flaws and transgressions can be difficult.
May 13, 2017 Reading Reading: Moana, The Handmaid’s Tale, Mount Eerie’s A Crow Looked at Me & More Also: King Arthur, Silicon Valley silliness, and the downside of “mobile first” web design.
May 13, 2017 Politics Religion Dear NPR: There Are More Reasons to Reject Donald Trump Than “Two Corinthians” Focusing on his “mispronunciation” (again) overlooks a host of much more valid reasons.
May 11, 2017 Music Watch Slowdive on Pitchfork Live (and Listen to a Bonus Track) Slowdive’s Pitchfork Live performance accentuates the great continuity between their oldest and newest material.
May 10, 2017 Music Take a Minute by Unwed Sailor (Review) Unwed Sailor’s latest EP is particularly ambitious in scope and sonic diversity.
May 8, 2017 Movies Blade Runner 2049’s Latest Trailer May Be the Prettiest Thing You Watch All Week I don’t know what it all means, but I can’t wait to see it on the big screen.
May 8, 2017 Music Slowdive’s First Album in 20 Years Is Exactly What I’d Hoped For (Review) More than just a simple nostalgia trip, the new full-length finds Slowdive building on their celebrated sound.
May 4, 2017 Music 12 of My Favorite Slowdive Songs I’ve compiled this list to celebrate the release of Slowdive’s first new album in over two decades.