superheroes & media & hopeful moping
This listicle is, by premise, gonna be a bit superficial, as well as totes subjective. Hey, if that’s creepy, I truly beg your pardon and I’m sorry. Television is built on aesthetics and photogenicity, I didn’t invent that game, I can only speak my truth. And yes, I’m aware you can make an informed argument…
….And it’s looking like ‘19 is gonna be another tumultuous year for the planet, am I right? And yet we still push ahead. SPOILERS for the CAPTAIN MARVEL film ahead, as well as fun facts, science-fiction trivia, and Marvel Minutiae: 1. The score by Pinar Toprak is, I would opine, a bad-ass score. One of the…
SIX DEGREES OF LIKE BUTTON (inspired in part by a preview performance of the play White Noise, by Suzan Lori-Parks) Distance OK, I get it. New York is gray. I miss the California air, with its whiff of euphoria, the hint of the holy. In Los Angeles, you don’t die at night from exposure to…
MC Frontalot’s new album NET SPLIT: OR, THE FATHOMLESS HEARTBREAK OF ONLINE ITSELF dropped this weekend. (Or, is it still dropping? Is the moment of album-drop an indivisible quantum thing? Probably no one cares.) Five years in the making, NET SPLIT is in some sense a concept breakup album, in which the Godfather of Nerdcore…
DISCLAIMER: I’m sure there was some normal internet fandom-whining in there too. It is your Constitutional right to hate on a movie, because it is only a frakking movie. Seriously, it’s in the Constitution, go read it. BUT, the trolling on CAPTAIN MARVEL blew up particularly hard on Rotten Tomatoes, which is a website that…
