The soda cost fifty cents. But the machine dispersed whatever flavor it wanted no matter the selection. In Duane’s dreams he was an air force pilot. He was never really sure why an air force pilot. Nothing came to mind that allowed recounting. But it was the air force. He wanted to be in the air. […]
In 2011, Jeff Mangum, of Neutral Milk Hotel fame, started releasing radio broadcasts online. Playlists of sorts, programming as one would not hear; only two such groupings were ever released, but they offer insight and context for one of the most ambitious and absent creatives of the modern era. Now that NMH is touring and the ever-distant is […]
“It just makes sense to me. It’s the language that I most naturally speak…” –Joseph Bishara* Last week saw the release of The Conjuring to surprising critical praise. Writers who have previously, and adamantly, proclaimed James Wan a hack of a director have suddenly termed him a horror auteur; dramatic turn for a man whose […]
“Mother dumped my father,” a friend of my wife’s was saying one day, “all because of a pair of shorts.” …is how Murakami’s “Lederhosen” starts out, and from the title and beginning it appears like it will be in Murakami’s signature style: unsettling, deadpan, ridiculous. Like Kafka drawn in crayon. It isn’t, however, it is […]
“Well, you’ve got to be known for something. The Danger of extreme versatility is that you don’t spring to mind for anything.” -Julian Fellowes (supposedly) Over the holiday weekend I fed the urge to rewatch Independence Day by buying it on blu-ray (which actually sports a fantastic image/sound job despite being a release from the earlier […]
