Marvel Comics had a wondrous way with with words back when they courageously and correctly claimed that they were the House of Ideas. That vivid vocabulary was on full display amidst the four-color fisticuffs that filled their folios, but it … Continue reading Mighty Marvel Checklist HyberboleCheck: Thor #183
Every one of these cracks me up. I think these cans are the only ones that characters in mumblecore films should be allowed to drink from. (There’s more, and far more interesting examples, those came from.) Continue reading I am invincible, I have no fear
“‘No, I am not a man who harbors romantic ideas about the extension of the spirit. It’s something I’d like to think I taught my sons, to partake of the physical world while it is yours to take, because that is one meaning of life with which no one can argue. To taste, to touch, to breathe in, to eat and stuff yourself–all the rest, all that takes place in the heart and mind lives in the shadow of uncertainty. But the lesson didn’t come easily to you, and you never accepted it in the end. You shot yourself in … Continue reading Great Moments in Literature
24. Texas, Southside Yes, a cursory glance at the debut album Southside suggests that the band that released it is named after the rootinin’-tootinin’est state in the union, but that’s not quite right. The Scottish band that calls themselves Texas … Continue reading College Countdown: 90FM’s Top 90 of 1989, 24 and 23
This week, I reviewed a new film that stars John Hawkes as artist Stan Herd. Hawkes is good as always; the movie has some issues. I also contributed an entry to this week’s List Inconsequential, which focused on the best film adaptations of William Shakespeare’s works. The super-secret, DVD commentary track backstory on this one is that it was initially intended to be the best and the worst of Shakespeare adaptations, but everyone wanted to write about their favorites. I’ve actually had a hard time thinking of a film bad enough to be singled out for the that sort of … Continue reading Spectrum Check
My music collection, at least as represented digitally, covers a lot of sonic territory. Once I became a true and total convert to my iPod and its “Shuffle Songs” feature, I worked hard to make that little device into the radio station I always long for, the radio station that already existed to a large degree in my collegiate past. I adored the vastness and variety of our music library at the college radio station, which afforded the DJs the chance to theoretically tap into every conceivable genre and subgenre of music, especially if they were artful explorers of the … Continue reading One for Friday: Happy Hate Me Nots, “Things Wearing Thin”
#35 — Atlantic City (Louis Malle, 1980) I’m always struck by the grand seediness that shapes the film Atlantic City. Louis Malle’s film shows how the once glamorous metropolis of the title is rotting from the inside out: buildings falling … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 80s — Number Thirty-Five
So I’m clearly a little lax in the whole thinking, writing and typing thing this week. That’s in part because my laptop and I are having this sort of argument: Sad to say, I think it’s time for this little device to go see the doctor. Tomorrow will probably be some sort of low content mode concession as well, but I’ll try to fulfill my regular One for Friday duties. (Due credit: I swiped the image from elsewhere.) Continue reading I won’t live long and I’m full of rot
Good gravy. Really? (Due credit: I found this elsewhere.) Continue reading I’m just looking for a faith waiting to be followed
Just one more piece of an especially good weekend for the guy who holds the keys to Air Force One these days: I’m so pleased that “Solsbury Hill” has become the go-to song for fake trailers. Continue reading Eagle flew out of the night, he was something to observe
Coffee for Two 