I have a hard time quantifying and sorting favorites, but my reading habits have changed this year to include a rather large amount of film criticism, and the result is I've been thinking about what my list of 2009's best would look like more this year than I have previous years. So I figured what the hell, and I wrote down all the new movies I ( Read more... )

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Right, right, HERE THERE BE SPOILERS.


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Science fiction is sometimes referred to "speculative fiction," and while the name hasn't stuck as well, it's more accurate. I believe science fiction/speculative fiction is supposed to be the narrative of ideas. It's a story with a conceit (or two) that leads us into a sort of intellectual exercise -- a dramatic game of "what if...?" Usually ( Read more... )

Cassie is helping me rescore Every Room is Empty with more appropriate, less ridiculous music that we can actually get rights/permission to. It's actually pretty exciting. Cassie is awesome. I've been thinking submissions, festivals, because why not? Fuck it, man, I've gotta get out there.

I still owe you an I Love Moon post, and maybe an ( Read more... )

There was so much more -- there always is -- but now all I remember is I was playing in Nirvana. I wasn't an official member of the band but I was their second guitarist for a live show. There was no stage, we were all just standing on boxes at various points of the shoulder-to-shoulder auditorium and playing. The problem was, I suddenly ( Read more... )