Monthly Archives: June 2006
Poll: Space Opera Cinemasochist
POLL RESULT: Battlefield Earth wins and will be watched this week (shudder).
Playlist Thunderdome and The Cinemasochist
It’s all over, folks. But something new is coming. Read the rest of this entry
Review: Superman Returns
My first Halloween costume that I remember was a Superman costume. Red cape, mostly, flying behind me as I raced from house to house. I was six years old, and Richard Donner’s Superman was my new favorite, temporarily edging out Star Wars from the year before. I believed a man could fly.
And *sniff* now I can believe again. Read the rest of this entry
Repeated Viewings
Slate has put together a list of movies that a few selected directors, writers and critics name as being the movies they’ve rewatched the most. (†Ann Althouse) It’s an interesting list, though I can’t exactly say why. I suppose it’s really just an outlet for creative types to weigh in on their favorite movies. Read the rest of this entry
Band Spotlight: The Brought Low
I’m starting a new feature on Kulturblog to spotlight indie bands that deserve more attention than they’re currently getting. I’m asking bands to describe themselves for us in their own words, hoping to have their personality shine through their description a little. The first band I’m spotlighting, the Brought Low, has personality in spades.
Benjamin Howard Smith, singer and guitarist, filled out the bio/questionaire for us.
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Review: The Devil Wears Prada
Just a brief review, because there isn’t much I can say about the movie that either you haven’t heard or that wouldn’t spoil it.
It’s a very good movie, for what it is: a girl’s bildungsroman (based on the bestseller by Lauren Weisberger), a coming-of-age in the fashion industry, a boss-from-hell story told with flash. It won’t hold a lot of surprises for you, but it will entertain and divert you, which is all that can be asked of such a film. Read the rest of this entry
Sleater-Kinney Breaks Up!
Fresh off the newswire: one of the greatest girl bands in history is on indefinite hiatus. Read the rest of this entry
Foreign Coke vs. Domestic Coke
Ever since I posted my updated Diet Coke rankings, I’ve been wondering about the differences between foreign and domestic Coca-Cola. On my most recent vacation, I made a point of bringing home a bottle of Coke Light for comparison purposes. (My Coke Light happened to come from Belize, though I doubt that there’s any difference between Mexican Coke Light and Belizean Coke Light.) Read the rest of this entry
Learning to love the 90′s
I basically stopped listening to music when grunge exploded. The combination of my local Seattle music scene no longer being exclusively local, extreme poverty, and extreme stress made music something I didn’t have enough resources for.
So I missed a lot of good stuff in the 90′s, although at the time I thought all good underground music was gone. Read the rest of this entry
Sci-fi novels
I need your help. It’s Friday, my last day at the university before I move to Vienna. I just walked into the library to do some work. Sitting on the table is a copy of a William Gibson novel. I do not know how it got there amongst the books on Egyptian hieroglyphics, but it has reminded me that it has been years since I read a sci-fi novel. Years.
I don’t read novels anymore as I’m always reading academic stuff. When I try to crack open a novel, I usually go high-brow, because, after all, I’m damned smart and must be able to say I have read the classics, man. But this summer, I want to read some sci-fi. Classics or pulp. Don’t care. Fantasy will do, as will comics. So, sci-fi gang, give me your best. As I’ve got this Gibson book here, should I be reading Neuromancer for starters?
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