Nov 17, 2022Suburban Sasquatch and Disaster DarlingsPicture this: You are walking in a spottily wooded area just within sight of a neighbor’s backyard porch. It is a bright, completely unthreatening day when you hear a bizarre sound like a man pantomiming what a monster’s growl should sound like, but it’s recorded too close to a cheap…Movies6 min readMovies6 min read
Oct 17, 2022Oliver Stone’s ‘Nixon’ is still a masterclass in political dramaEvery two years or so I watch Oliver Stone’s 1995 political masterpiece Nixon. Stone is one of the few directors who’s director’s cuts are arguably better than his theatrical releases — which are also damn good. The DC of Natural Born Killers includes an extended sequence of the prison…Nixon3 min readNixon3 min read
Oct 16, 2022AMC’s ‘Interview with the Vampire’ truly sucksAMC’s Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire is not Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire. There is a Louis and a Lestat, sure. But something is missing. Something as vital as the undead’s need for living human blood. The problem is not that AMC’s Vampire is almost completely unconnected fan…Vampires6 min readVampires6 min read
Oct 15, 2022Violence and IdentityThe problem of identity politics is that it presupposes that identities exist. I don’t think they exist. — Žižek “Identity” (in this case: a set of physical, psychological, and historical features that come together to create an inner and outer gestalt that engages in the inner psyche and the outer…Racism5 min readRacism5 min read
Oct 10, 2022Hulu’s ‘Hellraiser’ drops the puzzle boxHulu’s much anticipated new Hellraiser reboot is as boring as it is gross. Going into it I was hoping for some fresh hell indeed, but ended up getting more of a dull purgatory instead. Sadder still, its the kind of movie you can fast forward through and still not miss…Hulu3 min readHulu3 min read
May 11, 2022Member-onlyHannibal & Freud: An AnalysisBedelia Du Maurier, Alana Bloom & The Wendigo: Three New Convex Mirrors to Analyze the Unanalyzable Cannibal The impenetrability of the mind of Hannibal Lecter is a theme within the Lecterverse as central as cannibalism, gothic horror, and fine art. Clarice Starling famously remarks in the 1991 film, “They don’t have a name for what he is,” which spawned decades of literary and critical examination of…Hannibal2 min readHannibal2 min read
Dec 30, 2021‘Don’t Look Up’ is just what we needDon’t Look Up is about how mass media, politics, and capitalism naturally slither together, co-conspiring to create false realties, ideologies, and agendas in order to assuage humanity from recognizing that, quite simply, we are all in very big trouble. In this film, the big trouble is an extinction level event…Dont Look Up4 min readDont Look Up4 min read
Jan 30, 2021Member-only10 Outcomes if Our Universe is a Computer SimulationWhat you’ll need to know when we get there—and we WILL get there… — If the universe is something like a computer simulation, virtual reality, or a video game it will naturally have some massive repercussions for how we think about and operate within the world. This is a concept I have been kicking around since The Matrix was released 20 years ago in…Simulation Hypothesis9 min readSimulation Hypothesis9 min read
Dec 11, 2020Finoa Silver and Guy Fiumarelli are the badasses to close 2020Fiona, Guy, and co. have once again cut a chunk out of the contemporary American Rock and Blues scene with weirdly seeming ease. The chemistry in Silver’s teams are always full-frontal fuck off good talents that seem to do nothing else but blast out jammers. …Fiona Silver1 min readFiona Silver1 min read
Sep 12, 2020We Need to Talk About How Opening Your Headline With ‘We Need to Talk About’ Makes You Sound Like a Hugely Belittling Hack-Fraud AssholeThis is not a joke. The modern trend of using the dried out, cliche, hackneyed, lazy, thoughtless, worthless, irritating, belittling, bullshit headline ‘we need to talk about’ must come to an immediate and violent death—thrown into the dustbin of literature as soon as humanly possible (if you can call blogging…Culture4 min readCulture4 min read