the hunting of the snark
read this before you go on. then, if you still feel the burning need to, proceed as you will with the rest of it:Wail of the Sun: i admit: i’ve had it with this sort of epic fantasy, you’ve got to come...
View Articlehere comes the rooster
so. The Road beats all the other competitors to a spit-roasted pulp and takes the Rooster. more meat for the roast, i presume. a bit disappointing for being a most predictable end to my first...
View Articlefiction comma electric
in case i wasn't being clear -- and a recent conversation with Banzai Cat seems to indicate as much -- i have dropped all pretense towards 'critical' review on this blog. whatever i may say by way of...
View ArticleKelly Link's Stranger Things Happen: first one, or maybe two stories...we'll...
[note: this (with its subsequent clarification here ) continues to apply.] i forgot: i also got Kelly Link's Stranger Things Happen over the weekend. (yes, i know...retail therapy. what a bitch. still,...
View ArticleV. 1922 - 2007
no, not quite a fan, nor even necessarily a believer. but is there any particular reason i need to explain myself to you? to anyone?
View ArticleINTERSTITIUM: this life, reimagined, revivified
i wouldn't have admitted it then, but when i dubbed this blog my 'other life', i had been rather obviously acknowledging what reading was for me back then: escape. while the aesthetic i frequently...
View ArticleMike Carey's Hellblazer: The Gift
i may have mentioned this before, and anyone who has been following the adventures of John Constantine doesn't need me to repeat it, but here it is again anyway: every writer brings his own brilliance...
View ArticleCaitlin Kiernan's Alabaster
Ms Kiernan's writing sits comfortably on the shelf between Poe and Lovecraft, perhaps leaning with her ear held close to Lovecraft; albeit the stories she tells are character-driven, with non-kitschy...
View ArticleMoonlighting, Season 3 Episode 11: Blonde on Blonde
written by Kerry Ehrindirected by Jay Danielseries created by Glenn Gordon Caron(i had decided long ago that i wouldn't write reviews. but, hell, this deserves something as excessively overwrought as...
View ArticleBeowulf
screenplay by Roger Avary and Neil Gaimandirected by Robert Zemeckisthe weakest thing about Zemeckis' Beowulf is the presentation: the graphics and Zemeckis' direction--it seems they haven't yet gotten...
View ArticleChuck Palahniuk's Rant
how weird is that? every now and then while i'm reading Chuck's latest thing, this godawful mess of a book he calls an oral history, this audible groan starts to well up from deep inside of me like all...
View ArticleCloverfield
written by Drew Goddarddirected by Matt ReevesCloverfield does exactly what it says on the tin (ie, 'a monster movie for the YouTube generation'), which is more than can be said for a lot of recent...
View ArticleThe Bedlam in Goliath, The Mars Volta
as with 2006's Amputechture, the album that first got me into TMV (the samples i heard from the first two full-length albums always suggested too much of At the Drive-In to me and i freely admit that i...
View ArticleJuan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage (El Orfanato); plus: two cents on the...
saw The Orphanage today. i'll let Peter Bradshaw tell you about it, over at The Guardian:http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_Film_of_the_week/0,,2267233,00.htmlThe Orphanage is...
View ArticleThe Dragons of Babel by Michael Swanwick and a bit of John Clute's review
i don't know what to make of John Clute's review of The Dragons of Babel. not that it (the review) isn't a brilliant deconstruction of Michael Swanwick's brilliant deconstruction of the 'hidden...
View ArticleHellboy 2 The Golden Army
directed by Guillermo del Torostarring Ron Perlman (yay!), Selma Blair, Doug Jones, someone's voice in a clunky, but nifty, steampunky suit, Elric and his daughter (as siblings), Jeffrey Tambor and a...
View ArticleHellboy 8: Darkness Calls
story by Mike Mignolaart by Duncan FegredoDuncan Fegredo's art is messy and hectic; he captures what i imagine must be the more Kirbyesque aspects of Hellboy (something i can't say for sure, knowing...
View ArticleFear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb; and bits about being Lost in...
hell has been something of a theme for my Other Life of late: there was the Hellboy movie and the last Hellboy collection, most obviously; before that were Roberto Bolaño's By Night in Chile and Flann...
View ArticleThe Dark Knight
directed by Christopher Nolanwritten by Christopher and Jonathan Nolanstarring Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Morgan Freemanthe Nolan...
View ArticleDr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog; and, a bit about the Doctor
directed by Joss Whedonwritten by Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, Joss Whedon, Jack Whedonstarring Neil Patrick Harris, Felicia Day, Nathan Fillionhttp://www.drhorrible.com* helped a bit with my...
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