1. Avoid complaining. It’s a waste of time. When your wife returns from work, the kids will ignore you completely and dominate her every minute. Unless she’s a riveter, your wife has spent her day with the freedom to surf the internet for 20 minutes whenever she felt like it. See those people outside office buildings taking […]
I’m tired of horse movies. Which makes sense, because I’m not 8. But my younger daughter is 8. We are excepting The Black Stallion. That’s a real movie. The majority of horse movies available to stream follow the standard “Horse Reform” formula: Troubled/spoiled girl conveniently moves to a relative’s home. A male relative/father figure, with a […]
Allow me to harvest for you. On Netflix now: The Tribe – Not only an unusually excellent movie available to stream, but the best movie I’ve seen in years. The Tribe follows a new student’s jarring experiences upon entering an Ukranian boarding school for hearing-impaired students that doubles as a criminal enterprise. There’s no translating Ukranian […]
Why actresses? I’m raising two of them (haha, sexist dad humor. Please kill me). Listicles step from the brain-mist when a writer hears a certain song, sees a certain film scene, reads a book etc, and asks, “how many other songs/films/book do that? Am I lazy enough to feed the internet with an answer? Shall […]
Don’t get me wrong: I enjoyed all eight episodes of Stranger Things, and look forward to season two. Heaps done right: Matthew Modine & Winona Ryder as characters their 80s characters conceivably would have become, as adults. Banana seat bikes. D&D. Dimensional travel. Clairvoyance. Budding adolescence. David Harbour, formerly known as the only good thing in The Equalizer, is mostly […]
While Ed Sheeran gets fleeced for ripping off Marvin Gaye, Deerhoof has a case against Desiigner’s hit “Panda.” Of course, in most cases, launching a lawsuit requires a certain level of established affluence on the plaintiff’s part, and I doubt Deerhoof has the type of deserved cash for this. But who knows – they’re not so obscure […]
When bands cover My Bloody Valentine, most take a lazy shot at “When You Sleep.” It’s a straightforward four-chord pop song, if naked. Covers of “Sometimes” are also common, if slightly more impressive. Anything else is rare. Granted, almost all of MBV’s recordings after 1988 defy easy coverage. And yet, pre-’88, they dropped some simple, twee […]
Another listicle corrective. I’m on a mission from God. There are too many “Great Joy Division Covers” listicles, many listing the same songs. Time for a new listicle. Let’s begin by excluding the 1995 Joy Division covers comp “A Means to an End.” Not to discount stuff on there (some of it far exceeding expectations, like […]
