Year: 2008
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Feeling Satisfied After LOST
Last night the fourth season of LOST wrapped up and it left me feeling intensely satisfied. It is inarguably clear that the writers now have an end-goal in sight and are steadily working towards it. I’ll admit, in earlier seasons, they played it pretty fast and loose with previous plot elements and characters. That didn’t…
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Chabon Writes about Superhero Unitards
Being a regular kind of dude, I have to admit I’m not a frequent (or even infrequent) consumer of The New Yorker. However, last week I read several notices and received a few emails informing me that The New Yorker had published an article focusing on two of my favorite literary subjects: Michael Chabon and…
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Iron Man – A Movie Review
You don’t need me to tell you this movie has been warmly received by the masses, and for good reason. When I first saw the trailer many months ago, I knew this movie would be the Iron Man I wanted. I wasn’t sure it’d be a hit with the general public, but I was fairly…
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Cloverfield – A Movie Review
(Notice: Spoilers Ahead) By far, the best thing about Cloverfield was the previews hyping its release. Granted, by the time I finally got around to watching it on DVD, I’d seen the creature, but that’s really about all I knew. I hadn’t heard much about the storyline or any major revelations. Of course, I now…
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Walk the Line – A Movie Review
I knew nothing about Johnny Cash, literally, before watching Walk the Line. Seriously. I knew only one of his songs, “Ring of Fire,” because they used to play it all the time in college at a local bar where we played pool. Other than that-zilch. That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie Walk the…
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the prefex is Back!
After a brief hiatus, the prefex is back! These guys have a unique sound and I urge you to give them a listen. I’m fairly uneducated when it comes to music; I don’t really know the difference between melody, tone, pitch, and so on. But, I do know what I like, and it’s the sound of the prefex. Lend them your…
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story – A Movie Review
Due to Judd Apatow’s involvement with Walk Hard, I really had high hopes. I’m afraid those hopes were dashed. Walk Hard was an exercise in gratuitous vulgarity that totally doused the few truly funny moments that existed. While the lyrics to Dewey Cox’s songs were uncouth, they were so creatively dirty you couldn’t help but…
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Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt – A Book Review
For some reason, and I don’t know why, I had it in my head that Angela’s Ashes was about Frank McCourt and his brothers returning to Ireland as adults and fumbling about as they tried to decide how to dispose of their cremated mother’s ashes. It’s not. Angela’s Ashes is actually a memoir essentially detailing…
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