I seem to complain constantly about the lack of energy in modern rock music. The lack of drive and, quite frankly, anger. After all, that's why the youth start rock bands
I knew Tiger King as the podcast, Joe Exotic, before I knew it as the phenomenon it's apparently become. That is, I knew it as the podcast trailer and not a full podcast
I read Stephen King's 11/22/63 on a beach in Anguilla. Anguilla beaches are beautiful. So I could probably read a book on Hungarian agriculture and be happy with it. But
How do you watch and enjoy a movie about deplorable people? The Mother Theresa story this ain't. But when you think about it, Vice is hardly alone in having us revel in
The tragic death of David Berman in 2019 didn't really change my mind about Silver Jews, it just reinforced it. This album, American Water, is one that I've gone back to
Watching True Romance in the theater back in 1993, I felt like I was experiencing a different kind of cinema. One that challenged the senses and took dialogue to a
So much Stephen King. The man is everywhere. And I think back to when I was twelve and was devouring every collection and every novel he released. And I realize just how
There are movies where the moviemaking overcomes the movie itself. In other words, the script or narrative may be lacking, but the sheer spectacle of the thing makes it
Destroyer is almost an idea more than it is a band. It's a thing that lives inside Dan Bejar's head. It makes almost no sense when you pull back from it, and almost less
WeWork seemed like such a great idea. In fact, it's still a great idea. Or a good idea, at least. But what happens when a great idea meets a man with horribly narcissist
Admittedly Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity was, and probably remains, one of my favorite books of all time. I’m sure in retrospect there were all sorts of toxic masculinity
I recall the first time I saw a trailer for Knives Out. And I recall that I was excited as hell to see it. Never mind the fact it looked like a 2019 update of the movie
Like almost everyone else who first came across this band, I thought they were called “Inks.” To be fair, though, my seventh grade brain hadn’t fully formed when I saw
We've seen workplace sitcoms of all stripes over the years. Mythic Quest follows closely in the footsteps of shows like, well, The Office. And Scrubs and Veep and any