It’s important to make music that you care about dear readers. And it’s essential to listen to music that fires you up inside. And man does this music ever do that for me. Royal Blood – How Did We Get So Dark? released Jun 16, 2017 ******** 8/10 Royal Blood are an English rock and roll…
I love the TV Tropes brand. It’s all about the collection of and education on popular culture, specifically as it relates to common figures of speech. The ones that best convey concepts that exist in various forms of media, like movies, or say, television. Now for example, in action movies, it’s fairly common for guys…
Time to pull out the sports equipment, latex paint, and fishing line, we got ourselves a planetarium to construct! Sufjan Stevens – Planetarium released Jun 9, 2017 ******** 8/10 Planetarium is a collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Sufjan Stevens, composer Nico Muhly, drummer James McAlister, and guitarist Bryce Dessner. A supernova, modern art, super group, if you will….
Rehashing a story that rehashes another story doesn’t create more hash? Sheesh, y’all. What a wonderful thing is this reimagining that it can invigorate previous fans, and draw in troves of new ones too. Beauty and the Beast (2017) Cast: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Josh Gad, Kevin Kline, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellan, Emma Thompson…
A short poem. Lifeless he crept upon her, Daytime was not his friend, Melancholy was her only friend, What if the taste lingered for a time, It is eerie outside at this time, Too many sounds, too many noises, It’s all rather eccentric. We all need to own our weirdness, and alt-J could go in…
Super heroes have been dominated by male leads in film since almost the beginning of their celluloid representation. Which is odd, given that there are more than enough female super heroes to go around, with compelling story arcs of their own to be had. This is one of those times. Wonder Woman (2009) Cast: Keri Russell,…
A friend of mine once told me that the kinds of music you prefer to listen to can tell you a lot about your personality, maturity and proclivities. Not to mention all of the hundreds of articles and quizzes out there which claim to predict your personality based on how you answer certain questions. For…
And if I am crying, it’s not because of you It’s because I’m thinking about a friend of mine You don’t know who is dying, that’s right, dying These aren’t tears of sadness because you’re leaving me I’ve just been cutting onions, I’m making a lasagna for one Oh, I’m not crying, no That’s all…
An age-old problem of music, if it’s a shorter album, we’ll complain that it feels weak, and it comes in over sixty minutes we can’t believe what a slog it is. Is forty minutes the sweet spot though? Joan Shelley – Joan Shelley released April 28, 2017 ******** 8/10 Joan Shelley is a Kentucky based American singer-songwriter…
When given the space to work, we are capable of incredible things. So how is it that skin and gender are still considered barriers to greatness? Hidden Figures (2016) Cast: Taraji P. Hensen, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge, Glen Powell Director: Theodore Melfi re-released on blu-ray April 11,…