Happy New Year, and Auld Lang Syne! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Lang_Syne “Is it right that old times be forgotten?” The intent of the song reminds me of a Huxley quote: “That men do not learn (more…)
1980’s and 1990’s NYC Moon Ska Record Label, Punk, Ska, Ska-Core and a history of how the community changed.
nb: there’s a great reddit user’s counterpoint at the bottom. Spirited, and for the record. I’ve spoken about my musical progression from tiny tot to a DJ w/ 16 years of a residency under his belt. (more…)
Intellectual Property is what ruins our imagination, creativity, and everything we used to love.
Talking about why modern storytelling Hollywood films aren’t good…. the issue of Star Wars goes beyond kathleen kennedy and is a plague on the entire movie industry. Marvel, for better or worse, are (more…)
Ignore this, or “the community I engaged”.
I did this out of bored curiosity. I am happy to see my contributions range over so many subreddits. I really only hang out in a specific few, so this is surprising. I know it means legitimately nothing (more…)
A defense of the inevitability of Equalitarianism: on a road with no map since the year of our Lord, 1215; *OR* an essay about isms.
So when I think about equalitarianism as a political doctrine, I typically immediately think about three things. This video: Explanation of who is killing who: https://blog.ninapaley.com/2012/10/01/this-land-is-mine/ Second, (more…)
Big Sur’s Old Coast Road, endings, awareness, inequality, obsession, and humility.
Big Sur was a special place in my upbringing, but so was it in my life, at all stages. So I take my ex-wife’s family (first wife… we’re fine, not sure what’s wrong with her she still adores me) down (more…)
Robocop and The Wire aren’t too different, you and I: How each deals with the dark side of The American Dream, and the collapse of city governance.
Dan Harmon is right. A film lazily titled “Robocop” should be a disaster. A forgettable B-film that is best for Mystery Science Theatre 3000. But that’s not what happened, and here we are. Re-watching (more…)
Going from sanity to being locked into the subjectivity of existence, a note from the movie Annihilation.
In researching Annihilation, Alex Garland’s (yes) masterpiece (and one of my favorite films of all time), I am also taken with how the film could hit different now vs its release, simply because so much (more…)
Top 10 video games in Uncle Fishbits’ history, no particular order with some nice honorable mention nostalgia
1) Half-Life:Alyx (VR) 2) Alien: Isolation (VR) 3) Metroid (NES) 4) Goldeneye (N64) 5) Mariokart (Super Nintendo, N64) 6) Zelda (NES) & Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) 7) (more…)
A fantastic list of movies that earned a 0% Rotten Tomatoes rating, and some real “so bad they’re good” gems in here.
https://www.looper.com/1145/movies-earned-0-rating-rotten-tomatoes/ It’s a long list, but some take me back to that golden age of seeing films. I must have gone to the theatre weekly, for sure, because (more…)