In 1997, a subversive, transgressive, prescient show aired on MTV. From what I recall, it aired randomly. 3 thirty minute episode that aired on non successive weekends on either Saturdays or Sunday, at (more…)
My obsession with the Las Vegas sphere is so unhealthy.
“$2.3 billion MSG Sphere in Las Vegas is almost ready. • 366 feet high • 516 feet wide • 18,000 seats • 164,000 speakers • 580,000 sq ft of LED panels” Happy (more…)
Why physical media might be future proof, but keep that wax cool.
Do We Still Need Physical Media? https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2021/07/28/do-we-still-need-physical-media/ . THIS IS SUPERB. That’s a philosophical blog that thinks about art. They’ve done amazing (more…)
Newsletter #0010 – Never Interfere With an Enemy While He’s in the Process of Destroying Himself
Bonaparte wasn’t wrong… Reminds me of that “Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt”, but I fear it’s too late for me. BUT… we’re in the double digits! 990 (more…)
Newsletter #0006 – I am not good at newsletters and we’re not hiring editors
A.I. permeates this blog. The new Nirvana song is weird. It’s all weird. The vinyl stuff is pretty depressing. I want you to get into Marc Ribellet’s Sunday Brunch livestream DJ podcast weirdness. SO… (more…)
Newsletter #0005 – The big reveal will be when we are all figments of each other’s imaginations.
“We can make Sandwiches”, or “Snapshots of a moment of human existence that isn’t about Lindsey Graham”. OH MAN I gotta say I am enjoying the Gaetz stuff. “HOW DARE I SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES OF MY ACTIONS!?” Some (more…)
Newsletter #0003 – My newsletter is an NFT! You get to own Baffled Perculosis as part of it!
Sharlken Barkem Nargotam! Making up words is easy when you listen to drunken writers and comedians speak in tongues to do invocations against REALLY mean and sassy skeletons. Speaking of that fact, know (more…)
I wish Lifeforce was as good as the one sheets and art from the 1985 film.
I guess it’s an example of letting creatives like O’Bannon & Hooper run the show, then? Because it looks 10 years *older* than Alien or Poltergeist, and came out AFTER. That film was a snooze that (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…)
Intellectual Property, Safe Bets, & Addiction to Nostalgia Porn
I know studios need to make their tentpoles that sustain them, and they take incredibly safe bets making relatively benign or saccarin films that get the ticket sales, but don’t move film or cinema forward (more…)