This has got to be inappropriate in some manner, but in my terror and sadness this made me laugh. I think not knowing your privilege, not knowing your status, being tone-deaf, and admitting a felony are (more…)
Happy New Year, and Auld Lang Syne, or “Is it right that old times be forgotten?”
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…)
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…)
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…)
The Unpretentiousness of MumbleGore, and the Mandela Effect.
We’ve been watching a LOT of horror films. It seems like a tremendously useful and helpful way to challenge negative energy and anxiety during a pandemic… sort of like, “Oh it could be worse”. Something (more…)
Has reality ever started unraveling so fast, you can barely keep up, let alone survive? Well, in these movies, that’s how the “rubber reality” genre works!
edit: this “supergenre”, if that exists, could simply be “this is a list of movies you shouldn’t know anything about prior to watching, aside maybe from their genre”. I recently set out to identify (more…)
The internet is a bizarre, sinewy, wonderful place at times, *OR* the roundabout ways I found out about my favorite bands.
You never know what you’re going to get, in this maddening world where the digital and objective physical places in time intersect, like portals as doorways into other minds and experiences. This is (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…)
Bladerunner and Alien tie in… they’re in the same universe.
ttp://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/10yegw/holy_shit_prometheus_and_blade_runner_tie_in/ pic below. more info at this link, with best dissection of this: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/will-prometheus-create-a-shared-universe-between-alien–and-blade–runner Also, (more…)