Resident Evil (2026)
It's a metaphor for AI.
Doors addendum/Barry Bonds story: a quick thought about Oliver Stone's Indians
Editing some typos in the Doors essay I wrote yesterday, I realized I had a perfect story to relate the way Oliver Stone uses Native Americans in that movie. I don't think I'm going to get a better time to share it, so here it is.
Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine (Oliver Stone's The Doors)
Burning out my subscribers' good will with 4,303 words on a movie that's pretty fun, I guess.
2013, the Year of Failure and/or Monsters University
Look, this one's more navel-gazey than anything. You can skip it, I won't mind.
How funny is Fargo?
Spoilers for a half-dozen Coen brothers films. A couple newsletters ago, when I was discussing movie titles, I mentioned Fargo, and I'll take any free-associative excuse to think more about Fargo. I had somehow not realized until now that in their first seven movies (their 80s
People Don't Know What California Is
When I was a kid, my grandmother had a vacation home in Bear Valley, in Northern California. I would have thought Bear Valley was a town, but I'm now reading it is a "census-designated place." If Bear Valley is known at all, it's
The End of Oak Street
A review and some thoughts on dinosaurs and the Saw series as sports movies
Plague Balm
Chipwrecked At The End Of All Things
Harry Nordlinger’s Laser Quest, My Backrooms
A few months ago, at the great Partners and Son here in Philly, I saw a solicitation flyer for a comic called Laser Quest, by an artist named Harry Nordlinger. I don’t have a copy of that flyer, but it was, if I remember correctly, a small black and
Everything I Love Used To Be Noise
I remember the first time I tried soda, which feels like a memory you'd only have access to if you were alive when soda was invented or you were raised in a cult that disavowed syrup, like that memory would also have to find you at 18-years-
Flashy Titles That Are Cool And Smart And Also The Titles Are Well-Worded
Last week, my partner and I watched the first half of Black Hawk Down. Not a good movie. I think you could save Black Hawk Down as a film, though, if at the end, when all the post-script text is telling you how these soldiers ended up, they told
It Is Difficult To Find Any Information On The Time I Didn't See Andrew W.K. At A Synagogue
In 2009, you had to work to hear Andrew W.K. He'd started underground, in the world of Michigan noise, blown up in 2001 as a New York-based rock intensity machine and then, following the 2003 release of his second full-length LP, he scattered. Andrew'