“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty […]

That which most confounded me during the DVD era, and seems only so recently resolved, has sprung its head again in the somewhat less brave new world of Blu-ray. For the longest time, some of my favorite films were only available on scratchy, no less than thrice copied VHS tapes. When I first saw Eraserhead, […]

While I should perhaps one day write Deadpool, I make no claim as of yet that I should draw it. I’m working on it. If the omittance of the central character’s name from the title didn’t already tip you off to the suckfest that was to follow…Deadpool‘s disappearance after the first 15 minutes of X-Men […]

The oft lauded construct of substance, placed above and beyond mere style, is in fact nothing more than something of one of the more boring and jealous styles.