I watched Hustle and Flow last night, and the quality of that film somehow doubled the disappointment I felt when watching Black Snake Moan. I didn’t exactly expect Black Snake Moan to be, you know, good, but I thought I could be some sort of interesting post-exploitation thing. It was not. Watching Hustle really drove […]
The above is a video I have cited as an example of a pre-internet viral video. This brief news report on what happened when a dead whale was blasted as a means of removing it from a public beach has, for years, circulated offline via video and rumor. Now, in the era of digital, it’s […]
The results of a study of more than 1,000 of the brightest five per cent of young people will come as relief to parents whose offspring, usually long-haired, are devotees of Iron Maiden, AC/DC and their musical descendants.
Researchers found that, far from being a sign of delinquency and poor academic ability, many adolescent “metalheads” are […]
Last night, I got to see a new print of The Holy Mountain (1973). The director of the film, Alejandro Jodorowsky, has a cult following and actually performed the marriage of Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Tees. Jodorowsky once said that he wants from film what most people want from drugs, and I’ll buy that. […]
The above is 30 minutes of openings for cartoons from the ’80s spliced together into one overwhelming montage. If there’s one lesson that can be taken from this, it’s that synthesizers are awesome. While I had never seen a good number of these, I have fond memories of a number of them. My favorite […]