Interview with John Mulvaney on Fractured
My friend John talks the process behind his ongoing video series on Irish underground music. #link
###
Date: June 2016
My friend John talks the process behind his ongoing video series on Irish underground music. #link
###
For whatever reason it's easier for me to develop the kind of split mindset Justin Farrar describes when it comes to film, rather than music. Great food for thought here, anyway. #link
###
Here's what I spent Pride weekend writing up while my LGBT friends were partying it up, probably. Tickets on sale now. #link
###
"Men’s right to not discuss rape has taken precedence over women’s right not to be raped." #link
###
And I had more than one of these games in my childhood. We all did. And we didn't know. Our parents didn't even know. Because it was in the establishment's interest that it was nothing for the people to be concerned with. #link
###
You'll probably want to see a movie this weekend after all that happened today, but you don't need to see the new Independence Day if you can help it. #link
###
This is Brazil come to reality, it really is. #link
###
Don't read this unless you've got a unicorn chaser at the ready, it's depressing as all hell. #link
###
Man, the critics round here really HATE this movie. I mean it's not good, and it's got serious issues, but it passes the time, and the 3D isn't wasted for a change. #link
###
All these years and I'm still a beginner at the aul' PS. Filing this one under CPD. See also: Drawing Paths with the Pen tool in Photoshop (bit of a eureka moment, here). #link
###
Yep, it's bad. But I've seen worse. #link
###
Like anything else in media, infoviz must be subject to scrutiny. And the more sophisticated, the more it needs a closer look, 'cause everyone knows the trick about bar charts with a fudged x-axis, right? #link
###
More infoviz here, this time graphing the prejudice against the Guardian's female writers, besides the more controversial topics of 'debate', etc. #link
###
It confirms what was already known -- that while males dominate Hollywood cinema -- but the infographic breakdown makes tangible what's too easy an abstract notion to ignore. #link
###
Haven't been in the headspace for ideas this intersectional and transcendent for a long time, but this is worth linking for when I am. #link
###
Another great oral history from the AV Club, pretty much the only good thing they've got going lately (besides the wrestling commentary, but that's only like a Raw review now and then). Still waiting for part 2 of this one, but I'm sure whenever it shows up (the writer's working on it!) it'll be a doozy. #link
###
Good advice, here, for this perennial procrastinator. #link
###
Here's one of those weird quirks of English that still get me. 'Span' sounds more natural to me than 'spun', and it's funny that it was apparently the original form. #link
###
It's a Studio Ghibli film do I really don't have to convince you, do I? (Apologies in advance for the mixed metaphors and other things I'd line-edit if I could. Writers: never sub your own stuff.) #link
###
Too long since I’ve written about wrestling. Here’s something, a few stray thoughts from last night’s NXT TakeOver special:
###
We are Twisted Fucking Sister!:
As a documentary, it’s unremarkable, though you can say that about nine out of 10 docs out there. But as a visual biography? That’s exactly what this is: an often surprising history of the early years of the hardest – and hardest working – glam rockers the US ever produced, and one that leaves you thirsting for more.
###
A short YouTube documentary on the avant Bloomington ensemble. #link
###
This Jesse Owens biopic picks up the pace towards the end, but stumbles at nearly every hurdle. #link
###