words wind around us, obscuring, diffusing, piling atop each other like snowflakes on snowflakes, making seeing true?meaning hard through the white, like?moments in life thus does?This Is Us succeed, not just as “quality entertainment” (important in its way), but?more importantly, truly, as a light to help color through white, making?meaning in?moments in life and it…
so i’m so sad after seeing Father John Misty sing on SNL he sang two songs, but the one he sung that so got. me. was “Pure Comedy” see here: ( for both performances, with lyrics (which i’ll refer to below) and editorializing, see “Father John Misty Questions Virtual Reality And Religion on ‘Saturday Night…
what i’m about to say may seem naive; hopeful, at least; and it’s certainly so that it’s nothing new; so i’m also going to keep it neat and clean, concise and pointed here it is: though so far the “reality” show that is Trump – from his pre-politics life and?celebrity/star status, to his candidacy and…
///begin quick minute in a quick minute i’m finna go pick up?this game from this pic ^ (this new PS4 action RPG called Nioh) why? cuz it’s a “soulslike” – it’s like?Dark Souls: my personal all-time?fave series in other words: i’m finna get it cuz i already like it cuz it’s like something i already…
a while back (on another site), i wrote about how art begets art?- in that case how love for the game?Bloodborne led to a renewed dip into Lovecraft several whiles back (on a currently dead?blog), i wrote about how faves lead to proselytizing – how when we love something (in that case,?Bloodborne’s? forebear,?Dark Souls), we…
some say celebs like Streep should keep their political rants off camera?when at a purportedly non-political party, such as the?Golden Globes meh. i didn’t mind her speaking her mind. Trumpsters, i suppose, (and he, himself, if Twitter matters) are troubled by?her oh-so-subtle-and-clever naming-without-naming takedown of the prez elect nah. seemed accurate to me. she also…
2016 retrospectives understandably multiply at the moment, as does the sentiment that 2016 sucked, on the whole in general, esp in terms of what memes get play on Facebook, that’s probably accurate many are pointing, still, with dystopian, apocalyptic fervor, at the ascension of the one they call Trump fair enough and agreed (but read…
some say we live in an age of nostalgia round up the recent remakes, the reboots, the revivals, the side stories, the things even just intentionally reminiscent of?other, older, more established things, and prepare to be flooded in the fond feels, deluged in the delights of yesterday, of yesteryear remember?Star Wars? you don’t have to….
do you know about The Last Guardian? it’s this game that’s infamously been in development since 2007; spiritual successor?to 2001’s Ico and 2005’s Shadow of the Colossus it was originally slated for release in 2011, then pushed back, moved from system to system, and re-slated?in 2015 for release in 2016, October, then delayed once again…
i’m highly optimistic about HBO’s new hit show,?Westworld ? (if you’ve not seen it, imagine a sort-of sci-fi, cyberpunk Western, steeped in J.J. Abrams style cerebralism and cliffhangery; a deliberately paced show full of sweeping panoramic shots, shootouts, sex, robots (rinse, recombine, repeat), acting clinics put on by a superb cast (Anthony Hopkins can do…
