Archive for March, 2009
I Love Demos.
Art appreciation for me is a pendulum of attention which swings between the puppeteer and the puppets. I love shows, lights, smoke and sound just as much as anyone else, but I also love getting inside the head of the artist. That’s why I love demos. A demo of a song will show you what [...]
Anatomy of Bad Reviews; Anatomy of Good Reviews
The biggest mistake most album reviewers make is to forget their audience. Bad reviewers treat each article as an opportunity to spout ego rather than enlighten the reader as to what kind of experience the album provides. Whether this involves showing off their supposed humor, intelligence, or superiority is irrelevant. This is useless to the [...]
Egalitarian Codes of Conduct Among the Sexes
I believe that at one end of the spectrum of viewpoints among self-proclaimed feminists, there are noble folks who believe that women and men should be treated fairly by society and under the law: that there should be no written or practiced advantage handed to any gender over another, and furthermore that elevating women need [...]
Should you let Transsiberian Transsiberian you?
Tonight, Daniel and I watched Transsiberian. The film has a rating of 90 tomatoes, and this is because the film makes absolutely sure to lose no one while still conveying a complicated human emotion via story. The complicated emotion from which this entire film was produced can only be described in this way:
Is there a [...]
