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In a display of breadth of pop music, Coachella threw together generations of wordsmiths, arguably some of the best of each generation. To hear them side by side was fascinating, inspiring and in some cases perplexing. Morrisey, representing England of the 80’s, created an undeniably pitiful performance. Setting the stage, a piano solo of Memories, [...]
Did the good guys win? Who makes that call? The Watchmen comic was an expression of the Cold War, the result of the long twisting and squeezing that that paranoiac end of the world time imposed upon our collective whoness, whatness and whyness. It looked 1986 square in the eyes and asked: “What the heck [...]
I don’t read comic books; At least I didn’t. But, there I was at the worlds largest Comic Convention. We were filming an interview with Scott McCloud. I had never heard of the guy, so I was a little surprised at the throng assembled for his presentation. And so it began, a cogent presentation of [...]
The only TV show to overtly present monotheistic super-hot, quasi-immortal cyborgs in a to-the-death struggle with their polytheistic, human creators (frequently named after Greek gods) and to take the complications thereof at least somewhat seriously. To be sure, BSG left a lot on the table. The cans of worms and whupass that it opened were expansive, to say the least, and its hard to criticize them for failing to achieve a perfectly satisfying catharsis in each and every case. What with the necessities of keeping the audience “massive” enough to justify being on TV week-in and week-out for all those episodes. So, I come not to bury BSG, but to praise it.
