Ok, so now that you know what Spotify is, let’s discuss what people are listening to on it.
Here are a few of the bands I’ve been checking out since I got my Spotify account. Continue reading
Daily Archives: August 4, 2011
15 posts
What do you think of when you think of metal? For many, it remains a 1980’s punchline: Spinal Tap, big hair, and leather pants. Others with a slightly more recent frame of reference may instead imagine barely comprehensible noise. Both are correct descriptions, but only partially so.
Like its punk and hardcore cousins, the term ‘metal’ encompasses a multitude of sub-genres and micro-genres, some of them ludicrously specific, and many of them sounding nothing like each other. In an attempt to bring some order to the chaos, I have combined my encyclopedic knowledge of metal with the graphical skills of the wonderfully talented tomqvaxy to bring you this genealogical chart: Continue reading
Technology is nifty — don’t get me wrong. Without technology, I wouldn’t be able to play Bubble Burst on my Droid while pretending to listen to my boss babble on about news that happened last week. Pursing one’s lips and furrowing one’s brow once in a while is a great help in this.
Every once in a while, though, I pause and think about all those things that are gone — distinct experiences that used to be shared by waves of teenagers, that just won’t anymore. Generation Xers, we are both the last — and the first.
Remember this shit? Continue reading
There’s nothing better than getting down to the final moments of a movie and being totally absorbed and invested in what’s playing out on that screen. Watching it unfold becomes a bit like magic. Whether you credit the acting or the storytelling, when you come across a movie ending that is just so good, so breathtaking, or moving, it gives you the same sense of satisfaction as say finding $10 in between sofa cushions, or waking up an hour before your alarm. For a real movie lover it can make shelling out $12 and braving the undulating horde of opening weekend moviegoers worth it. You’ve gotta be careful, though. Every once in a while you’ll come across flammable polyester culottes wrapped in a golden fleece, and you’ll wind up witnessing a certified suckfest.
Take a look at a few movies that have left many of us speechless. Continue reading
Hey, Crasstalkers. This is a fractal. It looks like broccoli.