Category: movies / music / tv

  • The Best Most Listened-To Albums of 2012 – #35 to #21

    Every year I go through my Last.fm profile and identify my most listened-to albums to post here for consideration. This year marked a radical shift in my music habits. iTunes Match allowed me access to my entire music collection wherever I went, but more importantly, my subscription to Rdio allowed me access to almost all…

  • Review: Twilight: Breaking Dawn: Part 2 (SPOILERS)

    Who the fuck is this? Major spoilers ahead. Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 is the year’s bravest piece of storytelling. More than any other movie, it throws out all storytelling conventions completely. Tired tropes like “characters making rational decisions,” “conflict,” and “an ending” are eschewed in favor of its own brand of vampires-having-conversations entertainment. When…

  • Disguises

    I love Halloween. It pushes people to leave their comfort zones by trying out a new identity for a while. Since Halloween costumes disguise people’s identies, I had the hilarious thought that they could be called by what they are:   But then today I went shopping for my disguise, and discovered that I was…