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Eric Rohmer could easily be my all-time favorite film director. Granted, his movies are mostly just long psuedo-intellectual conversations between hot French twenty-somethings that are filmed without affectation or adornment. But, one could learn just …
Black metal is a silly genre of medieval posturing, unlistenable production aesthetics, and reprehensible personalities. As such, it is bound to attract a unique set of fans. Today I'm taking a look at …
Silent films were never actually played silent--even prior to the 1900s they almost always had some manner of musical accompaniment. From a simple house pianist to a full blown orchestra for larger cities, there was …
Metal [or, at least the metal I listen to] is a simple genre, and if a large part of your riffage is confined to a palm muted e string and simple tremolo picked minor scales …
I'm in the middle of a built-in record shelf project to house my vinyl collection, and, because I'll finally be able to consolidate all of my various overflow shelves into one place, I'm getting pretty …
It's time for another Movie-watchin' Kumite as 8 more films battle for cinematic supremacy. Once again, I'm sticking with the "all movies must be new to me" rule (though I HAVE seen Golden Voyage …
Before I got a real (by which I mean, "more than part time") job...8 years ago, I had worked in the local public library for over a decade. I manned the reference desk, a …
Despite losing a bit of his underground allure over the last decade through a combination of a newly trendy fascination with his accent and working on a goddamn Star Wars tv show, acclaimed German filmmaker …
I've taken a closer look at the various ways the neo-Nazi black metal underground hides in plain sight before. For every band that has the word "aryan" in their name and a swastika in …
Though I have no formal religious education, I have actually learned a fair bit about Christianity over the years, both via apophatic deduction applied to my metal collection, and, through cinema. In this recurring series, I …