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 feature a classic biblical movie […]
15 years ago, after heading back home to hang with the family over Christmas, I decided to have all the random movies I watched over break BATTLE TO THE DEATH in a brutal tournament to …
A while back (15 years ago to be exact--I've been writing this blog for a bit) I did a post on the various lessons I'd learned in the kitchen over the previous year: Isley's cooking tips …
Long ago, in an Age of the Sun far removed from our own, our world was a place of enchantment and lure undreamed of to our current race of Men. However, not all of its …
There are many movies "about" the creative process. Sometimes they can be indulgent ("key word here is 'indulgent'") self-referential films about making a film like Fellini's 8 1/2. Sometimes they can circle right …
Hello Mythic Meats, Eugene Pendergrass here, you might know me from such pedantic protestations as AN OPEN LETTER TO WWW.ISLEYUNRUH.COM RE: YOUR COMICALLY INEPT ATTEMPTS AT FICTIONAL CARTOGRAPHY, AN OPEN LETTER TO PETER JACKSON RE: …
I was never big on jumping through the "looks good on your college application" hoops in high school. I remember as a Freshman and Sophomore I kind of thought "ugh, everyone says I need …
As the years go on and I descend further into the depths of problematically unlistenable problematic black metal in the search for something that can make me feel, I do, thankfully have a few non …
If you have kids, you'll end up with a lot of pictures of those kids. 95% will need to be deleted whenever you get around to finally sorting through the 20,000 pictures on your …
In the spirit of the start of the fall school semester, I thought I'd take a look at one small bright spot in what is otherwise a rather bleak trudge into adulthood. Nothing makes "listenin' …