Song of the Day: “Desperate Guys” – The Faint
Director: Mary Harron
Genre: Biography/Drama
Year: 2005
For a film dealing with the Notorious Bettie Page, this film is surprisingly tame, light hearted and comic almost to a flaw. It is not that this film is necessarily bad, but rather that it fails to truly connect the audience with the [...]
Song of the Day: Forget Her – Jeff Buckley
Author: Alan Moore
Category: Fiction – Graphic Novel
So it took me this long to finally read what many people claim to arguably be the greatest graphic novel of all time: The Watchmen. That argument has been given to me for a while and perhaps it was the hype [...]
Song of the Day: Kissing Families – Silversun Pickups
Author: David Mitchell
Category: Fiction
There are books that hook you, grip you and will not let you go until you finish them and this one is one of those, falling in the category of Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Atwood’s Oryx & Crake, and though thematically they are different, [...]
Song of the day: Green Grass – Tom Waits
Director: Julian Schnabel
Genre: Drama/Biography
Year: 2007
I have used the term visual poetry to describe a film before: The New World. I would like to use the term again, but not in the same fashion. If we were talking music, The New Word would be the symphony and this [...]