From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Friday Cover Songs – Halloween Spooktacular

30 October 2009

Happy Halloween!

Zombina and the Skeletones – Monster Mash (Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Cryptkicker Five cover)
Imogen Heap – Thriller (Michael Jackson cover)
Petra Haden – Thriller (Michael Jackson cover)
Ben Gibbard – Thriller (Michael Jackson cover) *originally posted May 22, 2009

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Herein I Tackle Oddly Specific Last-Minute Halloween Costuming Requests

30 October 2009

I like to maintain the illusion that I am a helpful person, especially insofar as my friends are concerned.  So when one of them texts me last night, saying they need a costume idea, I spring into action.  I have a few.  [POPULAR CHARACTER],  Sexy [POPULAR CHARACTER], Homeless [POPULAR CHARACTER] and Princess [POPULAR CHARACTER] and [...]

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Pop Autopsy – Love Story by Taylor Swift

29 October 2009

My friend and occasional co-writer Matt has a semi-recurring feature on his Popgeek blog called “Pop Autopsy,” in which he overanalyzes a popular song to pick mercilessly at its faults – to excavate its hidden badness, if you will. It’s a format that I’m just going to go ahead and steal. Why? [...]

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The Bear Witch Project

28 October 2009

One of my friends has this stuffed bear.  Eponymously dubbed Bear, she’s had it since she was a little girl and has the same unhealthy emotional attachment to it that I do to whiskey or Captain America.
This is a story about the time that I kidnapped my friend’s stuffed bear and made a movie about [...]

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The Invention of Lying

27 October 2009

Prior to seeing The Invention of Lying, I’d read some uncharitable reviews of it. The third act is tenuous, I heard. Broad satirizing of Christianity dominates the latter half of the movie, I was told. The premise, even, has flaws in its execution.
If I’m going to be fair, these are all true statements about [...]

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Saw VI

26 October 2009

Okay, I know it’s Saw, and that I should manage my expectations  about subtlety accordingly, but if I said I wasn’t slightly put off by the movie’s ham-fisted A plot about how health insurance companies are so evil, I’d be lying.
As what appears to the the ‘finish’ to the Strahm/Hoffman trilogy in the overarching Saw [...]

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How To End A Life: The Grey’s Anatomy Drinking Game

23 October 2009

Being a doctor is a lot like being hit by a bus. Sometimes you get up, dust yourself off and keep going. But other times, you become a contrived plot device. In the end, you realize you’ve been driving the bus the whole time, the same bus that hits you. Because you’re [...]

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Friday Cover Songs – Let’s Forget That Scene From Watchmen

23 October 2009

“Hallelujah” is perhaps the most-covered song in the world, more than even “Womanizer.”  These are some of my favorites:
Clare Bowditch – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover)
Rufus Wainwright – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover)
Imogen Heap – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover)
Dresden Dolls – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover)
John Cale – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover)
Regina Spektor – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover)
Absent [...]

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Cover Songs Thursday

22 October 2009

I know it’s late, but here it is.
Today, we’re going to look at covers by a single artist, as opposed to various covers on a single theme.  Damien Rice, as evidenced in his take on When Doves Cry from my covers mixtape, can do a good cover.  I won’t belabor the point with lots of [...]

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A Random Thought

21 October 2009

If you were to look at, like, a pie chart of what I think about each day, the wedge associated with ‘Fonts’ would be far too big.  Not to the point where it’s like ‘Silver Surfer’-sized or even ‘Grey’s Anatomy’-sized, but still bigger than you’d expect, especially when you consider that I’m not a designer.
Also, [...]

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