Following the success of a world-renowned ultra-running career and a best-selling book, Eat & Run, Scott Jurek looked like he had finally slowed down. Transitioning from a career… Read more “North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail: Review”
Category: Reviews
Featured posts reviewing mass media, whether film, literature, music, or video games.
Jack White: Boarding House Reach
Ingenuitive, experimental, accessible: Jack White has built a wildly-successful career off of innovation. By straying from his contemporaries, shunning the public eye and creating a mythos bound… Read more “Jack White: Boarding House Reach”
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
When the average person thinks of the artist, they think of an enlightened, solitary thinker that is creating art at the will of something greater than themselves.… Read more “The Writing Life by Annie Dillard”
George Saunders’s Tenth of December
In William Faulkner’s 1950 speech “Address upon Receiving the Novel Prize for Literature,” he warned attendees that the Great Fear of his time (nuclear holocaust) was a… Read more “George Saunders’s Tenth of December”
Call Me By Your Name Review
A Cute Film Grounded in White Privilege and Fetishized Homomasculinity It is 1983 and we’re transported to “Somewhere in Northern Italy.” The world is lush, covered in… Read more “Call Me By Your Name Review”
Queens of the Stone Age’s “I’m Designer”
Queens of the Stone Age’s (QotSA) fifth full length studio album, Era Vulgaris (2007), is a well-polished yet uneasy album speaking on depravity. Era Vulgaris, the Latin term for… Read more “Queens of the Stone Age’s “I’m Designer””
George Michael’s Faith – “One More Try”
One of the more raw vocal performances off of Faith, George Michael’s “One More Try” is an conservatively-paced gospel ballad of a young man in both the throes… Read more “George Michael’s Faith – “One More Try””
George Michael’s Faith – “I Want Your Sex”
Approaching the 30th anniversary of George Michael’s solo debut Faith, it is worthwhile to look back and discuss the finer points of songwriting, production, and artistic transition contained… Read more “George Michael’s Faith – “I Want Your Sex””
A Year Out: Gojira’s Magma
While I don’t listen to metal that often nowadays, but there are some albums that still catch my attention. One that I have yet to give up… Read more “A Year Out: Gojira’s Magma”
Metropolis
Following the first World War, Germany was in a state of disrepair. After three years of incredible hyperinflation, political riots regarding crooked elections, and anger with the stagnation… Read more “Metropolis”
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