Homeworld

It’s no surprise that I consider Homeworld one of the best games of all time, as I’ve posted about it multiple times already over the past few years. But what makes it so goddamn amazing? Everything. Everything is the answer to that question. For what it’s worth, this post is based on the original version of […]

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72

Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 Hunter S. Thompson Gonzo Journalism With a Political Twist I like Thompson’s work. He’s insightful, intelligent, and overall just a really entertaining guy to read. Fear and Loathing is really no different in that respect. He follows George McGovern throughout the presidential campaign in 1972, and is writing a […]

Naked Lunch: Abject Insanity

Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs My uncle always has found really interesting books for me to read. No genre could be excluded from the books he lends me: obscure sci-fi, dense fiction, or subversive texts are all expected and subsequently consumed by my “innocent” mind. I had received “Naked Lunch” for my birthday last year, but finally came to […]

Book Review: The Shadow of the Wind

The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón A friend and I regularly swap books with each other. Although sometimes aiming to give them a book they’ll really enjoy, often we decide to share something that may be a little out of the normal topic or genre that they’re used to reading. It’s a great […]

Reading Recap: Dinosaurs, Valve Software, and General Oddishness

Oddishness? Google claims there are only 15,800 instances of the word “Oddishness” on the internet. I’ll leave it up for debate if this is a) an expected number, or b) grossly exaggerated. As previously noted, I’ve started spooling up my reading quota from the earlier production of roughly one book completed per month. I’ll start jabbering […]

Gettin’ My Books On

Movies are Totally Last Year Since graduation from college a couple of years ago, I’ve focused on getting up to speed with the popular culture centered around these things known as “moving pictures.” I watched a bunch, wrote about them, and generally had fun feasting my eyeballs upon all that the motion picture industry had […]

September Film Comeback

Between getting ready for Scandinavia, the actual trip, and the fact that I lack a TV, movie going was slow. * = Terrible ** = Had some redeeming qualities, but probably would not watch again. *** = Recommended movie with some flaws. **** = Perfection American Psycho ** It was a fun movie to watch, but it didn’t seem […]

Beware the Movies of March

* = Terrible ** = Had some redeeming qualities, but probably would not watch again. *** = Recommended movie with some flaws. **** = Perfection The Big Lebowski *** Better than I was led to believe by many, I found this an entertaining that owes a large part of its success to the outstanding acting […]

January **

Another month, another movie review! These are films that I have never seen before, and decided to watch them based on a) cultural significance, b) recommended by a friend, or c) looked interesting. Last December, I claimed that my rating system was something like “One star is ‘terrible’ and 4 stars is ‘most amazing thing in […]

Movie Autumn: Catching Up With Culture

One of the most particular aspects of being a fully-graduated adult with a “big kid” job is that I suddenly, for the first time in my life, have quite a lot of free time without the threat of papers or compelled readings to distract. One aspect that didn’t change after I graduated was that I […]