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I often observe that H.P. Lovecraft is the single largest influence on my writing,but I don’t talk or write as much about Charles Baudelaire,specifically how his collection of prose poems,Le Spleen de Paris,completely changed the way I thought about story telling. Although famous for the lovely and wicked Les Fleurs du [...] I quite like this comparison of the two novels by author and critic Neil Postman: What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book,for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive [...] I have several problems with Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies and I’m just going to clear my head of them. 1) Nolan’s work is 100% cerebral testosterone. He and Guy Ritchie are cast from the same cloth,with the key exception that Nolan is actually a visionary,a superior director,and doesn’t irritate. More on this [...] Two big budget alien-invasion movies came out earlier this year. Skyline came out first and did poorly at the box office,being roundly panned by critics. Battle:Los Angeles came out later and did gangbuster business at the box office,although it too was roundly panned. Both movies focus on Los Angeles (what a surprise [...] All of my books are packed in boxes stacked in a container sitting on a cargo ship enroute to New Zealand. I’ve been pining for a good read and can’t stand the idea of staring at my iPad screen reading reformatted Kindle pages. I stopped today at Borderlands,the sci-fi and fantasy book store in [...] I watched the most unusual movie the other day. It’s called Monsters,and it involves,well,enormous monsters from outer space. But it’s not a single-minded monster movie,not in the way that,say,Cloverfield is. Instead,it lives in a rather underpopulated genre of its own:the dramance,guest starring monsters. It’s also an [...] Sometimes,I have a Spidey sense for a movie without having seen it in the theater. When it comes out on DVD or Blu-ray,I’ll just buy it,knowing that I will probably enjoy having it in my permanent library. Primer was a good example of that. So,when Where the Wild Things Are came [...] Anyone with a yen for science fiction has passed through the doors of Isaac Asimov’s original Foundation trilogy. Rich with intrigue,massive in scope,rife with socio-political ideas. It is one of those trilogies,like the more sophisticated Dune series,that gets a young sci-fi reader’s mind racing. One of the beauties of Foundation is [...] I’m watching an incredibly irritating movie. One of those movies you can watch while folding laundry —five loads of it. It’s called Gone and the entire plot so far hinges on whether one character reveals to the girlfriend of another character that the boyfriend had a one-night stand before meeting his girlfriend on holiday [...] Are you one of those people who can’t stand the sound of silence? If you’re by yourself,do you play a radio or stream audio/video all the time? Or do you love the sound of absolute silence? I’m somewhere in between. I love the sound of absolute silence,but when surrounded by it (can an [...] |    | ||||
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