It’s Craig Thompson’s world; we just live in it: Jen Contino at The Pulse has conducted the most interesting interview yet (except for my as-yet-unpublished one, of course) with the indefatigable Blankets author.
In response to my puzzlement over his position, Forager clarifies his stance on popular art. I submit that he just had lousy professors–try Stanford’s Scott Bukatman, regular poster on the TCJ.com messboard, for an antidote to that jargon-laden detatched silliness you were subjected to.
Johnny Bacardi pans Rob Zombie’s directorial debut, House of 1,000 Corpses. I had a hunch this’d be derivative as all get-out, so I stayed away. But fans of White Zombie’s AstroCreep 2000 (or at the very least its incredible liner notes) know the guy’s capable of better. Sad to hear he didn’t make it happen for horror.
NeilAlien praises MoCCA in reference to the MoCCA vs. SPX debate.
Either Osama bin Laden’s got a stash of Just For Men in his cave, or Al Jazeera is lying to us and this tape isn’t “new” after all! But that couldn’t be, could it?