* Jeeeeeesus, look at what Matt Rota’s been drawing lately.
* Scott Tobias tackles Paul Verhoeven’s masterpiece, Starship Troopers, for the Onion AV Club’s New Cult Canon series. Man, I still remember what a eureka moment it was when I watched a making-of feature in which someone described the movie as one the Troopers’ society would make about themselves. I’d obviously grokked that it wasn’t the mindless idiocy it was cracked up to be before then, but that was when it all clicked.
* Today on Robot 6: Tom Brevoort trash-talks Titans titles;
* and John Porcellino’s awesome distribution/capsule-review blog.
* Congratulations to Frank Santoro on receiving that first Spidey check.
* Here’s an excellent review of the Cure’s flawless Disintegration from Nitsuh Abebe for Pitchfork. I like that Abebe foregrounds the emotionally provocative nature of the music, both to immiserate and to comfort.
* Wow, kudos to The Actors for discovering glo-fi/chillwave’s mitochondrial Eve. (Cf. this, this.) (Via Marc Hogan.)
I really should do a writeup about DISINTEGRATION sometime.
Remind me when my brain isn’t curdled the idea of writing anything doesn’t repulse me.
That “Long Hot Summer” thing’s been linked in a couple of places and you know, maybe it’s a total coincidence, but it’s kinda annoying because I made this connection in my “In Defense of Chillwave” piece for the ‘Voice’ back in um, March. And you know, if you Google ‘Chillwave’ my piece comes up as like result #6 or so…
That’s a bummer, Brandon. This is honestly the first place I saw it. You should take it up with that Actors band.