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I think Hellraiser 2022 is one of those movies that gets better the more you reflect on it. While watching it, I found the initial pace a little slow, and in its earlier part it resembled the two better noirish straight-to-video films in the franchise. But it transcended those insofar as the director was trying […]
Lovecraft’s fiction is relevant to the philosophy of race, but not because it is straightforwardly racist in the way of some of his private letters. See an earlier post I wrote about this. Mike Ardoline has interesting things to say about the relation between Lovecraft and Afro-Pessimism related to my earlier post. Michelle Houellebecq and […]
One of the many things that remains mystifying to me about music is just how much tasty riffs can either add to or detract from a song. This is I think of particular interest because when you read books about songwriting, even ones such as the doorstop Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles, the focus is on […]
“He wasn’t writing any more, that is, he was writing, but his poems were very bad. That’s because he was happy.” – Gilbert Sorrentino