I’m sure you’re familiar with treasure maps. They lay out the land for you. They show you a path to some sort of prize. They’ll tell you what dangers you will face. What they don’t tell you is what the treasure will actually be, or how valuable it will be to you. Confessions of a… Continue reading Book Review: Confessions of a Freelance Penmonkey
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IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Last Action Hero
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/slater.mp3] The fourth wall is a long-standing term for the concept of separation between an on-screen performance and its audience. Most straight productions act as if the fourth wall is a concrete barrier, entirely encapsulating the fictional world within. Comedies, especially parodies and spoofs, tend to treat the fourth wall with as much irreverence as… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Last Action Hero
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! True Lies
{No audio this week. Having a job in a start-up is interfering with my Internet fame. Go figure.} The 90s were an interesting time. All sorts of cool things musically were happening in Seattle garages, the United States was emerging as the victor of the Cold War and getting a little blitzed on its own… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! True Lies
Movie Review: Thor
Marvel’s been rolling the dice quite a bit lately. First in introducing characters to one of their more obscure heroes (Iron Man), then in beginning to weave disparate movie franchises together into a single coherent and shared narrative, and now in putting their extremely loose interpretation of Norse myth on the big screen. The law… Continue reading Movie Review: Thor
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Repo! The Genetic Opera
This week’s IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! brought to you by a generous donation from Kimberly Franco. Thank you for your support! [audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/repo!.mp3] Here we have something of an odd specimen. In most musical productions, the idea is to either use the songs for comedic effect or to underscore the powerful emotions in play during a… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Repo! The Genetic Opera
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! The Hunt for Red October
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/red_october.mp3] I’m aware that some of you may have been born around or after, say, 1995. That terms like ‘Soviet Union’ and ‘Cold War’ are entries on Wikipedia or chapters in a history book rather than memories of an ominous time. I’m not sure if public school still conduct ‘weather drills’, but when I was… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! The Hunt for Red October
Game Review: Portal 2 (single-player)
Oh. It’s you. It’s been a long time. How have you been? I’ve been really busy being dead. You know? After you murdered me? I didn’t feel I could open a review of Portal 2‘s single player campaign any other way. When the original game was released as a supplemtary portion of Valve Software’s Orange… Continue reading Game Review: Portal 2 (single-player)
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Judge Dredd
(apologies to Mr. Poledouris whose name I horribly mispronounce.) [audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/judge_dredd.mp3] There’s a part of me that’s glad I didn’t get into writing for comic books. More than likely, I’d have had to cut my teeth on an established title, continuing a storyline that’s been running for months if not years. And if I wanted to… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Judge Dredd
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Blazing Saddles
{Audio returns next week.} Hatred is, unfortunately, nothing new. There are people even today who have built their lives, fortunes and reputations around rhetoric that perpetuates ignorance and blind intolerance. From the Spanish Inquisition to the Nazis, the Crusades to Mao’s Great Leap Forward, sooner or later somebody somewhere is going to react in a… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Blazing Saddles
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Shutter Island
{No audio this week, still adjusting to the new work schedule.} I’m sure that most of the people reading this review have at least one dog-eared copy of a paperback novel lying around somewhere. Let me ask you something: why have you read that book more than once? I’m willing to hazard a guess. Even… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Shutter Island
