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The Great Media: TimTams
About five years ago, before there was a Little Miss ATVS and while Mrs. ATVS was still Future Mrs. ATVS, we did some traveling to Australia. We encountered many wonderful things in Australia, such as semi-tame wild kangaroos, reef life, koalas, wallabies, the wonderful Australian people, etc. ...
The Great Media: Curse of the Cat People
This is the first edition of The Great Media of the 2008-2009 offseason, and I know this is a very peculiar choice, but stick with me on it for a little while. Curse of the Cat People was produced by B-movie legend Val Lewton, who had a great reputation for making well-made and creepy horror...
The Great Media: Matthew Sweet "Girlfriend"
I am a big fan of good, honest pop music. Not the focus-group-tested, pretty-face pop music that has been a ubiquitous part of the music industry from time immemorial, but the honest work of true artists. Matthew Sweet is a genuine artist, and "Girlfriend" is his masterpiece. His later efforts...
The Great Media: Maus, A Survivor's Tale
The world is inundated with stories of the Holocaust, World War II, Hitler, and all things Nazi Germany. None of them are quite like Maus. In the literary world, Holocaust memoirs have a very difficult time standing out from the crowd. They're often the same terrible, horrific story over and...
The Great Media: Akira
I have a special interest in animation, but I am not an anime nerd. I do not like a show just because it has girls with impossibly large eyes, impossibly blue hair, and impossibly large breasts. Akira, though it fits in the broadest definition of the word "anime", that being "animation produced...
The Great Media: "The Story of Ferdinand" or "Ferdinand the Bull"
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf was my favorite book as a child. It is a fairly long book, and rather complex in that it uses a lot of words that are unfamiliar to English-language readers, yet I had it memorized in its entirety when I was 3 years old. I distinctly remember being read the...
The Great Media: Violent Femmes Self-Title Debut Album
Originally released in 1982, Violent Femmes' self-title debut album is rediscovered year after year by a new crop of adolescents drawn to its bleak portrayal of youth seeking acceptance, meaning, and, most of all, sex. This album is sometimes explicit and often open about a topic that is...
The Great Media: VH1's "The List"
I don't have a picture for this one, but about 10 years ago VH1 produced a talk show, hosted variously by Joe Rogan, Henry Rollins, and other chatty celebrity types, moderating a panel of 4 musicians or minor celebrities. The idea is that the host would present a question and the panelists would...
The Great Media: All Quiet On the Western Front
via www.filmreference.com We continue exploring our dark themes in our Great Media series. This entry refers to the 1929 novel by Erich Maria Remarque and the 1930 film of the same name. Both are great. Our generation of Americans is quite accustomed to two variants of war story: the glorious...
The Great Media: George Carlin
via d.yimg.com I learned seconds ago that George Carlin has passed away at 71. It is an unbelievable, shocking loss. George Carlin was simply the funniest and most talented comedian of his generation. Others may say that Richard Pryor was the funniest and most talented, but I am more of a...
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