It took a few viewings, but now I understand that “Dead Man” (1995) is a palindrome in structure. The movie begins with the protagonist William Blake riding the train in, and ends with him riding a canoe out. Begins with him stumbling through the muddy streets of Machine with the butchers, hunters, mothers, morticians and …
Category Archives: Entertainment
The Chills Are Alive
♫ Futurepop, Ambient, Chillout, and Dream / These are a few of my favorite streams! ♫ Digitally-Imported: DI has a wide-ranging selection of electronic music streams, but the free versions get lower bitrate and jarring advertisement drops. Chillout: “Ambient psy chillout, check out our trippy flavors!” Ambient Trance Blue Mars: These streams are the love …
Double-Dose of Popcorn
Being a damn shut-in every evening, I’ve turned to watching a ton of movies in the past month or so to supplement or replace my usual social interactions. Chances are, if I get my hands on it, I’ll eventually end up watching it. As such, there’s no telling what I’ll see. Here’s what I’ve seen …
Transcode Is the Home of Count Flacula
Now that my CD collection’s ripped to FLAC, I had to filter through my entire MP3 collection and pull out all of the MP3 rips of said albums. That took a few hours, to say the least. Still have those copies, just in case, but after symlinking my FLAC folder into my music folder so …
Diss Order
This question goes out to all you librarians and taxonomists in my readership. I have a large music collection, and I make every effort to keep all of my file tags as clean, correct and complete as possible. This allows me to easily search my collection and drill down to the artist, album, and song …