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So, someone is turning The Watchmen into a movie.
Honestly, I think this is a bad idea.
Now I’m not motivated by the usual knee jerk reactionism that they’ll ‘ruin it’. I just don’t see the point of doing it. I don’t see anyway to adapt something like The Watchmen into a film, and keep [...]

I really do plan on getting this project off the ground. I really do. It looks like next week probably won’t happen though. I have a reason this time. See, I accepted a job offer with a new company on Thursday. I’ll be starting the new job on the 8th [...]

The Pedia folks broke the story that a new WRock fest is in the works. And the best part is that it looks like it’ll be local for me! (i.e. general mid-atlantic area)
The name of the fest is Magus and it is being organized by Anna of The Grey Ladies, Grace of Snidget, and [...]

Remember how I said that I’d have a new project to debut this week? You didn’t really expect me to follow through on that did you?
Seriously, this week has taken a change for the weird so I’m pushing the new project back to Sept 30th. Possibly earlier, but that’s the date I’d expect [...]

Truth be told, I’m working on an idea. I’ve talked to a few folks about it and people seem to like it. I expect to have something up next week and I’ll go into it then. And yes, this one will happen. I’ve asked both Z and Church to give me [...]

An interesting profile of Rick Rubin in the New York Times can be found here.
The article gets into various things about Rubin’s life, but is largely about his new role as co-head of Columbia Records. For someone who has been involved in creating so much great music, it is interesting to see that, to [...]

So a little while ago I did a run of posts talking about Wizard Rock groups that had some serious potential. Thanks to Squib Girl I’ve found another, Riddle(TM).
I could sit here and go on and on about the talent to be found in this piano based singer/songwriter duo. I could talk about [...]