John Carpenter is one of my favorite directors, a man whose against-the-grain, gory and brilliant scattergun cinema poetry embedded itself into my young mind via the cult VHS days of my childhood. The Thing will always remain my favorite, but They Live is a great offering too, albeit more depressing because its alien threat seems […]
They Live
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Cut to Rip Torn
I’ve got a lot on my mind but very little room to write about it, which is fine; I’ve been overlong in the intros lately anyway. So I’ll just give a peek instead of an essay about what I’ve been thinking about recently. Two things mainly, both published in this still-young year, the first I […]
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Music Tonight: Wednesday, May 3
If you are in the mood to see a big screen presentation of John Carpenter’s classic Reagan-Era dystopian (I’m being redundant, I know) sci-fi masterpiece They Live, then head over to the Arcata Theatre Lounge at 6 p.m., where $5 will get you inside and $9 will let you leave with a poster. I can […]