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So, GoW Series = J. Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," but something actually happens, sans the philosophical and literary depth.

Have you ever performed Leonard Bernstein's 3rd Symphony? I think that's an excellent example of a story being told orally over music. That and the Ring Cycle. I do agree that rhythm games are great at emulating the conventions of musical performance. It's simplified, to be sure, but play...

Before The Beatles, modern pop and rock music only contained a certain number of permissible chord progressions. etc. The Beatles were not the first to mess with the rules of music. Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and a number of other composers paved the way for tonally and rhythmically sporadic...

Explain.

I think for anything to survive it has to get picked up by academia. I don't think the Beetles could be categorized alongside Mozart, though. They didn't actually revolutionize the way music was written, though certainly how it was performed (damned throngs of screaming girls). It is...

Because those of us who survived hated being fourteen. Thus, hate through transfer or association. I'm not sure which. Projecting hate. It's all about projecting your hate. Gotta hate something.

I thought to entertain myself, and possibly a curious reader or two, with this review of The Rebuild of Evangelion: 2.0. If you do not want your viewing experience SPOILED, you need not read further. Upon seeing RoE: 2.0, I changed my position on Hideaki Anno, a bit. He is not just the...

Depends on how drunk I am.

Nobody likes a communist. I think that's what it's saying. Honestly though, if you really want to know, you're gonna have to ask the man himself.

I just watched "Run Lola Run" with the English dub on and had a sinister realization. "Those voice actors are the same schmucks that do all those anime dubs!" It made me feel a little extra nerdy that I'd actually seen enough anime to be able to identify those particular actors and recall...

Really, great literature is just great because the author has made a name for himself or herself and critics have acknowledged his work as great. Critics are really the ones that make great literature great, but there's also a bit more to it than that. Now, there's something to be said for...

Damn, Infinitebat is getting hella scientific on us. As to the question of or, rather, statement that we can't evolve the way we are, I would ask you first whether you really understand what drives evolution and since I don't want to wait for your answer, I'll tell you. Evolution is driven...

Death would surly be the sweetest thing after a thousand years of torture. Sweeter than all the pleasures of heaven and Earth combined and experienced for eons of time. Still, think of all you could know and learn if you were to never die. You would be God. I think I'm gonna go with eternal...

It's not going to be as good as the comic. I already know that. I've even heard something from a friend of mine that nearly halved my enthusiasm for it. Well, maybe not halved, but it certainly carved a chunk out of my optimism that this movie would do the comic justice. Rorschach's...

There is none. It's your dictatorship.