“You think you can drive a car and change the world? It doesn’t work like that.”

“Maybe not, but it’s all I know how to do and I gotta do something.” –Pops and Speed Racer, Speed Racer (2008)

“And verily I say unto thee that thou shalt lay aside the things of this world, and seek for the things of a better.” -D&C 25:10

Like Waiting for Godot, only longer…

I don’t know why this bothers me so much, but I feel like I’m taking crazy-pills every time I poke around online and see that virtually no one else seems interested in the fact that Miles Davis directly samples the opening track of 1969’s In a Silent Way on Side B of Jack Johnson.

Contemporary U.S. perceptions of Miguel de Cervantes’s 1605 novel Don Quixote are heavily filtered through the 1965 Broadway musical Man of La Mancha, whose big show-stopper “Dream the Impossible Dream” (featured most recently in the trailer for John Wick: Chapter 3) creates the impression that the novel’s thesis is that the world can be changed by those who dare to dream, or some such.

It’s love, it’s love…

The Welsh iconoclastic John Cale has spent virtually his entire career better known for his influence than his music. Co-founder of The Velvet Underground (always

I am still processing my grief at the recent passing of Low, whom I have previously argued was secretly the most Mormon band to ever exist, in all the best ways possible. So, I created this album guide.

One’s a curiosity, two’s a coincidence, but three’s a full-blown trend: when not one, not two, but three separately and independently produced films about the RoboApocalypse debut at the same film festival, then you know for sure that’s something’s in the water, something’s just floating in the air, that is making audiences anxious about the rise of AI.