Peter Jackson to Return to the Shire

Posted on 18. Dec, 2007 by James in Film

Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have worked out their differences, and the two will team up once again to bring the fantasy world of JRR Tolkien to the silver screen and make ridiculous amounts of money. Jackson (along with wife Fran Walsh) has signed on as executive producer to the big screen adaptation of The Hobbit. The deal is for two films that will be shot simultaneously starting in 2009 and released in 2010 and 2011 (assuming the world lasts that long) as a joint venture between New Line [...]

After Forever Make Maiden Voyage to North America

Posted on 08. Oct, 2007 by James in Music

I never played V:tM or anything, but when no one’s looking, I like listen to female-fronted Euro prog/goth metal. I’m not sure if I really like it, but I like to listen to it. Maybe it’s all the pomp and circumstance, or the beautiful women in corsets, or because when I was in high school, I used to read Tolkien and Anne Rice novels in the library instead of eating lunch in the cafeteria.
This is getting embarrassing.
Uh…yeah… After Forever are from Holland. And now they’re coming to the US [...]

AUTUMN 2007 NEW MUSIC REVIEW by Sean-Michael Yoder

Posted on 03. Dec, 2006 by zeke in Music

I thought since my first entry reached so many folks that I would try to cobble out a feeble mission statement to help better explain why this column exists, as well as using it as an opportunity to distract readers from their busy workday.

Bottom line- I love electronic music from trippy new age to the current minimal house crazy-Steve Reich to Derrick May. I enjoy other styles of music but in ways that are mostly adjutant to electronic music (read: music I can pilfer source material from). This new [...]