Over a century ago, authors like H.G. Wells and Jules Verne probed the unknown worlds of travel through time and space, respectively. The appeal of their stories was largely due to how real and credible they were in spite of how fantastic they seemed — they scared and exhilarated those who read them because all [...]
Chrome – Half Machine Lip Moves
2 April 2012 by Leave a Comment
What does your television do when you’re not watching? Chrome’s 1979 LP Half Machine Lip Moves is a record from a band that tries to harness the hidden waves of buzz and static that could be there when you’re not — because, well, you never know. The cover art is oblique and collage-y pointing directions [...]
Kraftwerk – The Man-Machine
14 December 2010 by 1 Comment
Seventeen years old, a junior at an all-boys Jesuit high school, and breaking away from a teenage goth phase and the social stigmas associated with black trenchcoats in Southern California. That was where I was when I first heard Kraftwerk’s The Man-Machine. As for where I was physically, it was the room above a garage [...]
Iggy Pop – The Idiot
12 November 2010 by 6 Comments
The modern city is a cold and desolate place when Daylight Savings Time ends. 3PM signals monochrome twilight and 5PM means the stuffy orange glow of city streetlights. Fall is here, Winter is nigh. God save your soul. Iggy Pop’s album The Idiot is an exercise in this urban ultramodern dread. It takes the glamor [...]
David Bowie – Low
25 September 2010 by Leave a Comment
It seems simple when you look at first. It’ll even seem simple after you’ve seen it a thousand times. But this album cover of David Bowie’s Low is one of those specimens that points to the music in a very simple way, but also directs the mind to the artist himself. Futurism. Apocalypse. Loneliness. Detainment. [...]
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