A look back on last year’s resolution with possibly some insight on cultural trends in the music industry. Or maybe just 15 minutes of me plugging my playlists. Either way, happy 2021!

I’m more hesitant than usually because this one wasn’t scripted. I hope you don’t mind.

The music is GarageBand loops except for the song which is my take on the song in Middlewest #10.

Thank you.

This is not what I was supposed to do this week but that’s because it’s more fun than anything I had to say on the other thing. And I really needed to do something fun this week. So here’s a presentation on a few instances of weird fantasy in comics and what they bring to the genre and why they’re so fun and you should totally read them!

Bibliography:

All music by me.

Image by Julieta Mascarella: https://pixabay.com/users/julieta_masc-5768105/

Science-Fiction has long been written off as a runt of literature, a place for immature geeks to put all their weird fetishes or whatever. Let’s try and correct that. Sci-Fi is literature. Here are two proofs of that.

Everythingography

Music credits

All music by me (including a brand new theme, yay!) except the two seconds of Lana Del Rey’s Off to the Races for the Lolita quote.

Taking a closer look at harsh vocals in metal and one specific example (of many potential ones) of it being used brilliantly to express a positive message of social change.

Main theme by me.

I used to think The Cicada and the Ant was a pro-capitalist fable. Now I don't think so anymore. Here are a few good reasons to like Jean de La Fontaine in 2020.

Image: La Cigale et la Fourmi, illustrated by Boutet de Monvel.

Snape = Bad.

You may not agree with that, but hear me out before getting mad. And if you’re not convinced, by all means get mad, I love a Potterfight!

All music performed by me, the main title is my composition and everything else is a personal take on themes written for the Harry Potter films by John Williams.

The third and final episode in a trilogy reviewing my participation in the Pumpkin Autumn Challenge, a reading challenge for which I decided I could only read comics. Last week: Spooky Autumn.

All music by me.

The second in a trilogy reviewing my participation in the Pumpkin Autumn Challenge, a reading challenge for which I decided I could only read comics. Second week: Witchy Autumn.

All music by me.

The first in a trilogy reviewing my participation in the Pumpkin Autumn Challenge, a reading challenge for which I decided I could only read comics. First week: Sweet Autumn.

All music by me.