about this blog

This is a place for arts and entertainment reviews, criticism, musing, and -- let's be honest -- ranting. You'll find casual remarks as well as more academic and more thorough pieces. I often read reviews and criticism online, from accredited so-called professionals, and feel compelled to point out all of the ways in which they're so often horribly wrong. (How can people who do this for a living totally miss the point of so many works?) So it's quite likely you'll also find many review reviews. (It's a compulsion.) It is my firm opinion that most reviews reveal more about the critic than the subject of the review. I am, of course, no exception, but I make it my goal to be as fair as possible. Even an amateur critic's job is to review the quality of something based on its flaws and merits, not on his/her own personal hangups. We all have our frames of reference, but we don't have to dismiss something as crap just because we either didn't like it or, more often (as seems to be the case), didn't get it.

Most often, I will probably make posts related to movies and music. For movies, any genre is game, from classics to new releases. Music posts are most likely to be related to alternative, as well as classical and film scores. I may also post about books, but as I don't always have time to read and have a habit of re-reading the same books over and over, those posts may be somewhat few and far between. Meanwhile, feel free to make recommendations or requests, if so inclined.