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Writer at Crunchyroll, Polygon, WIRED, Vulture, GamesRadar, Inverse, Pokemon, Paste Magazine and other places / Rep'd by Aevitas Creative / Author of Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught A Generation To Catch Them All / Picked Charmander
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I love your list! And I agree - the zombie genre thrives whenever someone decides to just take whatever resources they have and experiment.
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"IT'S TIME. IT'S VADER TIME."
Me: Ahh...poetry.
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That's a good prompt!
Hillbilly Hare
Rebel Rabbit
Daffy Doodles
A Fractured Leghorn
What's Up Doc
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Thank you!
And yeah, Bill is one of my favorites. He's got so much tragedy attached - he just wants a place, past or present, to fit in.
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It's been fun revisiting the show for this piece (and others to come). Hank Hill is a great TV Dad - constantly falling into and then trying to break cycles of clumsy masculinity, wrangling his feelings about his own toxic father, learning that he's part of a big community whether he likes it or not
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I think the series kind of wears itself out about a half-dozen seasons in, so it doesn't make for a great start-to-finish binge watch. That said, as a collection of these quirky short stories about learning to adapt to change in a small town, it's fantastic.
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I'm not gonna spoil too much. It's a good read and far from a literary "hit job" that I've seen some describe it as. Check it out!
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It's a great one! As I wrote in MK, it's the closest the dub got to a Pokemon-esque power ballad opening.
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I can see that! Though Apocalypse/Heart of Darkness is about the horrors wrought by colonialism and Deliverance feels like "What if the colonizers left after they thought they ran the world and then came back?"
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Infinitely listenable tune. Maybe the best anime theme in the whole monster-collecting genre.
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Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
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I'm glad I could help you out then (though the dub theme owns)
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I reread V For Vendetta very early this year and I thought some of the fascist bits were a little cartooney and then, welp
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I loooooove Sato's stuff
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"Godzilla vs the Sea Monster" maaaaaay have been my first, actually! Either that, "Godzilla vs Gigan" or "Godzilla vs The Cosmic Monster." Regardless, all Fukuda. I adore them.
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Also, as a kid, his films were often way more easily available on VHS than Honda's. So most of my earliest Godzilla memories were Fukuda films. It was a great first lesson in monster flicks.
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Honestly, I do this a lot when I push mow the lawn. Feels nice!
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also underrated. america should consider adopting it
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I think about the scene with the Sheriff (played by the book's towering author James Dickey) a lot: "Don't come back up here. I'd kinda like to see this town die peaceful." It's profoundly troubling, as if the men have awakened some kind of ugliness that needs to remain hidden. Great movie.
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John Boorman's direction is both mystical and harrowingly taut. He understands the lure of the brochure-ready wilderness. And then as soon as the shit goes down, he pulls it out from under us like we've lost our map.
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But the leering "He got a real pretty mouth, ain't he?" of it all reveals that our "progress" means nothing. Emerging from the wild did not mean that we bested it. It simply made us forget that some of our worst, most primal fears were possible.
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Even the survivalist Lewis (played by Burt Reynolds in a breakout role) isn't prepared for what is to come. His idea of "roughing it" is based around physically overcoming obstacles. Neither him nor his pals are prepared to be emasculated.
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In the beginning, most of the lead characters look at this "backwoods" locale, with its sense of unknowable ancient-ness like a kind of theme park. Look and comment under your breath about the uncultured other - How far we've come from that.
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Thank you! Thought a lot about adding that one, as it's good and probably Snyder's overall best.
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I remember first hearing "Particle Man" on the 25 anniversary collection which led me to obsess over They Might Be Giants for an entire year of high school.
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Anyway, it's a well-deserved retirement. Long live Demento.
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(Sidenote: I even submitted some of my own terrible comedy songs and parodies. As far as I know, they never got airtime. It's for the best, really.)
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I listened to a lot of Demento and Demento-adjacent music as a teen and while much of it was an attempt to nibble at the crust of the Weird Al Parody Industrial Complex, there were so many other times that I became more actively curious about music as an art. What were they attempting to do?