You like Richard Wagner? His early work was a little too conventional for my taste. But when Rienzi premiered in '42, I think he really came into his own. The whole opera has a grand style that explores the importance of nationalism and strong leadership. He's been compared to Mozart, but I think Wagner is far more innovative and emotionally intense. In '74, Wagner completed this: The Ring of the Nibelung, his most accomplished work, in which death is the…

Listen to the sounds of Winnipeg
The white breathing of a nocturnal city in the sad, sad world

If you're sad and like beer, I'm your lady

Winnipeg has been chosen four years in a row by The London Times as the world's capital of sorrow

- Venetian Snares - Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole

It's a song by a Winnipegger who made it, and an entire album of the same name, as a tribute to his hometown. Listen to…

This has a good motherfuckin' premise: you gotta have one last party with your bitch before you ditch her, maybe give her one last fuckin' foot massage, you know what I'm sayin'? But man, they had to fuck this shit up with meta “jokes” and Kierkegaard references and repetition and shit. And there's no fuckin' depth to it, nothing to explain this relationship or why they splittin' ways. Not much of this shit is funny, interesting, or relatable. These motherfuckers…

I watched this while sleep-deprived, exhausted, and with a bit of a cold. A nap was in the cards, I figured, even though I chose the 4th row in front of the largest screen I could find in my city. For the first half-hour, my poor underslept brain wanted to reject this as 'AAAAH WHY IS THIS SO LOUD'.

But this movie is so good that it healed me and led me to PARADISE. After the first 40 minutes, I…