10 Years Later: Kanye West’s The College Dropout
10 years have passed since Kanye West released his groundbreaking, paradigm shifting debut album. Before he was a God, he was just a college dropout. Hip Hop hasn’t been the same since. Read More …
Month: February 2014
Slender Man: Can An Entity So Intrinsically “Internet” Be Cinema?
Do you know about Slender Man? If not, you may want to stop reading now for your own safety. In a media environment ruled by what can get the most clicks, that’s a pretty counterintuitive opener, I know. But that’s what’s so great about the Read More …
The All-Or-Nothing Game of Kickstarter
Kickstarter, the crowdfunding website platform for creative projects, has changed the way things get made. Fans can directly finance books, albums, video games, and all sorts of other enterprises, and artists can focus on the work they love without worrying about pitching to various publishers, Read More …
JUST DANDY: Valentine’s Double Date!
Taking a break from committing suicide with food, Mike Pfeiffer will absolutely answer your questions on anything you put in the digital mailbag of justdandy@deadshirt.net. Regardless of whether or not you think Mike is a mature adult, this column is probably best for Mature Adults. As a Mature Read More …
The Trashford Files: The Fritos® Chicken Enchilada Melt
From their perch in Sharkatraz atop the tallest apartment building in Astoria, Max Robinson and Mike Pfeiffer are The Trash Boys. In The Trashford Files, they investigate and review foods that are normally best eaten alone drunk in the dark after a breakup. The Gastronomic Read More …
The Path of The Mini-Fig Hero: A Review of The LEGO Movie
It’s not really clear why “toys as mult-million dollar blockbusters” is a strong trend right now. A lack of ideas? Easy corporate synergy? Whatever the case, the end result of this movement towards “movie versions of plastic stuff” has given us three (coming on four) Read More …
“After The Disco” – Broken Bells’ Post-Party Hangover
James Mercer and Brian Burton first hooked up in 2010, three years into a seemingly endless hiatus for the Shins and hot off Danger Mouse collaborations with Beck, Sparklehorse, and the Black Keys. Their eponymous LP, Broken Bells, was something of a curio – Mercer’s Read More …
Beat Report: My Week With Beats Music
I remember several months to a year ago hearing about some partnership between Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and Beats By Dre to create some new music service. I recall being incredibly dismissive of the news, as the Beats brand to me was synonymous Read More …
Deadshirt is Reading…Teen Marvels, Androgynous Hunks and Gun-Havers
Deadshirt Is Reading… is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt’s staff, contributing writers and friends-of-the-site offer their thoughts on a diverse array of comics, from name-brand cape titles to creator-owned books to webcomics. Christina Harrington is reading… Ms. Marvel #1 Written by G. Willow Wilson Art Read More …
Private Eye, Robot: An Interview with Copernicus Jones Writer Matt D. Wilson
By Jason Urbanciz Matt D. Wilson is maybe best known for his long collaboration with the nefarious supervillain King Oblivion PhD, publishing two how-to books with the evil mastermind, The Supervillain Handbook and The Supervillain Field Manual. After breaking free from Oblivion’s underground lair, Matt, who Read More …