April 2009
19 posts
WatchEric and I like Pumpers. Pumpers need to Pump! LETS PUMP UP!
~Sam
I like it. It's a very esoteric reference to Final...
This is a blog post to explain the name of our blog and the origins of how we chose it. Four or five years ago, I bought a GBA. I know I am a little behind in the times, but I am not one to shell out big bucks for new systems right away. So along with it, I bought some games. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance was one of those purchases. I immediately fell in love with the Game and am in the midst of...
Well...Gee.
It’ll never be passe to love Andy Warhol.
“Before I was shot, I always thought I was more half-there than all-there — I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it’s the way things happen in life that’s unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and...
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A Happier Star
A few days ago, one of my favorite writers died.
“The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause.” - J.G. Ballard
Ballard’s Crash considerably changed my understandings of what literature can do. This grotesque little novel is about a man who, after...
Franz Kafka's Top 10 Videogames →
Thank God for grand examples of how Videogames and Literature can come together as one beautiful thing! It’s funny that they’re never-ending, incredibly frusturating games!
~ Sam
“Unlike DC, “the Marvel universe has always been set in the ‘real world,’...”
– TRAGICOMICS: Spiderman gets Real by Mike Mallard
So Much Depends On The Red Wheelbarrel
Over in Littleton Mass, local artist Joel Wool put up a sound installation called Sound of Found Art at the Indian Hill Music Center. Here’s a few impressions:
The main component of the installation is a seventeen minute loop of poets reciting various lines from their works. Each line is cut up and overlapping each other, to create a new sound poem. These sounds are also layered over...
Listen Up! , Cause I'm Only Telling You This Once
WELL HEY
heres an intro:
Sam Kusek is one lanky motherfucker. He obsessively reads copious amounts of manga, enjoys the understated surreality of bees partaking in the civil war, and wishes that horses were pokemon and not real animals. Between bike rides and making paintings featuring Dr. Venture, Sam loves all up on his pink-haired girlfriend. Heroes include: Tim Heidecker, Jason Statham,...
