Hello, my name is Kraig and this is where I'm going to dump my thoughts on various bits of art and media, usually in the form of retrospective. I aim to ...
Look it was either this or the Pac-Man TV show, and I have a lot of crap ahead of me, so I’d rather start by watching something interesting. Tron, released on July 9th, 1982, is the brainchild of Steven Lisberger of furry classic Animalympics (1980). The film is an original story, so I'm going to have to forgo any adaptation discussion and measure it just as a movie. So uh, does anyone remember…
In 1868, writer John William De Forest wrote about the Great American Novel, which he reckoned hadn't been written yet. To him, the GAN would "Paint the American Souls" and capture that which is distinctly American within it's bindings. There have been claimants to the title, such as Moby Dick and The Great Gatsby, and no one would ever deny that USA hasn't produced great literature, but the…