Lee Keeler

2 weeks ago | littlevillagemag.com | Lee Keeler

I can’t speak for everyone, but if teenage me found out that there was a secret Playstation clubhouse in my local mall, with an access panel hidden over a toilet, I would have gone through the looking glass in a heartbeat. This is a proposition that 2024 documentary Secret Mall Apartment presents, with Providence, Rhode Island artist Michael Townsend as its white rabbit.

Feb 4, 2025 | boingboing.net | Lee Keeler

It doesn't matter that it's a Tuesday night, or that it's cold by LA standards. The online tickets for RRR sold out three weeks ago and the standby line is 15 people deep. During the winter months this line winds from the Vidiots hallway to the lobby, just past the wall of founders who are honored with their own VHS tape. Patton Oswalt has Tremors. Dana Gould, Pulp Fiction. Joseph Gordon-Levitt got a bootleg copy of Romancing the Stone.

Dec 5, 2024 | businessandamerica.com | Lee Keeler

The films of John Carpenter have earned their place in film history: is the classic. , the guilty pleasure. continues to grow in power every year. At the bottom of this legacy lies . — Read the restThe post Starman at 40: John Carpenter's forgotten sci-fi masterpiece, interview with special effects artist John Rosengrant appeared first on Boing Boing.

Oct 29, 2024 | boingboing.net | Lee Keeler

The Faint arrived at a wonky time in synth history: too late to be considered Devo, but too early for the tidal wave of Hot Chips and LCD Soundsystems. They were just doing their own thing, making black jeans sweaty in every town that they played. They started out as an emo guitar band: there were lilting vocals and jagged Brit-pop riffs and Spock haircuts. Then in 1999, they molted.

Jul 9, 2024 | boingboing.net | Lee Keeler

Guided by Voices are a band who have built an empire with little more than a tape machine and a pallet of beer. There are hundreds of songs, dozens of albums and so many past members that the graph on Wikipedia has started to look like an impossible level of Donkey Kong: Photo Credit: Wikipedia CommonsIf you're already a fan, you can rest assured that there's always going to be someone who likes GBV more than you. They're like Chicago Bears or Tolkien fans that way.