Warming Up to Amon Düül II’s “Yeti”: Prog Review #41
It was a wonderful surprise that I was into Amon Düül II’s Yeti (1970) from moment one.
Halfway to Soft Machine’s “Third”: Prog Review #40
There’s something unfair about this entire project of listening to an album with the purpose of generating content, a review that both forms a judgment of the artist and some pithy observations about music, culture in general, or myself.
“Over/Under”: Pixar Edition
Setting the record straight on the best and worst Pixar movies.
War is for Children: Star Trek TOS, S1Ep18, "The Squire of Gothos"
An entertaining meditation on the childish nature of war with more subtlety than is characteristic of the show.
The Limits of AI for Writing
All these problems speak to the immense gulf between AI writing and the stuff put out by actual people. Many of us are focused on the I part of AI—intelligence. But it’s the artificial we need to understand better.
Facing Porcupine Tree’s “Fear of a Blank Planet”: Prog Review #39
Porcupine Tree’s Fear of Blank Planet left me in fear of a blank page.