Sonic Cinema

I’ve been trying to think of what I wanted to write about beyond the usual lists that go into this blog. This year cannot really be summed up easily, as there were a lot of highs with a few lows, some that really made for difficult questions with regards to cinema and the act of […]

This year has been a challenging one. My schedule, both at home, and at work, changed in a lot of ways, sometimes making watching films for this series (and in general) difficult. I was behind much of the time. Yet, I persevered, mainly because I just enjoy doing this series too much. This year, I […]

Last year, I was given the chance to listen to, and review, an album entitled, “Passing Through Veils,” by a good friend of mine, Darren Nelsen. A year later, I finally got around to doing so. The reasons for the delay are one part pure laziness, but also, listening to music for the purpose of […]

Now, the question of everyone’s mind is, “Can he finish writing about Dragon*Con BEFORE the end of September?” Okay, maybe that’s just a question going on in MY mind, but after I failed to finish my Dragon*Con blogs in 2011 until December, it is a question worth asking. Last year, I just had a hard […]

“Brian Skutle’s passion is for storytelling, be it through music, film, or creative writing, with the story dictating the medium that best brings it to life. In his music, though, it may not be a specific story that inspires him, but a feeling. A sense of longing; of mystery; of tension; of serenity; of sensuality; […]

This year, the ninth for my “mostly” annual October horror movie marathon (I skipped 2007 on account of being in the hospital half of the month), has been an interesting one for a lot of reasons. We took in an unexpected, but welcome, houseguest for most of the month, which required some adaptation, but brought […]

I told myself I wasn’t going to wait so long on these blogs this year. If you recall, last year it took several months for me to finish up my blogs about my Dragon*Con experience. The reasons for such a delay included a bit of laziness, but more often than not, an emotionally-wrought few months […]

Since I first went in 2009, Atlanta’s Dragon*Con fantasy convention has become a staple of my life. It’s the closest thing to a yearly holiday I have, and it’s, in a way, more important a moment for celebration than my birthday. That sounds terrible, but in reality, it’s very true. The 2012 edition turned out […]

I don’t know what it was about July and August that made me so, for lack of a better word, lazy about going to the movies. I worked a lot of day shifts at the theatre, so going to a movie after work should have been a no-brainer. However, after a relatively strong start in […]

It’s been said by people much smarter (and more knowledgeable) than I am (like Roger Ebert and Francois Truffaut) that the experience of watching a film is one that can be not just entertaining but deeply profound, truly cathartic, and singularly moving. Of course, it helps with me that I’ve been practically obsessed with cinema […]