Recent content by Zach

Ah, well, it was probably for the best. Like most great shows, Futurama wasn't the same after returning from cancellation. I fondly remember my junior high and early high school days when I would watch the show on Adult Swim. It will always be special to me.

I don't know. I personally detest social media (I'm damned close to deleting my Facebook account and I will never have a Twitter), but I'm also leaning more towards spending less time online altogether. I used to spend an inordinate amount of time on message boards, but I've changed a lot over...

I don't think so. I've never been one to demand that the cartoons I watch affirm my maturity. I tend to believe that the best animation appeals to viewers of all ages, but, with perhaps the exception of programming aimed at toddlers, I'm not immediately turned off by something simply because it...

Cartoon Network has been semi-unwatchable to me for several years now. As a kid, the network was teeming with a mixture of great, original programming and excellent syndicated shows. It's now largely devoid of quality cartoons - the best stuff on the network tends to be reruns from earlier eras.

Well played, sir.

I'm rare in that I don't care much for either FPS games or JRPGs. There are a few titles in each genre I'll play, but I find that most of them are boring and derivative. I won't pretend to have a solid reason for shooters' lack of success in Japan, but the gun control argument isn't bad. Guns...

Nope. :D That may have been true in the past, but I'd say that the campaign has worked - we're pretty much all aware that smoking is dangerous. Therefore, I don't see the point of putting these grotesque labels on packages that everyone will have to see anytime they walk into a gas station when...

No, you don't. Anyone who has been through the public school system in the past two or three decades has been beat over the head with the fact that smoking is bad for you. It is common knowledge that smoking leads to a host of various health issues. There isn't some massive contingent of smokers...

This series is damning evidence that people shouldn't attempt to replicate something as hallowed as Looney Tunes. The people that understood what made the original shorts great - those who created them - aren't here any longer. No one is going to recreate the original magic.

During my short stint as a music major I struggled with my piano classes. I guess I understand why universities require them but I wasn't too enthused with it.

Pearl Jam is as close a thing as there is to my favorite band. A lot of people lost interest in them starting in the mid-nineties, but their output has been consistently brilliant over their twenty-year career. I'm just waiting until they come back down South so I can finally see them live.

I wouldn't say that they don't have imagination... just that they understand that movie reality is different from comic book reality.

I won't pass full judgment until I see the show, but so far this looks like a stinker. I've been watching DVDs of classic Looney Tunes the past few days, and nothing I've seen from the clips of the new show suggests that it'll be able to approach the original shorts. The animation looks...

I'm not too familiar with the economics behind the music industry, but I have to imagine that selling music digitally is less rewarding for musicians financially. While a large chunk of LP/CD sales have always gone to people other than the artists, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they're...

My favorite album of all time is probably "Music From the Adventures of Pete and Pete" by Polaris, which was an off-shoot of 80s college rock group Miracle Legion. Obscure stuff, but some of the best music I've ever heard in my life. Mark Mulcahy is a great songwriter and is well-respected by...