Boy Meets Girl (aNti.goals remix)

New SoundCloud page

I set up a new SoundCloud page for myself, check it out: http://soundcloud.com/anti-goals

Unibrows – Damonjalis LIVE!

Enjoy my band, Unibrows, performing ‘Damonjalis’ LIVE at Firehouse 13 in Providence, Rhode Island.

Quick Movie Review: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

This is a fun anime movie that sort of has a Hayao Miyazaki meets “Groundhog Day” vibe to it. The animation is simple, fluid and fun to look at. It has a good plot with an interesting twist on time travel, although there are some scenes that are quite monotonous (a large portion of movie revolves around 3 people playing catch with a baseball, and this scene is revisited many times). The movie is only a little over an hour and a half long but it still seemed to sort of drag at the end. All in all, I would highly recommend this movie to fans of anime.

Dean’s Dream – Dead Milkmen cover

I love this song. Hope you enjoy my cover!

Random Sketches

Found an old sketchbook, that’s always fun! Here are some random sketches – sorry for the low quality, I just took pictures with my phone. Most of these are concept sketches for a short story I was writing at the time about a race of vampires that would harrass a nearby tribal village. Enjoy!

Quick Movie Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Let me start out by saying that I saw this movie without having read the book, so I will not be able to compare the two. I will be reviewing this as a movie alone. I found this movie to be very entertaining and engrossing. I mean, this movie is 2 hours and 53 minutes long(!) and I was into it the whole time. There are not many 3 hour movies that can hold my attention (or even need to be that long for that matter) but this movie is an exception.

The most interesting part of the movie is the main character, Lisbeth Salander (played by Noomi Rapace); a very strong, independent woman with a unique look. She is a employed as a professional computer hacker for a private security company, and for some reason (that is not explained in the movie) she has what is called a ‘guardian’. Apparently, in Sweden there is a system in place where people have these ‘guardians’ which seem similar to parole officers, and this person has the ability to control Lisbeth’s monetary assets and basically control her. Now, I’m not familiar with this foreign system and like I said the reason behind why she has this guardian is not well explained in the movie. I may have missed it somehow but I can only assume she committed some kind of crime. Anyway, despite the confusion these scenes with the guardian are quite compelling and are some of the most memorable in the entire movie. She hates his guts and it will not be long before you do too.

The plot of the movie revolves around a man name Mikael Blomkvist (played by Michael Nyqvist). He is a investigative journalist who has been convicted of libel and is sentenced to 3 months in prison. For some reason, he has 6 months to wait and walk around freely before serving his sentence. Again, this is not well explained and I can only chalk it up to laws being different in Sweden. He eventually meets up with Lisbeth through a series of events and together they have a nice little murder mystery/missing persons case to solve. This aspect of the plot is very well written and interesting, made all the more so by the fact that the movie has spent quite a bit of time developing the main characters by this point; you feel empathy of the characters, especially Lisbeth. The mystery plot sort of reminded me of The DaVinci Code or National Treasure, only darker.

I really liked this movie, but watching it I couldn’t help but feel that it just wasn’t made for me. I feel like the movie was meant to be watched under the assumption that you had read the book, which I haven’t. There were things that were sort of glossed over or unexplained that I have to think must be clearer in the book, especially the ending. On it’s own, however, it’s a solid movie that is made all the better by the deep characters and I am very much looking forward to learning more about Lisbeth Salander in the sequels.