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NERDIST PRESENTS THE HIVE: for a movie about remembering you won’t feel bad about forgetting it.

Lies. All lies. Spoilers for Nerdist Presents The Hive abound within. Also spoiler alert: I didn't like it. Let me preface this by saying: I am a HUGE fan of Nerdist. I love [...]

By |October 16th, 2015|Nerdery Publications|0 Comments

HAUNTED HOUSE PART II: more tunes to make you shake (in both fear and rhythmic fashion)

Halloween’s coming up, so I figure you might need some tunes to pump up your party. Check these bad boys out. Lazer Lazer Lazer & Helix High – Mr. Crackspider If you like Knife Party [...]

By |October 13th, 2015|Nerdery Publications|0 Comments

SMILE MEDICINE: galantis’s album “pharmacy” is super wonderful.

I like happy things. Well, I like things that make me happy. I love horror movies and action and a lot of really dark things. And also I love really really good dance-pop music with [...]

By |October 2nd, 2015|Nerdery Publications|0 Comments

NEST EGGS: some of my favorite releases from skrillex’s NEST label.

It’s pretty damn hard to argue with free music, especially if it’s really GOOD free music. Skrillex (you know, the dubstep guy) started a record label called OWSLA a while back, and a couple of [...]

By |September 15th, 2015|Nerdery Publications|0 Comments

TRAP TUNES THAT DON’T SUCK: volume 1

As a fan of dance music, I get INUNDATED with shitty music on the regular. And a lot of that music ends up falling into the trap category. Trap, in case you don’t know, is [...]

By |September 13th, 2015|Nerdery Publications|0 Comments

the five best episodes of THE IT CROWD

One of my personal favorite TV shows of all time is easily the British Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd. Far better than any show about nerds has any right to be, it follows IT [...]

By |September 7th, 2015|Nerdery Publications|1 Comment

HOTLINE MIAMI: kill ‘em to the beat.

A character puts on a mask, picks up a baseball bat, enters a building, kills a man, steals his gun, kills another man, kills his way through the building till there’s no one left alive, [...]

By |August 23rd, 2015|Nerdery Publications|0 Comments

BLUE JAM: ee arth welcome.

The scariest thing to me has always been disjointed, surrealist things. David Lynch’s work has always unsettled me to no end (the stuff I could get into, anyway). Tim and Eric and Too Many Cooks [...]

By |August 21st, 2015|Nerdery Publications|0 Comments

going against my philosophy: SOME REMAKES/ADAPTATIONS/SEQUELS I’D LOVE TO DO

When I started making films…okay, long after I started, but when I started taking it seriously as A Thing I Wanted To Do, I made myself this promise: “I, Axel Karetna, will never, ever do [...]

By |August 17th, 2015|Nerdery Publications, Uncategorized|0 Comments

SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: if you only see one animated movie this year, make it this one.

Aardman Animation’s Shaun the Sheep started out as a supporting character in the Wallace & Gromit short “A Close Shave”. Since then, he’s gotten his own spin-off series of animated shorts under his own name. [...]

By |August 11th, 2015|Unsung|0 Comments