Genre Bender Gautier Milewski

A look back on last year’s resolution with possibly some insight on cultural trends in the music industry. Or maybe just 15 minutes of me plugging my playlists. Either way, happy 2021!

I’m more hesitant than usually because this one wasn’t scripted. I hope you don’t mind.



The music is GarageBand loops except for the song which is my take on the song in Middlewest #10.



Thank you.

This is not what I was supposed to do this week but that’s because it’s more fun than anything I had to say on the other thing. And I really needed to do something fun this week. So here’s a presentation on a few instances of weird fantasy in comics and what they bring to the genre and why they’re so fun and you should totally read them!

Bibliography:


The Ludocrats by Kieron Gillen and Jim Rossignol (writers), Jeff Stokely (artist), Tamra Bonvillain (colorist), Clayton Cowles (letterer)
I Hate Fairyland by Skottie Young (writer and artist), Jean-François Beaulieu (colorist), Nate Piekos (letterer)
Coda by Simon Spurrier (writer), Matías Bergara (artist), Michael Doig (colorist), Colin Bell (letterer)



All music by me.

Image by Julieta Mascarella: https://pixabay.com/users/julieta_masc-5768105/

Science-Fiction has long been written off as a runt of literature, a place for immature geeks to put all their weird fetishes or whatever. Let’s try and correct that. Sci-Fi is literature. Here are two proofs of that.

Everythingography


Fine Prey by Scott Westerfeld (novel I analysed)
Bruna Husky by Rosa Montero (book series I analysed)
Archeologies of the Future by Frederic Jameson (essay I mentioned)
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (short story collection I recommended)
Blade Runner by Ridley Scott (movie I quoted 42 words from)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (novel I used as introduction)
Off to the Races by Lana del Rey (song quoting the incipit of former for fun please don’t sue me for copyright infringement)

Music credits

All music by me (including a brand new theme, yay!) except the two seconds of Lana Del Rey’s Off to the Races for the Lolita quote.

Taking a closer look at harsh vocals in metal and one specific example (of many potential ones) of it being used brilliantly to express a positive message of social change.


Song credits:
- Atreyu - “Do You Know Who You Are”
- Within Temptation - “Enter”
- The Agonist - “The Tempest (The Siren’s Song; The Banshee’s Cry)”
- Veil of Maya - “Mikasa”
- Slipknot - "Duality" (used as a joke every time I say the word “duality”)

Main theme by me.

I used to think The Cicada and the Ant was a pro-capitalist fable. Now I don't think so anymore. Here are a few good reasons to like Jean de La Fontaine in 2020.


Quoted text:
- La Cigale et la fourmi by Jean de La Fontaine
- The Cicada and the Ant by Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Robert Thomson.

Image: La Cigale et la Fourmi, illustrated by Boutet de Monvel.