18. From Up on Poppy Hill (Goro Miyazaki, 2011) Times watched: 1 Or Goro’s redemption, if that’s how you care to think about it. From Up on Poppy Hill is a light comedy that never tries too hard but accomplishes everything it aims for. It felt at risk of the same one-dimensi...
Mario Party 5: The hill and Fortress sprites from Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels are reused in the minigame Panic Pinball. Mario Party 7: The ? Block and Brick Block sprites from Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels are reused in the min...
We walk down the hill for lunch at his favorite local trattoria. It’s full of large families enjoying Sunday dinner. “Sit over there,” he tells me, “so you won’t have to look at the babies.” Kids run in and out and between the tables, getting into fights. “Alessandro was su...
Signal Hill 12 votes Signal Hill is a 4-piece instrumental rock band originally from Los Angeles, California; half of the members relocated to New York City in 2010. Despite the geographical separation, they continue to collaborate on song writing from each coast. The band records its albums ...
“Yes, the hill of gravestones swelling like a blister pushing out a fingernail.” (“This is Prague.”) “[R]ounds of lace / so tortuously delicate you would have guessed the women / had taken their needles to a mound of snow, shaving a lean gauze / from where it settled, perfectl...
Mario and Donkey Kong work together to put the body in a barrel, roll it down a hill, and create a cover story. Mario later asks if DK is related to King Kong, and he replies that he is not, as "Kong" is a common name in the woman-grabbing ape world. All the dialogue is ...
David Hill, in the notes to the texts of thecomplete lute songs of John Dowland, published by Mignarda Editions, paraphrases the two verses of the song: “Continue, then, to despise me and fend me off. This will ensure that I love you for ever: he who once possesses his mistress (...
My energy has been drawn elsewhere the past few months, as evidenced by the longest-ever pause in between essays across the twelve-year history of The Hillhouse. It strikes me a bit incongruous that at a time when I’m not on the hook for driving a kid to and from school, when I ...
Crystal Castles “Celestica” Fiction 89 Where Crystal Castles’ debut wallowed in glitchy, 8-bit distortion and frantic punk-electronica, the duo’s follow-up took those elements and put them on ice. “Celestica” is a perfect example of the shift into steely territory: bac...
In the meantime, he was scaring the pants off Easties from Beacon Hill to Chinatown. When Oliver had gotten the photographer’s SOS, he fired up his time machine. It was a long way from Perry, Ohio, and his time machine had long ago gone clanky like an old AMC Rambler, but he ...