Popcorn Zombies

Graham Craycraft “Care for Me” is the second official album by Chicago based rapper Saba released on April 5, 2018. Saba had early underground success with his 2013 mixtape project “ComfortZone” and a feature on Chance the Rapper’s “Acid Rap” song “Everybody’s Something.” “ComfortZone” was my first prolonged exposure to Saba and I was immediately drawn in and held consistently through that work. Although Saba has had a hard time really making his name in the world of ever growing hip-hop rap, he is putting out stuff that is better than any of the trap garbage that the rap scene is being tortured with. Saba is a groovy hip-hop and rap artist whose lyrics are as interesting and creative as his lilting beats. “Care for Me” has the same kind of vibe that Saba is known for, but he steps up the flow and tricks in each song. Saba, like other Chicago based rappers of this current time such as Chance the Rapper, keeps a continuous flow that at one moment contradicts the beat, and t...

A Quiet Place is the talk of the horror movie world right now, and for good reason. Part of the reason that critics are loving it so much is that it fulfills every one of their checklist items for good horror/sci-fi: plenty of gut-wrenching tension, involving human drama, purposeful use of silence, showing that sometimes what is unseen is scarier than what is seen, "less is more" in terms of gore and drawn-out violence, etc. Through no fault of his own really, to say I am shocked at how good John Krasinski's writing and directing was for this creature feature is a major understatement. A horror movie that presses so heavily on the importance of being silent may seem like a gimmick, but it is explained very well throughout the movie. Being that it takes place in the near future and involves an alien invasion of Earth, one can only expect so much realism. But none of the characters' actions seemed too implausible to me- the acting was excellent all the way aro...

Graham Craycraft I have been letting this album sink in for a little while before giving it a written review. Jack White released his third solo album titled “Boarding House Reach” through his own record label Third Man Records. After leaving The White Stripes, White continued work with his bands The Dead Weather and The Raconteurs, but also made some killer stuff under his own name. His freshman album “Blunderbuss” was up there with the best songwriting and guitar playing from the White Stripes. His second album “Lazaretto” for the most part was just a solid piece with a few pretty good stand outs. With how solid these first two albums were I was pretty stoked for everything else White was going to be releasing. Let me start this section of the review by saying that I am pretty much a Jack White fanboy. I love all of his White Stripes’ work and a good portion of his work with his other two bands. So when he went solo and began with an album of the caliber “Blunderbuss”,...