Nick Luciano received a Master’s in Music Theory from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. An avid film fan, Nick loves Tarkovsky, Tartakovsky, Tchaikovsky, and everything in between (stylistically that is, not alphabetically).
The following contains spoilers for both Invincible S1E1 and the Invincible comic book. Almost 20 years after its debut, the blood-spattered superhero comic Invincible by Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), Corey Walker, and Ryan Ottley is getting a worthy adaptation on Amazon Prime. To quote the title of S1E1, exclaimed by the the eponymous Invincible […] More
The following contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Invincible, S1E3, and the Invincible comic book. Invincible S1E3 “Who You Calling Ugly?” begins differently than the previous two episodes: we aren’t treated to a framing sequence with Jon Hamm’s Steve outside of the home of another head of state. Instead, the episode begins with a […] More
Welcome back to Sports Obsessive. Today, I will be ranking the greatest receiver debuts since Randy Moss. This season, receivers Stefon Diggs and DeAndre Hopkins set the league on fire in their debuts with their new teams. Their performances were so impressive that they recalled one of the greatest receiving seasons we have ever seen: […] More
Bob’s Burgers has been a breakout hit in recent years. Its quirky characters, sense of humor, and digestible stories have contributed to a following similar to The Office, where fans frequently watch the entire show all the way through numerous times. One of those fans is my wife. I definitely enjoy the show, but not […] More
More than a decade before the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the DC Animated Universe produced a groundbreaking and successful shared universe with some of the greatest animated series of all time. I loved several of the shows in the DCAU while I was growing up—Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Static Shock, […] More
Making sense of the world is one of the defining themes of David Byrne’s music. Lyrics explicitly talk about things making or not making sense appear in his Talking Heads songs “Making Flippy Floppy,” “Girlfriend is Better,” and “Here” from the American Utopia studio album. Sometimes, as Byrne recounts during the show, he examines the idea […] More
With an undeniably distinct sound and a body of work spanning everything from groundbreaking operas to chamber music to Oscar-nominated film scores, Philip Glass is one of the world’s best-known living composers. Because of his mainstream popularity, he is probably the most commercially successful practitioner of a musical subgenre called minimalism. However, the recent rediscovery […] More
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