I like Punk music... or rather I like a lot of what Punk music I've heard. It's a period I still associate with the end of the 1970s and I think it can get caught up with a lot of other styles, New Wave and what would become Goth, and New Romantic. Often we present that as a linear thing, but I'm not convinced it was. I suspect that most of them were just there, bubbling away and coming up in a series of events. It is confusing. I love Tom Rollins Band's Power in the Darkness, and it appears on Punk anthologies... but it's not actually Punk. Which is a pain, because I like the song (and sod it have Power as a freebie anyway because the rant is brilliant). I've tried to avoid bands who became Goth later on, or American Punks (the latter simply because I don't like their music as much). It is difficult, there's a lot of crossover between scenes, something that makes me feel I may be being controversial by choosing a New Model Army track. UK Decay g...
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This post is part rant, part commentary. I fear it's uninformed, misinformed and orphaned. It comes from a part of me that has watched internet science enthusiasts wax lyrical, long and loud, over the indignities that their love is subjected to by the media and by general knowledge. There are videos railing against how unscientific Science Fiction often is, or how terrible the reporting of science is in the news. I can understand why this irks, though I feel that in many cases the complaints miss the point and that in the modern age very little is factually reported or without spin. There is a plethora of sexing up and soundbite media as the networks and newspapers grow more desperate for an audience. The received wisdom is that the internet is killing traditional media, and this hasn't helped with communicating anything complex. Added to the fact that newspapers, in particular, are shedding journalists and sub editors like nobody's business (though not I note editors...
The end of Phase 2 left the MCU in a strange place. Introducing the first non-American superhero in the form of Black Panther suggests that the movies are going to take a more international flavour from now on, something that introducing the Ancient One in Dr. Strange certainly hints at. The situation is more complex, with the official Avengers team potentially down to being Team Iron Man and nothing else, and Team Cap in the wind, presumably spreading out all over the globe to deal with stuff under the radar. Given that Thor and Hulk are presumably off planet at this point, I assume we won't see them get involved in the events on Earth until Avengers 3, at which point it will be interesting to see which way they go on the Sokovia Accords. In the meantime, we should remember that Marvel actually has a lot of work to do to get the stage set for Thanos' invasion. We still do not know where two of the Infinity Stones are (Time and Soul respectively), and as the details of the se...