It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the constant stream of articles, posts, and tweets. It’s hard to know what you should read, and more importantly, what you’ve missed. To help with that, Opus subscribers get a list of each month’s most notable posts and reviews (i.e., the Reader’s Digest version of Opus).
February 1: February 2020’s Best Streaming Titles: Blade Runner, Shaun the Sheep, Say Anything, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Coming soon: One of the greatest sci-fi films of all time, Aardman animation, classic John Cusack, uniformed hijinks, and more.
February 2: Secret Stairways’ Enchantment of the Ring Elevates Dungeon Synth To a New Level (Review)
Originally released in 1997, these eight ambient pieces put much of modern dungeon synth music to shame.
February 3: Satanic Pregnancies and Miscarriages, Explained
Some responses to Paula White’s “satanic miscarriage” prayer revealed simple ignorance concerning her theology.
February 4: Bearing Witness
I want people to remember the websites of yore, and I want their creators to know their efforts were appreciated.
February 4: Opus Subscription Drive (February 2020)
Subscribers play an important role in supporting Opus while getting some nice exclusive benefits.
February 5: Disney’s Black Hole: A Flawed, Fascinating Sci-Fi Epic
Though plagued by some tonal shifts, the movie’s visual splendor and outright weirdness can’t be denied.
February 6: A Trip Down (Web Development) Memory Lane
Sometimes it’s easy to forget just how much CSS offers today’s web developers.
February 9: Revisiting the Filming Locations of The Wraith
A fascinating bit of cultural archaeology.
February 11: Streams by State Azure (Review)
This four-hour collection of improvised ambient/electronic music is as spacious and expansive as its cosmic cover art suggests.
February 12: The Silver Surfer Cartoon Brought Cosmic Weirdness to ‘90s Saturday Mornings
Trippy visuals, ambitious stories, and melodramatic dialog captured the spirit of one of Marvel’s greatest and noblest heroes.
February 13: “Texas Sun” by Khruangbin & Leon Bridges
The perfect track for sauntering through ghost towns in the Texas panhandle.
February 16: Cave Vaults on the Moon in New Mexico by Tan Cologne (Review)
This is music for ambling through wide open spaces that aren’t encumbered by the detritus of urban sprawl.
February 17: Topographies’ Difference & Repetition Perfectly Invokes the Specter of Early ’80s Post-Punk (Review)
If you’re a fan of ethereal guitars, icy synths, Cure-ish basslines, and haunting vocals, then this is your new favorite EP.
February 21: Silver Surfer: Black Is a Trippy, Existential Story About Preserving Light in the Darkness (Review)
Donny Cates and Tradd Moore have delivered an epic Silver Surfer tale that looks unlike anything else out there.
February 27: Watch the First Trailer for Amazon’s Tales From the Loop
The Amazon original is inspired by Simon Stålenhag’s fantastical artwork.
February 28: Ephemeral Love by Knight Sabers (Review)
Knight Sabers’ future funk is the perfect music for relaxing after a hard day of fighting rogue mecha on the streets of Mega Tokyo.
Click here to see everything I published on Opus in the month of February 2020.
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