Surya Gupta

To me, Trigun should be in the same breath as Cowboy Bebop when it comes 90s anime nostalgia. That is probably because of my personal bias towards the series as it's one of my favorites. Yasuhiro Nightow's Space Western is the opposite of Cowboy Bebop's Space Western, Trigun is set in the future, on a desert planet, Cowboy Bebop is set in the future, in space. They both involve gun-fights, bounty hunters, lone wanderers, basically the anatomy of the now-old Westerns flicks America (and...

This is like really late (by a month) but oh well. Album cover for Yasmine Hamdan's I Remember I Forget Last year I had a resolution to listen to more music than my three artists in rotation (Bruce Springsteen, Mitski, and U2) and I think I did a decent job, so here are my top five favorite albums I discovered last year. They range from new releases to old stuff I finally got around to! To start us off, George Harrison's first solo album post-Beatles breakup: All Things Must Pass is my fifth...

Still from Ritwak Ghatak's "My Lenin" a Documentary short film from 1970s Bengal. These past few month I've inadvertently fallen into the role of "projector" for my friend's dorm hangouts. I'll hook my laptop to the tv and spend hours showing music, tv shows, movies, Wikipedia articles, whatever ends up the object of our conversation. I'll occasionally pull up a film from my watchlist and throw it on, or start explaining the Kuleshov Effect, it's almost like teaching a class on nothing and...