And it has been happening for a while — Ok, I get it: everyone agrees that the latest season of Black Mirror sucked. The shock value and clever critique of our relationship with technology is long gone in favor of much blander stories. …

One of the most heinous crime when it comes to alternative musicians — If you asked me last week about it, I would have said that I’ll be there for you was the only notable song by The Rembrandts. …

Things that happen when you write without a long-term plan — I’m not sure whether it’s appropriate to say that Manifest is my guilty pleasure. I mean, I’ve been spending the second half of the show wondering why I was still watching, and even expressing frustration out loud from time to time. …

A curious and long-overdue experiment — I’m sure I’m not the first writer who attempted such a thing. In my defence, OpenAI has been blocked for about a month here in Italy due to privacy-related concerns, and it was only a couple of weeks ago that it came back online. Still, the experiment I made tonight…

The Hives’ “Bogus Operandi” is the ear-worm you didn’t know you needed. — I’ve been in desperate need of something new to listen to for the past 4–5 weeks. It’s a feeling I know very well because it happens right when the charm of the latest ear-worm begins to fade away and before you know the need to find a new one arises. …

The peculiar story of “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?” — For some reason, I’ve always associated R.E.M. with newscasts. Maybe it’s Michael Stipe that reminds me of an anchorman (don’t ask me why, I don’t know either), or maybe it’s the fact that the music video of theirs that I remember more clearly is the one from Bad Day. …

If you can’t join them, burn ’em down — “I can’t believe I’m not a member of the French aristocracy. I bear the name of Valois, one of the most famous families, for Heavens’ sake.” Jeanne de Saint-Rémy de Valois must have repeated this phrase to herself a lot, and in a certain sense it was true she hadn’t…

It’s impossible not to look at the two horror games side by side — Back in 2015, Until Dawn was quite a novelty in the gaming scene. Not because of some groundbreaking new technology or for the astounding realism of its setting (even though it still holds up seven and a half years later). What set it apart from other AAA titles was the…

The difficult relationship with youth naiveté — I was about to start college when Paramore’s Misery Business came out. I didn’t fall in love immediately with the song for several reasons. Not only had I already expanded my musical taste and knowledge far beyond pop-punk at that point, but for some reason, I already considered it as…