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Mike Schiller
PopMatters Multimedia Editor
About Mike Schiller
Mike Schiller is a software engineer in Buffalo, NY who enjoys filling the free time he finds with media of any sort -- music, movies, and lately, video games. Stepping into the role of PopMatters Multimedia editor in 2006 after having written music and game reviews for two years previous, he has renewed his passion for gaming to levels not seen since his fondly-remembered college days of ethernet-enabled dorm rooms and all-night Goldeneye marathons. His three children unconditionally approve of their father's most recent set of obsessions.
Features
Music
[4.Jan.08] :. The recently-released David Bowie Box documents the ten years or so before Bowie's heart attack, during which he worked his way through his midlife crisis.
Recent features
Featured Article
 Music
[23.Aug.07] :. For anyone who experienced the heyday of Nirvana, it's still surreal that the lanky, string-haired drummer is the guy who'd be on magazine covers and writing #1 rock radio hits 15 years later.
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Columns
Moving Pixels
[1.May.08] :. "Interfacing" is Moving Pixels' way of taking a look at the tenuous relationship between the gaming world and the real world, and the awkwardness and enlightenment that the intersections between the two can achieve.
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Reviews
Music
[9.May.08] :. Unlike the "release everything we came up with" aesthetic of Ghosts I-IV, The Slip actually sounds like an album.
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Music
[22.Apr.08] :. AGF's subject is the voice, as she goes ahead and puts various voices through various processors and comes up with something that veers between danceable and horrific.
Recent Short Takes reviews
Music
[15.Apr.08] :. The Vincent of Van Gogh is a deeply troubled young soul, desperate to find his way in the world.
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Multimedia
[14.Apr.08] :. Dragon Quest Swords turns out to be an interesting study in knowing one's audience.
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PopMatters Pick
 DVDs
[5.Mar.08] :. A "follow your dreams" narrative in a package that belies the cliché that it expounds upon.
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Featured Article
 Music
[28.Jan.08] :. There is only the stultifying loneliness, sadness, and occasionally the twistedness of the film to be found in its music.
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 Music
[3.Dec.07] :. Dean Martin's voice on Christmas with Dino is the perfect one with which to be trapped on a particularly snowy night when nobody's going anywhere.
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Featured Article
 DVDs
[27.Nov.07] :. Ratatouille is wholesome entertainment that everyone's going to be happy with because it pulls off the feat of managing to be hilarious and engaging while offending pretty much nobody.
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 Multimedia
[26.Nov.07] :. Super Mario Galaxy might be the first time old-school gamers have to accept that, y'know, maybe gamers these days do have it better than they did.
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PopMatters Pick
 Music
[9.Nov.07] :. American Gangster may never be seen as Jay-Z's defining moment, but it marks his comeback far more effectively than Kingdom Come ever even tried to.
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 Music
[8.Nov.07] :. Clearly, someone in Dead Can Dance was headed toward soundtracks. Thank goodness it was Lisa Gerrard.
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 Music
[28.Sep.07] :. Thanks But No Thanks might just be the most accomplished, accessible, and worthwhile album of Def Tex's long career thus far.
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[9.Apr.07] :. It is Super Paper Mario's quick wit, above all, that makes it such a joy to play.
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PopMatters Pick
 Music
[5.Apr.07] :. That Fort Knox Five can wrap so many sounds and styles into such a consistent, dancefloor-friendly package shows not only serious instrumental and production skills, but a remarkable consistency of vision.
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Featured Article
 Music
[13.Sep.06] :. Go ahead. Give it the patience it deserves.
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Multimedia Cars
PopMatters Pick
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[5.Jul.06] :. As far as pseudo-a cappella experimental pop albums go, Le Fil is undeniably excellent.
Recent Music reviews
PopMatters Pick
 Music
[10.Apr.06] :. MONO catches up to its legendary live experience not via brute force, but through an exquisite display of melodic and dynamic subtlety.
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Featured Article
 Music
[30.Jan.06] :. Sia takes difficult subject matter and lovingly dissects it, allowing her listeners a beautiful glimpse at a tortured psyche.
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 DVDs
[18.Nov.05] :. The Greater Wrong of the Right Live is a truly astounding look at the Skinny Puppy live experience.
Recent DVD reviews
PopMatters Pick
 Music
[20.Jul.05] :. Alarm Will Sound de-constructs and de-mixes the work of electronic madman Richard D. James. It's de-lightful.
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