Link's Awakening and the Saga of Bizarre Zelda Sequels
For the past couple of days, I’ve started replaying last year’s Nintendo Switch remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. It’s only one of three 2D...
Ranking The Killers' Albums
I conducted an extensive quantitative study (a Twitter poll) over the weekend to see whose discography I should rank. I kicked this series off with Arctic...
A Conversation with Eric Slick
Life hasn’t been too out-of-control for Eric Slick. The Dr. Dog drummer is typically balancing a wealth of projects simultaneously, but around the time he...
Ranking Arctic Monkeys' Albums
On July 30, I conducted a quantitative study to see if I should start a new thing for my newsletter. This new thing would involve comprehensive rankings of...
Visions of Didion
Writing about writing honestly seems a bit odd to me. That may be a strange opinion though, considering I write about music, which has famously been compared...
An Earnest Treatise on Waluigi
In the first post for this newsletter, I promised to write about music, movies, books, video games, and Waluigi. You may have thought that I was joking. If...
A Conversation with Stephen
Electronic-pop producer Stephen Swartz, known simply by his artist name Stephen, named his sophomore record after the philosophical concept of akrasia. It...
My Favorite Music in Video Games
This past week, I finished my first play-through of the original Donkey Kong Country on Nintendo Switch Online’s SNES application. I had played both Donkey...
A Conversation with Dan Croll
Dan Croll, a Liverpool-bred, indie-pop songwriter, didn’t exactly have a grand plan when he made a tumultuous trek from his U.K. home to Los Angeles. Having...
A Conversation with Allegra Krieger
Side note: I want to give a genuine thanks to everyone who has subscribed to this newsletter so far! I’m really excited about the positive response to this...
First Impressions of First Cow
I have virtually no experience writing about movies. The most I’ve ever felt like a film writer is when I attended a film festival and hurriedly composed a...
We Have the Facts and We're Rejecting Your Pitch
Hey, everyone! Welcome to this blog/newsletter I’m starting completely on a whim. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Grant Sharples. I’m a freelance...