Too Shocking For Theaters: Halloween and the awful awfulness of Dreamaniac

Matt Wild returns to VITAL and TCD with an irreverent (and slightly crude) look at possibly the worst horror film of all time.

What Should Matt Write? Wednesdays

Welcome to the 47th installment of “What Would Jesus…No, Wait…What Should Matt Write? Wednesdays,” the criminally underrated blog that gives you, the reader (Hi Steve!), the chance to determine what my next criminally underrated blog should be about. If you’re a little foggy on how the whole thing works (and who isn’t these days?), it [...]

I heard an amazing song today and decided to write about it.

As anyone who knows me will tell you, I’m a fat, fat man. On the US Department of Agriculture’s Pyramid of Fatness (kind of like their food pyramid, but with more chafed thighs), there’s “fat” fat, “obese” fat, “Jesus, look at that guy!” fat, and me. Seriously. I’m what the Native Americans used to call [...]

What Did Matt Do? Wednesdays

Welcome to the inaugural edition of “What Did Matt Do? Wednesdays,” a weekly column that recaps all the stupid shit I did during the day, along with some wicked Crock-Pot recipes for the kids. While this piece will be published each and every Wednesday, it will in fact cover the events of the previous Tuesday, [...]

Online publishing killed my dog, or: Are you there LiveJournal? It’s me, SubVersions.

When people stop me on the street (a phenomena that happens at least three times every decade), the first thing they ask is: “Jim, if you had to choose your favorite Monkee, who would it be?” The second thing they ask is: “Didn’t you write for the VITAL Source? Whatever happened to that? Are they [...]

Dumb Milwaukee

For all its charming neighborhoods, diverse ethnic fests and numerous places to get shitfaced, Milwaukee remains a uniquely dumb city. Just look back at 2008: between fighting off “hordes” of tourists pouring in by the hour to catch a glimpse of the Bronze Fonz (thanks, Visit Milwaukee!), and playing host to the “countless” not-shot-on-crappy-digital-video films [...]

Remembering Republicans (if you must)

2008 will be remembered for many things: the nationwide financial crisis, skyrocketing gas prices, the rebooting of Beverly Hills 90210. But most of all, it will be forever remembered as the year Republicans – those strange, awful creatures who specialize in helping those who can already help themselves – had their collective asses handed to [...]

The Milwaukee Music Scene™: The Final Chapter

By Matt Wild PART 1 If you’re a frequent victim of the Milwaukee County Transit system, you’re faced with countless indignities while riding the bus: hostile passengers, inane and never-ending cell phone conversations, a smell that could only be described as a mixture of B.O. and quiet desperation. Yet it seems to me that the [...]

Des Moines: More Than We Remember #4

Subversions: On Assignment

by Matt Wild + Photos by Kat Berger I’m sipping a flat rum and coke at a place called El Bait Shop (Spanish for: The Bait Shop) in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, when I realize how much this town is like a Lou Reed record: difficult, frustrating and haunted by past brilliance. Sure, there’s always [...]