CATCH-UP TIME 2019, Part 1: Haiku Reviews
Many, many moons ago, I had a weird idea pop into my head; how hilarious would it be to sum something up not with a long winded review, but something short and directly to the point? At the time, I didn't act upon the idea of the Haiku Review, but I wish I had; of course, someone else acted upon their idea and beat me to the title "pioneer of haiku as a form of critical thinking". Such wasted chances I could have gotten more hits If only I'd haiku'd. Anyway, I have published haiku reviews before; when Arcade Fire released their super-pretentious double album Reflektor back in 2013, I went about the business of reviewing it not on this site like a normal person would, but with haiku on my old personal Twitter account. I did a few, but my favourite was: The first half was great What happened on the second? Think I fell asleep. You get the idea. So, with that spirit in mind alongside the knowledge that I've been really, really terrible at keeping up m...