Hi, I’m Drew Regensburger, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Revolve21, and I have no idea what to say.
I’m a writer, film buff, music geek, romantic, thinker, gamer, student, etc., etc.
With film, Zak finds beauty in the message… I find beauty in the journey to that message, because I don’t always think there is a message. With music, it’s much the same: I find beauty in the path to the end, rather than that end. However, I think that, with media, the beauty is always the sum of its parts, even if the beauty itself can be individual and wonderful in its own sense.
I don’t hole myself in genres. Anything that catches my eye, my ear, my thumb, I try out. Sadly, this has left me with such gems (and what follows is sarcasm) as The Decemberists’ pretension (seen in The Crane Wife, an album bloated on its own literate inadequacies), Rockstar’s sublimely terrible Manhunt 2 (which decided that gore was a substitute for story, much like Hostel) and Mirrormask, the movie that could’ve been so much more. But that policy has also left me with things that blow my mind, from the rough, garage rock of The Strokes’ Room on Fire, to the amazing and ultimately disappointing story of Indigo Prophecy (a game that held me captive until the last half hour, then wouldn’t let me go even though it devolved into a wintry love story rather than a compelling mystery). Film is a little harder for me, since I tend to follow it very loosely. But it is what it is.
For me, meaning is derived, not from circumstance surrounding the creation of the thing, but from the thing isolated and taken apart by itself, then put back together as I see fit. This way, I can arrive at a meaning unaffected by outside sources, a meaning that is completely personal to me, yet completely apathetic at the same time.
So in my reviews, you’ll often see me taking a route that tells you, the reader, that someone might be offended by this or that, simply because I’ve looked past the possible offense for me to find the meaning. It’s not that I think it’s okay; it’s that I’m driven to understand why. If there’s no why, then there’s no closure.
However, I respect and understand that a lot of people don’t think like this. This, in part, is why Rev21 was created. Yes, we want to provide a next-gen Christian experience. But that’s shortchanging us. We also want to provide a place where anyone—Christian or no—can get good, accurate reviews that are completely unbiased. I’m never going to tell you not to play Grand Theft Auto. I like those games. How hypocritical would it be of me to do so? This is the fundamental idea behind our reviews, and the fundamental idea behind my criticism.
If you have any questions, comments, concerns, hate mail, whatever, send me an email: Drew@revolve21.com. Hope to hear from you.
--Drew Regensburger
Drew’s Five Favorite Albums
1. The Battle for Los Angeles-Rage Against the Machine
2. Automatic for the People—R.E.M.
3. Superunknown-Soundgarden
4. Year Zero—Nine Inch Nails
5. Time Out of Mind—Bob Dylan
Drew’s Five Favorite Films
1. Blade Runner
2. Heat
3. Ronin
4. Requiem for a Dream
5. High Fidelity
Drew’s Five Favorite Games
1. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2. God of War
3. Alpha Centauri
4. Resident Evil 4
5. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
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