Rayo Casablanca is a film and music critic who lives in Denver, Colorado. He has contributed short-fiction and pop culture criticism to McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Geek Monthly, Splendid and Juked among others. In the late '90s Rayo self-published Sinema Brut, a critically acclaimed 'zine devoted to European Trash Cinema. He has also written DVD liner notes for a series of European surrealist movies including the celebrated Spanish film, !Viva La Muerte! (a John Lennon favorite).