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Sasquatch Festival: An Insider’s Perspective
Sasquatch Festival 2009 [The Gorge Amphitheater, George, Washington] [May 23-25 2009] Too Many Drinks and Too Much John Wayne: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the Hipster Dream Not to sound like some
Read More »John Vanderslice: Romanian Names
John Vanderslice Romanian Names Rating: 3.0 Label: Dead Oceans Romanian Names is, astoundingly, the seventh LP this decade from John Vanderslice, matching the output of his brother in arms and frequent collaborator John Darnielle
Read More »The British Expeditionary Force: Chapter One: A Long Way From Home
The British Expeditionary Force Chapter One: A Long Way From Home Rating: 4.0 Label: Erased Tapes Quite personally, the indie-electronica genre had run its course with me almost immediately. Although there were true gems
Read More »BANNED: Cocksucker Blues
BANNED: Cocksucker Blues Dir: Robert Frank (1972) BANNED is a series of reviews focusing on films that have been censored, boycotted or suppressed. Mick Jagger’s mouth seems to be everywhere in Cocksucker Blues: grazing
Read More »Easy Virtue
Easy Virtue Dir: Stephan Elliott Rating: 4.0 Sony Pictures Classics 93 Minutes “We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?” — Noel Coward Everyone
Read More »Reo’s Ribs: Aloha, OR
7395 SW Tualatin Valley Hwy Aloha, OR 97006 (503) 356-1452 http://www.reosribsbbq.com/ As I’m fond of saying: baby, you know I love the cue. I adore the sensation of gnawing succulent meat from a rib,
Read More »Sasquatch Festival: An Outsider’s Perspective
Sasquatch Festival 2009 [The Gorge Amphitheater, George, Washington] [May 23-25 2009] Don’t Sass the Quatch Since the seminal 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, which had a better line-up than the more famous Woodstock, the festival
Read More »Holy Sons: Drifter’s Sympathy
Holy Sons Drifter’s Sympathy Rating: 4.5 Label: Important Records Drifter’s Sympathy is a work of almost unnerving sonic dedication. Holy Sons’ sixth proper album is a blend of atmospheric washes, buzzing guitars and fragments
Read More »Years: Years
Years Years Rating: 3.5 Label: Arts & Crafts Records There aren’t too many champions of instrumental music left these days. Sure there are plenty of jazz and classical musicians, but outside these traditional genres,
Read More »Drag Me to Hell
Drag Me to Hell Dir: Sam Raimi Rating: 2.0 Universal Pictures 99 Minutes When I was in elementary school, we had a classmate named Dong that would cry at the drop of the hat.
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