Monthly Archives: May 2009 »
O’Horten
O’Horten Dir: Bent Hamer Rating: 4.0 Sony Pictures Classics 90 minutes Crap films can serve a very important purpose outside of making you spit beer all over the screen. The night before the screening
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The Window Dir: Carlos Sorin Rating: 3.0 Film Movement 85 minutes Carlos Sorin’s The Window opens with the sound of a silent film camera cranking, the light fading up into a dim, hazy room
Read More »Crif Dogs and PDT: New York, NY
113 St. Mark’s Place New York, NY There is a plethora of funky streets and hideaways in New York city, so much so that it would take a lifetime to find and experience them
Read More »Revisit: Killing Joke: What’s THIS For…!
Revisit: Killing Joke What’s THIS For…! 1981 In a video easily found on YouTube, Killing Joke’s lead howler Jaz Coleman is interviewed on a German pop music show. Judging from the fashions, it appears
Read More »The Field: Yesterday And Today
The Field Yesterday and Today Rating: 4.5 Label: Kompakt Axel Willner must be scared shitless. His first effort, 2007′s From Here We Go Sublime, was recognized as a humane act in techno and trance
Read More »The Love Language: The Love Language
The Love Language The Love Language Rating: 3.5 Label: Bladen County Records A review of this record, The Love Language’s eponymous debut, took me a little longer than usual. See, I had just reviewed
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The Girlfriend Experience
The Girlfriend Experience Dir: Steven Soderbergh Rating: 2.0 Magnolia Pictures 80 Minutes Not a bad idea for a film — five days in the life of a highly paid call girl. What a clever
Read More »DVD: Painters Painting
As a hippie in the early ’70s, I was a studio art major and loved every minute of my attempts to draw, paint and to discover the newest forms of art along with the
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Concert Review: Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
Rolling Stone magazine named Conor Oberst best songwriter of 2008. I’ve always been curious to know what comes first for musicians: the words or the music? Oberst is an unintentional poet who appears to
Read More »New York Dolls: ‘Cause I Sez So
New York Dolls ‘Cause I Sez So Rating: 3.0 Label: Atco The New York Dolls are one of rock’s great train wrecks. They wore make-up and women’s clothes, played sloppy, glammed up, messed up
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