Monthly Archives: March 2010 »
Jaime’s Spanish Village: Austin, TX
802 Red River Street Austin 78701 512.476.5149 www.jaimes-austin.com One of my best friends currently hosts a high school exchange student from Germany. In the past few months, we have tried to show her some
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Dir: Niels Arden Oplev Rating: 3.0/5.0 Music Box Films 152 Minutes While it is best to enter The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo knowing little about the plot,
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Oeuvre: Linklater: Bad News Bears
Oeuvre is an in-depth examination of the entire body of work of an important director. Now here’s a movie that’s clearly a product of its time — one of the myriad Hollywood remakes of
Read More »Serena-Maneesh: S-M 2: Abyss in B Minor
Serena-Maneesh S-M 2: Abyss in B Minor Rating: 3.0/5.0 Label: 4AD Norway’s Serena-Maneesh arrived like a force of nature in 2006; I didn’t know much about them when I caught them at a small
Read More »Lou Bond: Lou Bond
Lou Bond Lou Bond Rating: 3.5/5.0 Label: Stax Records Before Jack Johnson and John Mayer- there was Lou Bond. Haven’t heard of him? That’s probably because his short-lived career was an already an obscure
Read More »Film Dunce: The Bad News Bears
Film Dunce is a weekly series in which one of our writers finally succumbs to the lure of a movie that has long been a big part of our culture that they have never
Read More »Waking Sleeping Beauty
Waking Sleeping Beauty Dir: Don Hahn Rating: 3.5/5.0 Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures 86 Minutes For a far greater percentage of my life then I am comfortably willing to admit, I was a maniacally
Read More »Interview: Sarah Assbring of El Perro del Mar
El Perro del Mar, aka Swedish singer-songwriter Sarah Assbring, has been touted with many an adjective- delicate, melancholy and even twee. But her latest album, Love Is Not Pop is a radical departure from
Read More »Goldfrapp: Head First
Goldfrapp Head First Rating: 2.5/5.0 Label: Mute Half the fun of perusing Goldfrapp’s latest, Head First, is playing a game of name-the-synth -sound. Over the course of nine tracks, Head First finds Alison Goldfrapp
Read More »Mike Coykendall: The Unbearable Being of Likeness
Mike Coykendall The Unbearable Being of Likeness Rating: 2.5/5.0 Label: Field Hymns The range of emotions that music can inspire in listeners is nearly endless. Music can make us feel like laughing, crying, rolling
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