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Rewind: PJ Harvey's "Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea"
Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:49 AM EDT
Everyone has those albums that they can put on at any time and in any mood and just enjoy them. I've certainly got a few - Hendrix's "Are You Experienced?", Weezer's "Blue" album, the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, the list goes on.
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Movie Review: Cloverfield
Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:51 AM EST
I went for a midnight showing of Cloverfield tonight, against my better judgment - I've been pretty sick the past day or two and the thought of shivering with the chills, a sore throat and a nasty cough in a room full of half-drunk strangers watching a movie I half suspected was …
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Movie Review: Once
Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:19 PM EST
Once just came out on DVD yesterday and unless someone speaks up it may fly under your radar. It didn't get a whole lot of press during its limited theater run and I had to dig to find out when it was coming out on disc.
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Old Album Review - David Bowie, The Man Who Sold the World
Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:52 AM EST
It seems to me that everyone has a different favorite David Bowie album. Sure, we all love Ziggy - but the magic of Bowie seems to be that he is able to speak to each of us in our own language.
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New Album Review: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand
Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:53 AM EST
You know who they are. Robert Plant, the former front man for golden-age icons Led Zeppelin, is a household name.
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Comic Book Review - DMZ, Volumes 1-3
Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:28 PM EST
The History The backdrop, thus far, is vaguely painted. What we do know is that the United States erupted into Civil War five years ago.
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Movie Review - Beowulf
Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:17 PM EST
With cutting edge computer generated animation, a roguishly regal Anthony Hopkins, a mostly-naked Angelina Jolie, a script co-written by Neil Gaiman and an original narrative source dating back 1500 years, the new Beowulf movie has to be good...right?
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Old Album Review - The White Stripes, De Stijl
Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:55 PM EST
Rambling Introduction We all remember music in late 2001/2002 - Nu Metal was still being treated with inexplicable respect, Weezer had publicly announced that they would henceforth suck, Avril Lavigne had burst onto the scene with all her antiestablishmentarian Candian punk rawk …
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Movie Review - 30 Days of Night
Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:17 PM EDT
I have a confession to make. Normally, if a friend drags me to see a horror movie, I strategically push my glasses down my nose during scary parts and look over the lenses. Does this make me a coward? Probably... but at least I can sleep afterwards.
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Book Review - House of Leaves
Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:39 AM EDT
If you haven't read Mark Z. Danielewski's intriguing House of Leaves, you really probably should. It's a novel, I suppose, but a highly idiosyncratic one.
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Movie Review - Transformers was a Crock of @!$%#
Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:00 PM EDT
I dunno, maybe I missed something. Maybe some mid-80's pop-culture neuron misfired and I just wasn't primed to appreciate this movie. Or maybe, as I suspect, the people who like it (which seems, to me, to be pretty much everyone but me) are out of their heads!
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Review - The White Stripes, Icky Thump
Mon Jul 9, 2007 10:29 AM EDT
So the White Stripes finally released their latest effort, Icky Thump, on June 19. I held off for a while reviewing this because quite frankly I had no idea what I thought.
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Book Review - Still Life with Woodpecker
Sun Jun 3, 2007 6:22 PM EDT
At some point during the Vinemeet, as we were passing a bottle of tequila around the campfire, Celestina asked me if I'd ever read any Tom Robbins. I shook my head, intoxicatedly wondering if I'd been wrong about the actor's name all my life.
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Book Review - Haruki Murakami's After Dark
Fri Jun 1, 2007 3:54 PM EDT
So there I was in the bookstore, minding my own business, when Haruki Murakami's name came out of nowhere and hit me in the face. I had no idea that the man had a new book out! I bought it on the spot - even though I usually wait for paperback - and finished it quickly.
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Artist Profile - Leonard Cohen
Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:34 PM EDT
Every once in a while, someone around here writes a thread about people's favorite music or things they find sacred or something along those lines. Always there are interesting responses - and always, someone brings up Leonard Cohen.
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Comic Book Review - Alan Moore's Lost Girls
Fri Sep 8, 2006 8:53 AM EDT
Anyone with even a faint appreciation for contemporary comics knows who Alan Moore is; he's the big Hagrid-bearded British pagan who has brought us such gems as The Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell, Promethea, and a slew of other titles.
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