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South Park: Help Yourself
I never understand when people say that the first two seasons of South Park are the best. This is completely nuts, making obvious that most people didn't stick around through some of the rough times to...
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Headphones: The Gutter Twins' Saturnalia
It’s the Fall of 1996, and my favorite albums are The Afghan Whigs’ cinematic Black Love and Screaming Trees’ psychedelic Dust. How could I know that one day these soundtracks to my college commutes...
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Headphones: The Raconteurs' Consolers Of The Lonely
Look, this isn’t a bad album. It’s really not. But I also can’t recommend it to you. I should like this, but it’s been too many long years of hearing countless bands and albums that sound like this. I...
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Overpriced Popcorn: In Bruges
Anyway you explain the story, it sounds like comedy gold: two hitmen hide out in quiet European tourist town. The town is in Belgium. One hitman (Colin Farrell) is a rookie, the other (Brendan Gleeson,...
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Netflix Diary 4
The Game [1997]I’m a big David Fincher fan, and Fight Club is one of my favorite films of all time, so it is a complete mystery why I’ve never seen this decade old film. Well, now that I’ve seen it,...
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Classic for the Weekend 04.04.08
Here's something I came up with on the way home for lunch. Every friday I'm just gonna throw up a video for a classic song to ease us all into the weekend. First up: the 1992 anthem "Who Got The...
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The Black Keys are better than your band
How could I not post this?? Fucking aces!!"I Got Mine" [live on Letterman]
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[005] Daydream Nation
Album: Daydream NationArtist: Sonic YouthRelease Date: October 1988Label: Enigma [US], Blast First [UK]; reissued on DGC/GeffenProducers: Sonic Youth with Nicholas Sansano“Looking for a ride to your...
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Summer Movies. Part One.
Some summers are packed with options. Others are not. At first, when I looked at the schedule for this summer, I thought, wow, there appears to be a blockbuster on every Friday. But we all know that's...
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Summer Movies. Part Two.
Hmmmm...Curiosities...These would be films that look somewhat interesting, and I'm riding the fence between matinee and Netflix...Redbelt [May 2]David Mamet will hold a special place in film history...
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Headphones: Be Your Own Pet's Get Awkward
I like the old school Punk Rock. I like it a lot. Actually, I probably like it way more than a man my age should like it, although considering Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore signed BYOP, I really have...
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Overpriced Popcorn: Iron Man
Overpriced is right - $5.45 for a medium that would be a small at any other theater. But that's OK. Last night, I'm at the world-famous Ziegfield Theater in New York City. For as long as I can remember...
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Netflix Diary 5
The Wild Bunch [1969]Easily one of the ten great Westerns of all time, this is just as revolutionary as Bonnie & Clyde when it comes to pushing the boundaries of film in the late 1960’s. Besides...
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Who is Yorick Brown?
“Comic book, ever the entertainment choice of juvenile delinquents......The format has all the advantages of film and none of the drawbacks. It’s the cheapest way to get our unfiltered vision into as...
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Netflix Diary 6
2 Days In Paris [2007]I want to recommend this, but I hesitate because your enjoyment kind of depends on your sense of humor. If you like slapstick and Adam Sandler lowbrow type of stuff, you’ll hate...
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[004] Paul's Boutique
Album: Paul’s BoutiqueArtist: Beastie BoysRelease Date: July 1989Label: CapitolProducers: The Dust Brothers (Mike Simpson & John King), Matt Dike, and Beastie Boys, with Mario Caldato Jr.“Well if...
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Netflix Diary 7
Aguirre, The Wrath Of God [1972]I wanted to see this after enjoying last year’s Rescue Dawn, because I had always heard how good it was, and how in a lot of ways it is the…technical forerunner to...
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Headphones: R.E.M.'s Accelerate
Do you know anyone who would call R.E.M. their favorite band? Me neither. If you do, they are probably about 40 years old, and they discovered Fables Of The Reconstruction or Life’s Rich Pageant in...
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R.I.P. Stan Winston [1946-2008]
I am faced today with the unavoidable task of writing a goodbye to one of my childhood heroes. Before I wanted to be a writer or a comic book artist, I wanted to be Stan Winston. As far as I am...
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[003] Ready To Die
Album: Ready To DieArtist: The Notorious B.I.G.Release Date: September 1994Label: Bad Boy/AristaProducers: Easy Mo Bee, Sean “Puffy” Combs, Bluez Brothers, Chucky Thompson, Poke (Trackmasters), DJ...
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[002] Appetite For Destruction
Album: Appetite For DestructionArtist: Guns N’ RosesRelease Date: July 1987Label: GeffenProducers: Mike Clink & Guns N’ Roses“Welcome to the jungle, it gets worse here everydayYou learn to live...
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CSR's Top Albums of 2007
Here’s my better-late list of the top albums of 2007; like I said last year, I like to let them settle a bit, strip away the hype, and see which ones are really worth your cash, or if you have them...
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[001] OK Computer
Album: OK ComputerArtist: RadioheadRelease Date: June 1997Label: CapitolProducers: Nigel Godrich & Radiohead"Fitter, happier, more productive, comfortable, not drinking too much, regular exercise...
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A Farewell to LOST
NOTE: this post is full of spoilers, in case you haven't watched the show and intend to.I have always felt that genre fiction - especially Sci-Fi - is best when it sticks as close to reality as...
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Top Ten Songs of 2010, January thru June
Making summer mix CDs and playlists always gets me thinking about the first half of the year. As far as music goes in 2010, we've been pretty lucky; at least more lucky than with 2009. So here's my ten...
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