January 2016
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My Internet Radio Playlist, 1/26/16
EPISODE #217: THE X-FILES The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Mark Snow — “X-Files Theme” Graham Parker & the Rumour — “Waiting for the UFOs” Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers — “The U.F.O. Man” Hüsker Dü — “Books About UFOs” Tullycraft — “The Lonely Life of the UFO Researcher” The Misfits — “I Turned […]
Movie Review: The Big Short
3.5 stars out of 5 January is a weird time at the movies. The studios tend to dump garbage that they didn’t release the previous year. Other selections are “prestige films” left over from the holidays, or snuck in at the end of December for Oscar consideration. From that second batch, at my local theater […]
On gratuitous fucks
Films these days are cluttered with gratuitous fucks. I’m talking about good films, thoughtful films, ones with Oscar buzz. I understand there are commercial reasons for wanting your film to have an R rating, and if your film is a grown-up comedy of manners or tale of corporate intrigue mostly devoid of sex and violence, […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 1/19/16
EPISODE #216: THE F-BOMB II The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Kicking Giant — “Fuck the Rules” Brute Force — “King of Fuh” The Gotobeds — “Fucking Machine” Daddy Issues — “Fuck Marry Kill” The Bird and the Bee — “Fucking Boyfriend” Cee-Lo Green — “Fuck You” Prince and the New Power Generation — “Sexy […]
Movie Review: Anomalisa
3.5 stars out of 5 Remember Being John Malkovich? Wow, that was fun, right? And ingenious. Then there was Adaptation, also very clever. And Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, that was pretty wild if I recall. Synecdoche, New York: I didn’t see it, did you? I read a review and it just sounded too… […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 1/12/16
EPISODE #215: DAVID BOWIE TRIBUTE The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] David Bowie — “Modern Love” Davie Jones and the King Bees — “Liza Jane” Mott the Hoople — “All the Young Dudes” Lou Reed — “Vicious” Iggy Pop — “China Girl” Bruce Springsteen — “Growin’ Up” Queen and David Bowie — “Under Pressure” David […]
Album Review: ‘Now’ by Speed The Plough
4 stars out of 5 Click to purchase on 180-gram vinyl (with download code) A silhouette of a baying coyote in a bathtub. I first saw that compelling logo during my junior year in high school, on the Full Time Men record sleeve. I bought that EP at the Princeton Record Exchange because Peter Buck […]
My Internet Radio Playlist, 1/5/16
EPISODE #214: PLANS The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME] Palomar — “Let’s Talk Plans” The Wedding Present — “Let’s Make Some Plans” Saturday Looks Good to Me — “Make a Plan” XTC — “Making Plans for Nigel” Hüsker Dü — “Plans I Make” Dinosaur Jr. — “Plans” Built to Spill — “The Plan” Mission of […]
My Highly Subjective List of the Best Movies of 2015
Eh, keep yer IMAX 3D Ultra Panavision 70 Dine-While-You-Watch Reserved Seating hoo-ha; I don’t need gimmicks to get excited about the movies. (Plus, I feel like a real jagoff if I spend $23 for a ticket and it’s still crummy.) Here are the films from last year that I thought were the best. Of the […]
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