January 2012
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TEST PATTERN: Tokyo Jihen, R.I.P.
Western critical neglect of Shiina Ringo continues to be near-absolute,(*) and I’ve sometimes wondered if one contributing factor is that — after releasing her masterpiece, 2003’s Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana, easily one of this millennium’s very best albums — she abandoned her solo career and backed into a role fronting a bunch of dudes. Instead of being a Tin...
December 2011
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Local H, “What Would You Have Me Do?...
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Jamey Johnson, “Even the Skies Are Blue...
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Let it be noted that Tuesday, After Christmas started streaming on Netflix on the Tuesday after Christmas. (Also, Tales from the Golden Age. I’d queue them up, but fear that adding even one more contemporary Romanian film to my account would qualify me for that service where they send someone to the house to slit your wrists for you.)
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Alanis Morissette, “Uninvited”...
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Scott Lucas and the Married Men, “Have...
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This is lovely. I root for the Punch Brothers, though their chops and smarts can sometimes make their music sound like physics professors kissing. I love them for those chops and those smarts, and love that their bursts of musical joy never resemble self-satisfaction, and I root for them to bite their tongues and get out of their own way. The Radiohead-aping “Movement and Location”...
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Fun Facts from DVD Special Features, Paris, Texas Edition:
According to Claire Denis (who served as the film’s 1st AD), after the Teamsters shut the production down, Wim Wenders won a hijacked camera truck back from them in a poker game.
Allison Anders, at the time a student at UCLA, had been writing Wenders as a fan at least once a week for a while — sending him anything, journal...
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Criticism’s power is not idle arrogance; its purpose is to separate aesthetic values from market control, giving perception and appreciation, information and awareness, back to the viewer. Rudin doesn’t want this and unfortunately, few contemporary journalists understand what’s at stake. Most of them seem unaware that the word “embargo” actually means to “restrict trade” and that a...
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A. O. Scott’s and Manohla Dargis’ “Best of 2011” lists. His is 20 films long, hers is 22, only four films appear on both: A Dangerous Method, Mysteries of Lisbon, Warrior, and Bridesmaids.
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Julia Holter, “The Falling Age”
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“It is not a markup. We charge what the publishers ask for the books. We simply...”
– The Towering Irrelevance: Surprisingly, I am less sure than this guy on Slate that independent bookstores are killing literacy.
this is the crux of it. I wish people understood that by buying new books at a deep discount they are pushing us towards a future that consists solely of self-published 99...
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Ponytail, “Easy Peasy”
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Howard Tate, “Get it While You Can”
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Watchsemperidem:
I’m completely positive that participating in Santacon is more fun than being trapped in a Path train with Jersey City santas. It has to be, because this was seriously a previously unimaginable circle of hell. Listen to the guy. With the voice. You’ll know him when you hear him. And then the carols turned to Billy Joel?! I don’t know.
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It is decided! I will see your Mission: Impossible Number Hyphen Subtitle, movie industry, as part of my support of all things Brad Bird and as part of my support of some things Simon Pegg and in the hope there’s a scene where Josh Holloway calls Tom Cruise “Freckles.”
Man Whistling “Georgia On My Mind” On 1980s... →
The mullet, the cutaways, the follow-up interview (“You gotta lubricate your pucker — there goes the balls, again!”), the everything.
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Yeah yeah yeah but Beyoncé’s a shoo-in for Best Boof and Best Boof-Boof, chill out.
November 2011
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You also addressed David Cronenberg from stage and said you watched Dead Ringers a million times. That’s a weird movie to love. What about it made you obsessed? Charlize Theron: I just, I had a massive crush on Jeremy Irons, and when I met my gynecologist, I was like, “Wait a second. You’re not Jeremy Irons. You don’t look like Jeremy Irons at all!” Publicist...
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The Edwin Hawkins Singers, “Lean on...
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scorsese+hugo+delightful →
goldenfiddle:
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Tarik’i Dada Raleva, “Laloe...
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I think my eyebrows have been growing twice as fast since Andy Rooney died.
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“I think it’s the title.” - Owen Wilson, on the box office success of Midnight in Paris
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Aaron Jay Kernis, “Goblin Market: Part 1,...
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