Blogcritics.org Archive: August 2003

I suspect that many Americans WANT to be tolerant of gays, they just don't want to have homosexuals stuck up their ass.

This may be the most effectively morbid song I know. The pure bleakness of the widower struggling up the hill to his daughter's grave just lays on you.

A recent New York Post story about nanotech in cosmetics had me thinking about beauty. Small Times reported last year that nanomaterials had been used in cosmetics for years.
Michael Powell, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, America?

s chief media regulator and coincidental son of Colin Powell, has made...

in an attack on a...

Joining the previously mentioned Long Beach Press-Telegram and KFI-AM 640 and Film Threat, another bible of indie film...

Zenyatta Mondatta - The PoliceThe best Police record? Dunno. In fact, in my mind I go back and forth.

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I'd like to have a word with the General Manager of the Hilton at the Dulles Airport.

Maybe he...

This will be his first full-fledged studio album since Road to Ensenada in 1996.
I'm always on the lookout for movies that are as good as or better than the book they are based..

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Last night at a San Francisco screening, director Larry Charles warned the audience "You will not catch all the references, and that's OK. It's a show.

Let it wash over you, and see how wet you get."

It's easy, I'm cheap. Want to stop me sniping from the land of peace, order and good government?

Buy me...

Gays are blamed for everything.??

It all started with the destruction of Sodom and Gamorrah.? In reality, this biblical verse.

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What could Moore have been thinking?

He killed this kid for tricking him into a peck on the cheek?

Republicans pick poor candidates in primaries, like Hoovers, Nixons, Fords and Bushes. Lots of one-termers, dishonest, flaky candidates and resignation.

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Goofy in just the right way, Victoria Jackson rates as my all-time favorite Saturday Night Live heartthrob.
This cd will dissapoint a lot of people. Jay Farrar was in Uncle Tupelo at the start of the 90's.

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Presley can sing.

No doubt about that. She's sultry, controled and expressive.

I remember going with my friend to see South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut and him saying let's see American.

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Check out this highly entertaining mix of Kung Fu, Hip-Hop and Pop-Up Video.

First impressions . . .

you know what they say about that. They're always right. Unless they're not.

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Business Week says sell your home now for big profit before the "bubble" bursts, especially if you're planning on retiring soon.
All these groups and congressmen and other media types in opposition want to control content.

Why else would the NRA give a rat's ass about media ownership?

Today, Bjork is considered one of the more creative ladies in music. To capitolize on that, she released two "best.

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Robbie Williams may appear to be popular, but how come he can't get a single to number one? The weekly UK charts overview.
This morning's Reuters story borrows from our May 2002 Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report piece (over a year old) that was.

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with three sell out gigs each with.

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I never really watched Family Guy much when it was on FOX.

My father tended to be very anti-comedy cartoons...

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U.S.

A.'s new Wild West forensics series.

California candidate for governor Brian Flemming crafts his first stump speech.

Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your pants stains. See the NanoBot.

They Might Be Giants have some MP3s for free download from THEIR WEBSITE. There are currently eight titles,..

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Steely Dan. For me, it can't get much better, and seeing this amazing 13-piece band in concert is.

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xx/xy is a modern tragedy that thrills as it kills.

I was amazed with how utterly provocative and honest this...

The Republican Bush administration behaves like a cult, not least in the way in which it refuses to be self-critical.
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Christians in the rap scene have generally been lame and lamer. Which has been why rap in the Christian industry.

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Former Judas Priest singer Tim ?

Ripper? Owens has joined Iced Earth. And he?

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Norah seemed to have a spectacular ability to get inside a song and immerse herself in it..

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Eminem's alleged schoolyard tormentor DeAngelo Bailey's is seeking $1 million for the injury he claims to have sustained to his..

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or, how I wasted an entire day of my life.
I just got inside word that Sun Microsystem's Bill Joy, everyone's favorite prognosticator of peril is going to be.

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John Huston was born 97 years ago today, on August 5, 1906.

Among many achievements in a long career, Huston...

Short version: Bringing Down the House is the funniest new movie I've seen all year. My unfortunate..

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If we didn't have the instinct for taking risks, I'd be chiseling this message on a cave wall.
Reformed decades after splitting with their idiosyncratic, controlling leader, they've recently come out with CDs of new versions of old material.

Today the San Jose Mercury News prints a roundup of three California governor recall stories: Columnist Arianna Huffington to enter race; State Sen. Tom McClintock files final papers; and Brian Flemming is running to resign. Guess which story they chose to top the roundup?

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I'm admittedly geekier than the average bear, but the thought of nanobio generators being used to power implanted devices like pacemakers is cool enough to hold my interest ? without the writer prodding me with the image of Keanu Reeves as a AAA battery attached to a worldwide screen saver encrypted to enslave humanity.
An adult gets prosecuted for selling an adult comic to another adult in the adult section of a comic book shop.

In AMERICA.

For some anti-GLBT people, I would imagine that the election of the American Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop has them looking toward the heavens in fear.
This cd is boring as Hell.

It's as redundant as having a president named "Bush". It's as uncreative as your..

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Usually I'm skeptical about whether recycling schemes are worthwhile, but I think Leno may have come up with a good..

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Forget the faux sophistication and cheap sluttiness of the Sex and the City girls. Lucy was the funniest chick in the history of the television medium.

Granted this development is obviously delightfully titillating.
I have gotten more interest in my post about Queer Eye than almost any other post I've ever done. This.

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boss Suge Knight have been linked to.

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Shortly after revealing what the band claims to be the cover art for it's new album, Dance Of Death,.

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Elizabeth Rene Raymond takes the cake for what must be the lamest excuse for a sexual harassment complaint ever.

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From the opening riffs of "The Death Resurrection Show," it's clear Killing Joke has something to say with the...

Those cheesy sets! Those cheesy set-ups! I kept being reminded of nothing so much as Batman.

And I don't mean the movies; I mean the series.

Arnold Schwarzenegger announced on the Tonight Show that he is running for governor in the California recall after weeks..

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That people would actually buy stuff via..

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I found myself thinking of Valentine Michael Smith in Stranger in a Strange Land setting up his martyrdom scene with perfect carnie timing, waiting for just the moment to turn the tip- getting maximum impact on the marks.
The much anticipated Star Wars Galaxies MMORPG has been reviewed by TechTV's X-Play.

Well, ok, it hasn't been reviewed,...

The name of John Farnham is the latest to be linked with replacing the late, great Freddie...

Self-described HIV-positive "former homosexual" Michael Johnston, who has spent years trying to convince gays to go ''straight'' through Christ, has admitted to having sex with men -- allegedly without disclosing his seriopositive status. Let's pray for Johnston and for those he hurt through his actions and through his so-called ministry.
Brian Flemming withdraws from the California governor's race.

Too many to link to, but the "meme" spreading right now across the politically left portion of the blogosphere is...

"Praise the Lord, let's go to the mall!"
Now, four albums (not including the one greatest hits cd) into the game they've done and gone a switcheroo on us.
A sorted true "wacky foreign country" tale about the beautiful city of Juarez, MEXICO.

The new line up on Adult Swim.
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Over the past couple of weeks we?ve been asking you who are the most important metal band.

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Coming to terms with my Appalachian roots.

Ozzy, Korn, Disturbed and Chevelle are OK ? Marilyn Manson is just too sinister though. That's the opinion of the Six.

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Classic off-the-wall superhero comics!

Yikes! Arnold's performance on the Today show was so clueless it even made me feel..

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Drinking music is in a class all of its own. We know it as the music that has helped us just to make it through a situation.

It has soothed the pain of a broken heart or a failed romance. You put that record of your choice on and slide on down to bluesville with a side order of dark and dreary skies.

IMDb offers a daily poll that is usually good for a few laughts.

Today's...

We are back from a very varied eight-day trip, and darned happy about it as well. We went to Washington..

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Forming his own sort of anti-record company coup, Ben Folds has released the first of three private label EPs (available..

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The legendary Doors will be back for a revival concert.
Decide!

How to Make Any Decision is a short, quick read that is full of simple ideas about how to...

Sunday's New York Times Magazine has a story on Stanley "Tookie" Williams who has been writing books to...

Yet if I hit one of these pigs on the back of the head with a 2x4 to knock some respect for the goddam constitution into them, I would be considered a bad guy. Go figure.
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9, 2003, is the eighth anniversary of the death of Jerry Garcia. Even now, for Deadheads like me, everything and nothing is the same. But thank the goddess the music never stops.

'Thank you for calling Telecommunico, this is Iam Justapeontou, what stupidity have you reached out to touch me with today?'
We spent most of our vacation driving to and fro in the "high country" of North Carolina from our base..

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The collision of political stagecraft and Barbie, or, questions I ve never had to ask before in a KB Toys.
Melodic music that is moody and brooding like the namesakes The Cure and other pop radio icons kind of describes.

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Have your ever woke up with a monster hangover?

Well, On Broken Wings provide the soundtrack to the night...

Spineshank are loud and in your face metal, that rocks with pulsing drumming and screaming vocals. Spineshank have a..

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Mindfield harkens back to when metal was pure, before flannel wearing kids sipped lattes at Starbucks. I like it.

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William is a one man band with guests providing help along the way.

William Goodyear is a talented guy...

Finally! A pop punk/emo record that I can recommend to my friends and even enjoy a bit myself. It?

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?Simple thing tend to mean a lot to me? (He might actually say ?

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What can I say? Another screamo record.

If you like bands like Thursday, Finch, etc. then you?ll probably like these.

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Question: What?

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There you have it folks. A band..

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Punk rock and math, what a gorgeous combination! Add on top of that the fact that the lead singer.

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BOOM!

Right from the first track Starflyer 59 hits you with Underneath - one of the strongest straightforward-rock song...

I like and dislike this movie. Geez, Spike I like what you're saying, but hate how you say it. One man claims Largo to be retirement paradise, but those of us who grew up in Tampa Bay know it's really paradise for everyone all year 'round.

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There's a certain genre of music that goes by the name "Jam Bands." Most people haven't heard of it, but..

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Everyone knows that when the wolves come out of all the walls, it's all over.
Harvey Pekar hits the slicks!

It has been an interesting couple of years for Chris Carraba. The former Further Seems Forever singer did what..

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The price humanity pays for peace in writer-director Kurt Wimmer's aseptic utopia, Libria, is the daily dropping of Prozium, an emotional sedative. Those who refuse to take it are ruthlessly eliminated.

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Why, in the name of all the gods they worship in Cupertino, should buying a very expensive new Mac be like playing a non-fatal game of Russian roulette?

It's hard to believe tapper extraordinaire Gregory Hines is gone. I literally could hear the history of the last 100 years through his shuffles, runs, and ball changes. Perhaps he is in the great beyond right now, tapping a joyful noise, or agreeing to a challenge with tap masters gone before.

I pray this is the case, because the silence down here feels pretty unbearable right now.

Fragments of the unfinished film "Destino" along with story boards, sketches and an original score were painstakingly put together by a team assembled by Disney's nephew Roy Disney after they were discovered in the studio's vaults.
"A Times reporter was ejected from the building by county officials 40 minutes before Schwarzenegger's arrival, and was not permitted back in for three hours after his departure.

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Curiously, three soundtracks to early 1980s films about urban dystopias have stood up remarkably well. They're probably not what anybody would want to listen to every day, but as a change of pace, they're well worth seeking out.
There IS a school of philosophical thought which holds that there is no problem which cannot be solved by a sufficient charge of explosives.

Indeed, if I find my own interest in a piece of art troubling, then I take it as a sign that it's something I definitely need to hear and think about.
The final episode of Futurama was wonderful, ending with a kiss between Fry and Leela, well, actually their avatars. Still,.

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On the surface, films such as Seven, Forrest Gump, Natural Born Killers, and Pulp Fiction, and TV shows such as Seinfeld have little in common.

But Thomas Hibbs, a distinguished professor of Ethics and Culture at Baylor University, says they do: they represent, to varying degrees, the influence of nihilism on American pop culture.

Well, here?s another band for The Warped Tour.

.. The Real McKenzies are a pop-punk band in the vein of.

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Some records slam you on your face the first time you hear them.

Others tend to grow on you...

Surely this Democrat spokesman wouldn't be openly threatening political assassination- much less to a Kennedy clan member.
He has been a good and articulate spokesman for his community, and a valuable member of the public debate.
Robbie Williams return to number one in the UK album charts serves only to show up how hard he's finding it to convert profile into sales these days, while in the UK singles chart, Kelly Rowland seems to be returning to 'the other ones out of Destiny's Child' status.

Jon Bon Jovi has bought a football team. But he doesn?t plan to rival Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.

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Sex addiction is real, but not as common as daytime talk shows portray, according to experts.

The Specious Report strikes again with a debate between California gubernatorial candidates Arnold Schwarnenegger and Sunset Strip scenester...

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about The Man in Black's remarkable career, and the key to his longevity, is his...

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and boy are my arms tired!

Al Barger wrote a very nice tribute to Joe Jackson for his 48th birthday just today. Coincidentally, Jackson's most.

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A self-recorded, self-produced, at times slightly over-the-top gem from NYC "supergroup" Cardia, consisting of Rival Schools' Ian Love on.

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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

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I used to think it was a combination of age, experience, wisdom, and maturity that defined the differences between adults...

Legendary producer-record exec Denny Cordell and Leon Russell had a remarkable run with their Shelter Records in the '70s. They..

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I like to play jazz piano -- but only in the privacy of my own mind.
For those of you who are new to the Starflyer 59 music (I am fairly new myself) let me do.

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Fox News Channel has sued liberal humorist Al Franken and the Penguin Group to stop them from using the phrase "fair and balanced" in the title of his upcoming book.

US Congressperson and Roman Catholic Patrick Kennedy says discrimination against gays in marriage is "bigotry." The Rhode Island representative's comments came last week, after Pope John Paul II signed off on a Vatican document that calls on Catholic politicians to fight against secular laws that would allow same-sex marriage and labels GLBT relationships evil. Kudos to Kennedy for standing up to his church.

We need to hear from more dissenting Catholic voices. God knows they are out there.

Bubble gum pop music?

Maybe, but I like it.

Breaking news here from my blog in the form of a blind item..

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Nelson George's book on New Edition will be available on NE20.com.

An actor can do it. A porn star can do it. Why not a punk for governor of this godfersakin.

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Blue's music hits listeners like too much mescal and cigarette smoke.

It is full of life, not the listless life of the David Sanborn or Kenny G crowd, but jazz like it was meant to be, derelict and seamy.

Oh happy day! Today is the release date for both Bablyon 5: The Complete Third Season and Futurama,.

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Despite recent reports, it now seems that former Judas Priest singer Tim ?

Ripper? Owens is not a..

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Top Hollywood star Johnny Depp is keen to play the role of Ozzy Osbourne in the planned biopic on the..

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There is a legendary bootleg in U2 circles called "Rock's Hottest Ticket." It was recorded at Rosemont Horizon.

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I suppose it's a good thing that most evangelical Christian nutcases don't really have the cruelty of their convictions when.

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A random look both behind the scenes and in front of the stage at a three-day music festival in hot ol' Texas.

Last week I rented No Maps for These Territories (from Netflix), which is a documentary that features well-known science...

Yes, this really is a photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger naked as a jaybird. No, I will not reveal where I..

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I don?t know how well this fits the prototypical ?

blogcritics? format, but Eric keeps e-mailing me (yeah, just me dammitt,..

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Dawn and I were shaken out of white line fever on the Pennsylvania Turnpike when this one came rattling..

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A great deal has been written in the popular press recently about the slippery definition of "nanotechnology." At Small Times, we often subject the word to unspeakable torture in our attempts to extract information on whether a company conforms.

Purdue physicist Ephraim Fischbach ? oh, you beautiful, bald man ? spends his time like a mime pretending he's encased in glass, feeling the space around him, hoping his hand slips into another dimension.

The goal might be generations away, but ? like Tang and joysticks to the Apollo program ? the search can lead to some wonderful discoveries along the way.

People might wonder what those two things have in common: an almost four-year-old child and the ongoing Middle East peace...

I love EP's, especially from new bands: short, sweet, no filler, no "bonus tracks," no farts and sniffles in place...

A conversation with CNN Crossfire co-host and author/writer Tucker Carlson on his new book, the media, live TV, Satan (James Carville), and even blogs.
Although sociology and human development can be a slippery science, with ill-defined objective goals, Ms. Sommers has written a book of surpassingly convincing evidence that boys are being shortchanged in our American educational system.

The rise and fall of Kevin Costner has been well documented and probably also well deserved. Open Range could be his legitimate shot at theatrical redemption.
Snoop is SUPPOSED to be the goddam Superpimp, a Nietzchean uber-pimp.

What kind of half-assed excuse for pimping is this?

Okay, you're probably wondering what you're doing..

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I wrote this entry for my own weblog, but figured if I added it..

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Matt Davis, lead singer and guitarist of Southern recording artists, Ten Grand, died yesterday at the age of 26 after suffering a fatal seizure in Iowa City, Iowa.
I know some people have already discussed the movie Daredevil, so I am going to look at it from the.

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This is your only warning!

If you preach to me I will backlash. Ok, you didn?t heed my.

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Why after paying $14 to get into a movie do I have to sit through 12 minutes of commercials?

Snoop Dogg has been named in an affidavit claiming that he, and the makers of the ?Girls Gone..

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Horrified by "There Be Monsters Here" tales, some members of Congress called for a ban on DNA research in the mid '70s. Because those calls were rejected, millions of people around the world can now hope for DNA-based vaccines against AIDS, malaria and other deadly diseases that have destroyed lives, communities and nations.

On our vacation we watched a fair number of movies at night on actual TV, not something we'd normally do...

It always amuses me when several albums into a career that a band finally decides to do a self titled...

More famous for featuring sacked Kiss guitarist Vinnie Vincent and providing the launch pad for the...

In Shakey, Jimmy McDonough writes the only Neil Young book you ever need to read -- and maybe one of the best rock bios ever.
An interesting aspect of the "rerelease everything we can get our paws on" CD era is the opportunity to hear..

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I'll admit it - I have a pretty short musical attention span. My mind still works in vinyl album-side mode:.

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When I first heard they were going to remake Superman about 2 years ago, I was thrilled.

Now, I'm hoping this film NEVER gets made for 3 very important reasons

"As whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night?"
For the third week in a row, Seabiscuit has been popular enough to finish in the top five highest grossing..

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A great profile of Warren Zevon, who is still alive even though he was given three months to live (I..

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dobra muzika - House: deep "chocolate sounding" bass and rhythm wrapped in a melodic ambient mix flow from German Terry..

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Lately there has been a lot of discussion here on Blogcritics.org about homosesxuality and what is acceptable.

Can we have...

For every guitarist plugging his Korean Stratocaster knockoff into a brittle-sounding transistorized amp in a Guitar Center store, there's probably two dozen more who would love to play, but have no idea of where to start. These books can help.
this just underlines O'Reilly's authoritarian mentality, that he would even be inclined to stop a book from coming out because it is critical of him.

To commemorate the opening of Freddy vs Jason tomorrow, I thought it would be fun to imagine the outcome of a few other movie dream matches.
?People in Europe are more passionate about music.

? ? Anthrax?

s Scott Ian on the difference between American and European audiences.

When I read the box for The Hunted in my local Blockbuster, it was reasonable to assume that this movie..

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According to reports in GQ magazine Marlon Brando is Courtney Love's grandfather. The.

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In the mad blizzard of news we somehow neglected to mention the passing of jazz flute great Herbie Mann.

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On Aug.

13, I said a final farewell to my former childhood pastor, my mentor, and my friend. Father Henry Zerhusen was the best priest I have ever known, one who loved God's people much more than he cared about rules. He was a humble giver of gifts, one who helped each person he touched to see the Christ living within them.

So, from my new house, I take a new bus. My old bus stop was directly in front of my..

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CNN is reporting massive blackouts: Major power outages reported in New York City, other parts of Northeast, Cleveland, Detroit..

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Folks either love 'em or hate 'em. I've done both.

The good news about "The OC" is that FOX tries to fill a void and revive its primetime soap glory...

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I've been waiting for this movie almost 15 years. And now here we sit on the eve of the monumental event, and I can?

t help but feel that the producers of this flick missed the boat by about 5 years.

Last weekend, my interest peaked by a trailer I stumbled across, I watched "Spun." We watched Twister on TV twice on our vacation - we missed the beginning the first time and the ending.

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The whole east coast practically is DARK!

This is a problem for my time-zone striding profession. I have a feeling that..

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Very interesting tale of blogging intrigue and infighting from CNET that I missed on vacation: The conflict centers on..

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ARJANWRITES.COM - The ever-elusive Prince is back with the release of the instrumental ?

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Do good fences make good neighbors and, if so, what will they bring to the next (cinder) block party?
If I can get enough Comments, I won't drown in the sea of anonymity.
I live in Hamilton Ontario, a city of almost half a million people sitting about 45 minutes west of Toronto. I thought I would share some thoughts I had this afternoon/evening as the lights went out.

The first time I saw the Direct-to-Video horror saga Hell's Gate (a.k.a.

Bad Karma), I found it...

A call by the Forum of Holocaust Survivors, Victims of Nazism and Members of the Second Generation: Man, that's a great author's name. Penelope Lively. It sounds much better than the contrived Faith Popcorn.

Now as to the...

dobra muzika - Industrial: orginally released in 1993, Haujobb's debut album Homes Gardens contains some EBM tracks as well...

In honor of Fair Balanced Friday, a short drama exploring the plight of Fair and Balanced, two prisoners of the Fox News Channel.
The Miyazaki magic shines through in this humorous screen-poem for small children and all cat-lovers by Hiroyuki Morita, a new Ghibli studio name to watch.
The boundary of your musical experience has been determined by accountants.

Iron Maiden are featured in the new video from Justin Timberlake ? or at least one of their T-shirts has..

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Bobby Brown has gone AWOL and could face time inside for failing to complete any of the conditions..

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For those who only know him as the ugliest guy in music, Shane MacGowan outlasted the breakup of the Pogues in 1991, and in 1999 helped Sarah Share chronicle his life in this new feature length documentary.
My first real exposure to Brittany Murphy was in the thriller Don?

t Say A Word. The movie didn?t thrill, and one of the main reasons for the minor failure was Murphy being in a role that was just over her head.

Uptown girls is no different.

With the Stones running around conquering the world 40 years after their first tour, I thought it might be interesting..

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Yes, A live action Garfield movie with Bill Murray doing the voice of your favorite cat.
Today is my lovely, charming, talented, often-sweet-but-sometimes-flinty, opinionated-but-not-dogmatic, very pregnant and feeling self-conscious about it (December, boy) wife's birthday.

She...

The rather stark photo on the cover of Annie Lennox's new CD Bare reminds us she isn't getting any younger,...

Another amazing 20-year anniversary, Bronski Beat's The Age of Consent. Twenty years ago I was not having an easy time..

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Interesting take on the blackout in this Znet essay by Greg Palast, a former investigator of utility companies.
Rumor has it that Martin Scorsese is preparing to direct a trilogy of films based on the justly famous.

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It's mainly diehard Rowan Atkinson fans who'll lap up a bid to unshake the 'Mr Bean' image in a spoof spy thriller which starts out tired.

John Malkovich plays up the French for all he's worth.

Perhaps I'm a bit obsessed with Macy Gray's new album. I can't walk down the street at this point without bits of it stalking me from within my own mind.

Concrete Blonde, the veteran trio led by singer-bassist Johnette Napolitano and guitarist Jim Mankey, recently released a fine new live...

I heard one of them on the way home from work. One of my songs. Now, if you've been paying attention,.

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This is actually a pretty sweet deal.

Every week there's a new, free...

A couple of weekends ago, I was sitting on a panel at a film convention with a bunch of...

Call me crazy, but when the electric goes out down on the farm, we generally call the electric company, not our congressman.
Cypher is directed by Vincenzo Natali, whose amazing previous film Cube proved you could make good science fiction with very few effects and even smaller sets. Again, Natali has worked with minimal effects and has managed to create another visual masterpiece.

Is this flaky song from the 60's an ode to a lame percussion piece or something far more insidious?
ARJANWRITES.COM - Macy gray took the pop scene by storm when she was nominated for two Grammy Awards and.

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Are you a fan of Queen?

Live in the states? Have money to spend on imports? May.

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After a long illness in cozy exile in Saudi Arabia, the murderous dictator who ruled Uganda in the 1970s is dead. One must not speak ill of those who have passed on, but neither must the world must forget the extent of Amin's violence, hatred, and cruelty. We must speak of them if we want to keep this sort of terror from happening again.

I just put up a fairly extensive post about the Blackout - which now appears to have begun right here...

The likes of 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl' have been rare indeed since the days...

That's her in the corner, that's her in the spotlight: Laura Schlessinger -- author and self-proclaimed talk-show "doctor," virulent anti-gay and anti-choice conservative, and her kid's mom -- has given up practicing Judaism.
Sunday's New York Times has an article as part of a ppecial section: The DVD Comes of Age..

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It's widely known that Hitler and Stalin dismembered Poland in 1939. Little known is that, a year earlier, Poland.

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In my review of the Steely Dan show at The Gorge Amphitheater, Saturday, 2 August 2003, I noted the...

She was the platonic ideal, the "eiday" of hookers, the nietzchean uber-hooker.
The importance of an event, depending on whether you're on the A-list of countries and people or not.
On Friday night I saw one of the greatest concerts that I have ever seen.

My friend Todd and...

Though I do not see her as the anti-Christ that many bloggers do, Maureen Dowd is largely a glib,...

An RPG set in WWII is an intriguing prospect right? An RPG where, instead of killing undead..

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How many times can you see again and again these criminal intruders asking, as if we come from the same..

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Why do we not accept people for who they are instead of who we need them to be in order to be comfortable with them?
Elvis Presley, the talented and lucky swivel-hipped musician and singer, died 26 years ago today.

King Elvis, a gifted singer-songwriter named MacManus who once hurled a racial epithet at Ray Charles, still lives. The King likely is not a racist, though, and I doubt Presley was one either.

Robert De Niro turns 60 today.

Happy birthday, and please don't hurt me.

It takes a dead woman to kick Robbie off the top of the UK album charts, while Lisa Maffia's solo debut barely makes a ripple. Meanwhile, in the singles listings, Busted can't turn teen screams into a number one.

To say that Incognito's new release "Who Needs Love" is refreshing is quite an understatement. For over 20 years,..

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Crouched unger the willow below the mill, I lobbed my baited hook into the pool and watched the water spread. The Mississippi was my best invention; a dream which was always there, like a big friendly room with an open door, into which I could wander at will.

Robbie told the paper: "I can't leave the house...

We saw Freddy Vs. Jason, and although it failed to be entertaining overall, there was one character in it that..

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Jack Osbourne will be starring in a movie with the Olsen twins. Word is he has been taken on.

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Even technologically challenged music fans who could no more download an illegal MP3 file than pilot a space shuttle.

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I feel superlatives coming on today.

Though in general I love the ECM label, there are times when its euro-centric...

If Norah Jones (who is also on Blue Note) is a jazz singer, so is Van Morrison. From a..

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ARJANWRITES.COM -- Two Disney starlets are reunited.

Justin Timberlake has teamed with fellow pop star Christina Aguilera on...

Sonic Youth latest to be inducted into Hollywood's Rockwalk: Critically acclaimed godfathers of alternative rock, Sonic Youth, have...

Keen eyes will have noted I have taken a break from the RIAA-digital music wars for the last couple of...

I am not the prog-rock fan that some are - I see a fair amount of it as masturbatory noodling...

Hear me talk about my Mary experience.
Well, while everybody in the US obsessess over the power outage in NY and surrounding states, Phoenix's own crisis has.

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A look at Tucker Carlson's wild and woolly autobiographical romp through cable news.

The Right-Wing News website just polled some "right wing" bloggers, coming up with THIS LIST of the two...

We're going on a little trip, folks...

I apologize to every one who has ever seen those nasty, ugly errors. It is entirely my fault, and I'm sorry. They're fixed now!

Mariah Carey has vented her spleen to Maxim magazine about her much reported ?relationship? with Eminem, which, she.

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DiFranco joins Willie Nelson for September 6 benefit concert in Cleveland.

I don't care if the Rolling Stones, U2, Paul...

Another tale from the blackout - NYC handled itself rather well. Ted Leo did his part as Lookout Records'..

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Everyone knows I have no tact, taste or decorum, but what isn't clear to all is that is a conscious..

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The Rolling Stones, holdouts against the great digital music revolution, have joined us in the new millennium. Besides the.

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Mark my words, it's already been a good year for smartpop.

Between the New Pornographers and Fountains of Wayne...

With the critical and political tide (other than Democratic entertainment industry teat-hounds) turning against them - as evidenced by the...