(All photos courtesy of the lovely Boots and her amazing skills, considering we were all the way back in Row T and she wasn’t using any flash…) It’s not exactly a groundbreaking revelation that, as a near-lifelong Beatles fan, I’m sick to death of Beatles tribute bands. I’m explicitly referring to the Wigs-n-Costumes bands in…
Rating: 9 / 10 Filmed in black-and-white, set almost entirely on a small sailboat, and with a cast of only three characters, there’s something warm and analog about Roman Polanski’s debut film Nóż W Wodzie (Knife In The Water) . Like slipping a needle on a vinyl groove, the film cracks and pops and skips…
UPDATE: Season 2 is now available. Click here for my initial thoughts on the new features and storylines! Ahh, long-distance running… The fine art of destroying your cartilage and killing your weekend social life all for the sake of a $0.95 hunk of metal (which cost you anywhere from $80 to $200) shoved in your…
My good buddy Suz shared this with me. It brought the lulz.
Welcome to the inaugural edition of BTR; my thoughts, reviews, commentary, and complaints on any and all of them various episodic serialized entertainment nuggets I’m following on what the great Harlan Ellison referred to as the Glass Teat. Hmm… glass teat. Boob tube. Fascinating… I’ll try not to get too spoilerish on things, but if…
Rating: 8 / 10 Slacker, Richard Linklater’s landmark 1991 independent film, is ostensibly a celebration of Austin’s self-proclaimed “slacker” culture, a loose-knit hodge-podge of eccentrics, oddballs, loners, artists, intellectuals, anarchists, pseudo-intellectuals, conspiracy theorists, superfreaks, what-have-you. The film presents no driving narrative, no real plot to speak of, and nary a whisper of a storyline. Linklater’s…
UPDATE: Click here for my REVIEW of the 2013 Rock n’ Roll Half Marathon. This blog entry was just about my registration last October. Well hello again! Pleased to see you here! Including those of you who haven’t arrived at my blog after Googling “Top Gun homoerotic” or “Top Gun gay” or “Top Gun gay photos”. And…
Thin Lizzy’s 1973 album Vagabonds of the Western World marks their third LP release, their final album with guitarist Eric Bell, and a continued evolution of their sound. Sure, you have Phil’s inimitable vocal stylings and lyrical prose aplenty, and Bell — as underrated a classic rock guitarist as they come — continues to show off what…
Rating: Are you kidding me? I don’t think you have really lived until you’ve watched the Bee Gees engage in a disco kung-fu battle against poorly choreographed nurses while Steve Martin, gyrating in the corner and performing a rather freakish Peter Lorre impression, dodges blows from a silver cane swung by Peter Frampton. But let’s not get ahead…
For the first time in his solo career, Paul McCartney had heat! The consensus was that Wings produced another strong effort.