All Things To All People
Reviews of albums, movies, books &c.
Ill Poetic, unfortunately for me, fell victim to being a CD that I received towards the end of a year as Music Director for my school’s radio station. I say victim because by the end of last school year I couldn?t get…
[Purchase Book] The Rose & The Briar is a collection of essays (and a couple stories) about the American Ballad — the folk story-songs that our grandparents grew up with, the first hit songs. Granted, the original instances of them being hits…
Cover of Desire [Purchase CD] Pharoahe Monch should be a star. But he isn?t. If not a star than he should be a legend whose name is on the tip of any head?s tongue when discussing the best emcees to bless us…
Cover of King Dork [Purchase Book] As most people know, there’?s a recent young adult novel that has made it to the top of a lot of folks? reading lists, even those who aren?t actually young adults. It?s already been optioned for…
Cover of Bayani [Purchase CD] The Scholars, or The Blue Scholars to those of you that don’t call the 206 home are Seattle’s long hyped and only recent claim to Hip Hop fame. They are emcee Geologic & producer/instrumentalist Sabzi and with…
The Pick-Up Artist is a new reality show on VH1 (Monday nights, then repeated ad-nauseum) starring a man named “Mystery” who is a “Master Pick-Up Artist”. He’s on a mission to turn some geeks into into smooth operators. Or nice guys into…
Cover via Amazon [Purchase DVD] The latest Bourne sequel, The Bourne Ultimatum, has a very final-sounding title. First off, no worries – they set it up for another sequel. They’re not sending this cash cow out to pasture! I’m not sure what…
Cover of Stalker: A Film by Andrei Tarkovsky NB: CHOCK FULL OF SPOILERS When people ask me what I thought of a certain movie, I am often forced to describe it in the most general terms: “It was kind of OK”, “I’d…
[Purchase Book] Will Johnsen loaned me this book after an interesting conversation we were having about music, copyright, and collage, amongst other things. One of us had mentioned David Toop — I can’t recall which — and it turned out that we…
Cover of Harvey [Purchase DVD] Harvey is one of those films like My Neighbor Totoro that is so completely good-natured it’s impossible to hate. In fact, I would find it hard to see someone who didn’t find it utterly charming. It’s a…