All Things To All People
Reviews of albums, movies, books &c.
The first sentence of this review (the synopsis part) was written not-on-Ambien, which I guess is fairly obvious, but maybe worth mentioning. Also, I wrote this the same night as Shutter Island, and these are the “innermost thoughts” I refer to in…
[Purchase DVD] Le couple témoin, or, in English, The Model Couple, is, unfortunately, William Klein‘s last fiction film to date. Like Who Are You, Polly Maggoo and Mister Freedom, it’s available in the great Eclipse DVD set The Delirious Fictions of William Klein. It’s a satire,…
Immediately before writing this review, I wrote the following sentence about the movie Forbidden Sun: “Mary had a little lamb and that lamb was the night of the lepus. Lepus bunnies jumping over bunnies in lepusland tonight.” I remember thinking “Man, this…
In 2010, there’re a couple of David Foster Wallace biographies due — I’m not sure when the other one is coming out, but David Lipsky‘s Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself is the first one to be released, though, really, it’s…
It was probably a given that I’d review this new book on Chris Morris; he’s one of my all-time comedy heroes, and I tend to write a lot about him anyway. That said, I didn’t know a whole lot about him; stands to…
March 29 Shutter Island – 2010, 35mm Martin Scorsese 9.0 DANCE MAGIN DANCE SHUTTER ISLAND THE MOVIE. Scorsese send Leonardo DiCapripo over to thinvestiveat an island prison that will make your eyes shudder. There may be spoilers In ths is re e…
[Purchase CD] This is the first true People Like Us album I’ve listened to — Vicki Bennett, who is PLU, has always been on my periphery, though. I’d mostly known her for involvement with WFMU and the only album of hers I…
Cover of Bad Science I’m a bit of an Anglophile, but, at least viewed from the outside, British libel laws are crazy. In the US, it’s the onus of the potentially libeled to show that they were, but in the UK, the…
This is another review I wrote on Ambien. Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed – 2004, DVD -Rewatch Brett Sullivan 9.0 Bridget from Ginger Snaps Part 1 is on the run and everyone wants her, but she just wants to rent the Bloodletting book…
Here’s another review I wrote after taking Ambien. Here’s the first one I wrote, if you missed it and need some context. Wolfen – 1981, DVD Michael Wadleigh 8.0 Albert Finney is a Homidicide Detective investigating some killings, and the killing were…