All Things To All People
Reviews of albums, movies, books &c.
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] On one hand, I’m not even sure if I should even bother writing a review of this. Let’s see, one of the most beloved books by a beloved author everyone knows? Gee, I wonder if folks know…
[Purchase DVD] Costa-Gavras’ Missing is in the same vein as his brilliant film Z. Instead of the leadup to the military coup in Greece that Z covers, Missing takes place in the immediate aftermath of the military coup in Chile, leading to…
[Purchase Book] I finished reading BAD: The Autobiography of James Carr not too long ago. It put me in a pensive mood. Starting with Sister of The Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha – as told to Dr. Ben Reitman, I’ve been…
[Purchase DVD] This is It is SO. GOOD. If you like music at all you need to go see it! It’s like going to rock and roll church. Seriously. I had reservations going in that it might be a movie to just…
[Purchase DVD] A young couple is haunted by a ghost or demon, so the skeptical boyfriend begins to film themselves sleeping every night, with increasingly disturbing results. It has a great concept behind it, because instead of the typical house haunting, the…
10. Monster (2003, Jenkins) It may seem a little off to start this list with a film about a serial killer, as that may not be considered an especially positive portrayal of a lesbian. But I think the film handles that particular…
Cover of I Drink for a Reason [Purchase Book] David Cross hasn’t done an album in a while — It’s Not Funny came out quite a few years ago, and aside from some TV and movie appearances, we haven’t seen a lot…
[Purchase Book] Yoshihiro Tatsumi is one of those cartoonists who is more influential than they are really known — at least in America. He was one of the first creators of (and the coiner of the term) gekiga, or alternative manga, using…
Cover of Born Standing Up It’s safe to say that Steve Martin is a pretty good writer. Even the stuff he is embarrassed by is really, really good. Being a good writer, though, and an interesting fellow on top of that, it’s…
Cover via Amazon The writer Augusten Burroughs is back with another of his childhood memoirs of his strange family. We might remember him as the young boy with a box on his head from Running With Scissors, but in A Wolf At…