All Things To All People
Reviews of albums, movies, books &c.
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…
I wrote all sorts of gibberish yesterday about this record and today I take a breath and start again. Scribes. The name implies what we (Him and I) do. Hell, it is what many people do. We write. Everybody writes. Some just…
[Purchase CD/DVD] Last year’s Sound Mirrors was an outstanding album. Coldcut have long been among the best producers/DJs/whathaveyou, and while Sound Mirrors was quite a different turn — I often described it as a record by a band with the same guys…
Cover of Cloud Atlas [Purchase Book] David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas is less a novel and more a collection of six novellas. Though that’s not quite right either — the novellas are all linked and build off each other. Then again, Mitchell’s other…
[Purchase Book Based On This Series] If you’re not English, you might not have an instant idea of who Louis Theroux is, but if you’re American, you might remember him as the British Guy on TV Nation. But maybe not, since that…
It was late and all I could think was “I need to get outside.” I had been up till 3 in the morning – after several shots and more than enough beer. I spent the day in bed kind of sleeping and…