All Things To All People
Reviews of albums, movies, books &c.
[Purchase DVD] Some movies don’t need to be perfect. Some films are uneven and a little scattershot but couldn’t be anything else. Mister Freedom is one of those. The whole’s not greater than the sum of its parts, but the parts themselves…
Cover of Magnolia [Blu-ray] [Purchase DVD] NOTE: This contains Spoilers for Magnolia! Do not continue further if you haven’t seen it and plan to! I personally list Magnolia as one of the all time biggest pieces of deplorable cinema it’s been my…
[Purchase Book] This book made me angry. Enraged, in fact. So, why am I writing a review of it? More to the point, why am I not posting a review under ANGRY JOE!!!’s name? Because this is the intent of the book,…
A while ago, the Grand Illusion in Seattle screened The Frau Plastic Chicken Show aka Nexxt. The basic setup: It’s an episode of a TV News Magazine Show looking at the Serial Killer phenomenon, featuring the person A Clockwork Orange was based…
[Purchase Book via Lulu] Full disclosure here, folks — I’ve known Calamity Jon online for a few years now, and before I knew him, I did a piece on Gone & Forgotten, his Classic Comic Makin’ Fun Of Site, for my college…
[Purchase DVD] Sometimes when I can’t sleep, my brain wanders to thinking about lots of things. Sometimes it thinks about the horrible, horrible, horrible movie Battle Royale, and all the billions of things wrong with it. I figure that if I actually…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase CD] In 1972, an anonymous group of musicians from Shreveport, Louisiana released their first single, “Santa Dog” — but not in the normal fashion one normally goes about releasing a debut single. This band pressed up 300 copies…
[ Purchase Book ] Douglas Hofstadter was one of my favorite authors in high school. After Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, I devoured all his other books I could find. His last, Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of…
[Purchase CD] For a while, it seemed that whenever I’d go to a used record store, they’d always have a copy of Official Secrets Act by M. Strangely enough, none of his other records. I think I ended up giving up looking…
[Purchase CD] It might be bad form to open a record review by praising the album art rather than the music inside, but, well, most records don’t have album art as good as REVENGE! If I were to give an award for…