This is what you’re buying me for Christmas
Still wiping my drool off my keyboard over this one.
Republicans and Reptiles (or
fuck usa!
Whoa, now THIS is an election irregularity!
UPI reports: “Election officials in Florida’s Broward County were stunned to find one of the world’s rarest stamps on an envelope containing an absentee ballot. If it’s genuine, the stamp on the ballot of unknown origin is a 1918 Inverted Jenny, similar to one sold in mint condition for $525,000 last year. “
The Road to Escondido
The Road to Escondido Label: Reprise Length: LP Media: Cassette Format: Album WorkNameSort: Road to Escondido , The As one of the most successful MOR artists of the past 15 years, Eric Clapton knows a hit when he hears it. Two of his earliest solo successes, ‘After Midnightâ?� and ‘Cocaine,â?� were written by his friend…
Leaving the Nest
Leaving the Nest Label: Domino Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Leaving the Nest A few months ago, D.C.-based songwriter Benjy Ferree opened for Adem at Joe’s Pub in Manhattan. Ferree immediately imparted a good-natured stage presence and played an upbeat acoustic set, accompanied only by a cellist. But clamorous rockers like ‘In the…
ZIG, THEN ZAG
Rockstar pulls the Bully over our eyes
A TRUE STORY ABOUT FICTION
So, a guy and his laptop walk into a studio …
Babel
Babel Length: Single Studio: Paramount Vantage Rated: R Website: http://www.paramountvantage.com/babel/ Release Date: 2006-11-10 Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal, Elle Fanning, Koji Yakusho Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Screenwriter: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Guillermo Arriaga Music Score: Gustavo Santaolalla, Lynn Fainchtein WorkNameSort: Babel Our Rating: 3.00 The acting from Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Adriana Barraza…
A Good Year
A Good Year Length: Single Studio: 20th Century Fox Distribution Rated: PG-13 Website: http://www.agoodyear.com/ Release Date: 2006-11-10 Cast: Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Marion Cotillard, Didier Bourdon, Abbie Cornish Director: Ridley Scott Screenwriter: Marc Klein Music Score: Marc Streitenfeld WorkNameSort: Good Year, A Our Rating: 2.50 When a slimy stock trader named Max Skinner (Russell Crowe,…
THE LONG REVOLUTION
La Commune (Paris, 1871) Studio: First Run Features DVD WorkNameSort: La Commune (Paris, 1871) As a combination history lesson/film manifesto/contemporary media critique, it’s safe to say there’s nothing quite like La Commune (Paris, 1871). The most recent film from acclaimed British pseudo-documentarian Peter Watkins, La Commune runs about six hours and is mostly a series…
Gary Cooper: The Signature Collection
Gary Cooper: The Signature Collection Studio: Warner Home Video WorkNameSort: Gary Cooper: The Signature Collection Casual Gary Cooper fans may be surprised to hear about the caliber of the films in this six-disc collection. Dallas? Springfield Rifle? The Wreck of the Mary Deare? Minor titles indeed, and I doubt there’s a significant legion of Coop…
The Fallen Idol
The Fallen Idol Studio: The Criterion Collection WorkNameSort: Fallen Idol, The The wait is over for the second film in the trifecta that includes Odd Man Out and The Third Man. The Fallen Idol has long been considered the pinnacle of British director Carol Reed’s largely unsung career. In this icy but humane postwar thriller,…
Katt Williams: The Pimp Chronicles, Vol. 1
Katt Williams: The Pimp Chronicles, Vol. 1 Studio: Salient Media Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Katt Williams: The Pimp Chronicles, Vol. 1 It’s been a while since a comedian has found the spotlight as fast as Katt Williams. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, he’s the 5-foot, 5-inch ex-pimp’turned’funny man seen in Friday After Next and…
Martin & Lewis Collection, Vol. 1
Martin & Lewis Collection, Vol. 1 Studio: Paramount WorkNameSort: Martin & Lewis Collection, Vol. 1 These films aren’t nearly as artistically or comically inspired as the ones Lewis would later write and direct for himself, but each of the eight entries in The Martin & Lewis Collection Vol. 1 has its moments of genius. The…
We Run Tings, Tings Nuh Run We
We Run Tings, Tings Nuh Run We Studio: Palm Pictures WorkNameSort: We Run Tings, Tings Nuh Run We Despite years of being used as a scenic (and inexpensive) location for American and European films, Jamaica doesn’t get much attention for its native film industry. Chris Blackwell ‘ founder of Island Records and Palm Pictures, and…
GET YOUR FILL OF ‘PINO
Regional dishes from the southern Philippines reward inquisitive diners
Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition
Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition Label: Matador Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition Here, indie-thesaurus touchstone Pavement hit its daftly freewheeling peak by happy accident ‘ before an elder statesman’like formalism crept in and crossword-puzzle champ/frontman Stephen Malkmus called the whole thing off without bothering to tell anybody else.…
Live To Win
Live To Win Label: New Door Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Live To Win Every 28 years or so, KISS frontman Stanley gets it together to record half an hour’s worth of solo soul-baring; geez, life must be horrible when the muse just won’t leave you alone. As expected, Live to Win mostly…
Surf Boundaries
Surf Boundaries Label: Ghostly International Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Surf Boundaries Guitar-wrought ambience is essential to Californian Christopher Willits’ work, but on Surf Boundaries, he also references his coast’s better-known songwriters. Willits arranges layers of laptop-tweaked guitar as any bedroom musician would, while rampant vocal harmonies (featuring house artist Latrice Barnett) point…
SOMETHING’S FISHY
“In my experience the strippers are, are basically selling a dream,” Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation agent James McGriff told an Orlando Police Department internal affairs interrogator June 13. McGriff showed up to the interview wearing a hood to conceal his face — he works undercover — even though, according to a transcript, only he and…
SILENCE IS DEATH
“To not speak on it, to me I’m offended by it,” says Dyana, who identifies herself as an HIV/AIDS outreach educator for an organization called the Guardian. Dyana (who asked that her last name not be used) is a 40-something African-American HIV-positive mother of two children (both HIV-negative) and just a little bit outspoken about…
BLISTER
“Oooh, cheap shot,” I cringe, as Chris Matthews belabors Kerrygate into the stiffness of three-day-old bread. And even though I can see his point — that John Kerry is about as funny as a Jimmy Hoffa joke at a union funeral — I’m thoroughly disengaged. I like my soldiers big and stupid, my politicians throbbing…
SAVAGE LOVE
I am a 19-year-old man with a 4.5-inch cock. My girlfriend says that it does not penetrate deeply enough. My doctor says I could have surgery, but my girlfriend says I should take pills. Cock Ain’t Penetrating “I’m not sure how CAP is measuring,” says Alice Dreger, a member of the Medical Humanities and Bioethics…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
A glimpse at the bustling gaggle of tower cranes in downtown will show you that Orlando is changing in a big way. But rejoice, rock & roll dirtbags, it’s not just the suits and yups that’ll feast on this fruit. The recent changes in our music scene’s topography have so far been successful. However, what’s…
I LOVE TELEVISION
Hey Readers! I’m on vacation this week in MEXICO — doing … ahem … research on donkey shows — therefore, please enjoy this old-timey installment of “The BEST of I Love Television!” — yer pal, Humpy Know what? If you offered me a million bucks, I’d take it. However! I wouldn’t necessarily be crapping my…
ARTS & CULTURE TO GO
Close Encounters of the Weird Kind Yvonne Suhor’s tiny Art’s Sake Studios in Winter Park inspires in its members a benignly cult-like devotion — more like Trekkies than Scientologists — but after seeing their biannual Play de Luna one-act series, one has to wonder what’s in the Kool-Aid. Close Encounters of the Weird Kind is…
HAPPYTOWN
After spending the past 14 months in a Vietnamese prison without being charged, Orlando resident Thuong “Cuc” Nguyen Foshee is finally headed to trial Nov. 10 in Ho Chi Minh City, where she is suspected of terrorism `”Free Cuc,” Oct. 19`. A spokesperson from the U.S. State Department has confirmed that Foshee is now facing…
POLICE BEAT
Oct. 28, 10:54 P.M.: What’s worse than waking up with a hangover? Waking up with a hangover and a 2-inch stab wound on your right thigh. Officer Williams was dispatched to the 5000 block of Rosamond Drive in reference to “a stabbing call,” reports state. The officer spoke with the 24-year-old victim, who was “extremely…
LETTERS
Keller’s piece Jeffrey C. Billman’s usually sloppy, whether in a feature or a report. This time he left out who/when Keller remarried, after he said who/when Keller divorced `”Ric Keller’s greatest hits,” Nov. 2`. Editor: If Keller wins, why not Photoshop him from now on until he leaves office by running a pic of what…
SELECTIONS
Thursday•9 Chris Mooney Election Day may have come and gone, but the party lines aren’t going anywhere. To that end, Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando welcomes Chris Mooney, the author of The Republican War on Science, for its “Speak Up!” Series that takes place oh-so-early in the morning but does include a thoughtful breakfast. While…
ANTI-POP : GROWING PAINS
This year’s Anti-Pop Music Fest is, well, confusing. The on-the-fly organizational nature of last year’s debut festival has been replaced by a patina of professionalism, resulting in the simple math of more bands playing. Local bands aren’t being relegated to second-class status like they were last year; in fact, the only show at the outdoor…
FULL OF CHARACTERS
There is a small white sign that reads “COMICS” sandwiched between Annie’s Quick Cash and Buddy’s Home Furnishings on the corner of University and Semoran boulevards. Behind it, the walls inside A Comic Shop are lined with black shelves full of trade paperbacks and graphic novels, and chances are you won’t recognize many of the…
A little gloating is in order â?¦
Two years ago, when Bush won re-election and the Dems got handed their heads in the House and Senate, this newspaper ran a little point/counterpoint thingy. The â??pointâ?� part written by Jeffrey C. Billman, a normally sensible young man who got all lachrymose about Kerryâ??s loss, saying it portended the end of the world, or…
