STASH OF WORLD SPECIALITIES
The first time, I went along reluctantly – perhaps I even threw something that was kind of like a tantrum. I sat in the back seat, sighing the whole way, wondering why my friends were dragging me to yet another import store. I didn’t need any cheap rugs, handmade baskets or scented candles, I silently…
CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE
Me and You and Everyone We Know Rated: R Website: http://www.meandyoumovie.com/ Release Date: 2005-07-22 Cast: Miranda July, John Hawkes, Miles Thompson, Brad Henke, Brandon Ratcliff Director: Miranda July Screenwriter: Miranda July Music Score: IFC Films WorkNameSort: Me and You and Everyone We Know Our Rating: 4.50 The recipient of a special jury prize at this…
Après Vous
Après Vous Studio: Paramount Classics Rated: R Website: http://www.paramountclassics.com/apresvous/index2.html Release Date: 2005-07-29 Cast: Daniel Auteuil, José Garcia, Sandrine Kiberlain, Marilyne Canto, Garence Clavel Director: Benoit Graffin, Pierre Salvadori Screenwriter: Benoit Graffin, Pierre Salvadori, David Leotard WorkNameSort: Après Vous Our Rating: 4.00 By taking its cues from the old saw that no good deed goes unpunished,…
Must Love Dogs
Must Love Dogs Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures Rated: PG-13 Website: http://www2.warnerbros.com/mustlovedogs/index.html Release Date: 2005-07-29 Cast: Diane Lane, John Cusack, Elizabeth Perkins, Christopher Plummer, Dermot Mulroney Director: Gary David Goldberg Screenwriter: Gary David Goldberg WorkNameSort: Must Love Dogs Our Rating: 3.50 It works. That’s the most and the least that can be said of this frequently…
HEREDITY BITES
The Talent Given Us Studio: DaddyW Productions Rated: NOT RATED Website: http://www.thetalentgivenus.com/ Release Date: 2005-07-29 Cast: Allen Wagner, Judy Wagner, Emily Wagner, Maggie Wagner, Judy Dixon Director: Andrew Wagner Screenwriter: Andrew Wagner Music Score: David Dyas WorkNameSort: Talent Given Us, The Our Rating: 3.50 Think very carefully: How eager are you to sign up for…
Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats
Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats Label: Essay Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats Various Artists Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats (Essay) The sound of this compilation of Brazilian slum-funk put together by a German DJ (Daniel Haaksman) may be familiar. You may have heard a London-via-Sri Lanka MC (M.I.A.) rapping…
Real Music for Real People
Real Music for Real People Label: BBE Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Real Music for Real People DJ Language unearths several lesser-knowns for this genre-spanning mix. The tracks that lend the most to the overall sunny and soul-heavy ambience of the mix are those that haven’t registered under the rock snob blogosphere, like the Foreign Exchange’s rich…
Fear of Music EP
Fear of Music EP Label: Blowout Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Fear of Music EP Kid-rockers, as a rule, are to be avoided. However, listening to this six-song EP without being aware of the Manchester quartet’s vital statistics, it’s difficult to come to the immediate conclusion that these guys are anything less than world-weary, heart-stomped rockers. The…
PILLS, THRILLS AND BELLYACHES
A new Rhino box set refracts the odd ’90s
News of the Weird
WACK MCS WHO HACK PCS A subculture of hip-hop music has developed recently among computer science professionals, who taunt each other in verse much as mainstream rap artists do, according to a June report on Wired.com. “Geeksta” rappers like Ytcracker and MC Plus+ spin verses such as the latter’s “I’m encrypting shit like every single…
ROYALLY PISSED!
I’m Royally Pissed at the newlyweds down the block who refuse to park their car on their lawn, let their grass grow yellow-wild or do their arguing in the middle of the street where the rest of us can hear. This is Bithlo, folks, and we have traditions to uphold. The Homeowners Association has a…
Rob Brezny’s Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Have you been dreaming of frogs, worms and potted plants? Researchers have found that pregnant women have an inordinate number of encounters with those three things during their sleep-time adventures. And while you may not technically be carrying a developing baby inside you, you are at least gestating a brainchild. Like…
Letters
Feel the hate Wow, I rarely read a movie review in which I could write an essay on why every single line is full of shite [“Bird brained,” Film, June 16]. You live in Orlando-fucking-Disney World-Jeb Bush-Terri Schiavo-did-I-say-“fucking”-already FloriDuh and you talk about San Francisco being unrealistic? I diagnose you with severe rectocephaly. You also…
A SUCKER DEAL
`This` is a pretty monumental day as we move forward in Parramore,” proclaimed Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer June 14. It was time. Finally. More than a year after his Parramore Task Force released its recommendations, Dyer was here, at the site of the soon-to-be-constructed Parramore Village, giving his “Pathways for Parramore” presentation, the new guide…
Happytown
In 1975, Bill Miller and Michael Hodge purchased a motor lodge on Orange Blossom Trail that was failing because it was too far from Disney for the families it served. But Miller and Hodge sought a different clientele, one that didn’t really care how distant the Magic Kingdom was. And that, friends, was the humble…
THE WORST OF BOTH WORLDS
You’d be hard-pressed to find two groups of people more reviled in modern America than homosexuals and Muslims. While the Christian right believes that gays are out to destroy the American family, many conservatives – and nonconservatives – worry that Muslims are out to destroy Americans. Imagine for a moment living in this dual reality…
THE ART OF WAR
In an increasingly pansy-fied world, the glory of pure competition is virtually a lost art. Thankfully, there’s Kenny vs. Spenny. A hilarious import from Canada, this weekly reality show documents the histrionic and immature challenges waged between two roommates, Kenny Hotz and Spencer “Spenny” Rice. Though they claim to be lifelong friends, nothing will keep…
BOX LUNCH BRIEFS
I’m on vacation – my first in years – so I’ll be running some much-loved, frequently requested classic Savage Loves for next few weeks. A couple of months ago you invited women to send in cunnilingus tips for straight guys. We’re still waiting for that column, Dan. What gives? Didn’t any women send in tips?…
THE WORST. TV WEEK. EVER.
What the FAWK is up with TV this week? There we all were, having a great time in front of the tube, laughing at the sadistic shenanigans of Hell’s Kitchen, sneering at the nerds of Beauty and the Geek, and becoming sexually aroused by the porkable bottom of Boomer in Battlestar Galactica. Clearly 2005 was…
CREEPING AND ENTERING
JULY 19, 2 A.M.: A 74-year-old man was ascending his apartment’s staircase in the 5000 block of Westwinds Drive. He’d just pulled a late-night shift at work and was probably eager for some shut-eye. But that would have to wait. Three young men emerged from the muggy night and attacked the man from behind, securing…
AMONG THE FAITHFUL
I’ve done some pretty awful things in my life, spinning recklessly through just about every powder, pill and penis that happened to slap in the general direction of my face, flipping cars, falling on my face … the usual. And like most girls (or girl-alikes) of a certain age, I’ve decorated all of my personal…
