AGE BEFORE BEAUTY
Time Lines Label: Blue Note Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Time Lines It’s a sobering comment on the current state of jazz music that one of the genre’s most prodigious and well-rounded composers, Sam Rivers, is 82 and playing Wednesday nights at Will’s Pub. And the most daring new music to be released in years on the…
The Proposition Original Soundtrack
The Proposition Original Soundtrack Label: Mute Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Proposition Original Soundtrack, The American movie theaters will see a limited release this year of The Proposition, a Western drama written by Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave. On this mostly wordless soundtrack, Cave and Dirty Three multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis wander lowly through barren desert and valley balladry.…
Bombay Dub Orchestra
Bombay Dub Orchestra Label: Six Degrees Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Bombay Dub Orchestra So two British producers are in Bombay working on a project that requires them to use local session musicians. While working on this project, the duo becomes enamored with the expertise of the string session they hired and, duly inspired, set to work…
October Language
October Language Label: Carpark Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: October Language October Language scans like a precog flash of Hurricane Katrina’s panoramic devastation – not just because Belong’s Turk Dietrich and Michael Jones recorded it in their native New Orleans less than a year before that fateful storm hit, but because this duo get off on submerging…
Kommunicator
Kommunicator Label: Rapster Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Kommunicator There isn’t much that can be called traditional on Five Deez’s third full-length disc. File the Ohio four-piece’s Kommunicator under interplanetary hip-hop, and listen to it push immediately into atmospheric supercomputer blips and robot grooves in the intro before MCs Pase Rock, Kyle David and Sonic rapidly fire…
SOY STORY
I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth Studio: Cinema Tropical Rated: NOT RATED Release Date: 2006-02-17 Cast: Luz MarÃa Collazo, Sergio Corrieri, Alfredo Guevara, Aleksandr Kaltsatyj, Enrique Pineda Barnet Director: Vincente Ferraz Music Score: Jenny Padron WorkNameSort: I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth Our Rating: 4.00 Movies about the making of other movies are generally of…
BONFIRE OF INANITIES
Freedomland Studio: Sony Pictures Rated: R Website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/freedomland/ Release Date: 2006-02-17 Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edith Falco, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe Director: Joe Roth Screenwriter: Richard Price Music Score: James Newton Howard WorkNameSort: Freedomland Our Rating: 2.00 Gotta hand it to Julianne Moore – she’s turned in a piece of overacting even the…
Firewall
Firewall Studio: Warner Bros. Rated: PG-13 Website: http://firewallmovie.warnerbros.com/ Release Date: 2006-02-17 Cast: Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Jimmy Bennett, Virginia Madsen, Robert Patrick Director: Richard Loncraine Screenwriter: Joe Forte WorkNameSort: Firewall Our Rating: 2.50 Like Face/Off before it, Firewall is an overblown, unrelenting movie that tries to disguise its ludicrous plot with enough technical jargon to…
Blister
Oh, so this is the way that the world ends: not with bangs but a wig. Hot off the local celebrity news ticker, the one that litters the bathroom floor of the hall of disgrace, my superfriend wondertwin, the Sexy Savannah, has agreed to make a bad patch even worse by rubbing her situation against…
OLAFEST, OC Bike Festival, Wu-Tang Reunion, P.O.S. and more
Thursday • 16 OLAFEST Orlando is a town full of “first annual” festivals that never live to see a second edition, but the 2,500 people who turned out for last year’s debut Orlando Latin American Film and Heritage Festival have become the base audience for a follow-up that’s designed to further enrich our understanding of…
Letters
Ric on Ric While I appreciate Orlando Weekly’s efforts to let Central Floridians know “What’s up with Ric?™” `Happytown™, Feb. 9`, you missed the mark in your recent column on student aid. The Deficit Reduction Act that I voted for last week saves billions of dollars for American taxpayers, but not one penny will come…
Notable Noise
You people suck. You know who you are: the obnoxious, lazy whiners who moan about the sad state of “the scene” in Orlando. You stomp your feet and plead for an explanation as to why nobody supports one another. You threaten to move to New York/Los Angeles/Seattle/Austin because in those cities, people respect the creative…
SOMETHING STINKS
On Jan. 10, the board of county commissioners voted to allow Marc Watson to build residential housing on his Universal Boulevard land after the county’s legal department opined that the developer had all the legal rights to do so. The housing and the people it will bring were at the center of a controversy over…
Happytown
Fun condom facts in honor of National Condom Week (Feb. 13-17): Roman soldiers were reputed to have worn condoms made from the muscle tissue of vanquished foes! (Stringy!) Casanova used linen condoms (he called them “English riding coats”) as a means of birth control! In the 1940s and ’50s, condoms made out of sheep’s intestines…
IN DUBIOUS BATTLE
Outside the red brick home of Jason Gunn, a suburban winter day begins quietly. It’s nearly Christmas in this sleepy neighborhood near Philadelphia, and Gunn has been home from the military for five months. But inside his parents’ house the 26-year-old sits wrapped in a blanket, eyes fixed on the ceiling, his mind still lingering…
I Love Television
Hey, slacker! Cut your hair! Get a job! Contribute to society! Make me a sandwich! And most importantly, show some GODDAMN RESPECT for Presidents’ Day! That’s right – it’s Presidents’ Day this week (Monday, Feb. 20), which means it’s time to dump that too-cool-for-school attitude and pop some deserved props for those brave souls who…
FRIDAY ON MY MIND
There’s no exiting or entering the Goldman Theater during the thrilling first 10 minutes of the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival’s Robinson Crusoe, and who in his right mind would want to leave anyway? In stranding Defoe’s iconic shipwreck victim on his lonely island, OSF puts us right onboard the doomed vessel to be lashed by high…
FANG VERSUS FICTION
As if owning and operating a basement laboratory weren’t peculiar enough, the Feb. 3, 2006, death of beloved Munsters star and leftist rabble-rouser “Grandpa” Al Lewis cemented his standing as one mysterious individual – especially if you took the time to cross-reference the many inconsistencies in his printed and posted obituaries. Just who was Al…
GROWING UP THE FAST WAY
Panic at the Disco guitarist Ryan Ross doesn’t know where the hell he is. Somewhere in England, that much is certain. The sky is growing dark outside, even though he just woke up. It’s been like this ever since his band signed with Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz’s label Decaydence some two years ago:…
POP CLASSICS
Although Dodger’s reputation as an integral part of the current local indie scene is rooted in the group’s dubious origin as teenage members of a ska outfit (which should tell you how long they’ve been involved in bands), it’s no secret that – despite these roots – the group has cultivated a distinct sound for…
News of the Weird
What a winker Dave “The Dragon” Lockwood and his tournament-tested sons, Max, 16, Jon, 13, and Ben, 10, of Silver Spring, Md., might become to competitive tiddlywinks what the Manning family of quarterbacks is to football, according to a January Washington Post story. Dave was previously ranked No. 1 in the English Tiddlywinks Association (and…
SOUNDS IN THE DARK
Dälek works in the shadows. Sputtering, shrieking beats simmer in a cauldron of dank, grimy textures whose intricacy recalls golden-age rap producers such as Prince Paul or Hank Shocklee and the Bomb Squad. It’s a comparison the Newark, N.J., native welcomes. “I’m all for retro sounds,” says Dälek. “I think the current stuff misses the…
Savage Love
I’m a man in my early 30s and I have never been in a serious relationship. I started seeing a therapist to “get to the bottom” of my relationship problems and her opinion is that they may stem from an incident that happened years ago. I was raised by a single mom. When I was…
Rob Brezny’s Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In his book And They All Sang, Studs Terkel interviewed jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. “When people say, ‘I don’t understand your music,'” reported Gillespie, “I say, ‘Don’t try to understand it, just try to feel it.'” That’s excellent advice for you as you weave through the complicated, uncanny, revelatory weeks ahead.…
Police Beat
Feb. 6, 11:29 a.m.: Criminals, take note: The following is an example of why it is a bad idea to return to the scene of the crime. Sometime between the evening of Feb. 2 and the morning of Feb. 6, a burglar broke into a car-repair business in the 1300 block of West Washington Street.…
SKETCHING FOR FUN AND PROPHET
Last week, I read a story about four employees of The New York Press who quit their jobs when their paper refused to reprint those controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed. That seemed like the perfect opportunity to tell my coworkers about a weekly comic strip I’ve been devising on the side – one that…
