Bang for the Buck
Bang for the Buck Label: Fatbeats Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Bang for the Buck Ugly Duckling wants desperately to provide your very own frat party soundtrack. Every track on this new effort is dedicated to touting the group’s qualifications for getting the job, from the raucous “Yudee!,” complete with exclamation point, to the faux-menacing “Lower the…
FabricLive 26
FabricLive 26 Label: Fabric Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: FabricLive 26 Eric B. & Rakim’s “Paid in Full” gets an affectionate 20th-anniversary nod on the Herbaliser’s FabricLive offering, in a summer scorcher track list that favors clamorous Brit hip-hop and U.S. MCs rather than comedown beats. Other than a hyped snippet of “Gadget Funk,” the smoky, jazz-lounge…
ÜBER THE TOP
The Aryan Couple Studio: RS Entertainment Rated: PG-13 Website: http://www.aryancouple.com/ Release Date: 2006-04-14 Cast: Martin Landau, Judy Parfitt, Danny Webb, Steven MacKintosh, Jake Wood Director: John Daly Screenwriter: John Daly, Kendrew Lascelles Music Score: Igor Khoroshev WorkNameSort: Aryan Couple, The Our Rating: 2.00 A few weeks ago, I came across an infamous essay that dance…
The Wild
The Wild Studio: Walt Disney Pictures Rated: G Website: http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/thewild/index.html Release Date: 2006-04-14 Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Eddie Izzard, James Belushi, Janeane Garofalo, William Shatner Director: Steve Williams Screenwriter: Ed Decter, Mark Gibson, John J. Strauss, Philip Halprin WorkNameSort: Wild, The Our Rating: 1.50 The word “generic” is too specific for Disney’s latest slab of stillborn…
Duck Season (Temporada de patos)
Duck Season (Temporada de patos) Studio: Warner Independent Pictures Rated: R Release Date: 2006-04-14 Cast: Enrique Arreola, Diego Cataño, Daniel Miranda, Danny Perea Director: Fernando Eimbcke Screenwriter: Fernando Eimbcke, Paula Marcovich WorkNameSort: Duck Season (Temporada de patos) Our Rating: 3.00 Fresh from the Florida Film Festival comes Fernando Eimbcke’s intentionally comatose, black-and-white capture of Mexico…
LIMITED APPEAL
Chosen Lords Label: Rephlex Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Chosen Lords Over the course of 2005, the Rephlex label quietly released a series of 11 vinyl EPs, called Analord 1-11, which contained over 40 songs in all. These limited edition discs by AFX (aka Richard D. James, aka Aphex Twin) quickly became extremely collectible; a complete set,…
Under the Covers Vol. 1
Under the Covers Vol. 1 Label: Shout Factory Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Under the Covers Vol. 1 It’s no surprise that given the chance, Matthew Sweet and the Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs would opt to record a collection of ’60s pop nuggets. There’s no arguing over the selections – except maybe “Monday Monday,” which lite-FM has brought…
The Viking of Sixth Avenue
The Viking of Sixth Avenue Label: Honest Jon’s/Astralwerks Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Viking of Sixth Avenue, The As the excellent liner notes in this fantastic 36-track compilation point out, the only other American musicians that Moondog can be realistically compared to would be Harry Partch and Sun Ra. All three created their own cosmological realities, all…
WHAT WOULD JESUS DO ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING?
Christians and Republicans – like Batman and Robin, or Lennon and McCartney – just seem to go together. The duo has teamed up to fight the evils of evolution, abortion, gay marriage and stem cells. But in early February, a Yoko appeared in the form of the Evangelical Climate Initiative and put a wedge between…
Happytown
Stories revolving around a maggot-infested arm, the purported nephew of crazy-coke-fiend/actor Gary Busey and the Orlando chapter of NOW tend to catch our attention. This one was no different. Our tale begins at Pie in the Sky Pizza on Alafaya Trail near the University of Central Florida, a venue at which Orlando DJ Brian Dawe…
AMERICAN ANTI-IDOL
It was during a high-school talent show that Eric Pinder learned he was (in the immortal words of Michael Jackson) “not like other boys.” “I remember this guy did ‘American Pie’ on a guitar – and here I came out and did this big Kurt Weill showstopper number,” Pinder says. Of such choices are study-hall…
I Love Television
Puff Daddy … P. Diddy … Diddy Daddy … Squiddly Diddly … whatever it is you’re calling yourself nowadays? You’ve lost all your street cred, “yo”! Gone are the days when you and Jennifer Lopez could smoke endo in the hot tub with the Notorious B.I.G. and pay off bodyguards to hide your small weapons…
IN HOT WATER
Turning the bowl slowly in my cupped hands, I admired its elegance, its earth colors, its glazes. I’d never seen the likes of it before. It was handcrafted, simple and beautiful. Raising the bowl to sip the somewhat murky liquid inside, I paused to sample the aroma. The last thing I expected to smell was…
BEFORE AND AFTER
Stephen Davis looks terribly out of place. He’s seated at a table inside a café at Valencia Community College’s West Campus library. At 45, he’s twice as old as most of his fellow students. He’s unkempt. His ratty red hair falls down to his shoulders. He wears an oversized T-shirt and torn-up sneakers. He’s tall,…
Letters
Punk What, exactly, was the point of this punk’s sob story `”How to end up in prison,” April 6`? How about some thoughts from the guy whose car he stole and smashed up? I usually really enjoy your articles, but this one was pretty lame. The last thing I want to read is some reporter…
A NATION DIVIDED
On the surface, Israel “Iz-Real” Vasquetelle, locally based founder of Insomniac magazine/film producer/hip-hop scholar, is an egomaniac. Whether acting as the omniscient narrator over shots of 1980s Brooklyn or comparing hip-hop and rap to Coke and RC Cola for juveniles in yellow jumpsuits, Vasquetelle’s presence is all over the documentary think-piece Street Credentials. At one…
Savage Love
I know this is a little late, but I want to complain about watching Brokeback Mountain in a theater full of gay people. My wife and I went to a packed screening in L.A. The vast majority of the other people there were gay men. They laughed throughout the whole movie! The more poignant parts…
ALL IN THE FAMILY
If there’s anything surprising about EA’s stab at a Godfather game, it’s that the company waited so long to take it. After several years of Mafia-themed role-playing games, the public is already familiar with the plot: Assume the role of antihero protagonist on the rise in a multi-city criminal organization. However, The Godfather has the…
Police Beat
April 2, 11:36 a.m.: Not to blame the victim, but this case is wrong in so many ways. Officer Campbell met with the victim, a 28-year-old woman, in the 900 block of West Livingston Street in reference to a residential burglary. According to the police report, the victim “stated unknown person(s) gained entry to the…
Global Warming, Ron Jon Surf Festival, Machinedrum, Two Gallants, Cirque Du Soleil and more
Thursday • 13 GLOBAL WARMING The right-wingers cast doubt on its existence – or worse, welcome it as a sign of the end times – but the rest of us know that global warming is a very real and potentially catastrophic trend. So does Ybor City artist Theo Wujcik, whose cautionary exhibit “Global Warming” has…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES When I was a kid, I read Highlights magazine. My favorite feature was the section that asked Zen-like questions like “Can you laugh and cry at the same time?” or “If you were a talking parrot, what words would you want to learn?” For this week’s horoscope, I’ve borrowed the spirit of that old…
Notable Noise
Three things surprised me about the Editors/Stellastarr* show at The Social April 7. One, I was stunned to see that it sold out. I figured that Stellastarr* had worn out their welcome here in town, and didn’t know that enough Orlandoans read Fader to draw in a crowd for Editors. There you have it: proof…
Blister
“Um, I used to love these,” Tony thumbs through the surprise collection of Choose Your Own Adventure books littering the backseat of my car. “I used to skip ahead just to see how quickly I could die!” “Me too!” I die. For those not in the swirl of the vodka-spiked fondue pot that was the…
News of the Weird
A series of unfortunate events In earnest testimony in March, Douglas Dyer explained how it was just bad luck that his married girlfriend got shot twice, fatally, in the middle of her back by the rifle he was holding. Dyer said he had originally intended to kill himself, but when she grabbed at the gun…
Don’t Touch That Dial
According to the Orlando Sentinel, Orange County experienced an alarming rise in sexually transmitted diseases in 2005. Chlamydia rose 22.3 percent and gonorrhea 23 percent, for a total of 6,160 cases, that even surpassed the figure registered by Miami-Dade County. Health Department epidemiologist Bill Toth told the Sentinel that Orange County “need`s` to redouble our…
