Travellers – Leave your mad face in your checked baggage….
Ahoy hoy. Apparently, the geniuses that brought you manditory de-shoeing and the no-liquids on planes rule bring you: facial profiling! Ok, let’s do the math – number of people that fly per year: 730 million number of terrorists in that number: oh, let’s say, 10. chance of me being hassled by some TSA goon with…
ROHMER AND NOTHINGNESS
Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales Studio: Criterion Collection WorkNameSort: Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales Seinfeld got a lot of mileage out of being ‘a show about nothing,â?� but Eric Rohmer was there first. Not much happens in a Rohmer film, whether it’s Claire’s Knee or My Night at Maud’s or La Collectionneuse. People just sort…
Idlewild
When Atlanta’s Andre 3000 and Big Boi galvanized their down-South fan base years back by releasing solo albums combined as an OutKast double album, many thought it was the last we’d seen of the playalistic duo as a united front. Now it seems that assumption was both true and misleading. Idlewild, the soundtrack for OutKast’s…
Supernature
Supernature Label: Orac Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Supernature Sharp, headphone-friendly synth pulses beam in and out of Solenoid’s wiry rhythms on Supernature, his fourth long player, but the Portland, Ore., electronic producer unmistakably aims these cuts at the dance floor. Solenoid’s preoccupation with getting people to shake their shit doesn’t…
Universally Dirty
Universally Dirty Label: Big Dada Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Universally Dirty With synth strings darting through deep, vicious riddims, New Flesh’s Universally Dirty calls to warehouse dance floors by way of drilling beats and bass that rattles anything not nailed down. Part 2’s crisp, energetic dancehall/grime-infected production on Universally Dirty rewards the…
Intellektual Property
Intellektual Property Label: ATF Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Intellektual Property Atlanta duo Intellekt & Dirty Digits have a lot of fun on this record. Unlike the forced good-time vibe of an Ugly Duckling outing, these newcomers convey relaxed happy-to-be-here buoyancy. Property, slightly overlong at 14 tracks but thankfully short on…
Junk Mail
Junk Mail Publishing House: Black Cat WorkNameSort: Junk Mail Though best known for his gritty fiction, novelist Will Self has a busy sideline in his native England as a journalist. He pens the occasional interview and review, and can whip up an opinion of virtually anything under the sun. Junk Mail collects a decade of…
Talk Talk
Talk Talk Publishing House: Viking Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Talk Talk Tom and Huck were small-time dreamers compared to the characters of T.C. Boyle’s fiction. His get-rich-quick schemers have done everything under the sun to make a buck, from growing marijuana (Budding Prospects) to telling Americans how to get thin (The Road to Wellville). It was…
DAY IN THE SUN
Little Miss Sunshine Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures Rated: R Cast: Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano Director: Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton WorkNameSort: Little Miss Sunshine Our Rating: 4.00 From So You Think You Can Dance? to the Pussycat Dolls, 21st-century popular culture preaches that anybody can ‘make itâ?� by trying hard…
Accepted
Accepted Studio: Universal Pictures Distribution Rated: PG-13 Cast: Justin Long, Blake Lively, Lewis Black, Adam Herschman, Jonah Hill Director: Steve Pink WorkNameSort: Accepted Our Rating: 3.00 Whaddaya know, but director Steve Pink and his crew of crazy coeds have come up with half of a pretty decent movie here. The premise of Accepted ‘ high-school…
The Heart of the Game
The Heart of the Game Studio: Miramax Films Rated: PG-13 Cast: Darnellia Russell, Bill Resler, Devon Crosby Helms, Maude Lepley, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges Director: Ward Serrill WorkNameSort: Heart of the Game, The Our Rating: 4.00 It’s too easy to describe The Heart of the Game as ‘Hoop Dreams for girls,â?� but this winning documentary reaches…
Pulse
Our Rating: 2.50 A cheap, hollow shell of the terrifying and intellectually engaging Japanese film on which it’s based, Pulse is an apocalyptic nightmare that remains faithful to the original version’s groundbreaking ideas but makes them conform to a schlocky teen-horror paradigm. The movie’s creepy concept, originally devised by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and here adapted by…
LETTERS
Put up or shut up `Jason Ferguson`: This is just a little heads-up regarding my Lollapalooza blog that you mentioned in last week’s Notable Noise gossip column `Aug. 10`. I’m sure you did not intend to, but you seem to have quoted me out of context. Though it hardly merits comment, I’m afraid you might…
SELECTIONS
Thursday•17 Electric Frankenstein Known nearly as much for their visual sense as for their face-pounding rock & roll, this long-running group has remained faithful to the sound of classic punk, distilling everything that’s great about high-octane garage/street punk into a legendary live show. After a decade-and-a-half of existence, they’ve had a longer lifespan than most…
NOTABLE NOISE
;After my Aug. 3 column ;about the “world music” download site run by National Geographic and Calabash Music (worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com) some people have asked me for my own recommendations. As it happens, I’ve had a stack of CDs piling up on my desk over the past few weeks due to repeated plays, so that seems as…
RIO REPRESENTER
It was 2002 when then unknown DJ Diplo started throwing his Hollertronix parties in Philadelphia. There’s nothing special about that really, except that he’s more than your average DJ: like any cultural curator — say, art-school instigators Andy Warhol and Tony Wilson — he created an aesthetic in his discipline that corresponded with the advent…
COUNCIL WATCH
;By Aug. 14, the Orlando City Council had been in recess for three long weeks, listless and “whereas”-less since the good ol’ day of July 24th. Tensions were mounting and unread ordinances were yearning to breathe free. Clearly it would take at least three Robert’s Rules of Order to tame this lot, and maybe a…
BAD TIMES 101
; If you’ve picked up a newspaper, turned on a television, listened to a radio or, hell, if you’ve drawn a breath in the last few weeks, you’ve probably struggled to keep up with the news reports flowing from Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and Israel. Who’s attacking whom? Why do they hate each other so much?…
QUEER AS FILM
Another Gay Movie At long last, the gay community gets its very own coming-of-age sex comedy in the American Pie (a la) mode. Whether or not this intrinsically strikes you as some sort of victory, Another Gay Movie unfortunately incorporates all the worst attributes of the Jason Biggs/Shannon Elizabeth oeuvre, including gross-out secretions, “outrageous” situations…
THE SOUR GRAPES OF WRATH
Editor’s note: This is a corrected version of the original story. Early this year a caller who identified himself as “Angel” — and used a calling card so his phone number wouldn’t appear on caller ID — called Orlando Weekly to say he had the goods on Jose Fernandez, the 36-year-old former Orlando city clerk…
WHERE’S THE LESTER BANGS OF THE PUNCH-BUTTON SET?
Anyone whose familiarity with seminal rock critic Lester Bangs is limited to Philip Seymour Hoffman’s curmudgeonly portrayal in the film Almost Famous grasps only half the picture: To a generation of music listeners and critics, he’s not just a line in an R.E.M. song, he’s a freakin’ legend. To a generation of gamers, Bangs is…
RUSH TO JUDGEMENT
;NAPLES — Bandmates of Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson aren’t entitled to damages stemming from his scuffle with deputy sheriffs at a hotel in 2003, a federal judge said. Geddy Lee Weinrib and Neil Peart argued that they lost business because of Lifeson’s brawl with deputies at a party to ring in 2004 at the Ritz-Carlton…
LEAVING THE GRIND BEHIND
;If you popped into your local Costco any time between last month and, say, 1996, it’s likely that a genuine hip-hop star assisted you. Likewise if you’ve enrolled in a local technical school or called the number on the back of your credit card. Nearly every medium-sized city in America has at some point been…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES I was at an airport bookstore. A businessman near me plucked Chuck Palahniuk’s Haunted from the shelf and said, “I’ve heard this book makes some people actually vomit. Listen to this passage.” He read it aloud. It was about a guy who eats 10 freeze-dried turkey dinners and dies when his stomach literally explodes.…
SAVAGE LOVE
;Don’t ya think last week’s column was maybe a bit … bitter? And the one before that? I think you should be allowed to get married, Dan. If a stand-up family guy like you isn’t allowed to marry the man that he’s been with for … what, seven, eight years? … then I don’t know…
BLISTER
“Today my life began. My parents do not know it yet. I am as small as the pollen of a flower, but it is I already. I will be a girl. I will have blonde hair and blue eyes. Nearly everything is settled already — even that I shall love birds.” Actually, I prefer blokes,…
I LOVE TELEVISION
;Auggghh!! OK! Fine! Nobody panic! I thought I had at least three more weeks of dicking around until the new fall season of shows and specials, but APPARENTLY someone forgot to inform me they’re starting … ohhhh … right about … NOW. But hey! It’s cool … I mean, I have no idea what any…
HAPPYTOWN
An intimate crowd of about 20 gathered Aug. 9 at the Orange County Regional History Center for the handover of the original manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s novel The Dharma Bums. The book was written at his house in College Park in 1958 on an 11-day Benzedrine bender. Kerouac wrote Bums in the same way he…
POLICE BEAT
Aug. 6, 10:42 A.M.: The night before school starts and all down the block/Shaving cream swells on the concrete sidewalk/ Mysterious cars leave the scene with tires blazing/Public relations people deny that it’s hazing/Toilet paper dangles in the pale moonlight/But no one will narc and no one’s in sight. In the 2200 block of West…
