What are you lookin’ at, sugar tits?
… As Mel Gibson is alleged to have said to a female police officer as he was being booked for DUI. The real cheap shot heard ’round the world, though, was his anti-Semitic rant. But Jeff Jacoby at the Boston Globe asks a good question: Why were there four times as many stories about Mel’s…
Mars attacks!
Here’s a note from a gentleman named Wayne Manzo. He really wants us to do a story on him because he’s discovered that aliens walk among us, that George Bush and Bill Clinton are one and the same, and that Madonna and Jacko are evil. Duh. Oh yeah, he even came up with a cover…
The Outsider
The Outsider Label: Universal Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Outsider, The Ever since DJ Shadow’s near-revolutionary 1996 debut, Endtroducing, fans of his freaky sonic juxtapositions have long hoped he’d one day match the feat. And while The Outsider doesn’t reinvent the wheel, it confirms the fans’ faith that DJ Shadow’s iconoclastic…
THE DOG’S BOLLOCKS
Brit bar and grill dispels myths about English grub
A MILLION LITTLE QUESTIONS
The Night Listener Length: Single Studio: Miramax Films Rated: R Website: http://www.thenightlistener-movie.com/ Release Date: 2006-08-04 Cast: Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Sandra Oh, Rory Culkin, Joe Morton Director: Patrick Stettner Screenwriter: Armistead Maupin Music Score: Peter Nashel, Linda Cohen WorkNameSort: Night Listener, The Our Rating: 3.50 Though The Night Listeneris based on a nonfiction book by…
C’est Bon-Bon
Director Paul Dinello sweetly blows up his TV comedy
The Descent
Our Rating: 2.00 With opening helicopter/forest shots from The Shining, a crew of albino beasties imported from a Buffy episode and a pulsing electro-orchestral score that’s pure Morricone circa The Thing, director Neil Marshall certainly knows where to get the best stuff to set his scary table in The Descent. But aside from its high…
Infinity, Evolution, Departure, Escape, Greatest Hits
Infinity, Evolution, Departure, Escape, Greatest Hits Label: Columbia/Legacy Length: LP Media: CD Format: Reissue WorkNameSort: Infinity, Evolution, Departure, Escape, Greatest Hits It’s something of a task to gin up enough internal irony to try to position this Frontiers-less batch of reissues as anything more than an excuse to ease into a bath of pleasantly lukewarm…
Pleasesuite
Pleasesuite Label: Good Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Pleasesuite There is life after Tripping Daisy, it turns out; the euphoric, orchestral Polyphonic Spree and nu-proggers Secret Machines have arisen from the ashes of the late Dallas psych-pop band to achieve reasonable, if not spectacular, levels of indie-level success. Here’s hoping that the purposefully…
Exodus Into Unheard Rhythms
Exodus Into Unheard Rhythms Label: Stones Throw Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Exodus Into Unheard Rhythms The lengthy Exodus Into Unheard Rhythms is a colorful, gutsy jaunt. MC/producer Oh No cut most of the beats on his debut LP (2004’s The Disrupt), and his qualified production hands often one-upped his weed-praising rhymes. In…
POLICE BEAT
Editor’s note: There’s a lot of gunplay in Orlando; so much, in fact, that the media doesn’t even bother to report shooting incidents unless someone dies. Here’s a sample of the Wild West—type stuff you might have missed that happened in the past few weeks. July 12, 2:18 P.M.: In the 20 block of Fanfair…
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
;Spoilage alert ;; The parents of wannabe singer-actor-celebrity Marissa Leigh, 16, of Scottsdale, Ariz., employ 10 people for her career development, according to an April Arizona Republic story, including manager; publicist; voice coach; two acting coaches; people to do makeup, hair and wardrobe; musical composer; photographer; and webmaster (plus, of course, an entourage of confidence-boosting…
LETTERS
Where’s the paper? I went to Crispers in the Winter Park Village this afternoon (July 20) for a takeout. While waiting for the food I decided to read the latest edition of the Orlando Weekly. I looked around for them and could not see them. When I asked where the papers were I was told,…
SELECTIONS
Thursday•3 Club at Firestone reopening Even though it never really closed, and even though they’re not quite done doing what they’re planning to do, this “ribbon-cutting” event should give onlookers a reasonable idea of the direction the “new” Firestone is headed. Events like “Latin Ladies Night” will still be happening, and it’s doubtful that a…
FLOCKING TOGETHER
Two Southern cities with seemingly little in common — Orlando and Athens, Ga. — are more musically plugged-in together than you might think. For the past three years, Brad Register and Curtis Brown, members of Orlando’s Summerbirds in the Cellar, have been providing their musical services to Now It’s Overhead, an Athens-based atmospheric indie rock…
FIGHT MOVES
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THE KILLER INSIDE
;I’ve followed the case of the Deltona mass murders as closely as anyone in Central Florida. I’ve read almost every court document, and I attended every day of the trial in St. Augustine. I talked to cops, relatives and lawyers. I even toured the house where the gruesome killings took place in August 2004.; I’m…
FAIRTAX, OR FOUL?
It’s a tax holiday in the Sunshine State, but judging from the numbers crackling from mouths downtown, you wouldn’t know it. Saturday morning, July 29, is all about the numbers — more specifically, the taxes they denote and where those taxes come from. The FairTax crusade, brought to grass-roots popularity by talk radio superstar Neal…
SLAVE TO THE GRIND
Brendon Small is going to crack the Adult Swim game if it kills you. His previous animated series, Home Movies, was the redheaded stepchild of Cartoon Network’s hip programming block — a gentle, largely improvised comedy about elementary-school filmmakers that sadly never joined the likes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force in the upper echelons of…
BUZZ IN, BUZZ OFF
;Everybody loves a good man-bites-hand story, which is why media outlets from the New York Post to the Associated Press went crazy last week reporting that $2.5 million Jeopardy! winner Ken Jennings had lashed out at the show, calling host Alex Trebek a robot and pillorying the series’ producers for restricting answer categories to “effete…
FÜHRER BALLS
;Equating feline and Nazi traits is nothing new; after all, it helped earn Maus artist Art Spiegelman a Pulitzer. And every cat owner has at one time or another noticed a maniacal glint in his or her pet’s eyes — a quality that, as website founder Koos Plegt puts it, “implies a secret longing for…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES Reading this horoscope could not only stimulate waves of pleasurable endorphins in your brain, it may also fine-tune your immune system, increase your calorie-burning power, promote relaxation of the smooth muscles of the digestive tract, enlarge any part of your body you want to enlarge and cut down the risk of heart disease, diabetes…
SAVAGE LOVE
I am about to marry a caring and intelligent man, an amazing lover, a total stud, beyond well-endowed, someone who “gets” me. Here’s the problem: I have a ferocious sex drive, to the point where three to five times a day is good and more is better. The beauty of our relationship is he has…
BLISTER
“Man-Up!” the billboard overhead emasculates while I tug at a cigarette and crouch down in my car to the soundtrack of Madonna’s “Die Another Day” as mashed up with “London” by the Pet Shop Boys. It may be a sign from God, but it’s also just an advertisement for haircuts for men and boys, of…
NOTABLE NOISE
;The problem with enjoying music from other countries (I refuse to call it “world music”) is twofold. First, the variety of music that can’t be classified as “Western pop” is dizzying in its magnitude: many hundreds of musical styles, each with its own tradition and commingled influences, played by people with unfamiliar names on impossible-looking…
I LOVE TELEVISION
Remember last week when I was going on and on about how I hate nerds, and nerds who dress up like superheroes? (YOU DIDN’T READ THAT ONE? Thanks for making me feel like crap!) Well, anyway … I WAS. And since there was such a poor turnout for my last column, I see nothing wrong…
HAPPYTOWN
;We didn’t report the July 23 closing of DMAC in our last issue; with so many 11th-hour stays of execution having come down the pike in the last few months, we wanted to be absolutely sure that this was it. And it looks as if the perpetually embattled downtown digital screening room is indeed finito…
Morning at Jack’s
Rushing out the door after an unfruitful attempt at sleep, I loaded up my beater-truck and headed to Jack Kerouac’s house in College Park. David Burnett is doing a shoot for [national publication name omitted at the photographer’s request] of the current writer in residence, Brandi Reissenweber. Reissenweber’s husband Chris is in town from Chicago.…
