DEATH FROM BELOW
PanzerfaustTotal DeathGoatlord Label: Moonfog/The End Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: PanzerfaustTotal DeathGoatlord “I really like the last three Darkthrone albums,” Orthrelm guitarist Mick Barr told Blastitude magazine. “They make the same record over and over again. It’s inspired me not to feel pressured to keep changing for change’s sake.” Indeed, the Norwegian black-metal titans have settled into…
Detrola
Detrola Label: Silver Mountain Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Detrola Warren Defever is the type of musician – like Prince – that you just want to yell at. “Please, can we just focus?” or something like that would do the trick. Everything he does is creative iconoclasm dosed with touches of genius, and occasionally he hits on…
Live at Town Hall
Live at Town Hall Label: Vagrant Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Live at Town Hall I’m not sure why this is being released, but I’m glad it is. I guess the Eels cult is growing in size and fanaticism. Eels’ 2005 studio double CD Blinking Lights and Other Revelations was my favorite of the year, so hearing…
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra/Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra/Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Label: Philips Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra/Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta While the daring and still-shocking works of Bartók have somehow eased their way into most orchestras’ repertoires, it’s exciting to listen to a conductor like Ozawa put these two (incredibly popular) pieces…
Separate Ways
Separate Ways Label: Verve Forecast Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Separate Ways The son of English folk-rock royalty Richard and Linda, Teddy Thompson has been schooled in the vagaries of singer-songwriterdom and given access to top-flight accompanists to the point where it would be a little too easy for him to disappear into bland MOR. His second…
LET IT ROLL
Unless you’ve been hiding for the past 15 years, you know that sushi is so “in.” Ever since Molly Ringwald pulled out a raw-fish meal for lunch in The Breakfast Club, sushi has been the “it” food for cool people. You can even pick it up at the grocery store, though I wouldn’t recommend it…
THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING
Cache (Hidden) Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Rated: R Website: http://www.sonyclassics.com/cache/ Release Date: 2006-02-24 Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot, Lester Makedonsky Director: Michael Haneke Screenwriter: Michael Haneke WorkNameSort: Cache (Hidden) Our Rating: 5.00 Caché (Hidden) has every ingredient for art-house insufferability. It’s about upper-class Parisians. Its 118 minutes pass by without soundtrack…
CHECK-OUT TIME
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont Studio: Cineville International Rated: NOT RATED Website: http://www.mrspalfreythemovie.com/ Release Date: 2006-02-24 Cast: Joan Plowright, Rupert Friend, Anna Massey, Robert Lang, Carl Colpaert Director: Dan Ireland Screenwriter: Elizabeth Taylor, Ruth Sacks WorkNameSort: Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont Our Rating: 3.00 Simple-minded but sweet, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont is an old-age…
DIARY OF A MAD FRENCHWOMAN
Gilles’ Wife Studio: Cinema Guild Rated: NOT RATED Website: http://www.cinemaguild.com/gilleswife/ Release Date: 2006-02-23 Cast: Emmanuelle Devos, Clovis Cornillac, Laura Smet, Frederic Fonteyne, Patrick Quinet Director: Frédéric Fonteyne Screenwriter: Philippe Blasband, Frédéric Fonteyne, Marion Hansel WorkNameSort: Gilles’ Wife Our Rating: 3.00 The Tyler Perry crowd would have positively no idea what to make of Gilles’ Wife.…
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Rated: R Website: http://www.sonyclassics.com/threeburials/ Release Date: 2006-02-24 Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Julio Cedillo, Vanessa Bauche, Dwight Yoakam, Barry Tubb Director: Tommy Lee Jones Screenwriter: Guillermo Arriaga WorkNameSort: Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The Our Rating: 4.00 A satisfying little morality play about prejudice and responsibility,…
Running Scared
Running Scared Studio: New Line Cinema Rated: R Website: http://www.runningscaredthemovie.com/ Release Date: 2006-02-24 Cast: Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Vera Farmiga, Karel Roden, Johnny Messner Director: Wayne Kramer Screenwriter: Wayne Kramer WorkNameSort: Running Scared Filmmaker Wayne Kramer’s latest may disappoint folks who associate him solely with The Cooler, forgetting that he also happens to be the…
Date Movie
Date Movie Studio: 20th Century Fox Rated: PG-13 Website: http://www.datemoviethemovie.com/ Release Date: 2006-02-24 Cast: Alyson Hannigan, Adam Campbell, Fred Willard, Jennifer Coolidge, Eddie Griffin Director: Aaron Seltzer Screenwriter: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer WorkNameSort: Date Movie Our Rating: 1.50 “From two of the six writers of Scary Movie 3,” promise the ads, raising the possibility that…
Blister
“It’s not going to stop. It’s not going to stop. It’s not going to stop ’til you wise up,” wilts severity case Aimee Mann as my worn-out Magnolia DVD comes to its frog-falling crescendo. And here at the corner of Edgewater and Vassar (clearly nowhere near Magnolia), I’m not sure where it’s all supposed to…
Savage Love
Every time I watch ESPN or Spike TV I see these commercials for Enzyte “natural male enhancement.” Does that shit actually work? Not that I’m small or anything, but I’m a divorced, middle-aged, chain-smoking, overweight single guy who lives in a trailer park. The only things I’ve got going are a steady job and a…
Letters
Creative history Thanks for the review of Al Lewis’ creative take on his own history `”Fang versus fiction,” Feb. 16`. There was a Batman comic story in which The Joker said, “If I’m going to have a past I prefer that it be multiple choice.” Al seems to have embraced this philosophy. It’s one of…
MR. FIX-IT
Nearly seven years ago, as Chris Yavelow sat down to write his first novel, he did the usual things. He took “a bunch of classes,” joined some creative-writing groups and started writing. Then something unusual happened. “I started having questions, like, Should I use the word ‘seemingly’?” he says. “I was reading Congo by Michael…
ANOTHER HANDOUT?
For all the flak the city of Orlando’s taken about its generous incentive deals for high-rise developments, at least it figured out a way to get some of its money back. In each of the five agreements the city reached since August 2004 – the Premiere Trade Plaza, The Paramount on Lake Eola, Tradition Towers,…
I Love Television
Bow down! I said, “BOW down, you unworthy tub of crap!” Bow down before the wondrous, exalted majesty of his holiness, C. Thomas Howell. WHAT?!? You did NOT just pretend to be ignorant of C. Thomas Howell’s contributions to society. What kind of contributions? Oh. Well … like … like … The Outsiders, jerkhole! C.…
Happytown
Just the other day we was a-settin’ ’round scratching ourselves, playing the banjo and wondering whatever became of Royce Mathew. If you’ve been a reader of this wildly popular column and its wildly popular predecessor Slug (God rest its soul), you don’t need no introduction to Royce Mathew. You know him as the firebrand who…
STICKY FINGERS
Onstage, The Hex Tremors are stirring up two hells of a frenzied combustion. Drummer Benny Christ, face down, is pounding bloody death out of his drum kit with sweaty fists, an unholy racket sandwiched somewhere uncomfortably between the lubricated precision of a Peace Sells Megadeth and the drunken starfish-chewing of a surf-salted Cramps. Unfazed, guitarist/vocalist…
TEARS IN YER BEERS
Backstage at the Knitting Factory in New York, the L.A.-based Irish-punk septet Flogging Molly is getting ready to take the stage. As the players squeeze by us at the foot of the narrow stairwell, singer Dave King takes me into his confidence with an especially poignant remembrance. The Dublin-born King relates the story of a…
A HELPING HAND
When Orange County’s Central Receiving Center opened in April 2003, it offered sheriff’s deputies a choice. Instead of shoving yet another mentally unstable petty offender into an already-overcrowded jail, deputies could now give them a chance at treatment. The $5.1 million CRC – a recommendation of Orange County Mayor Rich Crotty’s 2002 jail task force…
REAL WORLD EDUCATION
–> Last week, the Associated Press reported that Walnut Hill, Fla., middle-school teacher Terence Braxton had accepted bribes from students who were eager to avoid taking gym. By paying Braxton $1 per day, the athletically disinclined were allowed to “sit out his class” — an under-the-table arrangement that may have netted the teacher thousands of…
HAPPINESS IS A CONCEALED GUN
I moved to Florida in October. In November, I bought my first gun at Buck’s Gun Rack in Daytona Beach. By December, I’d exchanged my first gun for my second and was well on my way to becoming one of Florida’s 350,000-strong army of concealed-weapons citizens. In January, I received my $139 permit, and I…
Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology
ARIES “The supple willow tree does not contend against the storm.” So says the Shaolin monk advising his young pupil in the old TV show Kung Fu. Let that be your watchword. There will be other times when your best interests will be served by digging in, steeling your will, and launching a fierce counteroffensive.…
In Flames, W.A.S.P., Gary Baseman, BRMC and more
Thursday • 23 DOROTHY ALLISON READING Purely coincidentally, we’re sure, all four writers booked for this year’s Winter With the Writers event at Rollins College are known to varying degrees as memoirists. Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life kick-started the current mania for confessional prose; Nathan Englander’s short stories are mostly set in the same “shtetl-mentality”…
Police Beat
Feb. 10, 2:28 p.m.: Officer DeFerrari responded to a commercial burglary on the 2500 block of Woodgate Boulevard, as she reports: “The `36-year-old` witness stated that … she was sitting outside of her residence when she saw a burgundy two door Dodge Stratus vehicle pull up to the east side of the locked laundry room…
Notable Noise
Wow. Apparently I touched a nerve with last week’s column. I guess when you go and make blanket statements about people who complain too much but don’t do anything to help anyone else, you’re bound to make a few people in Orlando think you’re talking about them. I heard everything from “Right on” to “Who…
