Split LP
Split LP Label: Sickroom Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Split LP Put together as a fund-raiser for Children’s Musical Education in St. Augustine, the sonic collision of the gauzy, warm-toned digital swoon of Howard Hello and the full-frontal math-rock attack of Greenness doesn’t seem to make sense. But while those two projects’ outward…
Hymns for a Dark Horse
Hymns for a Dark Horse Label: Burly Time Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Hymns for a Dark Horse The austere, intimate Hymns for a Dark Horse is of the modest acoustic folk variety, barely peaking at volume levels above those that you’d expect from close friends nonchalantly fiddling with instruments at a get-together.…
Draw Breath
Draw Breath Label: Cryptogramophone Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Draw Breath There are still no vocalists in the Nels Cline Singers, and the third disc from the guitarist’s latest group project again proves the much-belabored point that you don’t need a microphone to get your point across. Between Cline’s richly expressive and exceedingly…
Marry Me
Marry Me Label: Beggars Banquet Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Marry Me With the Polyphonic Spree, she is but an unnamed and robed participant in a sea of unnamed and robed participants. Incidentally, multi-instrumentalist Annie Clark is busy playing in two acts ‘ the perhaps superfluous Spree and Sufjan Stevens’ touring…
Bokoor Beats
Bokoor Beats Label: Otrabanda Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Bokoor Beats With so much (deserved) attention focused on the Afrobeat and highlife music that came out of Lagos in the ’60s and ’70s, it’s easy to assume that Nigeria was the only country on the continent that was churning out those slinky, sweaty…
La Vie en Rose
La Vie en Rose Studio: Picturehouse Rated: PG-13 Cast: Marion Cotillard, Gerard Depardieu Director: Olivier Dahan WorkNameSort: La Vie en Rose Our Rating: 4.00 Leave it to the French to do biopics a bit differently than us. In La Vie en Rose, the story of legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf, director Olivier Dahan proves no…
RIGHT-ON Q
Cecil’s raises the bar in fresh-off-the-fire fare
Golden Door
Golden Door Studio: Miramax Rated: PG-13 Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato Director: Emanuele Crialese WorkNameSort: Golden Door Our Rating: 4.00 With the illegal-immigration issue seemingly at its peak of contention, it seems a fitting time to release Golden Door. It concerns a boatload of Italian immigrants trying to enter the United States via Ellis Island…
License to Wed
License to Wed Studio: Warner Bros. Rated: PG-13 Cast: Robin Williams, Mandy Moore Director: Ken Kwapis WorkNameSort: License to Wed Mandy Moore cannot get a break. Here, the darling singer-turned-actress is cast as the underdrawn female lead, Sadie, in a movie about what it takes to make marriage work. Co-starring John Krasinski of The Office…
Transformers
Transformers Studio: Dreamworks Rated: PG-13 Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox Director: Michael Bay WorkNameSort: Transformers Our Rating: 2.50 So it doesn’t totally suck. Transformers is as good as one can expect a Michael Bay summer blockbuster to be, if not better. Like the shape-shifting robots it depicts, the film is a well-oiled machine, directed with…
All My Babies
All My Babies Studio: Image WorkNameSort: All My Babies ‘I want you to meet Miss Mary Coley, a midwife who lives in Albany, Georgia,â?� intones the measured narration at the start of All My Babies. ‘This is a story about how she helps people.â?� Documentary filmmaker George Stoney was recruited by the Georgia Department of…
If …
If … Studio: Criterion Collection WorkNameSort: If … In light of Columbine and Virginia Tech, it’s impossible that a movie like Lindsay Anderson’s If â?¦ would be made today. Which is too bad, because this savage satire has never been more relevant. It’s not just that the 1968 film culminates in a school massacre that…
Sweet Movie
Sweet Movie Studio: Criterion Collection WorkNameSort: Sweet Movie Sweet Movie, the 1974 cult film from Yugoslav provocateur Dusan Makavejev, is an attack on censorship both sexual and political, its theme best represented in a quote it uses in a title card: ‘Let us think of these things always and speak of them never.â?� Makavejev boldly…
HAPPYTOWN
;Sure does suck to be Exodus ;International. ;;The Orlando-based “ex-gay” group was recently out in Irvine, Calif., having their annual powwow on God curing the queer. (Way back in 2003, the annual conference happened right here in Orlando, and ex-commissioner Vicki Vargo gave Exodus a key to the city, which pissed off the city’s not-so-ex-gay…
POLICE BEAT
JUNE 19, 11:30 P.M.: Late this starry evening, a 21-year-old man strolled the 2800 block of West Colonial Drive. Little did he know such a peaceful stroll would end in dismemberment. Two strangers — both dudes — crossed paths, one sporting a red T-shirt and the other rolling himself along in a wheelchair. But they…
MAIL SACK
;Whatever it takes ;After reading Bob Whitby’s article “Time to go” [May 31] I can’t say I was surprised. After all, what Mr. Whitby calls reporting is nothing new to journalism; it’s simply redefining news.; ;Mr. Whitby’s lack of journalism values have allowed him to prioritize his own set of guidelines by enhancing stories with…
THE RABBIT DONE DIED
To those of us who were in the Florida dance scene of the mid-’90s, the future seemed limitless. From an underground seed planted in the late ’80s, the house-music culture finally became the explosion heard ’round the world, and Orlando was ground zero. With both critical mass and international credibility, it was a mighty tide…
A HISTORY LESSON IN HATE
;As early as the late 1800s, Berlin was a bustling liberal city. It boasted numerous gay clubs and drag bars. Organized gay groups were common. Shows featuring female impersonators had become almost passé.; ;By 1919, the Institute for Sex Research in Berlin had been founded, which, among other things, provided marriage and sex counseling and…
URBAN ASSAULT
Andy Taylor is coming down from his first ascent of the day, and he’s poised on a ledge 14 feet above the cement sidewalk where I stand looking up. “Walk a little closer,” he says, and no sooner do I take two steps forward than he has leapt into the air, soaring over my head.…
LOVE ME TWO (OR MORE) TIMES
Shara Smith looks pretty normal. She’s petite with a pale complexion and long dark hair that falls well below the waist of her thin frame. Smith is 30, outgoing, childless and has a career as a lighting and video technician that allows her to make her own hours. Even her hobbies are pretty standard: photography,…
BARRY AND ME
“Hi, Jeff. Thank you for coming.” There, vigorously shaking my hand, is the next leader of the free world. Or the next guy we’ll get all excited about, and then be let down. “You’re welcome, Senator.” Maybe if Barack Hussein Obama knew I was the only person here who didn’t pay $1,000 (or more) for…
CATCH HIM IF YOU CAN
The Turner Classic Movies documentary Spielberg on Spielberg has two strikes against it from the very start, and they’re both right there in the title. To begin with, there’s limited value in having any artist handicap his or her own work; too often, he or she ends up displaying a blithe unawareness of failings everybody…
TALK OF THE TOWN
Vietnam Town, the colossus of the Asian district, rises again after a renovation that cured the restaurant of its dwarfing interior. Not only is the space more intimate, the décor is now welcoming, its former stilted garishness muted by a playful tropical motif. The menu, too, has been retooled. Though the food was good before,…
BLISTER
;If there are better ways of ;being seen than face-down, ass-up on the hood of a Jeep in the cobblestone queer starch of Lake Eola Heights, then I cannot even begin to get my hair around them. If you’re going to be a Sunday morning mess, then be a mess. ;;”You can stand under my…
SAVAGE LOVE
I’m a 29-year-old married man. My wife and I are both active people (rock climbing, cycling and kayaking) and our sex life is good. However, since high school I’ve been turned on by thick, big-butt, big-tit, ugly, trashy girls. In my 20s, I would secretly go to bars in the suburbs to pick up these…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
;ARIES (March 21-April 19) Charlie and Sharon Reed, a couple in Dallas, had their old VW convertible stolen. By the time police recovered the car three months later, the thieves had given it a new paint job and had fixed its cracked windshield and dented bumpers. Let’s make this your metaphor of the week. I…
I LOVE TELEVISION
;By now, I’m sure you’ve noticed that I’m incredibly smart. And I’m sure you’re pretty intimidated by my smartness. Well, today I’m here to say, “DON’T BE.” I’m a normal person just like you – except that I’m way smarter. But don’t feel bad about it. While most people use only 10 percent of their…
CULTURE TO GO
Phantasmagoric fusion The Secret Life of Dolls Through July 29 at Stage Gallery Lowndes Shakespeare Center (407) 447-1700; free www.brittanycabral.com When pop hopped into the sack with surrealism in those heady days of the late 1960s, an imp of a movement sprung from their pre-postmodern loins, a movement at once rooted in populist imagery and…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
So, the latest on Paris Hilton … kidding. Instead, let’s start with the Flaming Lips. Since I’ve been hearing so many people talk about their recent show at Bonnaroo and I myself finally experienced the blissful insanity earlier this year at House of Blues, I am compelled to spread the good word. On July 10,…
