A Certain Trigger
A Certain Trigger Label: Warp Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Certain Trigger, A “Apply Some Pressure” is how you’ve heard of Maximo Park, if you’ve heard of Maximo Park at all. The song is that odd confection known as “the perfect single”; it’s as catchy and uniquely memorable as it is perfectly representative of today’s sonic zeitgeist.…
13
Javier García is not a man in a hurry. 13 is his second album, following up his 1997 pop-leaning self-titled debut. Eight years is almost enough time for him to be treated like a brand-new artist, and, accordingly, 13 abandons pop polish for a much more substantial and adventurous palette, courtesy of producer Gustavo Santaolalla.…
Urban Gypsy
Urban Gypsy Label: Riverboat Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Urban Gypsy I have heard quite a few different kinds of records that fit into the construct of “traditional ethnic sounds meet modern production,” but I have never heard anything like Shukar Collective’s Urban Gypsy. A collision of deeply historical-sounding Romanian music and dubby, glitchy electronics, Urban Gypsy.…
Layer Cake
Layer Cake Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Rated: R Website: http://www.sonypictures.co.uk/homevideo/layercake/index.html Release Date: 2005-06-03 Cast: Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Kenneth Cranham, George Harris, Louis Emerick Director: Matthew Vaughn Screenwriter: J J Connolly WorkNameSort: Layer Cake Our Rating: 4.00 Director Matthew Vaughn (producer of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch) spins an involving underworld tale…
YOU REALLY GOT A HOLD ON ME
Lipstick & Dynamite Studio: Koch Lorber Films Rated: NOT RATED Website: http://www.lipstickanddynamitethemovie.com/ Release Date: 2005-06-03 Cast: Penny Banner, Lillian Ellison, Gladys Gillem, Judy Grable, Ida May Martinez Director: Ruth Leitman WorkNameSort: Lipstick & Dynamite Our Rating: 3.50 A tough broad is a joy forever, as director Ruth Leitman reveals in Lipstick & Dynamite: The First…
YANKING THE FOOD CHAIN
Madagascar Studio: Dreamworks SKG Rated: PG Website: http://www.madagascar-themovie.com/ Release Date: 2005-05-27 Cast: Andy Richter, Cedric the Entertainer, Sacha Baron Cohen, Chris Knights, Tom McGrath Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon Screenwriter: Mark Burton, Billy Frolick, Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath Music Score: Hans Zimmer WorkNameSort: Madagascar Our Rating: 2.50 Way before he had a presidential…
MAGIC THAI
Fiery red, scarlet pink and dusky blue filled the sunset sky as I glided down I-4 with the windows open to the mild 73-degree air. It was a perfect Florida day, and I was hoping that it wouldn’t be ruined by a mediocre Thai meal. As it turned out, the food and setting of G&G…
SEVEN OUT
Live From Las Vegas Label: Las Vegas Centinnial/EMI Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Live From Las Vegas When it comes to Las Vegas, here’s something to remember: Elvis Presley ruined everything. Not Elvis’ actual Vegas performances; those were very much within the Vegas tradition of adult showmanship. No, it was that very tradition that Elvis helped to…
WHICH WINE SUITS SUSHI?
Wine selection can leave you at something of a loss when it comes to Japanese food. When your choices are sickly sweet plum wine or electrically charged sake, it’s a lot easier to just say, “I’ll have a Kirin.” Machiko Chiba was clearly aware of this, and with this book, she’s managed to find a…
WATCH WHAT YOU SAY
Bright Eyes singer/songwriter Conor Oberst gets dubbed “the new Dylan” so often that it’s easy to imagine the instructors of tomorrow handing out his lyric sheets in class, Dangerous Minds-style. But as the press surrounding his recent releases reveals, Oberst doesn’t confine his words of wisdom to the studio and stage. Here’s a sampling of…
THE C WORD
My obsession with Craft Corner Deathmatch began the same way that most of today’s most heated love affairs vault into being: through a TiVo accident. Some friends had recorded another program, banked in 30 minutes of extra time, and picked up a stowaway they told me I had to see to believe. I’ve not sure…
FAMILY FRIENDLY FLIX
Ray Lines is Larry Flynt’s Lex Luthor. He likes his families big, his religion stiff and his movies bleeping clean. The CEO of CleanFlicks.com and pioneer of the film sanitizing movement, Lines says removing profanity, sex and violence from Hollywood hits is as American as the edited version of American Pie. In fact, he thinks…
WHERE’S THE SEX?
Once again it’s happening, and once again more than a few of us locals are rolling our eyes and clucking our tongues. Now in its 15th year, Gay Days has grown a lot from its origin as a conspicuously red-shirted protest at Disney’s Magic Kingdom into a giant pink monster with very expensive tastes. One…
CATCH ‘EM YOUNG
Child development can be fairly predictable. At age 3, children insist on doing things by themselves. At 4, they love to mix fantasy with reality. At 5, they like investigating things. Understanding this emotional development is essential if your goal is to make money selling products to children – and their parents. That’s why marketers…
FEVER FOR FLAVOR OF A FELONY
MAY 19, 11 P.M.: Blanco N., a Domino’s delivery man, drove to the 2800 block of West Concord Street to deliver a piping-hot pie to a hungry customer. Upon arrival, he stepped out of his delivery mobile and into the black night to retrieve the pizza from the trunk. Unfortunately for Mr. N., four famished…
Orlando Weekly’s Hurricane Survival Kit™
ORLANDO WEEKLY’S (cut along dotted line … yes, we know that means ruining your monitor) Hurricane season officially starts June 1, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted that two to three hurricanes could hit the United States this year. Happytown’s™ official prognostication is that every single hurricane spawned by the turbulent waters…
DIRTY SOUTH
Here comes the gay again, falling on my head like a memory, falling on my head like another new queer bar promotion. Unfortunately, the head in question is currently occupied with the ongoing battle between nausea-inducing antibiotics and super-cute bacteria, so the idea of swishing around in public with a sarcasm cocktail, tipping theoretical hats…
Mall art by committee
(The scene is a conference room located inside a shopping mall. A circular table dominates the room; atop it are several copies of a tabloid newspaper. Three people are seated around the table. TONÉ is a muscular black man dressed in a pink dance leotard. BONNIE is a morbidly obese white woman; her hair is…
Mashlin and crawfish for a cause
Made it to the first of Mashlin’s two CD release parties on Saturday, May 28, mainly because the opening bands for the early show (Rory and History) are better than the opening bands were for the late show (The Curve and Plain Jane Automobile). What’s interesting is that fans of all four bands probably found…
CHARITY BEGINS AT (YOUR) HOME
After an investigative report by Orlando’s WKMG-Channel 6 in April, a man who was hired by the Federal Emergency Management Agency last year to help Florida hurricane victims admitted that he bought an elderly woman’s $1 million Melbourne Beach oceanfront home from her for $250,000, but denied that he had taken advantage of her. Gary…
They’re watching
Jeffrey C. Billman: I just finished reading your article “Our dumb state” [May 26]. You are an f’ing genius! I loved it. How sad and how true about our state. I particularly liked the piece on [Orange County Sheriff Kevin] Beary. One question I did have about the 16-year-old Mexican boy going to jail for…
RICKY’S IN LOVE
Dear Football, I feel kinda funny writing you this letter. I mean, you’re really not even a person. But I have some things I need to get off my chest. The way I walked out on you and my Dolphin brothers last year was messed up. I want you to know that it wasn’t you,…
