Goal! The Dream Begins
Goal! The Dream Begins Studio: Touchstone Pictures Rated: PG Cast: Kuno Becker, Stephen Dillane, Alessandro Nivola, Anna Friel, Marcel Iures Director: Danny Cannon WorkNameSort: Goal! The Dream Begins Our Rating: 2.00 Current events lend a veneer of relevance to an otherwise cliché-ridden Disney acquisition about an undocumented Mexican worker (Kuno Becker) who travels from Los…
Lonesome Jim
Lonesome Jim Studio: IFC Films Rated: R Cast: Liv Tyler, Casey Affleck, Mary Kay Place, Kevin Corrigan, Seymour Cassel Director: Steve Buscemi Screenwriter: James C. Strouse WorkNameSort: Lonesome Jim Our Rating: 4.00 Director Steve Buscemi scores a wry coup, bringing a hilariously hangdog air to this story (seen at the Florida Film Festival) of an…
WII-ERD TALES
Odama Publishing House: Nintendo Rated: NONE List Price: 49.9900 WorkNameSort: Odama There are plenty of bizarro, inexplicable things in this wacky world we live in: crop circles, Katherine Harris’ political career, the Supreme Court taking up Anna Nicole Smith’s case. But in the world of gaming, I’m not sure anything in recent memory tops Nintendo’s…
DRIFTING BLUES
The Drift Label: 4AD Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Drift, The Composer: Scott Walker Review copies of Scott Walker’s latest album were programmed as one long track. ‘The reason for this is that Scott’s ideal scenario is for this record to be heard all at once, in one sitting,â?� says the…
Bang Bang Rock & Roll
Bang Bang Rock & Roll Label: Banana/Fierce Panda/Downtown Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Bang Bang Rock & Roll Bang Bang Rock & Roll (Banana/Fierce Panda/Downtown) Art Brut song titles are the U.K. rock equivalent of oh-so-obvious U.S. comedy flick names like Boat Trip or Beauty Shop ‘ you get the basic gist right…
The Rose Has Teeth In the Mouth of A Beast
The Rose Has Teeth In the Mouth of A Beast Label: Matador Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Rose Has Teeth In the Mouth of A Beast, The The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast (Matador) Among the most inventive of all post-electronica sound sculptors, San Francisco duo Matmos…
II
II Label: Drag City Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: II Music provides the soundtrack to our lives. We have music for dancing, for driving, for sex, for drinking, for tripping and, with Espers, we have music for staring at our lava lamps. This sextet from Philadelphia creates a superb weave of…
Bhood: The Album, Vol. 1
Bhood: The Album, Vol. 1 Label: Bollyhood Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Bhood: The Album, Vol. 1 The notion of desi hip-hop might be confusing to some people, but for a number of socio-diasporic reasons that have no place in a short CD review, suffice it to say that South Asian…
Stealing the Devil’s Guitar
Stealing the Devil’s Guitar Label: Blind Pig Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Stealing the Devil’s Guitar Like capturing lightning in a bottle, it’s almost impossible to put Popa Chubby in the studio following his dynamic live release Big Man, Big Guitar and expect his raw energy to come through. The uniqueness of his…
A TOUGH ROAD TO ‘MO
Summer Storm Studio: Regent Releasing Rated: R Cast: Marlon Kittel, Miriam Morgenstern, Robert Stadlober, Kostja Ullmann, Alicja Bachleda-Curus Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner WorkNameSort: Summer Storm Our Rating: 2.50 Ask me to dwell on the concept of homosexual Germans, and you shouldn’t be surprised to find me sorely conflicted. Were those frisky Huns to be a strictly…
Poet’s Choice
Poet’s Choice Publishing House: Harcourt Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Poet’s Choice Even though April has become Poetry Month, and Poetry magazine has inherited some $200 million, the versifying art still needs its stewards. Thanks to the advent of free verse in the 20th century, anything is poetry today. Songwriters publish their lyrics as if Walt Whitman…
Generation Debt: Why Now Is a Terrible Time to Be Young
Generation Debt: Why Now Is a Terrible Time to Be Young Publishing House: Riverhead Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Generation Debt: Why Now Is a Terrible Time to Be Young Last year, Time magazine ran a cover story about a new group of Americans it called ‘twixters.â?� Though old enough to be adults, twixters behave more like…
HAND TRACING
Art School Confidential Studio: Sony Picture Classics, Miramax Rated: R Release Date: 2006-05-12 Cast: Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar Director: Terry Zwigoff Screenwriter: Daniel Clowes WorkNameSort: Art School Confidential Our Rating: 3.00 The evidence is starting to pile up that Terry Zwigoff’s movies are like lightning in a bottle, impossible…
BLISTER
I’m knee-deep in creamy, thematic double-stuff. Some sort of crack in the creative stratosphere, no doubt brought on by the echoing hems and haws of universal inertia, would have it that tonight, this very Saturday night, is to be an undeniable explosion of “things” to “do.” Having foreseen this for about two days, I’ve already…
I LOVE TELEVISION
; ;TV shows are LAZY. That’s right — I said it! TV shows are lazy, good-for-nothin’, long-haired hippies that need to cut their hair, get off their big fat ass and get BACK TO WORK! ; ; Do you think for one second my boss would stand for it if I wrote this column for…
HAPPYTOWN
Nude Nite is so main-stream these days; it seems you can’t swing a squished armadillo without hitting someone on their way to a gallery opening dedicated to art depicting nekkid people. Ho-hum. Which is why we were so excited to hear about Lewd Nite, a new artistic endeavor that deserves attention on the basis of…
POLICE BEAT
April 29, 3:08 p.m.: Spring is here, and that means people all over town are waiting for their hibernating plants to bloom. Some, however, have little patience with nature and find it easier to snatch shrubbery than to nurture it. Sad but true. A 47-year-old complainant was working at a medical office in the 300…
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
overachievers in greed In April issues of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, the chief executives of two huge companies in politically sensitive industries were revealed to have received such extravagant bonuses or stock options that even veteran industry observers were said to be shocked. While customers of both companies are chronically…
LETTERS
Thank you for smoking story Thank you for your cover story on smoking `”Smoke break,” May 4`. I am not even a smoker and I could feel the author’s pain! This was a rare look at Emily Flake from the other side of the drawing board. When I open a new issue of the Weekly,…
NOTABLE NOISE
Before I continue my desk-clearing mission to catch up on recent releases, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention a few bits of local interest. On a personal note, I thought it was kind of funny that last Wednesday night, the Sentinel’s Jim Abbott was downtown at The Social checking out (and being bored by)…
CORNERSTONE FESTIVAL, PELICAN, TASTE OF MAITLAND, AND MORE
;Thursday•11 ;;XPOSED Design for (making a) living: The line between art and design gets blurrier every day; working designers like Chip Kidd have raised book cover design to sublime heights, while fine art museums across the country are devoting gallery space to motorcycles and tableware. The take-home point is that everything looks better these days…
FLIGHTS OF FANCY
In a smoky Orlando club a couple of months back, Anna Becker stood on a tiny stage and curled up to her acoustic guitar. On the tall side, with striking features, she becomes instantly vulnerable under the lights, and her ethereal voice can fill any gaps in the crowd. On this night, she strums delicately,…
THE DEMS, POST-TIM SHEA
; “We’re not there to make a point. We’re there to win elections.” ; That’s how Tim Shea sums up 16 months of running the Orange County Democratic Executive Committee, a tenure that ended May 3 when Shea resigned, possibly to run for an open judicial seat. It was the end of an era that…
IS THE SKY FALLING?
Like clockwork, the boom sounded at 9:50 p.m., meaning it was time for Peggy Handley to walk outside. It was April 14, a Friday, and for the past week Universal Orlando Resort had been setting off fireworks on its property across from Handley’s Vineland Road house. Handley had made it a habit to stand outside…
ACCESS DENIED
Anyone who doubts that our country is deeply divided should spend a few hours exploring the world of political weblogs. Around the clock, day after day, concerned citizens are riveted to their computer screens. Their fingers dance over their keyboards as they polish proposals, update journal entries and craft detailed rebuttals to anonymous opponents. Digitally…
BLAIR WISH PROJECT
Considering the trappings of its time of origin — Little Darlings Tatum O’Neal and Kristy McNichol in a menstrual three-legged bag race to lose their virginity at summer camp; Jodie Foster licking the mall wounds of promiscuous Foxes; Brooke Shields allowing nothing between her and her Calvins — The Facts of Life was a decidedly…
ATOMIC PROM
; Newsweek has published a list of 100 American high schools that “do the best job of preparing average students for college.” But college is about far more than learning, so thank God another magazine has weighed in with more realistic criteria. By special arrangement, we’re proud to present: ;; ;;PLAYBOY’S TOP PARTY ;;HIGH SCHOOLS…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES I did something today that’s an apt metaphor for the task you have ahead of you. While driving my ’97 Honda Accord on the streets of San Francisco, I had to drive very slowly and gradually while ascending a steep hill. I kept my foot on the gas pedal just hard enough to keep…
SAVAGE LOVE
;I’m a 22-year-old woman with a 21-year-old live-in boyfriend of 11 months. My boyfriend loves eating my ass. He goes for my ass when I wake up, after I get out of the shower, when I get home from work. At first it felt good as hell, but now it’s too freaky. I can’t imagine…
