Citrus
Citrus Label: Friendly Fire Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Citrus Interweb denizens still geeked over old My Bloody Valentine records clamor for Kevin Shields to make with more overcaramelized, drowning-on-dry-land pop, but with acts like Asobi Seksu updating MBV with fewer cooks in the kitchen and better production values, why should…
New Heavy
New Heavy Label: ROIR Length: LP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: New Heavy Perhaps emboldened by that manic monstrosity known as The Mars Volta, Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Dub Trio returns with their amps turned up to 11. While Dub Trio does lay down serious space-tripping dub, New Heavy is more like a blast of…
Earthbound
Earthbound Label: Emperor Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Earthbound The swooning, breathy acoustica that English singer-songwriter Barker indulges in on Earthbound was created with the writing and production input of Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins), and if Barker’s name rings a bell, it’s likely due to her work with Zero 7 and Groove Armada.…
Yeah!
Yeah! Label: Universal Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Yeah! After 28 years together and 65 million albums sold, Def Leppard decided to kick back and record an album of personal faves. Except this is Def Leppard, and they don’t exactly ‘kick backâ?� like the rest of us. Sure, there was no songwriting grind…
FELINE AGGRESSION
Pillow Talk Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Pillow Talk Tempting as it’d be to do so, one can’t judge Chicago octet Cougars based solely on peripheral factors. Add ’em up and try not to gag: They’re signed to Go Kart Records, home to marginal lightweight goofs like Weston, the Parasites, Boris the Sprinkler…
BLACK SPRING
Averno Publishing House: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Averno ‘Always nights I feel the ocean, biting at my life,â?� Louise Glück wrote in Firstborn (1968), her first volume of poetry. Ever since then, mortality has haunted her work, sex and death bound together ‘ often violently. In her much anthologized scorcher, ‘Mock Orange,â?�…
OF HUMAN BONDAGE
The Notorious Bettie Page Length: Single Studio: Picturehouse Rated: R Website: http://www.thenotoriousbettiepage.com/ Release Date: 2006-04-14 Cast: Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor, David Strathairn, Jonathan M. Woodward, Cara Seymour Director: Mary Harron Screenwriter: Guinevere Turner, Mary Harron WorkNameSort: Notorious Bettie Page, The Our Rating: 4.00 And here I was certain Bettie Page had to be strapping. Casting…
X WITHOUT LOVE
X-Men: The Last Stand Studio: 20th Century Fox Rated: PG-13 Cast: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen Director: Brett Ratner WorkNameSort: X-Men: The Last Stand Our Rating: 2.50 The vaunted renaissance of Marvel movies was built on the work of a mere two directors: Sam Raimi, he of the flawed but…
I Am a Sex Addict
I Am a Sex Addict Rated: NOT RATED Cast: Rebecca Lord, Emily Morse, Amanda Henderson , Caveh Zahedi Director: Caveh Zahedi Screenwriter: Caveh Zahedi WorkNameSort: I Am a Sex Addict Our Rating: 2.00 Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi went the self-exposure route to far better effect in 1994’s humorous father-son story I Don’t Hate Las Vegas Anymore;…
The Da Vinci Code
The Da Vinci Code Studio: Sony Pictures Releasing Rated: PG-13 Cast: Tom Hanks, Jean Reno, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen Director: Ron Howard WorkNameSort: Da Vinci Code, The Our Rating: 1.00 If Basil Exposition from the Austin Powers movies were allowed to write a screenplay, the result might be The Da Vinci Code, which wears itself…
Kinky Boots
Kinky Boots Studio: Buena Vista International, Miramax Films Rated: PG-13 Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Joel Edgerton, Sarah-Jane Potts, Jemima Rooper, Ewan Hooper Director: Julian Jarrold WorkNameSort: Kinky Boots Our Rating: 2.50 Those drag queens, they sure do show us stuffy straight folks how to think outside the wig box. That’s what happens in Kinky Boots, a…
‘Wichcraft
We wanted a quick bite and a comfortable place to chat. We wanted simple, yet interesting sandwiches and perhaps a cup of an unusual tea. We wanted killer dessert. We’re kind of demanding. We’re also lucky, because Pom Pom’s Teahouse and Sandwicheria has all of those things — except, depending on when you visit, the…
Peeping Tom
Peeping Tom Label: Ipecac Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Peeping Tom Leave it to Mike Patton to set out to make a ‘popâ?� record with a raft of abstract electronicists (Amon Tobin, Odd Nosdam, Dub Trio), fractured hip-hoppers (Dan the Automator, Kool Keith, Jel) and Starbucks superstars (Norah Jones, Bebel Gilberto, Massive Attack)…
LETTERS
Not funny, sort of Your recent humor column that parodied Winter Park High School as Playboy’s No. 1 party high school `Dog Playing Poker, May 11` was not a laughing matter when I heard about it yesterday. It first hit my radar during a casual conversation in the halls of the Orange County Public Schools…
KINDA BORING
;”The middle of the road is trying to find me/I’m standing in the middle of my life with my plans behind me,” banged the Pretenders from the dismal depths of half-smiled Reaganomics. And that’s the thing with Rob Thomas, an Everyman whose seemingly inevitable career just plays along like the predictable repetition of reflectors on…
GARAGE DAYS FOREVER
“It’s rock & roll before it was an art form,” says Steven Van Zandt about what, exactly, he means when he’s talking about “garage rock.” Though there are nearly as many preconceptions about the sound as there are practitioners, the host of Little Steven’s Underground Garage (both a two-hour syndicated radio show and a 24/7…
STALK OF THE TOWN
;One thing to remember about the opening weekend of the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival is that the shows are essentially dress rehearsals. More traditional productions have the luxury of at least a week of run-throughs in their chosen venues; not so these mini-theatricales, whose producers have to acclimate themselves almost on the spot to…
CARNIVAL, ZOMBIES, MALMSTEEN AND MORE…
Thursday•25 Taken for Looks Photographers give us their perspectives on events, situations and even emotions through their work. What if their motive was to deceive? That question is the focus of this exhibit featuring seven photographers. The work explores different angles, subject matter and setups that either show reality or deceive the viewer. Give it…
NOTABLE NOISE
;”Welcome to our party. Welcome to our city.” These words were spoken to me in a way that wasn’t all that welcoming. They dripped with the self-satisfied condescension that comes from someone who thinks that they’re putting you in your place. As it was Axis co-publisher Sean Perry who spoke them, and I was at…
THE TREE PEOPLE
; ;Van Lankin lies in bed and wonders what he’ll do tomorrow. Maybe he’ll go to the pool. Maybe try to get into the clinic. Something. He’s got to think of something to keep from going crazy. There really isn’t much to do when you’re homeless. But at least he’s got a roof over his…
WHO NEEDS GAY DAYS?
Often unspoken but seldom unheard of, Orlando’s overall gayness is a phenomenon of global importance. How gay is it? A gander across the pink triangle of the I-4 corridor reveals an eye-rattling amount of evidence. Sure, there are the old standbys of Walt Disney World, the Parliament House and the so-called ViMi district, but so…
CRUNCH TIME
“Meanwhile, others have noted changes in `Karl` Rove’s appearance. Over the last year, the senior Bush aide has dramatically slimmed down, losing an estimated 50 pounds. While some have speculated that stress could be the cause, Rove told a National Journal reporter last month that he’s been dieting and working out with `Chief of Staff…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
;ARIES “Donald Rumsfeld never listens to anything except the voices inside his own head,” wrote San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll. This is unfortunate, but not uncommon. Many people rarely consult any opinions besides those that originate in their own imaginations. And from time to time, all of us get temporarily hypnotized by the little…
SAVAGE LOVE
I am a 22-year-old female with a wonderful, caring boyfriend. I felt very grounded and secure in our relationship, and ready to try new things with him — until yesterday. We were discussing bondage. I mentioned that this would be the first time I had deviated from “normal” oral or vaginal penetration. He said he…
BLISTER
;”I guess this is the part where I ask you,” I tilt my head shyly towards my bent knees. “Will you marry me?”; ;;”I guess this is the part where you bring out the tinfoil ring,” Jessica plays freezer-friendly. ;;It’s a gorgeous Thursday night and we are just initiating the melodrama that is set to…
I LOVE TELEVISION
Facts are facts: Teenagers are more interesting than you and I. Teens talk about the latest iPod, whorish colors of eye shadow and whose booty they intend on “tapping.” We talk about mortgage payments, loveless marriages and erectile dysfunction/vaginal dryness. Teens dress funkier, listen to better music, perform far more sexual dance moves and —…
HAPPYTOWN
;Scuttlebutt from the Fringe Festival: We hear that Mayor Buddy Dyer (pictured, getting a smooch from a drag queen) wasn’t going to come to the opening-night party in person until someone threatened to pull his “welcome” spiel from the official program. We also hear that he told the gathered he was a Fringe first-timer, when…
POLICE BEAT
May 20, 1:59 a.m.: Early Saturday morning, at the corner of Pine Street and Orange Avenue, officers Wilson and Glidden were making their rounds at the knuckle of Orlando’s downtown scene when they happened upon a man in the throes of an identity crisis. The “30-year-old male” in question, later identified by police as David…
