Twin Peaks: Definitive Gold Box Edition
Twin Peaks: Definitive Gold Box Edition Studio: Paramount Home Video Rated: NONE Release Date: 2007-10-30 WorkNameSort: Twin Peaks: Definitive Gold Box Edition Only seven months after releasing the second season of the David Lynch/Mark Frost television landmark Twin Peaks, Paramount Home Video has delivered the rumored comprehensive, 10-disc set Twin Peaks: Definitive Gold Box Edition.…
August Rush
August Rush Studio: Warner Bros. Rated: PG Website: http://augustrushmovie.warnerbros.com/ Release Date: 2007-11-21 Cast: Freddie Highmore, Robin Williams, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Terrence Howard Director: Kirsten Sheriden WorkNameSort: August Rush Our Rating: 0.00 Hitting all the bases as a clichéd child-prodigy film and as a clichéd orphan-in-search-of-parents film, August Rush is pandering to the point…
The Mist
The Mist Studio: MGM Distribution Company Rated: R Website: http://www.themist-movie.com/ Release Date: 2007-11-21 Cast: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher, Toby Jones Director: Frank Darabont WorkNameSort: Mist, The Our Rating: 2.50 The premise of The Mist sounds silly: Small-town residents end up trapped inside a grocery store by a mysterious mist that…
FROM THESE ROOTS
Reconnoitering gold from America’s outer edges
The Roundhouse Tapes: Opeth Live
The Roundhouse Tapes: Opeth Live Label: Peaceville Length: EP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Roundhouse Tapes: Opeth Live, The Opeth’s double album, The Roundhouse Tapes, contains several passages in which guitars wend through numinous melodies, isolated from other instruments and unsullied by crowd noise. During such moments, particularly the forlorn, crystalline “Under the…
Sweet Earth Flower: A Tribute to Marion Brown
Sweet Earth Flower: A Tribute to Marion Brown Label: High Two Length: EP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Sweet Earth Flower: A Tribute to Marion Brown Many fans of His Name Is Alive may be struck by the oddity of their favorite dreampop act delivering an album of cosmic free-jazz. But HNIA main…
Saga of the Simian Samurai
Saga of the Simian Samurai Label: Threshold Recordings Length: EP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Saga of the Simian Samurai More noise could’ve been made about hip-hop duo Project Polaroid in 2006; West Coast producer TomC3’s gurgling beats matched Kool Keith’s wandering, abstract wordplay like a deftly mixed cocktail. Ex-Organized Konfusion member Prince…
The Other
The Other Label: Max Ernst Length: EP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Other, The Coinciding with her same-month release, Size and Tears, The Other marks a year of considerable productivity for visual artist/composer Natalie Beridze, known also as Tusia Beridze, or simply TBA. In her home city of Tbilisi, Georgia, Beridze is preoccupied…
Outsides
Outsides Label: Hot Dog City Records Length: EP Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Outsides The pursuit of darkness in music is fraught with ham and melodrama, but by dodging the velvet and lace, the economical songs of this Philadelphia band achieve a stark, genuine sort of macabre that’s completely free of gothic camp,…
FREEWHEELIN’ BREAKDOWN
Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There finds Dylan everywhere
EAST EATS WEST
China and Peru have enjoyed a long-standing diplomatic friendship; now diners can also benefit from their culinary partnership. At China Hut on South OBT, ignore the classic Hunan beef and moo goo gai pan and ask for the Peruvian-style menu. Then order a bottle of chicha morada ($2.50). It looks daunting, but the violet Peruvian…
BLISTER
Tonight is a suspicious package. “What’s that?” Tony swerves my swervy driving as we rattle down the cobblestones. “Oh my!” I start mouthing the alphabet backwards and brain-walking a straight line. “It’s a suspicious package!” But the potential bomb coated in anthrax that we’re seeking to detonate tonight isn’t resting in a neighborhood intersection. The…
SAVAGE LOVE
I love my wife. We’ve been married 10 years. Young punk-rock love turned into adult debt-ridden love. She’s been there for me, helps me achieve my goals, all that. But she’s let herself go, while I’ve gotten myself into better shape. I pride myself on being a good husband. I’ve been 100 percent faithful, I…
ROB BREZSNY’S FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES (March 21-April 19) When life gets weird, should you take refuge in tradition? Should you intensify your commitment to the humdrum? Dress more conservatively, act more dignified and smile more automatically? No. When the daily rhythm veers off track, it’s prime time to gleefully depart from The Way Things Have Always Been Done. In…
THIS LITTLE UNDERGROUND
Freedom, democracy, whatev: My Bloody Valentine reuniting and releasing a new album is what I’m thankful for. First the Jesus and Mary Chain, now this! The masters, it seems, are back. See the full Kevin Shields interview for yourself on Ian Svenonius’ Soft Focus on VBS TV (www.vbs.tv/softfocus). The beat Canadian pop juggernaut Tegan and…
I LOVE TELEVISION
Happy Thanksgiving, mother-freakers! OR IS IT? If you’re anything like me, expressing an emotion even faintly resembling “thankfulness” has become a near impossibility. How am I supposed to be “thankful” for the three inches of gum and dog feces caked on my shoe? How am I supposed to be “thankful” when the Eagles have the…
CULTURE TO GO
Riding it out IAAPA Attractions Expo www.iaapa.org The long-awaited IKEA opening might have been the most-visible consumertainment event last week, but it wasn’t the largest by a long shot. Imagine every carnival ride, midway game and fair food known to man – all under one roof and all for free. It wasn’t just a theme-park…
HAPPYTOWN
A lot of counties turn their backs on their plumpest residents. Not Seminole County. These folks have gone the extra mile to make sure that their “bariatric” (medical term for “f’ing huge”) citizens are well taken care of. If you are so obese you can’t get out of your house even if it’s on fire,…
POLICE BEAT
NOV. 8, 11:10 A.M.: Our teenage hoodlum walked into a video game emporium in the 2900 block of East Colonial Drive, brandished a weapon, demanded cash from the register and, oddly enough, a driver’s license from everyone in the store. And then he took off without even jacking a copy of Guitar Hero III, World…
MAIL SACK
Abuse of free speech I am a Chinese American living in Orlando for 20 years and got my degree at the University of Central Florida. I feel so shameful of seeing a local newspaper featuring a cover and a topic like this `“Screw China!,” Nov. 15`. I am not sure what the writer is trying…
THE BIG SUCK
Lee Arnold. Fred Bullard. Bill Frederick. Gary Morse. Whit Palmer. Darryl Sharpton. Leo Vecellio. Heard of ’em? Probably not. But observers of a plan to drain millions of gallons of water a day from the St. Johns River believe these guys are the ones driving state water policy. As part of the Florida Council of…
IMITATE BORAT, LOSE JOB
Between 9:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. Nov. 2, Universal Orlando valet Steve Barton and some co-workers took their dinner break and walked upstairs to order coffee at Universal CityWalk’s Starbucks. Barton, a former character actor who likes to impersonate famous voices for laughs, decided to order his latte while impersonating Borat Sagdiyev, the fictional Kazakh…
THE FUTURE IS … NOW?
The future, insofar as transportation goes, is a dud. The people movers, monorails and flying cars Hollywood promised a generation ago are nowhere to be found. In Florida, such innovations as bullet trains and light rail are nonstarters. The recently approved, multicounty $615 million commuter rail project (to which Orange County contributed $40 million, and…
GAMING CULTURE’S WRONG TURN
I expected Wal-Mart to cave like a wet paper bag, but Target surprised me. A couple of weeks ago, the bull’s-eye store frantically ripped copies of Rockstar Games’ Manhunt 2 off the shelves. The reason? Ubiquitous reports that hackers had found a way to unlock the gory original code in the PlayStation Portable version of…
