The Night’s Bloom
The Night’s Bloom Label: Barbary Coast Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Night’s Bloom, The While the fluid collective of Chicago musicians known as Pinetop Seven has never exactly produced the happiest music around, this is their darkest and most moving record to date. Centered around Darren Richard (songwriter/vocalist/conceptualist), Pinetop Seven has included nearly two dozen members in…
Explains Freedom
Explains Freedom Label: City Centre Offices Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Explains Freedom This full-length debut from Swedish ambientologist Henrik Jonsson is perplexing for a number of reasons. First, it’s not a doom-metal record or a stoner-rock record, both of which might easily be assumed from the nom de guerre Jonsson chose for this project. Second, it’s…
The Campfire Headphase
The Campfire Headphase Label: Warp Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Campfire Headphase, The An unconditionally bewildering return to center stage, The Campfire Headphase is the first Boards of Canada LP in three years. Sole members Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin are still preoccupied with soundtracking blurry Kodak prints from 1971, and their third full-length finds them strumming…
Once Was Not
Once Was Not Label: Century Media Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Once Was Not Technically a death-metal band, Cryptopsy employs Lord Worm, whose vocals resemble slit-throated blood gurgles more than words. Yet even music fans who have sworn to stay away from such singers should sample this quartet, because its exhilarating instrumentation makes Worm’s demonic belches about…
Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up
Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up Label: Numero Group Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up The best thing about Belize City Boil Up isn’t the fact that it shines a light on a woefully underdocumented (and equally underappreciated) music scene. No, what makes this 16-song collection a winner is the fact that…
TRU COLORS
Capote Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Rated: R Website: http://www.sonyclassics.com/capote/ Release Date: 2005-10-28 Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Chris Cooper, Clifton Collins Jr., Bruce Greenwood Director: Bennett Miller Screenwriter: Dan Futterman Music Score: Mychael Danna WorkNameSort: Capote Our Rating: 4.50 With the concepts of artistic representation and exploitation becoming hopelessly blurred, the need for Capote…
SPILL THE WEINSTEIN
My Big Fat Independent Movie Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment Rated: R Website: www.mybigfatindependentmovie.com/ Release Date: 2005-10-27 Cast: Paget Brewster, Eric Hoffman, Darren Reiher, Neil Barton, Darren Keefe Director: Philip Zlotorynski Screenwriter: Adam Schwartz, Chris Gore WorkNameSort: My Big Fat Independent Movie Our Rating: 2.50 I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised by My Big…
GENTLEMAN’S SEAS
The Squid and the Whale Studio: Independent Distribution Partnership (IDP), Samuel Rated: R Website: http://www.squidandthewhalemovie.com/ Release Date: 2005-11-04 Cast: Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, Anna Paquin Director: Noah Baumbach Screenwriter: Noah Baumbach Music Score: Dean Wareham, Britta Phillips WorkNameSort: Squid and the Whale, The Our Rating: 5.00 A lot of us have…
Saw II
Saw II Studio: Lions Gate Releasing Rated: R Website: http://www.saw2.com/ Release Date: 2005-10-28 Cast: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Donnie Wahlberg, Erik Knudsen, Franky G Director: Darren Lynn Bausman Screenwriter: Darren Lynn Bausman, Leigh Whannell WorkNameSort: Saw II Our Rating: 2.50 This is the story of seven strangers picked to live in a house … but…
Doom
Doom Studio: Sony Pictures Releasing, Universal Pictures Distr Rated: R Website: http://www.doommovie.com/ Release Date: 2005-10-21 Cast: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike, Ben Daniels, Razaaq Adoti Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak Screenwriter: Wesley Strick, David Callaham WorkNameSort: Doom Our Rating: 1.00 Doom’s plot barely warrants a sentence, and most of that comes courtesy of Aliens.…
Stay
Stay Studio: 20th Century Fox Distribution Rated: R Website: http://www.staythemovie.com/ Release Date: 2005-10-21 Cast: Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Elizabeth Reaser, Ryan Gosling, Bob Hoskins Director: Marc Forster Screenwriter: David Benioff Music Score: Asche & Spencer WorkNameSort: Stay Our Rating: 1.00 After hitting fool’s gold with his entry into the ongoing ’70s-simulation craze, Monster’s Ball, and…
BIG FISH STORIES
Once upon a time I had never tried sushi. Most people in my kingdom gagged at the thought of putting raw fish into their mouths. Then one day I made a friend who was a chef at a fancy restaurant. In his spare time, he ate sushi. In fact, he treated himself to expensive raw…
CAUGHT ON TAPE
Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow Label: Fading Captain/Recordhead Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow You’re forgiven if you can’t keep up with all their releases or tell half their songs apart. As owner of over 15 Guided by Voices albums, I can only solidly identify a dozen tunes or so. That’s what happens…
Lookaftering
Lookaftering Label: DiCristina Rated: NONE WorkNameSort: Lookaftering Although it’s been 35 years since Vashti Bunyan last recorded an album, it doesn’t sound as if a day has passed between that first disc (Just Another Diamond Day) and the new Lookaftering. While that consistency could be attributed the spare, folksy approach she takes to her songs,…
GOING IN STYLE
Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Wit, portrays a brilliant and independent-minded woman’s determination to understand the biological processes that are leading her inexorably toward death – a notion she has heretofore only explored through the modalities of scholarship and inquiry. The play is currently being staged by the Orlando Theatre Project at the Orlando Repertory…
BARGAIN BASEMENT
When a director welcomes an audience to his original adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus by inviting them to stick around after the show for some “nibblies,” it’s a safe bet the evening will be defined by disorientation. And disorientation – along with its frequent camp follower, disappointment – is the quality that hangs like…
HACKING THE VOTE, AGAIN
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Happytown
Did you see the 5-foot-high head shot of Condoleezza Rice rolling down Colonial Drive Oct. 20? It was plastered on the side of a tour bus promoting the new book Condi vs. Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race by Dick Morris, the Democrat whose transformation to the dark side comes complete with pro-Iraq-war stance, anti-Hillary…
EXPERIENCE IN OVERDRIVE
They might worship a messianic-maned singer and loft their lighters to treacly power ballads, but Nickelback fans can be a rough lot. Clutch discovered this in Knoxville, Tenn., where it opened for the seemingly harmless Canadian croon-metal group. “I’ve never seen so much hatred concentrated on four men,” singer Neil Fallon says. “It became a…
PARCHED PERPS
OCT. 17, 9:30 P.M.: For the owner of a convenience store in the 800 block of Formosa Avenue, it was time to call it a day. Alas, the sunless streets of O-Town bustled with booze-lusting burglars. One parched perp could stand this thirst no longer, opting to search inside the locked, secured shop for bottled…
WE DON’T GET IT
My wife and I were married straight out of college. At the time I knew she suffered from a potentially debilitating mental disorder, so I came into the relationship with my eyes fully open. Since then, nine years and two children have followed. About two years ago her disorder began to get worse: suicidal ideation,…
New York Dolls, Adult, Stars, Art to the Rescue and more
Friday • 28 HAUNTED WALK III The haunted-attractions business ain’t got nothin’ on the Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp, which hosts its own annual walking tour through narrow streets and shady lanes tarted up in pulse-quickening Halloween finery. With so much contacting of the Great Beyond taking place on the premises at all times, it logically follows…
Letters
Christians aren’t perfect… I just read your column about the Liberty Counsel wanting to ban gay marriage (“What’s in a word?”, Oct. 20]. I also noticed on the cover, at the very bottom, it says “Homegrown homo-hatin’.” The Liberty Counsel is not trying to ban gay marriage because it hates gay people. They are trying…
ASK ADRIAN!
Q: What is the origin of giving candy for Halloween? Halloween, like so many holidays, was originally celebrated by ancient pagans. Its purpose was to honor the autumn harvest and usher in the dark winter months. This festival was the beginning of their new year, so essentially, Oct. 31 was the pagan New Year’s Eve.…
ANTI-POOP FEST
So, here’s the idea, see. Given the current couch-clutching state of my latest physical fallout (and even though I’m not a drama queen, I’m totally dying this time), and the “bed rest” diagnosis I magically put in my doctor’s mouth, I really don’t think that I should have to do anything this week. I even…
Notable Noise
As I write this on the Monday morning after the Anti-Pop Music Festival has ended, I’m in a bit of a daze. Not so much because there’s a hurricane going on outside, but because after six days of Pabst Blue Ribbon and a few dozen concerts, I’m absolutely exhausted. In fact, last night, as the…
ORLANDO’S SCARIEST PEOPLE
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ABOUT OUR CONTRIBUTORS
Jeffrey C. Billman, a writer for Orlando Weekly since 1999, has been named “one of Orlando’s best journalists” by Orlando Magazine and “definitely somebody we’ve heard of someplace” by Connections. He inherited the city-government beat in 2001, thanks to his convention-defying insistence on wearing a name tag and pants to council meetings. He received his…
HIGH FIBER
Even if the Brouhaha Film & Video Showcase hadn’t switched this year to an all-student-film format, its highest-profile entry might still be Greg Jardin’s The Problem With Fiber Optics, a charming, technically accomplished short that’s been selected to close out the afternoon. Brouhaha has always been about recognizing the finest in Florida moviemaking, and Jardin’s…
EVERYBODY PAYS
Reba Schappell, of Reading, Pa., a professional country music singer who is also a conjoined twin, was profiled in a September segment of the BBC radio series Who Runs Your World. Said Reba, “When I am singing, [my sister] Lori is like any other fan, except she’s up on the stage with me [covered in…
Rob Brezny’s Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Some of the most confounding enigmas about the human condition might be explained if the theory of reincarnation were valid. I invite you to spend the next week trying it on for size. There’s no need to become a true believer. Just experiment with the possibility. Imagine that you’ve lived many…
OLD PEOPLE REVOLT!
Hey, old person! Hope you applied your Fixodent this morning, because this is gonna make your dentures pop out! It’s about your favorite magazine in the world – no, not Reader’s Digest, you old idiot! It’s TV Guide! Jesus, you old people aren’t only OLD, you’re stupid! Turn up your hearing aid or stick one…
