Cold and Black and Infinite North America 2018 - Nine Inch Nails @ Kings...
Well, I just saw Nine Inch Nails play all of Broken in sequence. If that weren’t enough, they whipped out their cover of How To Destroy Angels’ “Parasite”, “Me, I’m Not” from Year Zero, and “The...
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A review of Thom Yorke's "Suspiria" score
I compare Thom Yorke to Trent Reznor all the time. And if you don’t, then I kind of don’t think you’re into either them or their stuff. So, when it was announced that Yorke was scoring his first film,...
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Live and Cold and Black and Infinite - Four Nights of NIN in NYC
HighlightsI bitch...so...hard...about Nine Inch Nails. I believe I've explained before that the reason I bitch so hard is because I know what Trent Reznor is capable of and, when he doesn't live up to...
View ArticleA review of Thom Yorke at Kings Theatre 11/27/18
I like Thom Yorke’s solo stuff better than his work with Radiohead.*Leave now if you’d like.I feel that, while Radiohead might have a deeper, fuller sound at times, Yorke’s solo work (The Eraser,...
View ArticleA review of They Might Be Giants'"My Murdered Remains"
Much like 2016’s Phone Power, My Murdered Remains collects the remainder of 2018’s Dial-A-Song offerings, and, also like Phone Power, it’s a bit of a mixed bag. While it’s mostly lacking in flow or...
View ArticleThe Year In Bitch - 2018
Let's get down to it.Top Five Albums1. They Might Be Giants - I Like FunAfter 36 years as a band, John Flansburgh and John Linnell owe their fans NOTHING. Yet, despite this unspoken agreement between...
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A review of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross'"Bird Box (Abridged)"
Trent Reznor has been creating cinematic instrumental music for over twenty-five years. At first, on 1992’s Broken EP and 1994’s The Downward Spiral, these pieces served as small gasps of breath during...
View ArticleI'm Doing Stuff Too... (Tag, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald)
Christina has gone to Europe for like a month.Fine. Whatever.I can do things too.SUCH AS.I have this little flash drive on which I put movies. I'll hear about a movie and years later, pick it up. I'll...
View ArticleI'm Doing Stuff Too... (Bone Tomahawk, Green Room)
I stumbled upon Brawl In Cell Block 99 a while ago and enjoyed it. I like where Vince Vaughn is these days. I was at a session and Brawl came up. Turns out my friengineer, Dan, worked on the next movie...
View ArticleI'm Doing Stuff Too... (Blue Ruin, Hard Eight)
After mentioning Green Room, my beatboxing sweat-brother Jon Schoss* turned me onto Jeremy Saulnier's earlier film, Blue Ruin, apparently the first in a trilogy of "color" films. Again, I was struck by...
View ArticleI'm Doing Stuff Too... (Collateral, I, Tonya)
Heard about Collateral because Tom Cruise played a bad guy in it. He smiled less than usual and talked more quietly. Good stuff. Otherwise, this was one of those dozens of perfectly serviceable,...
View ArticleI'm Doing Stuff Too...OSCAR EDITION (BlacKKKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody)
Never known Spike Lee to make anything that isn't both brutal and beautiful, but those last few minutes...aw man this place is STILL so fucked up. The mix of empowerment and disempowerment is artful...
View ArticleI'm Doing Stuff Too...OSCAR EDITION (The Favourite, Green Book)
Maybe you'll consider this cheating as I saw The Favourite a while back when Chris was still here, but, Oscar Edition motherfuckaz. Eat it.As I've mentioned, I've been a fan of Olivia Colman for years....
View ArticleI'm Doing Stuff Too...OSCAR EDITION (A Star Is Born, Vice)
How can there be good, interesting, well-written, well-directed films like The Favourite, and Into the Spider-Verse, and BlacKKKlansman nominated and winning awards, and ALSO A Star Is Born? Is Lady...
View ArticleSome thoughts on Captain Marvel
Never really been a fan of prequels, but I understand this film had a job to do and it did it just fine: introduce this ridiculously powerful character and show her being ridiculously powerful so we...
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