How was your weekend? Mine was fun. On Friday night I saw Pacific Rim with Adam. It was fun if you could ignore the cliches and some bad acting. I mean, what’s…
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Thomas Bangalter – Irréversible
A lot has been written about Gaspar Noé’s brutal and nihilistic “drama” (for lack of a better term, I guess that’s technically the genre, but is it really?) Irréversible in the annals…
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John Carpenter – The Fog
Gotta love those Varese Sarabande soundtracks. They’re all so damned good, you know? The movie came out in 1980, it was Carpenter’s first effort after the massive success of Halloween. The soundtrack…
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The Distinguished Gourmand: Nobu; Malibu, CA
As I mentioned yesterday, I was given a pass to a tasting event at Nobu in Malibu for me and three friends. The event was sponsored by a website called Eater and…
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Seatbelts – Cowboy Bebop
The Japanese blues/jazz band Seatbelts is led by composer and instrumentalist Yoko Kanno. The group (sometimes referred to as Seat Belts or SEATBELTS) was described in the show Cowboy Bebop as choosing…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 314
RULES for uninitiated noobs: I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes…
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Frankie Laine – Hell Bent For Leather!
Let’s keep up with the AMERICA FUCK YEAH vibe of July 4th by sharing a kick-ass country and western record. This sweet slab of vinyl was ripped (from the original monaural pressing!)…
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Low – Songs For A Dead Pilot
There was a time — during the early ’00s, when eBay was filled with ridiculous results for common records — people were actually paying money for this 12″. Released sixteen years ago…