I’m going to step out on a limb, against the intelligentsia, against the cinephiles, against just about everyone I’ve talked to, and speak the unspeakable: There Will be Blood was dull. That’s right. I said it. Dull. Hell, let’s go even further: TWBB is turd of a film. Though there’s some excellent acting here, the […]

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Last night, we saw Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain, a story set across three different historical periods (including one that is best described as “mystical”), forming a complex yet devastating tale of love and devotion. I should say upfront that Aronofsky is my favorite director by a long shot; his previous films, Pi and Requiem for […]

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The Knife

Silent Shout

When J & I went to Invisible NYC back in March to get some tattoo work done, the Knife was on heavy rotation, and I got into it, but it took a little while to really grow on me. The main vocals are sort of Bjork-ish at times, and maybe kind of like […]

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I’ve had a variety of friends over the years that have tried to convince me to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer but I just can’t see the appeal. According to my friends, it is the sort of show that I’m supposed to like and it supposedly has some kind of post-hipster-cool po-mo vibe to it, […]

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I’m more excited about this than I reasonably should be.

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