A Greener Mind: Colleen Green’s “Milo Goes to Compton”
A re-release of the first full-length from one-woman-band Colleen Green, Milo Goes to Compton comes back to life right on the heels of her 2011 outings, Green One and Cujo. In a broad field of female-fronted retro-rock, Green’s ace comes from a higher grade of slack alongside the standards and traditions of weed-fueled, homemade record-making.
The Apartment Theater 001: “Grand Theft Auto”
“Grand Theft Auto” is Ron Howard’s “Badlands.” Howard’s 1977 film (his first feature) follows Sam and Paula, two young lovers from opposite sides of the tracks, and a trail of devastation that litters the West Coast’s highway with wrecked cars and ruined lives. The freewheeling couple is transformed into media darlings, depicted as rebels who put their reckless love above traffic laws and outmoded cultural norms.
Will Ferrell y El Enorme Gato Blanco
Algún lugar en el centro de este nuevo pelicula, “Casa de Mi Padre,” con Will Ferrell, hay una escena que no es divertido o gracioso. Esta es la escena que otros cinéfilos serán insultando, que estará diciendo es tonto cuando todos estamos dejando al teatro.
Esta es la configuración: El carácter de Ferrell, un ranchero estúpido, dieron un tiro en el pecho. Sus asesinos lo han dejado por muerto. Y, cuando parece que va a morir, un enorme gato blanco viene y lo protege de los perros salvajes.
Retraction
Monologist Mike Daisey admitted he’d invented details in his stage show about working conditions in Chinese factories that manufacture Apple products.
The Unbearable Sadness of Youth in Murakami’s Tokyo
If you’re anything like me, Midori Kobayashi is probably the only character in Haruki Murakami’s novel Norwegian Wood whom you’d want to meet.
Who wants to review the new Shins album?
Anyone want to write a review for the new Shins album?
Yahoo! Sues Facebook
Yahoo stepped up its new feud with Facebook on Monday, suing the social-networking giant and accusing it of infringing on 10 patents… The patents cover advertising, privacy, customization, social networking and messaging.
“Angry Boys” and The Cult of Personality
Chris Lilley’s “Angry Boys,” the 2011 Australian comedy that made its American debut on HBO earlier this year, is not the show many fans of Lilley’s previous program, “Summer Heights High,” expected or wanted.
As in “Summer Heights High” Lilley plays a wide range of characters in “Angry Boys”: teenage twins (one of whom is deaf), a washed-up surfing prodigy, a matronly female guard at a juvenile detention center, the Asian mother of a professional skateboarder, and a young black rapper under house arrest. Read More →
You Clean Up Pretty Good: Disappears’s Pre Language
With last year’s Guider, Chicago’s Disappears started out making a punchy EP and wound up with a spiraling, roomy full-length LP on their hands. By expanding the closing track “Revisiting” to a full side’s worth of chug and pulse, the band lifted 2011’s Guider beyond garage-psych hallmarks. They tipped their hand, revealing a seemingly infinite combination of winning cards.
The iPad 3 Doesn’t Exist Yet, But I Reviewed It Anyway
The greatest yet! — or what the iPad 3 will be when Apple unveils it on March 7.
