Art-damaged
is one of my least favorite critical stock phrases. Sorry to bitch here, as this is an otherwise well-written review, but I just really have never known what exactly "art-damaged" means.I am excited as all get-out about this record, though. Wild Beasts are three for three in my book.

Art-damaged
is one of my least favorite critical stock phrases. Sorry to bitch here, as this is an otherwise well-written review, but I just really have never known what exactly "art-damaged" means.I am excited as all get-out about this record, though. Wild Beasts are three for three in my book.

That is a possibility, I guess. The only story I've read from this collection is the aforementioned "Boys Town," which is nothing is not character-focused, being essentially a comic-then-tragic internal narration type deal. But, yeah, I could see how one could argue that the research and settings and so on could tend…

I heard Jim Shepard
read the story "Boys Town" (collected in this book) at my alma mater, Beloit College, last year in a pretty intimate setting, and was awfully glad of it. Although Shepard frequently appears in the Best American anthologies and big-name places like The New Yorker and McSweeney's, I feel like he's…

This new book of his
sounds fucking fascinating. The two Julius Knipl collections were among the best stuff I read last year. There's something about artists who dig around in the obscure corners of American cultural detritus and populate their stories with weirdos that really really hits a literary sweet spot for me.…

Ny only?
Any word on if this movie is gonna have a theatrical run in Chicago? After reading both this review and A.O. Scott's rave in the same afternoon, I'm pretty eager to catch this on a screen that isn't my computer.

Saw this last night
for free at the Music Box Theater in Chicago, lucky dog am I. Very enjoyable movie, my first Ozon. The French farce line is dead-on; the movie retains its stagey feel in many spots, and that's surprisingly not a detriment. And, I hope this isn't too much of a spoiler (I've read mentions of it in…

Correction: 'sticks in the memory' would be the phrase that actually makes sense.

Gotta rep for 'And The Ship Sails On,' from 1983 or so, my fave late-period Fellini (well, I guess 'Amarcord - my fave any-period Fellini - could be considered late-period but whatever.) Such a deliciously artificial film that touches on some issues about the start of WWI and the end of the old European aristocracy,…

Hear hear, Curly. I was wondering the exact same thing. As nervous as I am about someone adapting a novel I have a shitload of love for, I think Mottola and Hader could pull it off.

What
that song in the trailer be? Sounds familiar. Maybe.

YESYESYES. I came down hoping some other wise soul would have already mentioned the excellent "Knnillssonn," my favorite of Harry's albums. I can't even really express why that album is so good. I think the improbably gooey orchestrations have something to do with it.

Also throw in Mott The Hoople.

I saw that performance as well, as was about as impressed as you seem to be, but I am really digging this album. Some real ELO/Raspberries/Bay City Rollers-type vibes. Although I understand if other people aren't enticed by the same roller rink dreams of ELO or the Bay City Rollers as I am.

Very sad news
Broadcast was/is a perennially underrated band. I was fifteen when Haha Sound came out and it astounds to this day. One of my very favorite records of the past ten years. Forty-two is way way too young. Again, very sad news.

Oh fuck
YES.

I really hope
that they use the original theme song, because that's honestly all I care about/remember from the TV show. Check it - http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Not really saying anything new here
but Mr. Lovett is one of my favorite fellow Texans. I play "If I Had A Boat," "She's No Lady," and "That's Right (You're Not From Texas)" to anyone who'll listen. And I, for one, think he's actually a pretty good-looking dude (I say this as a straight man) - I think he's got a…

The song being, of course, "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty.

I was just about to express the exact opposite sentiment. Like the song says, "It take diff'rent strokes to move the world."