egregious
use of the word egregious

the teacher is a dude…retire your fantasies…

Ugh
I really liked this movie, certainly at least by the end, but that moment Noel singles out at the end of his review was one of the few missteps for me…just the painful, bright-college-freshman preciousness of the obvious symbolism. Nothing can take a movie down faster than some "innocent" piece of dialogue…

Case in point—the obama poster thing is under books? How about—just book reviews?

Old Version—
I was able to tell at a glance if I was up to date with various sections (and stupid as it sounds, pictures helped—seeing the same DVD cover, for instance, was an immediate notice that section had not changed, which was a useful thing). Now I have to hunt all around, peering at stuff, because it's all…

mbs—
I do reviews for an alt weekly in Portland, OR (I would give you the name or the website url, but I think I would probably get flamed for self-promotion). I just emailed them with a letter and clips of reviews I had done for another alt weekly in another state, and when they could, they started giving me work. I…

I have only myself to blame…I do a little reviewing, usually the art films…I thought it would be worth picking up some extra dough…I was wrong. My editor actually tried to talk me out of it. I hadn't seen the trailer, and I don't normally watch crap like this for review or otherwise, so I didn't know it could be so…

6 months
of hard marriage, not years, although yes, years is what it feels like.
and no, the coddry/ bell thing is just about the flatest, lamest thing in a movie of suck the size of texas.

Peter Travers is about on par with effing Rex Reed, who at least has Myra Breckinridge to his "credit."

Also, this would be a good time to mention that Grenadine had some pretty nifty tracks. Supergroup for people like me who actually thought the term applied.

what do i win?
Nerd award? I have every 7" these guys put out, I think, plus all the spinoffs up til shitty flin-flon. I once handed Mark a cassette of my music wearing a t-shirt with an iron-on i had done from the gold "edie" 7-inch (actually cannot remember what song), and he looked at me like i was mark david…

Well, if standards are falling THAT far, then I have to mention a lifetime favorite: Neil Diamond—Hot August Night

P.S. riverrun—but thank you for assuring me I'm too old and out of it to be a hipster, since the fourth qualification after dress, attempting to impress others, and requisite taste is declaring that you hate hipsters and you aren't one. third party verification that i am not a hipster is high currency indeed.

Eno is timeless, dude…but no, I'm not usually spinning Pixies or Camper van or the Smiths. Like I said, I'm always looking for things that are new to me, be it old or new. Right now I listen to Justice, Dr. Dog, The Savage Rose, "John the Wolfking of L.A.," the new Caetano Velsoso, Novos Bainos, French New Wave from…

Classic rock is what I grew up on, except it wasn't called that yet (born '72). I have Dylan, Traffic, Who, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Styx, Supertramp (still love "Breakfast"), Dire Straits, Jimi, James Brown, Cash, Cline (those last are not classic rock, but you get the idea—mainstays of popular music)…all that kind of thing,…

That's all I'm saying…mucho respect to your broad tastes. Mine are pretty much hipster-narrow.

I would say it is generally is truer than not. For instance, I even find "Rock n Roll Animal" dull, and it's supposed to be great. I think your more traditional tastes (no offense) might be part of the issue. For me a lot of your picks, as bands, are conventional and have never interested me (let me hasten to add that…

First sentence of the article.

Oh yeah—don't know how I forgot this, when it's my favorite above everything else I've mentioned, but: Mekons—New York.
Great primer on them, too, if you're looking for one.

never heard of apocalypse now, thanks. i will for sure be checking that out.
honorable mention: sebadoh's "local band feel" and mission of burma "horrible truth about burma"