NBA Season Is Here

The NBA season has started and class is back in session.   This point is highlighted by Shannon Brown from my hometown Lakers throwing down a rebound with considerable force and urgency.   Enjoy. Oh yeah, also, happy Halloween. I’ll be back and posting again on Monday. more about “NBA Season Is Here“, posted with [...]

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No Age “Losing Feeling”

Los Angeles, stand up!  Well, at least Los Feliz stand up, I guess…  In any event, I am giving my city props because that is where No Age just so happens to hail from.  Recently they released an EP by the name of Losing Feeling, the video posted below is for the title track off [...]

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Joe Lieberman Keeps on Slipping

Apparently Joe Lieberman thinks that he’s just too damned liberal, or at least too popular amongst Democrats, because the Connecticut Senator is now saying that he’s planning on supporting a filibuster of any health care plan that includes a public option.  The reason behind his decision?  He says any such plan will cost the American [...]

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IN REVIEW: Tegan and Sara “Sainthood”

I’m just going to come out with it, I think that Tegan and Sara might be one of the most criminally under-appreciated acts in American music today.  The reason that I say this as though it might be even a remotely controversial statement to make is because I’ve heard numerous complaints of the opposite, that [...]

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“Green Zone” Trailer

Paul Greengrass has been on a real roll his last few times out of the gate.  He took over the helm of the Bourne franchise from Doug Liman and tweaked the winning formula for big returns with the Bourne Supremacy.  Then he turned his lens to real-life events and despite cries of “too soon,” he [...]

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John Kerry Is Wary of Escalation In Afghanistan

John Kerry is back in the public eye in a big way these days, largely due to his role in helping to deal with the hotly contested elections in Afghanistan.  As the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and with Afghanistan very much on President Obama’s mind, Afghanistan is a topic which Kerry is [...]

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F**k Buttons “Surf Solar”

We can go ahead and add the band whose name we do not say to the list of groups that have released really solid albums this year.  After the success of Street Horrrsing (“Sweet Love For Planet Earth” is pretty epic, right?), there was going to be a lot of pressure heaped onto Tarot Sport, [...]

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Kurt Vile “Freak Train”

If you like music, then I can  pretty much guarantee that you’ll like Childish Prodigy by Kurt Vile, which was released a couple of months ago on Matador Records.  Above you’ll find the video for the song “Freak Train,” which has been kicking around for a while, but I haven’t gotten around to posting until [...]

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Maurice Sendak Doesn’t Need Your Stinking Kids!

So, Maurice Sendak is the man.  I mean, sure, he wrote a children’s book that has made him millions and millions of dollars.  Yes, he had the foresight to give his blessing to one of the most creative and talented directors in Hollywood to adapt the book into a film (which has thus far been [...]

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Pretty Soon We’ll Just Be Giving Books Away

Just in time for the holidays, it seems that local booksellers and publisher all over are going to be gut shot yet again by the big online bookstores.  The New York Times is reporting that Target is jumping onboard with perennial online titans like Amazon and Wal-Mart and is slashing their prices on many of [...]

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