Saturday, February 19, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
First Lines: Anne Tyler - Back When We Were Grownups
Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
Monday, February 14, 2011
New Stuff: Esben And The Witch
I thought this new band sounded interesting: the band’s brooding sound bears the dark-eyed influences of Siouxsie Sioux and Miranda Sex Garden
New Stuff: Miles Davis
Bitches Brew material played live months before the famous album was recorded.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
First Lines: Gilbert Sorrentino - Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things
What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?
The Door in the Floor (2004)
A writer's young assistant becomes both pawn and catalyst in his boss's disintegrating household.
A marriage drama with some great performances, but a predictable plot.
Pitch Black (2000)
A group of marooned space travelers struggle for survival on a seemingly lifeless sun-scorched world.
Above-average sci-fi thriller with some atmospheric visuals.