Tag: James MacLaren

Cant You Get Along With Anyone

Print Reviews

By the end of this book, James MacLaren is sure of one thing, you must buy it and read it NOW. On the way to that conlusion, however, is a whole minefield of soul searching and human failings. Like the man says, it’s complicated.

Riding With Strangers

Print Reviews

Where you heading, man? James MacLaren has nothing but praise for Elijah Wald’s tale of hitchhiking around the country. And of course he has a few things to say about hitchhiking myths and, hell, society in general.

Zappa, A Biography

Print Reviews

James MacLaren muses on Frank Zappa, in the process writing one of the BEST book reviews I’ve ever read.

Signs

Inconvenience Store

It’s the little things that will eventually make you crazy. Stuff you hardly even notice. Better that you didn’t notice, unlike James MacLaren.

Do You Need a Receipt?

Features

Welcome to James MacLaren’s Inconvenience Store, a place where the host is as good as the coffee – bitter, scalding and guaranteed to wake your ass up. We are given a brief tour of the amenities by Columns Editor Matthew Moyer. No shirt, no shoes, and definitely no service.

22 Jacks

Music Reviews

Going North (Side One Dummy). Review by James MacLaren

5ive Style

Music Reviews

Miniature Portraits (Sub Pop). Review by James MacLaren

del rey

Music Reviews

dlry (Dirigible). Review by James MacLaren

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Grand Valley – Issue 002

Issues
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Garage Sale Vinyl

This week, Christopher Long nearly fights a famed rock star in defense of his 1970s pin-up princess. To prove his point, Chris goes into his own garage and digs out his musty vinyl copy of the self-titled 1972 alt. country classic from Linda Ronstadt.

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Garage Sale Vinyl: KISS, The Solo Albums

Garage Sale Vinyl

This week, cuddly curmudgeon Christopher Long finds himself feeling even older as he hobbles through a Florida flea market in pursuit of vinyl copies of the four infamous KISS solo albums — just in time to commemorate the set’s milestone 45th anniversary.

Borsalino

Borsalino

Screen Reviews

Starting with small-time jobs, two gangsters take over all the crime in Marseilles in this well-paced and entertaining French film. Carl F. Gauze reviews the freshly released Arrow Video Blu-ray edition of Borsalino (1970).