The Wild Stares
Automatic Writing Machine. Review by Scott Adams.
Tag: television
Peter Laughner
Peter Laughner (Smog Veil Records). Review by James Mann.
My Favorite Year
Benjy Stone writes for the brand-new media, television, and meets his childhood hero, the drunken Alan Swan. Can Benjy keep Swan sober long enough to entertain America?
Wire
Silver/Lead (Pink Flag). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Brokeback
Illinois River Valley Blues (Thrill Jockey). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
In Search of the Ultra Sex
Carl F Gauze relives the Cinemax late night adult era with this French sci-fi parody that mixes hardcore VHS adult material with an MST3K-flavored mix of bad Euro-scifi.
Motivational Growth
Agoraphobic Ian lives in filth and disgrace, but is saved by a talking fungus and girl with a tolerance for vomit fetish.
Wild Flag
May Terry heads to Prospect Park for a musical speed date with Wild Flag that leaves the taste of six degrees of Riot Grrl in her mouth.
Spectacle – Season 2
Elvis Costello hosts a hip rock and roll show on Sundance Channel; Carl F Gauze tries on his first pair of Buddy Holly glasses.
The Best of Soul Train
Thirty-five years of Soul Train on three DVDs leaves Scott Adams with a serious ’70s jones.
U2: Let Them Be
A two-DVD set featuring two documentaries about U2, one focusing on an analysis of the album Achtung Baby and the other on the band’s first two albums of the 2000s.
Six Centuries of Verse
Sir John Gielgud threatens to clear the room with this eight-hour history of English verse, from Chaucer to Dylan Thomas. Carl F Gauze convinces you to stay.
Tom Verlaine
Words From The Front (Collectors’ Choice). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Tom Verlaine
Dreamtime (Collector’s Choice). Review by Carl F Gauze.
New York Dolls
Even if you’re not a child of the ’70s, sweep the comic books off your coffee table – Matthew Moyer thinks you should make room for New York Dolls: The Photographs of Bob Gruen.
Bon Iver
For Emma, Forever Ago (JagJaguar). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Punk 365
Matthew Moyer is glad that Holly George-Warren and the other compilers of this coffeetable-riffic collection of punk photos fetishize image as much as he does.
Patti Smith
Trampin’ (Columbia Records). Review by Al Pergande.
Flesh Eaters
No Questions Asked (Atavistic). Review by Terry Eagan.
Chris Stamey
Travels in the South (Yep Roc). Review by Sean Slone.
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