June 2012
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I've always wanted to be that blog where people...
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May 2012
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Tiempo Libre
Here’s a cover story I did on Cuban timba band Tiempo Libre for VCReporter, an alt weekly. It’s not my style of music, but they have a neat back story, they did an album of Bach-as-Cuban-dance, and they’re pretty technically talented.
http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/?id=9782
April 2012
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Mount Eerie, “Lone Bell,” from the upcoming album Clear Moon. So much musical goodness like I haven’t heard since, like, the last Mount Eerie album.
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/listen-mount-eerie-lone-bell
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David Denby on Girls →
“I’m all for diversity of experience in shows and movies, but what makes Dunham’s experiences prominent and significant isn’t their glosslessness or nuance or rawness, it’s her self-consciousness about how to give them form—the recognition that her subject is the part of her life that involves the making of the show. She’s not investigating her class or group, nor is she revealing herself...
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Girls
Why is this show Girls and its creator Lena Dunham “controversial”? I’ve read a dozen articles analyzing it, and tons of comments criticizing it, before it was even released. I guess women who want to star in, direct, AND write a film should stick to cam shows and leaked homemade porn so they don’t piss people off by talking and thinking too much.
See: Miranda July....
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March 2012
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Doggiewoggiez! Poochiewoochiez!
Doggiewoggiez! Poochiewoochiez!, the third film from VHS crate-diggers Everything is Terrible, is a recreation of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s trippy-ass The Holy Mountain made entirely of clips from dog movies 80s and 90s. It’s also fucking mind-blowing. I reviewed it at Tiny Mix Tapes.
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/film/doggiewoggiez-poochiewoochiez
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Starting April 1st, I am Editor of the Tiny Mix Tapes film section.
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Hipsters.
I reviewed a Russian musical called Hipsters. No, not those kind of hipsters. I mean, look at them. Although personally, I’d fucking love a wardrobe like that, and hair that could hold a pompadour.
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/film/hipsters
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February 2012
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The Oregonian.
I reviewed a nutso film called The Oregonian for Tiny Mix Tapes. It has Lindsay Pulsipher from True Blood in it, it’s weird as fuck, and it was self-released. You can download it on iTunes.
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/film/oregonian
January 2012
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WILLIAM NEVER MARRIED
OK, listen: this film, William Never Married, was one of the best things that happened in 2011, and now you can watch it online for free. Free fucking art that was never even released in the theater. Stop reading Tumblr, make yourself a stiff drink, and watch something gritty, uncomfortable, and beautiful.
nobudge:
Directed by CHRISTIAN PALMER
“One of the Best Films of 2011. Christian Palmer...
Pazz and Blah →
So, I was one of 700 critics (not very selective, huh?) polled for the Village Voice’s 2011 music poll, Pazz and Jop. The results are better than last year, I guess, but they’re still pretty dumb and super boring. And dumb. I mean, Watch the Throne is number 3. I’m kind of embarrassed my vote (which you can find here: http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/critics/2011/) helped...
