Archive for February, 2006



Us Not Human… Us Not Creature… Us Bizarbies.

There’s a scene in High Fidelity when Rob (John Cusack), the day after having emotional get-back-together sex with his girfriend Laura (Iben Hjejle), storms out of the Championship Vinyl stockroom and onto the salesfloor. He is completely caught off guard by the music playing over the store’s loudspeakers. It is shockingly [...]

Bluths’ Last Stand

Tonight is your last chance to enjoy Arrested Development on network TV. Fox is airing the last four episodes back-to-back in a 2-hour block opposite the opening ceremony of the Olympics. I’ll miss you, you misunderstood sitcom wizard. (tear, tear; sob, sob)
Check your local listings.

Songbird

I have a love-hate relationship with iTunes. It really is the most effective, robust music player out there, but I hate that it’s so ubiquitous. Everybody uses it. Everybody’s got an iPod. Well I have much more midwestern stubborness than Apple could penetrate and I want something different.
It seems that my prayers have been (or are [...]

Get ‘Em While They’re Hot

I’ve been holding off on writing about Jenny Lewis simply because everyone else has been. I mean the Rilo Kiley frontwoman is the cutest, hottest, most adorable thing to hit indie rock since, well, I don’t know when. She’s the Indie It Girl.
All of this would seem like a load of crap if [...]

Love is…

Contrary to popular belief, Love is not just the two of us. Nor is it leaving the phone off the hook.
Love is, in fact, a drowsy retarded turtle.
It’s also a seasick hedgehog having undergrown his captain clothes and a hapless fireman whale with a history of depression and a broken blowhole.
At least according to [...]




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