Shining violence in the city: AFTER DARK, featuring Italians Do It Better and Johnny Jewel
I mentioned After Dark in my music retrospective; now it’s time for you to learn more.…
Ruck Cohlchez
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What’s Up, Doc? The Cartoonish Mayhem of SHOOT ‘EM UP
As part of our holiday movie exchange, I was gifted Shoot ‘Em Up by Drunk Napoleon. it comes…
The Best TV of 2019, Part 3
We’re in the home stretch! Let’s talk the best shows of 2019. (Part 1) (Part…
The Best TV of 2019, Part 2
Part 1 is here. Let’s go onward with part two, which will take us through…
The Best TV of 2019, Part 1
Once again, I tried to wait as late as I could to make this list…
Little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously: Bob Dylan, BLONDE ON BLONDE
To live outside the law, you must be honest. -Epigraph to Norm Macdonald’s Based on a…
We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn’t dead then: The absurd influence of POLICE SQUAD!
Police Squad! has a notorious history that’s been told many times over by now, a…
Now she’s gone, and I’m back on the beat: Squeeze, SINGLES 45s AND UNDER
This one is short– greatest hits albums don’t lend themselves to deep thematic analysis. I…
I liked JOKER a hell of a lot more than I expected to
Spoilers for Joker, obviously. Also, a very minor, relatively vague spoiler for The Shield. After all the…
Year of the Month: I want to testify: Big Star, RADIO CITY
Brief intro to Big Star: this Memphis-based power-pop quartet was led by Alex Chilton, trading…