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Monday August 06, 2007 - 10:24 AM
- Category:
- Event
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Promoter:
- Ticketmaster
- Date:
- Sunday, August 5, 2007
- Average:
-
17 reviews
I made a point of not watching any previous sets from this tour, so I wouldn't know what to expect, and it paid off.
Great light show, music being what you would expect (all the heavy hitters from their three albums, layered and mashed up over each other), and the encore was great.
I wasn't blown away, but I wasn't expecting to be... so I left Arrow Hall smiling and sweaty.
Now if we just could have done something about all the hipster douchebags with mullets doing The Robot, thinking they're being all ironic, then the night would have been perfect.
Saturday October 14, 2006 - 1:38 AM
- Category:
- Movie
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Director:
- James Merendino
- Year:
- 2006
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Genre:
- Cult
- Average:
-
134 reviews
Not absolutely horrible, but in no way defines the subculture, as it tries so hard to do. It's as if some marketing team tried to describe what punk is to some socially-inept grade 6er.
Aside from it's miserably-failed lofty ambitions, there's little nuggets of chuckles here and there. Yes, Lillard is annoying, that's a given... the high point of his career was Hackers, and he was a big stinky piece of shit in that movie. His whiny cackle voice grates like no other... but anyyyywayyyy....
There's some small things that save it from a complete bomb, which are mostly the scenes with the peripheral characters. The scene where the Eastern Europian drug dealer is showing the guys his house and all his toys was hilarious. The scene where the kid with the mitts getting all messed on a full sheet of blotter that seeped in through his wet pants... haw. I liked the botanist thug-nerd, they didn't flesh him out enough.
So basically, everything that didn't have to do with the "punk" parts of the movie was watchable. All the "punk" parts were embarassing to watch, and even though I've never been close to that subculture, I can see what a lame-ass set up it is.
Oh, and the final give-in-and-play-the-Game ending? WEEEEAAAAKKKK. Way to completely negate the last 90 minutes, and totally lose any shred of creative credibility that may have been left.
In fact, thinking about how the rug was pulled out from under me during the last two minutes of the movie has gotten me angry enough that I'm gonna drop the rating down a star, down to a 1. The lowest possible rating.
THIS MOVIE IS FOR KIDS AGED 12-14 WHO BUY ALL THEIR CLOTHES AT WEST49 AND THINK BLINK-182 IS 'PUNK MUSIC'.
Friday October 13, 2006 - 10:22 PM
- Category:
- Movie
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Director:
- Richard Linklater
- Year:
- 2001
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Genre:
- Animation
- Average:
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39 reviews
Great movie. Most striking at first glance is the rotoscoping. It was all shot on digital, then painstakingly painted over, frame by frame, to produce a dreamy, cartoony-yet-real animation.
Mostly talking heads talking about heady subjects: existentialism, quantum physics and how it relates to Free Will, transhumanism and the exponential growth of technological/civilizational development, Spinoza's concept of God-in-Nature and how it relates to Boudin's filmmaking, Absurdism, the collective unconscious, lucid dreaming, Philip K. Dick and the concept of Gnosticism, Alex Jones being aggressively optimistic, etc etc etc...
There's barely a loose narrative to this movie; you have been warned. Watch this movie if you like to think. If you like to be led by hand through the Hollywood Garden of Intro-Conflict-Tradegy-Climax-Redemption, then pass Waking Life by.
This movie is to existential nausea as a canteen full of water is to a man dying of thirst. Man, it's been a while - I'm going to pop this in right now.
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