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I am a frugal reviewer and I would never endorse a $15 CD with less than four really good songs. The Strokes' Is This It? has seven, and after one listen I skateboarded home humming the guitar hooks ...
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Maybe it's the obsessive-compulsive disorder in me, but I am a sucker for the heist film. The idea of a perfect plan gets me every time - the way it is conceived and executed, the attention to detail,...
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Movie studios have the habit of trying to make good things better. They try to redo good stories and interesting characters for a population with an ever-shrinking attention span.
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Love and Theft, Bob Dylan's 43rd album is Forest Gump without the upbeat, guileless hero.
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"This [list] sends a message about the obstacles that exist in expressing a certain kind of viewpoint."
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It’s so rare to find a good horror novel these days. Most of the pulp junk on the shelves isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Every time a new King or Straub book hits the shelves...
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The Faint's use of analog synthesizers and live instrumentation is widely touted, but all I hear is Depeche Mode.
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Leaping from a self-released LP the group has been snapped up by Dreamworks, sent off into the Ozzfest maelstrom and set up with Orgy and Slipknot producer Jay Baumgardner.
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While Hades certainly has little of the meat market odor that permeates through many of the State Street clubs, it is clear that Hades focuses on providing a safe haven for Santa Barbara's queer commu...
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Once upon a time in a bracken swamp there lived an ogre who just wanted to be left alone. Then along came Madison Avenue, which wanted to put him into a kid's meal with a soda and a side of fries.
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Clocking in at a whopping 183 minutes, the Jerry Bruckheimer produced, Michael Bay directed "Pearl Harbor" is quite a spectacle.
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Recently, as graduation looms in my very near future, my three-year stint as Artsweek editor came to a sweet end.
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"Life's ill / Sometimes life might kill." These are the first words, as well as the overall sentiment of Vast Aire and Vordul's first album, The Cold Vein.
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Chronically single
“Casual” by Chappell Roan
“Atmosphere” by FISHER
The entire shared playlist with their ex
“Je te laisserai des mots” by Patrick Watson
“If Only” by The Marías
Their ex’s old voice memos
White noise
“ceilings” by Lizzy McAlpine
“Marvins Room” by Drake
“KLOusFRENS” by Bad Bunny
“Somebody Else” by The 1975
