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December 6 – Judd Apatow gets a slow show

December 6 – Judd Apatow gets a slow show

You have to deal with people who don’t know what they’re talking about talk about how your films should be shorter. These suits and wannabe suits look at data and point at graphs and say that some arbitrary number is

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October 2 – Sting gets a self-imposed music appreciation tax

October 2 – Sting gets a self-imposed music appreciation tax

There’s a golden age for everything, and an inevitable bubble burst that follows. Get in at the right time, and out at the righter time, and you’re laughing. For musicians, it was 1991-2003¹, boom to bust. $20 CDs were being

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September 28 – Annie Clark gets overexposed

September 28 – Annie Clark gets overexposed

You don’t become a musician for the money. You become a musician because your love of music collides with practice, taste, hard work, expertise, originality, community. Learning how to play instruments, conspiring with your friends, capturing euphoria in the sound,

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April 27 – Ace Frehley gets a straightforward review of Rand Acce Memo

April 27 – Ace Frehley gets a straightforward review of Rand Acce Memo

Are you not conjointly enervated with the superfluous linguistical verbiage adopted by the critical bourgeois to substantiate their superincumbent intellect? Well I say let’s get back to basics. Album reviews in words with four letters or less. I can talk

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March 17 – Rob Lowe gets my filmic concerns with slightly relevant #as#tags

March 17 – Rob Lowe gets my filmic concerns with slightly relevant #as#tags

In the course of my movie watching, I often catch myself falling for the pitfalls of misattribution. Other times I discover continuity holes, missed opportunities or potential connections. These are their stories. • For the entirety of Room, I thought

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March 10 – Olivia Wilde gets my favourite movie of in time

March 10 – Olivia Wilde gets my favourite movie of in time

Now I’m a bit of a filmophile. Oh, how I philes those films, yes sir. More than video games, history, or even sports. Altman surpasses Megaman in most every way. Kurosawa topples Hirohito. Spielberg over Roethlisberg. I analyze their works

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March 6 – D. L. Hughley gets a pizza rating system for a city he doesn’t live in

March 6 – D. L. Hughley gets a pizza rating system for a city he doesn’t live in

In certain cities, the young rise up, fight back, and inspire the previous generation to do better until it’s all over. In my city there are nine categories of pizza places, divided into thirds by the scales of culinary arts

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