- If you have any interest in the Beatles whatsoever, I really can not over-recommend Pseu Braun and Gaylord Fields' recent special on WFMU, which highlights some of the more unfortunate solo Beatles' filler tracks. They also provide some of the most astute and interesting analysis of the Beatles as people and exactly what went wrong with their ( Read more... )

Today I went into Philadelphia for the first time since I've been back on the east coast. I like Philadelphia, but I think I have written it off a bit, much as I have written off trash gay bars, New Brunswick and a host of other things that remind me of a specific time and specific phase in my life which I do not wish to revisit. However, as I rode ( Read more... )

Contrary to what many would assume, I happen to believe that Tim Burton directing an adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a terrible idea and I do not expect to enjoy it in the slighest. Here are the reasons ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I start what promises to be an illustrious and hopefully short lived career as a grocery checker. As far as lackluster retail jobs go, I think it will beat another Christmas serving lattes to rich people, but there is something so particularly bleak and trapped-in-this-shit-town about being a grocery checker. Also, working anywhere in my ( Read more... )

I am over The Office.

( Here is why... )

So, there's going to be a gay debate now, apparently. It's just delightful that the Democratic candidates are choosing to lie and pander to us directly this year! On LOGO, no less! Because I'm profoundly cynical, I can't imagine a single thing anyone of them could say that would convince me of their sincerity and commitment to any issues related or ( Read more... )

I go to the same movie theatre nearly every week. It's a normal megaplex affair, which amazingly huge screens and stadium seating and many wonders. The problem is that's a Regal Cinema, and as such, before the movie it features the biggest bane of my theatre-going existance, the Regal Cinema's First Look ( Read more... )

I bought A.M. Homes' last book This Book Will Save Your Life today from the clearance section of a downtown book establishment. I was very disconcerted to read the inside flap when I got back home, which describes the book as being "uplifting". Gross. However, there is advanced praise on the back from John Waters, wherein he says "If Oprah went ( Read more... )

So, I've been reading Best American Comics 2006 during my breaks at work, and I am not particularly enjoying the experience. I know this might come as a heart attack-inducing shock to you, but this volume contains no superheros, nothing from the Big Two, and lots of navel-gazing. Now, I'm out of the loop when it comes the Big Two's offerings in the ( Read more... )