Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Parents are a crafty bunch. For the first five or ten years of your life, culturally, they own your ass. As soon as you’re done with your sing-a-long cassettes, and Sesame Street has been brought to you by every letter in the alphabet (and by the number 3), it begins. Before you know it you’re […]
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
I spent a lot of time in December working with The Great White Gypsy, trying to get put together an awesome Best of The Aughts list for the film section. And in doing so, I totally forgot to put together a list of the best records I discovered in 2009. So I’m making up for it now.
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
by The Great White Gypsy 1. M. Night Shayamalan The Sixth Sense was freaking awesome, with an eerie atmosphere, and one of the best plot twists up to that point. Everything M. Night has done since then has sucked balls. Unbreakable was the worst superhero film ever (“They call me Mr. Glass.” Are you fucking […]
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
1. The Joker The mysteries of Joker’s origins can best be summed up in his own words, “Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another…if I’m going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!” This guy is so fucking insane, it borders on genius. But the best thing about The Joker […]
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
1. Batman Over the last few decades, Batman has transformed from a blue/gray sketch in a comic, to the campy Adam West, to a dark and brooding puppet of Frank Miller. He’s completely human. Growing up, you believed you could be Batman. You didn’t have to get bitten by a radioactive spider or be born […]
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
by The Great White Gypsy We all take dates to movies, and we have since we were 13, when the skating rink just wasn’t cutting it, and no one would sell us whiskey. Movies are a great way to have an experience together, without the pressure of holding a conversation with someone you just met. […]
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