Always a year or two behind Verow

The "indie" "film" world seems to be perpetually a year and a half behind Todd Verow. Anonymous was out last year and now we have this thing coming out

Bad Film Critics...

Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com > she's such a bad writer. how do these people get jobs?


Jean Tang of Salon.com > she was one of the wing-dings that defended the original Star Wars as character driven, yeah like the game of chess is character driven, you moron. read my letter/spanking to Salon here

Manohla Dargis of NY Times (can you believe it?) > still remember her from the Frisk wrap party where she all but mentally fellated Greg Araki. Aren't critics supposed to have some sort of subjective detachment?


more as I lift other rocks...

Whitney Houston: Mariner

"Take me out on a yacht blow up boat."

New Depeche Mode "Precious" leaks to the net

PRECIOUS

Summer 2005: Mix 2, part 1

"Poppy Gene Tierney" Etienne Daho
"Sun" D.H.T. & Edmee
"Love is a Number" White Rose Movement
"Move in my Direction" Bananarama
"Damage" Tiefschwarz & Tracey Thorn
"No Me Digas Nada" Malena

Dahomania

For some reason I have become obsessed with Etienne Daho. In particular, this weekend a Cape Cod, I jogged to my ipod repeating "Poppy Gene Tierney" about 7 times. I have Amazon delivering POP SATORI to me today...

"Militant starlet waif terrorists"

Usually Gawker is pretty boring, but this turn of a phrase was pretty great. Portman IS made of wood in front of a blue screen, but she is cute and charismatic.

Frisk en Francais

Frisk receives its dvd release in France... cover photo by yours truly

Sample the Supernature

Goldfrapp have clips of their entire new cd, Supernature, available on their website. Scour the web for the cut track, Beautiful, cuz it is truly excellent...