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Kanye West - 808’s and Heartbreak
In September 2007, Kanye West made a major breakthrough: After conquering charts and capturing hearts with two huge, deeply flawed near-masterpieces, he delivered his first perfect album. Graduation, a daring synthesis of French house-skewed disco and the familiar feel-good hypersoul dude made his name on, was as relentlessly pleasurable as West’s previous records while simultaneously [...]
Cock Bloc’ed: The “Intimacy” Fiasco, Part 1
So I was all set to write up a review for the new Bloc Party album, “Intimacy,” which was released online a month ago, with a physical release date set for October 28th. I held off on purchasing the record through Bloc Party’s website for ten dollars (with an option to spend twenty and receive [...]
Music Review: Santa - My Bones
Disclaimer: I’ve seen Santa live twice, and each night counted among those I consider the best of my life. I’m also friends on Facebook with the lead singer. I’m predisposed to like their new EP, My Bones, because a) the personal connotations I associate with their music are tied to a period of my life [...]
Funny Games
What I found most striking about this trailer from German filmmaker Michael Haneke’s 1997 film Funny Games was not that I recognized the shots that he would re-create in his shot-for-shot remake a decade later: utilizing the same font and punk-rock theme song; the same image of a family with pleasant faces enjoying a long [...]
Movie Review - Funny Games
Usually I try to avoid reading reviews of movies that I haven’t seen, as critics tend to give away too much plot and generally instill expectations in me that mess with my perceptions of a film while I’m watching it for the first time. I exercised even greater caution than usual with Michael Haneke’s new [...]
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