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Review: Legend of Korra
The highly anticipated follow up to Avatar: The Last Airbender animated series officially debuts this Saturday, April 14, but the first episode is already available on demand through various service...
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Playlist Challenge: International Edition
Here are the rules: Five songs from five different artists/bands from five different countries, none of which are the U.S., Canada, any of the British Isles, or Australia. Here are mine: 1. “Fall Hard”...
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Movies That Speak to Me
The secret to gift giving is empathy. The perfect gift will feel like it was picked out with great care, as if telepathically (or empathically, I suppose) for the person who receives it. Every now...
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Playlist Challenge: Gone, But Not Forgotten Edition
The rules: name five songs that you love, but that you can’t recall hearing even once in the last three years. This is trickier than it seems because it requires dusting out the neural pathways in your...
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The Avengers Succeeds
Joss Whedon, the reigning alpha-geek of pop-culture storytellers has succeeded in a task that seemed nearly impossible: he’s created a superhero movie with seven different comic-book heroes that is...
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Playlist Challenge: By the Numbers Edition
This one is relatively easy. Name one song each from five different acts: solo, duo, trio, four-piece and five-piece. For bonus points, try to come up with songs (or at least performances), where all...
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Playlist Challenge: Rainy Day Edition
This one is also fairly easy. Five songs about rain. Go. 1. “Rain in the Summertime” – The Alarm. An underrated song from the 80s. I like the way this song builds. 2. “Sometimes (Lester Piggot)” –...
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Playlist Challenge: Trains Edition
This one is also fairly easy if you think about it: 5 train songs. Maybe not as easy as rain, but not hard either. A personal aside: this post was inspired by a marathon session of Mexican Train...
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Playlist Challenge: Whistling and Handclaps Edition
Pretty self-explanatory: five songs featuring whistling and/or handclaps. 1. “Young Folks” – Peter Bjorn and John (whistling) 2. “Annie Waits” – Ben Folds (handclaps) 3. “Home” – Edward Sharp and the...
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Movie Review: Looper
Rian Johnson’s Looper is a multi-layered action-sci-fi-drama that delivers strong performances and a compelling, if somewhat brutal, cinematic experience. Looper takes place in a dystopian near future....
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Concert Review: The National w/Tame Impala, Dallas 10/12/13
Every so often, you see a band live and everything snaps into focus. While a bad live performance can reveal a band’s flaws, a good live performance has the opposite effect: it can reveal aspects of...
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Lou Reed (1942 – 2013)
Much will be written about Lou Reed, the iconic rock musician, singer and songwriter who passed away yesterday. Rather than eulogize the man and his art, I’ll refer you to the New York Times‘...
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2013: A Great Year for Music
Seems just a few years ago there were a lot of too-serious discussions about whether rock/pop music is dead. This year, we had quite a bit of good new music available for anyone who cared to listen....
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