Our hugumbus YEAR IN MUSIC Omnibus is about to drop, but while we’re finishing up polishing this turd, chew on this from our pal JOE WARMINSKY in WASHINGTON CITY PAPER: Don?t get me wrong?I fully embrace what the blogosphere does provide. It’s essentially a broad, asymmetric rebellion against the SoundScan regime and the stodgy business plans of the major record labels. Blogs offer what good fanzines used to offer: stylistic detours, obsessive detail, contrarian viewpoints, and a secondary economy that allows overlooked musicians to flourish, at least on a small scale. There isn?t much money in it, and it’s mostly […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
IGGY POP Live Manchester Apollo 1977. FRESH AIR: Moe Of The Stooges Still Worth A Million In Prizes, PLUS Andre 3000
IRAQ: Levittown Man Killed By Christmas IED
Moon had already completed his enlistment papers when he graduated from high school in 2003. In the days before his induction, he drew his family and friends together in an extended celebration, Nam said. His goal was to become an FBI agent, she said. He enlisted first because “he wanted to support his family financially. He wanted to support his country.” Posted first to South Korea, where he met members of his extended family, Moon served a tour in Iraq from August 2004 to September 2005. He won an Army Commendation Medal, an Army Achievement Medal and a Combat Infantryman’s […]
REWIND 2006: THE YEAR IN FILM
BEST PICTURE OF 2006: Because it held a cracked mirror up to the thing that is killing us all: ignorance and all its byproducts — fear, hate, superstition. Because fuddy-duddies may complain “Borat” is mean or crass or contrived, but the fact is nothing is made up, everything is true, sad to say, just exaggerated with industrial-strength absurdity for potent comedic effect. Because Sartre said ‘hell is other people’ and “Borat” is full of ‘other people.’ Because Borat played the MSM like a violin, with the wacky Khazhakstani becoming a constant ghost in the news machine for months before and […]
APOCALYPSE WOW: Why Do My Favorite Films Of 2006 Make Me Hate Myself And Want To Die?
BY DAN BUSKIRK, FILM CRITIC APOCALYPTO (2006, directed by Mel Gibson) CASINO ROYALE (2006, directed by Martin Campbell) DEATH OF LAZARESCU (2005, directed by Christi Puiu, Romania) DELIVER US FROM EVIL (2006, directed by Amy Berg) THE DEVIL & DANIEL JOHNSTON (2006, directed by Jeff Feuerzeig) I AM A SEX ADDICT (2006, directed by Caveh Zahedi) THE KING (2006, directed by James Marsh) LITTLE CHILDREN (2006, directed by Todd Field) MUTUAL APPRECIATION (2006, directed by Andrew Bujalski) WASSUP ROCKERS (2006, directed by Larry Clark) Is not gloom in the very air we breathe, or am I seeing the world through […]
Cover Wars: Whose Artfag Kung-Fu Is Stronger?
Last week CP struck a decisive blow against the tyranny of PW’s seemingly unbreakable Cover Wars winning streak. But this week the Empire has struck back. Hard. So jump down, turn around and pick a bail of cotton, City Paper, because PW is the master now. What’s that you say? ‘Only a master of evil, Darth’? Perhaps, Rabbit. Perhaps. Still, all this is good news for people who STILL read alt-weeklies. Hands down the most singularly disturbing alt-weekly cover of the year, PW’s music issue rocks the dumbly-named Man, Man on the cover, dubbing them Band Of The Year and […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
ON FRESH AIR TODAY: Thom Yorke is the lead singer and songwriter of the band Radiohead which has released six critically acclaimed records and explored the boundaries between rock and electronic music. Spin,magazine named Radiohead’s OK Computer the number one album of the past twenty years. Thom Yorke’s new solo CD The Eraser is his first release without the band. This interview originally aired on Jul. 12, 2006. ALSO: Singer and songwriter Stuart Murdoch is the front man of the indie pop band from Scotland, Belle & Sebastian. The seven-member band includes a guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, violinist, cellist, drummer and […]
Edwards Declares Candidacy Smiling Knee-Deep In Katrina Muck, AKA The Dark Goo Of Compassionate Conservatism’s Lies, Says ‘Heckuva Job’ Still Half-Assed
Seeking to take advantage of the slow news days after Christmas Mr Edwards launched his campaign in the backyard of a house damaged by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans last year. Wearing jeans and an open-necked shirt, Mr Edwards, 53, worked with local youngsters to repair the house, his labour interspersed with interviews on America’s breakfast news programmes. “I’m here in New Orleans… to announce that I’m a candidate for the presidency of the United States in the election in 2008,” he said. “To show what?s possible when we as Americans, instead of staying home and complaining about somebody else […]
GUNCRAZY: Two Teens & Amputee Critically Wounded In West Philly Trifecta After Chinese Takeout Spat
(AP) PHILADELPHIA Three people were injured, including two teens, after gunfire erupted in West Philadelphia Wednesday evening. Police said two teens and a 58-year-old [NOT pictured, right] were shot near the intersection of 57th and Walnut just before 7 p.m. ?We had a group of males in the 100 block of S. 57th Street firing a gun,? said Lieutenant John Walker of the Philadelphia Police. Officials believe the three victims were just innocent bystanders in an act of senseless violence. One 14-year-old was shot in the back and was taken to the Children?s Hospital of Philadelphia in critical condition. Authorities […]
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: Ford Actually Died In 1996
[googlevideo]-89770458144460734[/googlevideo] WASHINGTON POST: Offers a beyond-the-grave pardon or ‘Do Over’ to 43.
BREAKING: Sovereign Bank Prez Says ‘Smell Ya Later,’ Exercises ‘Hissy Fit’ Clause Of Contract After Not Getting CEO Chair, Invokes Hobo Prayer On Way Out Door, ‘I Quit, Now Pay Me Millions!’
Sovereign will pay [Alan H.] Fishman a $4.56 million lump-sum cash payment, as well as other severance compensation valued at $2.58 million. Fishman’s other severance compensation includes an annual lifetime retirement benefit of $532,000, a pro rata portion of his annual bonus of about $758,000, and accelerated vesting of his equity awards valued at $1.29 million. Fishman, who was also chairman and chief executive of Sovereign Bank’s New York division, will also receive three years’ health coverage after he resigns, the company said. MARKET WATCH: OK, A Million-Plus Annually For Life? No Problem! More Than Three Year’s Health Coverage? What […]