MISTER LONELY (2007, directed by Harmony Korine, 112 minutes, U.S.)SUPER HIGH ME (2007, directed by Michael Blieden, 89 minutes. U.S.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITICThe original plan was to pop in on a late Sunday night screening of Harmony Korine’s new film Mr. Lonely and do a quick overnight review. If only Korine’s latest oddball masterpiece allowed me to keep my senses. Nearly a decade since his last film, 1999’s disappointing Julien Donkey-Boy, Korine has returned, wielding his mix of naive tone poetry, stunning-yet-bizarro visual non-sequiturs and cruel flashes of raw sadism with a more assured hand than ever. While […]
NEWS CLUES: Like A Swinging Nightstick Of Truth
THE BEATDOWN : Cops Change Their Story On Shooting Suspect Ass-Kicking AS THREE young men beaten and kicked by police in a car-stop arrest captured on videotape face a court hearing today, police officials have changed their account of the shooting they say led to the trio’s arrest. The day after Fox News showed as many as 15 officers kicking and punching the men after they were pulled from their car, Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said narcotics officers on surveillance saw the three suspects and a fourth man emerge from their car and walk toward 4th and Annsbury streets, […]
JON STEWART: Why Whitey Can’t Vote 2
PREVIOUSLY: Seriously, West Virginny coal-crackers voting for a Republican is like the turkeys voting for Thanksgiving. Letting these people vote is like putting a loaded shotgun in the baby’s crib and hoping for the best. I don’t know about you, but I am against putting a loaded shotgun in the baby’s crib and hoping for the best. RELATED: A Whiter Shade Of Trash Obama Faces Racism in West Virginia – The best video clips are here PREVIOUSLY: I am saying this for the good of the country and, in fact, for the good of white people. Because I fear for […]
Homeland Security Forcibly Injects Deportees With Anti-Psychotic Drugs Before Deportation Flights
WASHINGTON POST: The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who have been drugged. The government’s forced use of antipsychotic drugs, in people who have no history of mental illness, includes dozens of cases in which the “pre-flight cocktail,” as a document calls it, had such a potent effect that federal guards needed a wheelchair to move the slumped deportee onto an airplane. “Unsteady gait. Fell onto tarmac,” […]
THE EARLY WORD: People Have Their Uses
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HEAR YE: Mud Crutch
Now playing on Phawker Radio! Why? Because we love you, man! NEW YORK TIMES: Thirty-two years after the band broke up, Tom Petty has reassembled Mudcrutch, the group he started in his native Gainesville, Fla., and moved to Los Angeles, seeking stardom. Mudcrutch didn’t hit it big back in the 1970s, but out of the band’s ashes Mr. Petty created the Heartbreakers, who have generated a staggering stream of hits for three decades. Most of the album’s 14 songs (including covers of the trucker classic “Six Days on the Road” and the Byrds’ “Lover of the Bayou”) were done in […]
STEPHEN COLBERT: Loves You Back
[Hats off to GPTMC for the ‘get’] BILL O’REILLY: F*ck It (Dance Re-Mix) WARNING: F-bomb Alert Level Four. [Hat tip to DANTZERDAZE ARE HERE AGAIN] PREVIOUSLY: Bill O’Reilly Freaking The Fuck Out
KILLADELPHIA: 1 Dead Since U Went To Bed
INQUIRER: Police this morning identified a 29-year-old man who was shot to death in Southwest Philadelphia yesterday. Sokoni Meachum was found lying on the sidewalk with several gunshot wounds to the chest in the 2500 block of South 66th Street shortly before 6 p.m., police said. Meachum, of the 2500 block of South Shields Street, was transported to the Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania and pronounced dead at 6:23 p.m. No arrests were reported.
JOHN EDWARDS: ‘Yes We Can’
NEW YORK TIMES: GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — John Edwards, the former senator from North Carolina who bowed out of the presidential race in January, is expected to endorse Senator Barack Obama at a rally being held here tonight. Officials announced the news shortly after Mr. Obama landed here late this afternoon. The campaign has timed the announcement to coincide with the start of the major evening newscasts, which would have otherwise focused on Senator Hillary Clinton’s landslide victory in West Virginia, which raised new questions about Mr. Obama’s strength with white working class voters. Mr. Obama’s campaign is hoping it […]
NPR 4 THE DEF: Giving Public Radio Edge Since 2006
FRESH AIR Suze Rotolo — she was the woman walking beside Bob Dylan on the album cover for The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan — was Bob Dylan’s girlfriend in the early 1960s. She’s an artist, and a teacher at the Parsons School of Design in New York. And she’s written about her relationship with Dylan in a memoir, A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties. Reviewing the book for Salon, Stephanie Zacharek writes, “This is an honest book about a great love affair, set against the folk-music revival of the early 1960s, but its sense of time […]
All This Happened While You Were On The Internet
THE LIFE DRAMATIC: Owen Wilson shooting Marley & Me, Broad & Walnut, 1:45 PM * RELATED: Actress Kate Hudson has denied rumours she is engaged to Owen Wilson. Hudson, 29, was spotted sporting a diamond ring on her wedding finger on Thursday, fuelling speculation the on-off couple is taking their relationship to the next level. The pair met on the set of 2006 movie ‘You, Me & Dupree’ and were romantically linked later that year after Hudson split from her husband of six years, rocker Chris Robinson. The couple parted ways in June 2007, just two months before Wilson’s alleged […]