Elliott Smith
June 2, 1998
Stockholm, Sweden
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2006, ANTI-
This is probably an excellent (albeit expensive if you opt for the 94-page Deluxe Edition) place for the Tom Waits curious to begin.

The best film to come out on DVD on December 26 was Neil Marshall’s gore-soaked claustrophobia fest, The Descent.

The Jackass guys aren’t worried about art, they’re worried about fart, shit, testicles, and buttholes. I almost laughed as much as I retched, and that is, I guess, an achievement of some kind.
Alejandro Escovedo
October 3, 2006
Santa Cruz, CA
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2006, 4ad/Ada
Scott Walker has been around forever, so I wondered why I hadn’t heard of him. Then I heard The Drift, and I understood.

2006, Columbia
There are well-respected actors who’ve made careers out of playing themselves in movies.

2006, Ba Da Bing
The comparison has been made before—but it makes sense, so sue me: Beirut frontman Zach Condon sounds a helluva lot like Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum.

2006, Sub Pop
People have been pillaging Brian Eno’s fecund 70’s period for decades now, with mixed results.

What makes a movie about failed dreams, homosexuality, suicide, death, and pre-teen beauty pageants so goddamn funny?

I know what I want for Christmas: this damn-near-perfect book adaptation.