Dude, what’s your concern? You want to be part of the dominant culture? You’re a rich, white, male, Christian in America. Lucky you. That, plus being a celebrity with a TV show, makes you one of the most powerful forces on the planet.
But you’re feeling besieged. Buffeted by outside forces. [...]
A note to Bill O’Reilly, regarding his coverage of “The War on Christmas”
“The weather outside is frightful…”
Here are a couple of songs related to the winter weather, because that’s also part of the Christmas music picture. Save these for when you’re stuck inside during the next blizzard.
Domotic is the work of Stéphane Laporte, a musician and sound-designer from La Ciotat, France. The song “Smith, Klaus & White” [...]
A Very Brian Christmas
Brian Wilson has his many devotees. I’m guessing Sufjan Stevens and the boys in NRBQ are among them.
There was a period in the late Sixties (before he cracked up) when Wilson really was a genius. His instrumentation and arrangements evoked classical American music forms, which means more than he used harmonicas and banjos. [...]
McG meets Zhang Yimou
Go read this. The trailer link doesn’t work, so watch it here instead.
Holly Valance is an Australian TV star/pop singer/pinup girl. Think of a young woman who looks like Hilary Duff, but acts like Christina Aguilera.
DOA: Dead or Alive opens in late August of 2006, and also stars the fabulous Jaime Pressly. [...]
Xmas SXSW
We’ll start things off with a little Christmas from the Southwest: The Reverend Horton Heat, out of Dallas, and Giant Sand, out of Tucson.
The Rev is both the man and the band: Jim Heath on guitar and vocals; Jimbo Wallace on upright bass; Scott Churilla on drums. They’re probably the leading psychobilly band, having [...]
“It’s beginning to look a lot like…”
Looking back at my post from Wednesday, it seems a little over the top. Cocky — arrogant, even. Hell, who am I kidding? Even as I wrote it, it felt a little much, but let’s chalk it up to a mix of adrenalin and testosterone.
I am a fierce devotee of Christmas music, [...]
The challenge is issued.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day. Or today, if you’re avoiding your family by sneaking onto the computer. Or yesterday, if you didn’t.
For my international readers, this is an American holiday, where we give thanks for our blessings and pay tribute to the Native Americans (i.e., the Indians) who helped out the Pilgrims. Indians, [...]
“And did those paws in ancient times…”
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe opens on December 9. You may have read some news stories (like this one or this one) that Disney has been aggressively marketing the movie to Christians, with a campaign modeled on the one used by The Passion of the Christ. At [...]
Yours, mine, whose?
Sometimes you see these remakes and you just can’t imagine what was going through someone’s mind. You remake a flawed movie with an interesting idea in order to improve it. You remake a hit to hopefully tap into some of that success. You remake a cult movie to bring it to a [...]
Live from the Sunset Strip…
Have you heard about Aaron Sorkin’s new project Studio 7? It’s clearly a disguised behind-the-scenes look at Saturday Night Live or a reasonable facsimile thereof. Although Sorkin can be uneven, this actually sounds like it might be interesting. At the very least, I don’t think we’ve seen this show on TV before.
Get [...]