The chain of related albums picks up again after an interval for Van, as Jackie Leven has played with David Thomas of Pere Ubu as Ubudoll. I once saw them play together, at the Borderline in 2004, and was impressed that Jackie Leven had miked up the floor by his foot — his boot was the only pe...

Frank Henenlotter and John Zacherle on the set of Frankenhooker. For lovers of sleazy cult cinema, writer-director Frank Henenlotter is a god... and not merely for the six whacked out films he's made in the past three decades. I can say without hesitation that there's a ton of movies that I never wo...

COME, MUSE, AND LET US SING OF RATS!: Movie reviews. Actually, only two of these movies involve rats. But two is enough, don't you think? The Rats : The Hulu description promises killer rats at Christmas! That would've been awesome. In fact, the Christmas element is virtually absent. I have no idea ...

College back in the very early 90s was a very long time ago, technologically speaking. We had one TV in the lounge of my freshman dorm and the VHF knob had fallen off, so we had to tune it with a fork. The multimedia experience in my room was a radio with headphones that played AM and FM! There was ...

In early 1998, there were two attempts to satirize Martha Stewart (pre-insider trading scandal) in sitcom format. The first, and better of the two, was "Style & Substance" with Jean Smart ("Designing Women," "Samantha Who?"); the second was the Judith Light ("Who's the Boss," "Ugly Betty") vehic...

Ah, a third appearance for this album (see 1, 2 from earlier) — I wasn't expecting that, somehow. The exact number is a little arbitrary to be honest. Checking my shelves, I see there are four copies there (a mixture of the US and UK releases). Lucy has one in her collection, too. Then there's...

Det måste vara frustrerande. Att vara verksam i detta nu när det man gör så tydligt andas en helt annan tidsålder, speciellt när det till höger och vänster dementeras att ett sådant faktum skulle vara dagens sanning. Ungefär som om Nicke Andersson skulle hävda att KISS aldrig varit några...

  It seems like only yesterday we were reading about Bale going bananas on some poor underling bastard (it was), but in the fast-paced society, this audio footage has already been processed and cranked out as something else: Bale Out, the remix.   To me, it sounds like perfectly passable i...

For decades, Lily Tomlin has been performing her original character Edith Ann, an obnoxious little girl with a penchant for telling tall tales and ratting out her quirky family. In the '90s, there were three attempts to give Edith Ann her own weekly animated show. Unfortunately, however, none of the...

The other day I learnt from my brother that the graphic design company The Designers Republic went out of business earlier this month. My interest in graphic design is not particularly heavy. But the interest I do have in it has all stemmed from my exposure to the work of The Designers Republic. The...