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This week's good goes to Have Gun, Will Travel's CD release party at Ybor City's Crowbar on Friday night. Having witnessed a mixed record of attendance at the place, I was pleasantly surprised by an impressive turnout, and to see a lot of folks I haven't communed with in a while. The band rocked and the liquor flowed a bit too freely, two factors which always make for the kind of memorable evening you only sort of remember.
This week's bad goes to the DVD release of Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem. Just call me a sucker because I keep hoping for a return to the Alien franchise's fine form of the Ridley Scott and James Cameron classics. The second installment of this offshoot story wasn't as anonymous as Paul W.S. "Video Game Graphics, Shitty Techno Score" Anderson's '04 launch, but it was too dark in color, too dumb in content and generally disappointing nonetheless. Like I said, blame me for expecting more.
This week's ugly goes to the weakest cold opening and "Weekend Update" segments since SNL came back from the writers' strike. Hopefully it's just a bump in the road and the show will remain on a roll; the new stuff is the funniest in a long, long time for a program that's dragged since Phil Hartman's heartbreaking demise.
This week's bad goes to the DVD release of Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem. Just call me a sucker because I keep hoping for a return to the Alien franchise's fine form of the Ridley Scott and James Cameron classics. The second installment of this offshoot story wasn't as anonymous as Paul W.S. "Video Game Graphics, Shitty Techno Score" Anderson's '04 launch, but it was too dark in color, too dumb in content and generally disappointing nonetheless. Like I said, blame me for expecting more.
This week's ugly goes to the weakest cold opening and "Weekend Update" segments since SNL came back from the writers' strike. Hopefully it's just a bump in the road and the show will remain on a roll; the new stuff is the funniest in a long, long time for a program that's dragged since Phil Hartman's heartbreaking demise.
If you've never been exposed to Firewater, the sardonic cabaret of the damned founded by ex-Cop Shoot Cop principal Tod A toward the end of the '90s, then you've done your musical snobbery a grave disservice. The band's second genre-ignorant full-length The Ponzi Scheme is one of the best records of the last decade, and in truth, while the group faded into obscurity after its leader embarked upon an extended walkabout of the Near East three years ago, they never made a bad record.
And apparently, they're not done yet. Unsatisfied with simply influencing currently hip acts like Gogol Bordello, Tod A is back in America, signed to Bloodshot Records, and working on a new album for release next April. So maybe there's hope for your poor, poor ears yet.
And apparently, they're not done yet. Unsatisfied with simply influencing currently hip acts like Gogol Bordello, Tod A is back in America, signed to Bloodshot Records, and working on a new album for release next April. So maybe there's hope for your poor, poor ears yet.
