Urban Honking

Because I shall not be racing to watch any more American Horror Story, in spite of how obviously awesome it is, I give you this recap of some additional episodes I have not seen, written by someone very funny, which Jessica emailed me THANK GOD. Things are really heating up over there in American Horror […]

ABC’s new rip-off of AMC’s brilliant “Mad Men” is called “Pan Am,” and focuses only on the hysterically-accurate period details that, in “Mad Men,” are but the window dressing upon narratives of astonishing depth that flay open American anxieties like a stinking fish. “Pan Am,” by contrast, has the period details and a lot of […]

A couple of months ago, I spent hours with Dee Dee Penny, leader of Dum Dum Girls, for a cover story for Self-Titled magazine. We walked around the NYU area forever like the loner nomads we both tend to be and discussed the events that fueled DDGs’ latest album Only in Dreams, which makes good […]

I’m really on a tear with these random movies of the 80’s and 90’s that I never saw when they were real. I was always under the impression that “Domestic Disturbance” was a film starring Ray Liotta that I snuck into (R rated!) in high school and found alarmingly sexy, but it turns out that […]

My friend Matt Kessler, fellow Almodovar obsessive, called and demanded we see The Skin I Live In this past weekend and I was initially hesitant because I had only read bad reviews and everyone saying oh, it’s so not him, it’s not campy with transwomen murdering people blah blah, it’s scary and serious. Matt was […]

In honor of Occupy Wall Street, and in honor of a really bad mood I was in yesterday, I went to the movie store and allowed myself to grab the first two movies that appealed to me, one of which was Wall Street, Oliver Stone’s 1987 magnum opus about money, fancy suspenders, and such-and-such. I […]

A Grumpy American Ex-Pat Boy in Paris to deliver me from my foolhardy penchant for this Smelly Old Italian Man.  Cerebral-scapes Divine, riddle my dreams and put plenty of cats in there, plz. -RB www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xyS8UvkzKE

Maybe it’s less intense, a casual visual poesy even, for someone who does not have kids, but I could not finish Tree of Life because it was a perfume commercial for death. It could of told the same story–shiny surfaces contrasting with the crags of Sean Penns face, the agony of the mom with the […]

It’s Autumn. It’s a time of change for trees. The growing season is coming to a close, though in walking around one can see some species are just now coming to fruit or seed. Leaves are beginning to turn and fall. It’s the end of wildfire season. Forests that have burned stand scorched and too […]

It’s Autumn. It’s a time of change for trees. The growing season is coming to a close, though in walking around one can see some species are just now coming to fruit or seed. Leaves are beginning to turn and fall. It’s the end of wildfire season. Forests that have burned stand scorched and too […]