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Growing Old With the Rolling Stones

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 18:12:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - So it's time to admit that I've gotten old. I've been putting it off for the last couple of years, but I recently decided to go ahead and roll with it. I consider it the mental equivalent of driving for 10 miles with my turn signal on. I figure I have...

A Lovely Last Work

Fri, 29 Nov 2002 21:17:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - When John Lennon was killed, I was in shock for days. My mom was the one who called me to tell me. She knew what the Beatles meant to me, and I've always found it comforting that she was the one to break the bad news to me. A couple days later I was...

Best Bond Yet

Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:07:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - Maybe it's just the mood I was in when I went to see this (I was in a "good" mood) but I totally enjoyed it and I may even go so far as saying that this could be the best James Bond movie yet. Maybe even better than the Sean Connery versions of my...

Please Disturb Me

Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:15:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - I am big and tough and not much scares me anymore when I go see a movie. Too bad, because I love to be scared. I love having nightmares. Nightmares are free movies without the sticky theater floor. So I don't really like to go to scary movies because...

Incomplete Career Overview

Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:30:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - Ah, my youth! Pink Floyd...I remember them well.

I was the first on my block, so to speak, to succumb to the other-wordly sonic voyages of Pink Floyd. I was such a musical pioneer, believe me. This was before they hit paydirt with "Dark Side of the...

Froth on the Ocean

Sun, 9 Dec 2001 22:43:29 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - What made the original "Ocean's Eleven" so cool was that it was a Rat Pack movie, and you knew that the stars (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, jr., Peter Lawford. Angie Dickenson, et al) were buddies and hanging out together after hours in what...

Uplifting Melancholy

Sun, 4 Nov 2001 23:12:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - If you worshiped at the altar of the Beatles, you just had to love Badfinger during their 70's heyday. Discovered and nurtured by Beatles (especially Paul), they had some great hits and were one of the success stories of Apple Records. Their history was...

Love Your Monster

Sun, 4 Nov 2001 22:04:49 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - When I was a kid, I just loved getting the crap scared out of me. (I'm not all that crazy about having the crap scared out of me now as I slowly enter the "heart attack" years of my life, but I still enjoy a good shock at the movies.) My wife was...

Curse of the Fluffy Movie

Mon, 27 Aug 2001 02:52:43 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - I am old enough to remember Woody Allen when he was a wonderfully funny and self-effacing stand-up comic, making the rounds of all the variety shows on TV. (I even have copies of his comedy albums - they're incredibly great.) I followed his career into...

Trance at a Glance

Mon, 6 Aug 2001 02:21:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - As a refugee from the psychedelic 60s, I find much to love in the dance music of today. It's hypnotic and electronic and takes me places I've never been. Even though I'm a self-conscious dancer (please, no pictures or video when I'm on the dancefloor)...

Better Buddy Movie

Mon, 6 Aug 2001 00:57:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - Even though I was full of “sequel misgivings” I was very tempted to go see “Rush Hour 2” on my day off. I had a hankering for a good buddy movie, but something told me to avoid this one. I think maybe that something was the everpresent face of Chris...

The Wurst of Burton

Mon, 30 Jul 2001 02:53:02 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - I just got back from the alternative universe where I currently reside. It's wacky there, but mostly tolerable. The main difference between here and there is that, as I've explained before, in the alternate universe, Potsie was the most popular character...

Walk in the Park

Sun, 22 Jul 2001 21:32:17 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - To be fair, this movie should only be held up to other second sequels with "Three" in the title somewhere. For example, I would say that "Jurassic Park III" is better than "Scream III" but not as good as "Godfather III." Does that put it in any kind of...

First in a Series

Mon, 18 Jun 2001 11:10:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - Summer Movie Blockbuster Season is upon us, and it's at this time every year that I find myself playing my favorite interactive game "What If I Ran the Movie Studios" wherein I use my skills as a consumer and movie-goer to try and right the wrongs...

Let's Revisit My Youth

Sun, 10 Jun 2001 21:49:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - I was so thrilled when I saw this CD listed in my CD club's catalog. I dearly love the Jack Bruce. (That's what I call him. I have no idea why.)

Jack Bruce was the bassist and lead vocalist for Cream, one of the building blocks of rock culture in...

Classical Meets Hardboiled

Sun, 10 Jun 2001 21:12:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - Every few years there is another resurgence of interest in Rex Stout's mystery novels featuring Nero Wolfe. This is one of those years. There's a PBS series running with Timothy Hutton as Wolfe's operative, Archie Goodwin. And who play's Nero Wolfe, you...

Hey, look! A Flying Bus!

Sun, 10 Jun 2001 20:24:29 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - I'd read a few weeks ago that Hugh Jackman stated in a press-junket interview that this movie had something that nobody has ever seen before in a movie. He made it sound like a good thing, something that would hopefully blow my mind. (I love to have my...

Madcap Still Laughing

Sun, 13 May 2001 20:07:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - I fell in love with the music of middle period Pink Floyd when I was an impressionable teenager scouring the Midwestern late-night radio airwaves for something out of the ordinary...Something I found in their 20 minute long sonic voyage called "Echoes"...

Almost Like Speeding

Sun, 6 May 2001 21:16:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - I have to admit that I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this movie. I was all prepared to sit there and squirm in my seat, because I knew that the screenplay was by Sylvester Stallone, who can be pretty dicey...and Stallone is also the star (again,...

The Mummy Returns to the Well

Sun, 6 May 2001 20:31:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - This review is a sequel to a review I wrote around two years ago. That review seemed to be a good mixture of comedy, adventurousness in writing, and special review effects (metaphors, hyperbole, sarcasm)...good fun for a Saturday afternoon's reading. I...

Jump

Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:30:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - If Tom Clancy told you to jump off a building, would you do it?

That was the question that I asked myself when confronted with a persuasive display of Kyle Mills novels in a booskstore somewhere in the heart of America. There, in bold letters, for...

My Youth, Revisited!

Sun, 7 Jan 2001 15:40:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - It's important to tell the young peoples of today how awful 8-track tapes were. They were big and clunky. They broke easily. (I was an expert at taking them apart and splicing the tape back together, if it hadn't gotten too mangled.) The surface contact...

Rock and Pop: Personal Choices for 2000 Best in Music

Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:19:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - Since a large portion of my brain still lives in the past, I probably spent more time listening to music that came out in past decades then I did listening to the current crop. But I did find a few things spectacular in 2000. This is my top ten:
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Another Hanks/Zemeckis Classic

Sun, 31 Dec 2000 19:31:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - Is Tom Hanks not the most beloved actor around? He comes across as a profoundly decent human being, and every role he plays comes with the Hanks tried-and-true-blue persona attached. Not since the glory days of Jimmy Stewart has an actor been so...

New Characters with Added Sex!

Sun, 31 Dec 2000 19:08:22 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Andydammit - I will admit that I'm obsessed with books and reading. I have kept a pair of journals since 1972, listing all the books I've read in one and all the short stories I've read in the other. By month. Yes, since 1972. Hey, want to know the first book I read...