© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-atchesonate Recent reviews written by member atchesonate en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_167110282884?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - SPOILER WARNING There's a scene in Wes Anderson's unfathomable disaster The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou in which Steve Z., played diligently by the great Bill Murray, wonders if he's lost his touch, if he's just not good at what he does... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~167110282884 Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:07:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_167110282884?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_120965860996?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - Augusten Burroughs had a stranger childhood than you did. I can say that with reasonable certainty. But really, I'm just assuming that you weren't forced to shack up with your insane mother's obese and free-thinking psychiatrist and his bible-dipping... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~120965860996 Sat, 6 Dec 2003 02:57:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_120965860996?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_120477421188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - As a listener and lover of music, the thing that keeps me going is the possibility of discovering a record both new and familiar: an album that takes some aspect of music I already love and does something to warp the paradigm. That pretty much explains... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~120477421188 Tue, 2 Dec 2003 02:11:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_120477421188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_119858105988?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - The beautiful thing about Enon is their lovely sense of diversity: no one song accurately represents them. The best pop music indulges in a healthy portion of variety; it has to, or it would bore us. There's nothing more frustrating than tossing in a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~119858105988 Wed, 26 Nov 2003 01:40:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_119858105988?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_119238135428?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - There's the pop album that immediately seizes your attention with its infectious hooks and soothing production, and then gets shelved indefinitely as soon as the thrill wears off. Then there's the pop album that sounds weird and muddy upon the first few... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~119238135428 Thu, 20 Nov 2003 05:27:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_119238135428?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_118572551812?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - The debut album from NYC garage-pop fledglings The Strokes, 2001's Is This It, was an eleven-song onslaught of grubby vocals and lean instrumentation, the themes of which rarely ventured far from getting drunk at big parties or having sex with unde... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~118572551812 Fri, 14 Nov 2003 01:19:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_118572551812?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_118320959108?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - Is it me, or is Canada just a lot cooler than the U.S.? I'm not exactly well-versed in the history of Canada, but I can say that the Canadian powers that be seem to know how to run a country. They have socialized health care, which sounds pretty nifty t... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~118320959108 Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:24:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_118320959108?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_116988022404?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - My significant other and I have a tacit and longstanding agreement that he will never, ever force me to dance. You see, he's a dancer (in the sense that he'll gleefully fling his rotund body around a dance floor, joyously ignoring the fact that he can ea... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~116988022404 Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:06:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_116988022404?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_115760664196?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - Why do I love Stereolab so much? My boyfriend asks me that question all the time, and my answer is always intangible: the melodies, the layers, the production, the depth, the beauty. My love for the band is so shapeless and far-reaching that I can't co... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~115760664196 Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:58:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_115760664196?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_115404344964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - "Transatlanticism" is not an easy word to type. I made two mistakes typing it just now, and that happens every time I try. In addition, it doesn't exactly mean anything &#150 "transatlantic" means "across the Atlantic," so I suppose "transatlanticism" m... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~115404344964 Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:33:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_115404344964?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_114851221124?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - In addition to the customary &#147thank you&#148 credits, the liner notes of Firewater&#146s The Man on the Burning Tightrope feature a &#147no thanks at all&#148 list which includes, among other things, the following items: &#147the American Empi... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~114851221124 Tue, 7 Oct 2003 21:38:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_114851221124?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_114424385156?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - I don't want to die. Wait, let me rephrase that: I so completely don't want to die. Yes, I realize that I must die eventually. All I can do is hope that it's later rather than sooner, and not painful or unpleasant when it finally comes to pass... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~114424385156 Thu, 2 Oct 2003 23:24:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_114424385156?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_114144546436?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - I recently stumbled into the bargain bin area of my local record store. The bargain bin is a depressing place, because you see the hard work of hundreds of artists languishing in scuffed-up CD cases with ridiculously-cheap price tags on them. The bargai... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~114144546436 Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:17:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_114144546436?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_113525624452?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - Rock critics are pointless. They are more pointless than the critics of other forms of media, like books and movies. Their pointlessness resides in the fact that music, more than any other form of art, is fundamentally about taste and not at all about i... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~113525624452 Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:49:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_113525624452?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_113296969348?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - Last night my boyfriend and I sat down to watch Alien Resurrection. It was something like my 25th viewing of the film; I saw it eight times in the theater (I have the ticket stubs to prove it), and countless times on VHS/Laserdisc/DVD (and yes, I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~113296969348 Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:13:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_113296969348?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_112994258564?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - Few things frustrate me more than a collection of good songs that fail to congeal into a successful album. I reach a peak of annoyance each time I attempt to listen to Earlimart's Everyone Down Here, a record that begins with a set of rich pop con... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~112994258564 Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:03:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_112994258564?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_112192556676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - Most of my favorite critics avoid the temptation of talking excessively about themselves in their reviews. Writing in the first-person is pretty easy, particularly when discussing one's own opinion, but the most effective criticism comes in the form of a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~112192556676 Mon, 8 Sep 2003 14:39:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_112192556676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_108886593156?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Catch Trap is an important novel – important and infuriating. He... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~108886593156 Mon, 11 Aug 2003 23:23:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_108886593156?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_107384376964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - Album covers are important. Before the advent of the Internet, which has (despite the RIAA's most h... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~107384376964 Sun, 27 Jul 2003 18:01:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_107384376964?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_106861072004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - The term "selling out" usually refers to the process of a band subsiding into blandness after buildi... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~106861072004 Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:58:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_106861072004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_106345631364?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - Growing up in pre-Revolutionary Russia couldn't have been much fun. Of course, the country has neve... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~106345631364 Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:47:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_106345631364?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_106041216644?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - Richard Perez's The Losers' Club is a novel that wants desperately to pull off a multi-facete... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~106041216644 Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:16:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_106041216644?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_105877507716?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - Two years ago, At the Drive-In was about to take over the world. Well, the world of emo/punk music,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~105877507716 Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:58:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_105877507716?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_104835747460?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - It's too bad music is so subjective. If it weren't, then Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It In... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~104835747460 Wed, 2 Jul 2003 11:45:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_104835747460?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_103103237764?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author atchesonate - Though I don't personally know the members of Radiohead, I'm guessing that they're a bit embarrassed... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~103103237764 Sun, 15 Jun 2003 22:37:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_103103237764?linkin_id=8003929