© 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-blksqul Recent reviews written by member blksqul en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_229639884420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - I am going to warn you right now: this is not going to be a very thorough review of Coheed & Cambria's "Second Stage Turbine Blade." I simply do not know enough about the band or the sci-fi storyline slated to progress over four more albums. From what... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~229639884420 Thu, 4 May 2006 15:18:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_229639884420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_198726225540?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - I'm going to have to grapple with some of the plotting in this book to provide anything near an illuminating review. This means I'm going to have to spill a few of its secrets, for which I apologize. Book reviewing is a tight-rope walk. People expect the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~198726225540 Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:33:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_198726225540?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_191895867012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - Trent Reznor views the world as a soured, curdled place, where the only excitement and beauty is the excitement and beauty he makes himself. He went through the gears of a fractured upbringing in a quiet Midwest town, which no doubt helped influence his... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~191895867012 Wed, 3 Aug 2005 13:03:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_191895867012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_182577434244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - Every problem with this two-disc album comes down to the following two facts. The first: Trent Reznor goes out of his way to make his songs vague and opaque. He has commented before that whenever he writes painful, complex lyrics that reveal more of him... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~182577434244 Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_182577434244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_182049607300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - The title of this review is a sick joke. But that's fine, because the title of this movie, so coyly cliche thriller in its moniker, is an even sicker joke. The more you watch the movie, the more you understand the horrible pun nestled within it. Mmm, I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~182049607300 Tue, 3 May 2005 17:42:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_182049607300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_177608101508?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - For those who remember Siouxsie Sioux as the unwitting catalyst of the notorious Bill Grundy incident, where the Sex Pistols swore on national television; for those who remember popping in "The Scream" and being terrified and intrigued by the opening... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~177608101508 Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:45:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_177608101508?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_176213102212?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - I saw "Play Misty for Me" last night, Clint Eastwood's 1971 directorial debut. Somehow, I watched the whole thing; though in retrospect, I would have had more fun being held down and punched in the kidneys until I passed out. The movie is about a jazz... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~176213102212 Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:08:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_176213102212?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_175313751684?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - Midnight troubadour Tom Waits felt his career was in a rut. First emerging in the '70s, Waits put together seven albums of string-and-piano laden barstool musings; night music for all the crashed-out losers and layabouts of Los Angeles. A sonic film... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~175313751684 Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:41:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_175313751684?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_173416943236?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - Okay, so you're coming off an emotionally exhausting, drugged-out tour with your band, where drunken meltdowns and ugly, debasing antics were the norm. You've tried to disintegrate the group by releasing a single designed to eradicate your career, and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~173416943236 Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:10:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_173416943236?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_172943052420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - FINALLY! After all the hemming and hawing, double-backing, ball-dropping, and general procrastination, Rhino Records is finally stepping up to the plate and re-releasing the full run of the Cure's albums with assorted extra B-sides, demos and ephemera... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~172943052420 Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:16:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_172943052420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_170483420804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - It is hard to overstate how important Ren & Stimpy was to the health of animation in the waning years of the 20th century. Moving well beyond the formulaic blandness of Hanna Barbera cartoons in the '70s, as well as the DIC cartoons and toy commercials... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~170483420804 Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:24:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_170483420804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_170213805700?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - And so we say goodbye to Jhonen Vasquez's wonderfully warped cartoon via the most maddening disc in the Invader Zim series, volume 3. It's not to say that the cartoons in this final volume don't measure up to previous efforts, because by and large they... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~170213805700 Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:27:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_170213805700?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_168587660932?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - EDITOR'S NOTE: I wrote this review back when I still trying to decide whether to approach a book review with gut feeling or discussing the plot itself. Unfortunately, I tipped too far in the latter direction, and give away almost everything in the book... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~168587660932 Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:15:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_168587660932?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_164875898500?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - I feel that the rot is starting to set in for Radiohead. There's still beautiful melodies, graceful memories and lots to share and discover. But the subtext I'm getting is watch out before it all comes down. Entropy and decay is just as much a part of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~164875898500 Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:08:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_164875898500?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_164587343492?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - Classics are there to be read. But who wants to take the trouble? There's plenty of modern novels out there (though this novel is more modern, in some respects, then you'd first realize). Why bother with this musty old thing? Henry James? The Portrait of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~164587343492 Wed, 8 Dec 2004 15:48:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_164587343492?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_163409268356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - Radiohead's "Kid A" has been reviewed 119 times now, which should immediately get your suspicions aroused. A lot of people decided they should throw their hats in, stamp on them a little bit, then describe, to the best of their abilities, the dirt... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~163409268356 Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:44:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_163409268356?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_162899005060?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - It's time for me to get serious and review Devo. No eye-winking here either, as funny as that first sentence might seem. Devo gets short shrift, remembered for their red circular-staircase hats, a weird video and weird song, and not much else. Criminal!... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~162899005060 Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:54:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_162899005060?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_162860273284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - I'd like to forget that "Pablo Honey" ever existed. Bland, overlong, flabby, three good songs on the whole thing. Thom Yorke sang "I want to be Jim Morrison" on it. You go do that, you old drunk. Luckily, the rest of Radiohead decided "Pablo Honey"... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~162860273284 Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:07:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_162860273284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_162606648964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - Nodding out. Not nodding out. Who knows anymore. Blisterpaks and pills in Rome -- these songs dropping into your ears, corroding your brain, washed down with champagne. Let's give them a listen. But before that, let's think on what In Utero means. In... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~162606648964 Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:02:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_162606648964?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_161776373380?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - Radiohead is a band. They make music. Amnesiac contains music. It was recorded in tandem with Kid A. Kid A was chilly. Amnesiac is warm as ice gets. We are very interested in your files. Thom Yorke is the singer. This means his words are the focal... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~161776373380 Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:32:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_161776373380?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_161364807300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - Life is Killing Me is one of my favorite Type O Negative albums. It's a combination of their least and most accessible impulses. Much of the time, wonderful riffs piling one on top of the other back lyrics with lonely, self-loathing content. "I'll do... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~161364807300 Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:47:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_161364807300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_161134186116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - There are mountains no man can cross -- and these are the mountains depicted on the cover of Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures." The mountains you make yourself see, shadowing out possibilities, self-sabotaging, powerfully drawing you back to the climb... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~161134186116 Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:45:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_161134186116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_161015565956?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - How do you review a movie like 24 Hour Party People? Heck, how do you watch a movie like 24 Hour Party People? It suffers some serious sprawl even as it short-changes its subjects, trying to capture 20 years in two hours. It attempts to spotlight... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~161015565956 Mon, 8 Nov 2004 21:01:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_161015565956?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_159842537092?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - I know. How rote. How boring. Another five-star review of Substance. Not to be confused with Joy Division's Substance, by the way, even though all but one of the members of New Order is originally from that other band. There. I got my Joy Division... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~159842537092 Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:15:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_159842537092?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_159504043652?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author blksqul - "Brotherhood," New Order's 1986 release, has many passionate fans whom believe that this slice of guitar-rock-pop is ambrosia and manna -- the be-all, end-all of New Order's existence. It has its moments, but no; no, it's not. Anchored by the dark and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~159504043652 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:44:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_159504043652?linkin_id=8003929