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This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-factotum Recent reviews written by member factotum en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_488311983748?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - Capitalism: A Love Story is far from a bad film.  Michael Moore finds two hours worth of stories to alternately inspire, anger, amuse and touch his liberal audience (and mostly just anger his conservative critics).  He and his filmmaking... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488311983748 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:36:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488311983748?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_477113519748?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - Sacha Baron Cohen & Larry Charles' new film Bruno is already elciting a wide range of opinions.  Some think it is just offensive, others find it simply funny and its critics uptight.  The majority of observers seem to agree that it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~477113519748 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:34:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_477113519748?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473195777668?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - Wendy and Lucy is the story of, respectively, a quasi-homeless woman and her dog. We meet Wendy, played by Michelle Williams, in Oregon, playing in a field with Lucy. They are traveling from Indiana to Alaska, where Wendy is going to work in a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473195777668 Mon, 8 Jun 2009 03:19:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473195777668?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472507321988?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - Scott Douglas has been blogging about his job as a librarian for the Anaheim Public Library for a couple of years now at McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian takes this material and expands upon it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472507321988 Sun, 7 Jun 2009 19:42:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472507321988?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471805365892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man was ostensibly written to pull back the curtain on how the world works. It is partly a history of the post WWII era in American politics and partly a memoir of the author's by all appearances... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471805365892 Sat, 30 May 2009 20:04:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471805365892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_470090550916?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - Once upon a time National Lampoon was a mighty force in American comedy.  Known, if it all, to those under thirty for making puerile teen exploitation 'comedies', the humor collective in its early days unleashed some of the funniest and darkest... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~470090550916 Thu, 21 May 2009 17:49:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_470090550916?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_468595805828?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - Satirist Tom Davis's memoir Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss is a somewhat tricky book to review. It held my interest and was at times very funny. I enjoyed it for what it was. The only trouble is, it isn't entirely what it claims to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~468595805828 Fri, 8 May 2009 00:41:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_468595805828?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_464112160388?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was an extremely prolific writer, to put it mildly. There have been more volumes issued under his name posthumously alone than most of his contemporaries managed in their lifetime. Portions From A Wine-Stained Notebook:... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~464112160388 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:05:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_464112160388?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_433622126212?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - John Coltrane's tenure with the Atlantic Records label was remarkably brief; he recorded his first session with the label in January, 1959 and his last for them before leaving for Impulse! in May, 1961. But what a body of work it is, two and a half... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~433622126212 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:57:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_433622126212?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_433283698308?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - The new documentary Surfwise tells a story that is quite literally incredible. It concerns the lives of Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, his third wife and their nine children. Director Doug Pray chronicles the transformation of Doc from respectable... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~433283698308 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:39:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_433283698308?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432285322884?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - The Atlantic (Monthly) is one of America's longest running periodicals, now in its 151st year of publication since being founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Many of its articles deal with current events, but the magazine also publishes fiction and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432285322884 Fri, 6 Jun 2008 23:51:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432285322884?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432622964356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - I was initially excited about the prospect of a full-length motion picture featuring Tenacious D. I always enjoyed the HBO series about two losers (Jack Black and Kyle Gass) who form a hilariously bad acoustic heavy metal band and thought maybe they... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432622964356 Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:20:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432622964356?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432635743876?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - The New Yorker magazine has been published since 1925. It is famous for its short stories, media criticism, investigative journalism, and coverage of New York city culture and nightlife. And its cartoons. All the other things, sure...Pauline Kael, J.D... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432635743876 Wed, 4 Jun 2008 20:08:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432635743876?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432266317444?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything was something of a surprise phenomenon on the bestseller lists a couple years ago. They don't, after all, call economics the dismal... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432266317444 Sun, 1 Jun 2008 19:48:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432266317444?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_429574884996?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - The Photography Book is an attractively illustrated introduction to 500 of the most significant photographers in the first 150 years of the medium's history. The book takes an encyclopedic approach, arranging entries by the artists' names from... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~429574884996 Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:20:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_429574884996?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432055094916?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - Dexter Gordon is one of the most beloved tenor saxophonists to come out of the Los Angeles jazz scene. His career played out in several acts, establishing his reputation in the 1940s during the rise of bebop. After recording a series of well-regarded... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432055094916 Sun, 1 Jun 2008 16:45:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432055094916?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_429463735940?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - Bet With the Best is a collection of essays written by regular horse racing writers from the Daily Racing Form. The DRF is sometimes referred to as the Bible of U.S. horseracing, but that's a bit sacrilegious--whereas the Bible is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~429463735940 Fri, 30 May 2008 22:49:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_429463735940?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_429912329860?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - The music of the late, great Los Angeles alto saxophonist Art Pepper is sometimes overshadowed by his rather colorful life story. A prodigious talent--it's almost impossible to overstate the depths of his ability as an instrumentalist--Pepper spent most... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~429912329860 Fri, 30 May 2008 22:17:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_429912329860?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_431787183748?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - While the surname George is a less obvious albatross from a rock and roll standpoint than, say, Dylan or Lennon, it still seems an obvious starting point in a discussion of Inara George to mention that her father is the late Lowell George, a great... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~431787183748 Wed, 28 May 2008 19:36:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_431787183748?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_429591793284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - My good friend and Ohio State University classmate Peter lives in Seattle. He's always after me to come visit him. When our alma matter's football team was scheduled to play a game against the University of Washington last year, that was all the reason I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~429591793284 Mon, 19 May 2008 00:32:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_429591793284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_429117443716?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - We lost a pretty good band when the Murder City Devils called it quits on Halloween, 2001 in Seattle. Those of us who saw them on various bills throughout the years already knew it, but The Murder City Devils--R.I.P., a full-length document of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~429117443716 Wed, 7 May 2008 06:01:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_429117443716?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_429117312644?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - 2003 was the year of the blues. Yeah, I know it sounds like a bad joke, but in-between authorizing misguided legislation badly curtailing our civil liberties and sending our soldiers off to die for no good purpose, Congress did sign into a law that year... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~429117312644 Wed, 7 May 2008 05:50:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_429117312644?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_429117116036?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - If you would've asked me 10 or 15 years ago which punk bands I thought were going to make it into the 21st century, chances are I wouldn't have come up with the Dwarves. So the only surprising thing about the 2004 Sympathy for the Record Industry... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~429117116036 Wed, 7 May 2008 05:39:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_429117116036?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_429116919428?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - Mike Patton has consistently been one of the most creative artists working the fringes of popular music over the last couple of decades. Though I admire his creative spirit and believe him to be a sincere fellow, too often his work strikes me as being a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~429116919428 Wed, 7 May 2008 05:28:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_429116919428?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_429116788356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author factotum - Grand opera and country music aren't such strange bedfellows as they may at first seem. True, the two phrases don't often appear together except when a particular building in Nashville is being described. But both musical forms are reliant on the use... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~429116788356 Wed, 7 May 2008 05:13:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_429116788356?linkin_id=8003929