© 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-kris_kobayashi Recent reviews written by member kris_kobayashi en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_213062684292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kris_kobayashi - I didn’t want to like Ima Robot, but just couldn’t help it. I blame it in parts: 1/2 due to its pristine new wave heavy pop-punk revamp with 1/4 devoted to Jello Biafra soundalike (and ex-rapper) Alex Ebert, 1/4 ‘cos it makes vacuuming fun. Worried it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~213062684292 Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:36:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_213062684292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_213062094468?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kris_kobayashi - Okay, I’m no expert on hip-hop, nor will I now pretend to be one. I will not bore you with detailed declaration of the artists’ genius or omnipotent heights à la sold-and-bought critics. All I’m going to say is that Typical Cats are my dig. Well, maybe I’... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~213062094468 Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:29:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_213062094468?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_213061766788?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kris_kobayashi - I am not an advocate for greatest hits albums. When I was in grade school, I figured that sort of thing was for fogies who weren’t true fans. But if being a true fan means you have to suffer through the flops then that’s just wasteful time- and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~213061766788 Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:23:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_213061766788?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_213060980356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kris_kobayashi - Michael Allen, singer Wolfgang Press: “Right place right time, from Soul Boy to Punk in one seamless movement… The arrogance of youth is a wonderful thing and belief is everything. To say the answer to all of my inner turmoil and sense of isolation was... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~213060980356 Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:16:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_213060980356?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_213058489988?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kris_kobayashi - I guess I was an unconventional jazz enthusiast because I inadvertently imbued it with certain rules, even though I felt jazz should remain carefree. I believed it was sacrilege to own any recording of it. Jazz should be listened to live or at least... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~213058489988 Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:07:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_213058489988?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_213057965700?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kris_kobayashi - The Corrs, BeeGees, now the DuPrees, better known as Eisley. What do these groups have in common? Sibling power! Imagine sharing your most intimate aspirations and errs with your kin and with your ever-supportive ever-videotaping father chronicling the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~213057965700 Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:59:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_213057965700?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_213057375876?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kris_kobayashi - Now Zero 7 is neither a household name nor a new duck. Hide-and-seeking in UK obscurity, they never truly made it to the States yet. Hmm, our loss. They have been featured on a few soundtracks (Blue Crush, Garden State, TV&#146s Roswell and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~213057375876 Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:56:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_213057375876?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_213056786052?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kris_kobayashi - Every so often, Tinkerbell® smokes out and pays me a visit via accidental melodies. Zippers clinking in the dryer, garbage trucks’ reverse warnings, tunnel vent floe flows. There was a phase in my life where all I wanted to listen to was my laundry... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~213056786052 Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:45:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_213056786052?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_213056130692?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author kris_kobayashi - Erotic electronica. Voluptuous vocals. Simple-set rhymes with often Yoda-esque messages of empowerment and rich avid description. Brave beats and originality. Oh, Supreme Beings of Leisure, you had it once but came up short this round. Obviously... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~213056130692 Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:39:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_213056130692?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_213055606404?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kris_kobayashi - Ah, fizzy J-pop with its perky jumpbeats and relentless optimism. Broadcasting from a technological mecca, laced with so much expected escapism from a turbulent, demanding society, pop music from Japan embodies either pungent cutesyness or the exact... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~213055606404 Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:33:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_213055606404?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_213054819972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kris_kobayashi - Although I liked his more concise hip-hoppy debut Dead Ringer a lot more, Since We Last Spoke is still tops. Challenging the art of digital compositions, painting it on pudding-thick once again, I can best describe RJD2’s latest as: “throes... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~213054819972 Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:21:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_213054819972?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_213051018884?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kris_kobayashi - Sometimes I buy albums for the trippy cover art or odd titles. Prior to listening stations and ease of .mp3 sampling, that practice resulted in serendipitous yays or yeechs. Perfume Tree&#146s Feeler turned out to be a major yay with its bounding... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~213051018884 Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:09:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_213051018884?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_213050166916?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kris_kobayashi - If Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane/Starship) and Fiona Apple had a vocal offspring, it would be Chan Marshall, aka: Cat Power. If you know me, you know why this name initially grabbed me (wow go kitties!), but the exaggerated slo-mo stylings, bare-bones... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~213050166916 Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:58:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_213050166916?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_208799895172?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kris_kobayashi - Be kind to me or treat me mean I&#146ll make the most of it I&#146m an extraordinary machine In the created-appropriate din of the livingroom with only one lamp on is where I listened to the latest Fiona Apple album, but her voice sounds good... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~208799895172 Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:55:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_208799895172?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_208291860100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kris_kobayashi - Like an old memory based in both surreal and logical demise, Oldboy reminds us of how unrealistic and unreliable reality can be. Held for fifteen years in a secret &#147holding cell hotel&#148 by an anonymous kidnapper, main character Daesu Oh... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~208291860100 Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:06:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_208291860100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_133983211140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author kris_kobayashi - He-Said/She-Said Review CHRIS: After the major disappointment that was the Dawn of the Dead remake, I felt the need to get some honest to God, 100% pure indie horror back in my system. Lo and behold, the San Francisco Horror fest had... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~133983211140 Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:21:11 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_133983211140?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_132576415364?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kris_kobayashi - In the Fog of War, through the winded and financially successful job route of Mr. Robert McNamara, we search for the answers to the proverbial question: is war ever really necessary? McNamara says that one of his earliest memories is when he witnessed... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~132576415364 Mon, 8 Mar 2004 23:07:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_132576415364?linkin_id=8003929