Epinions Recent Reviews for repulsemonkey

Morality Lessons From the Soulless

Thu, 8 Aug 2002 21:17:15 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author repulsemonkey - The mentally handicapped are people too.

I want to go ahead and make sure we’re all on the same page with this right off the bat. I don’t want to mislead anyone here. Because, apparently New Line Cinema feels that an enormous amount of...

You're All Right

Tue, 25 Jun 2002 02:18:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author repulsemonkey - You’ve lost your right to remain neutral.

You either care or you don’t. Choose now.

You either want to hear Slim Shady, the drug fiending, trash talking, tourette’s mimicking little idiot; or you want to hear Marshall Mathers, the...

Cheaper Than Heroin and Twice as Potent

Mon, 17 Jun 2002 01:40:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author repulsemonkey - Words change their meanings three times before they stabilize. Two years pass in a single sentence, and then double back without warning. Dreams blend into reality without acknowledgement. Simple observations--His blood bubbled out of his mouth...

Somebody Has To Be The Asshole, So It May As Well Be Me...

Mon, 3 Jun 2002 20:04:33 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author repulsemonkey - Mister Bob “Comeback” Dylan. Bob “Mr. Funny Man” Dylan. Riverboat Bob Dylan. Mister Bob “Modern Oracle” Dylan. Mister Robert “Oh-Ho-Ho Thank You For Consoling Me After 9/11” Dylan. Little Bobby Predictor-of-the-Apocalypse. “Let’s Stage a Return to...

MTV's The Osbournes: Super-Genius!

Tue, 14 May 2002 02:38:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author repulsemonkey - For those of you following along at home, let’s recap. Pop culture generally goes a little something like this: Something happens. Not a big something. Not even necessarily an exciting something. Just a something. People react. Some people react...

The Neptunes Rock the Party That Rocks the Body That Rocks the Cerebral Cortex

Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:55:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author repulsemonkey - Each track on N.E.R.D.’s In Search Of... rests on a foundation of raw, deep, booty-slappin’ hip-hop that wouldn’t sound out of place in the cocaine-addled final hours of some late-'70s disco. Up until now, the Neptunes (Pharrell Williams...

Lexiphilia For the Kiddies!!!

Fri, 4 Jan 2002 23:49:39 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author repulsemonkey -

The Cat in the Hat begins innocently enough. A brother and sister, identified throughout the book only as “Sally” and “I”--possibly British Christians, if their doe-eyed, blank-faced expressions indicate anything--sit staring...

SELF-DELUSION - 2001: A Pork Odyssey - part 10

Tue, 18 Sep 2001 04:57:27 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author repulsemonkey - -------------------------------

Soundtrack: the Afghan Whigs--“My Curse”

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This cigarette tastes good--a Newport, bought...

The Restless and the Beautiful (with apologies to Lewis Carroll)

Fri, 17 Aug 2001 05:27:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author repulsemonkey - The soaps were playing on TV,

Playing all through the night.

They did their very best to wrap up

Carmen’s plot-lines nice and tight.

This was odd, ‘cause she’d been killed

Last month on Guiding Light.

The monkey...

I'll Show You My Disillusioned SoCal Folkjunkie If You Show Me Your Shitkickin' Texas Wrangler

Fri, 29 Jun 2001 22:32:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author repulsemonkey - I’ll admit to becoming a bit confounded at first by the purpose of the "I’ll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours" Write-Off. The simple premise (pair up with a fellow somewhat-iconoclastic music writer and assign them a CD to review that they might not...

Wild Turkey Love or Who Needs Romance When You've Got Kentucky Bourbon?

Thu, 14 Jun 2001 04:59:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author repulsemonkey - You are about to witness a rather exciting experiment. I have just purchased a bottle of Wild Turkey Kentucky Straight Bourbon—the monkey’s personal drink of choice—from my local liquor store where they managed to ram me for close to seven dollars for...

Groceries: TDGWO: The Egg Incident

Wed, 2 May 2001 00:15:08 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author repulsemonkey - Even at age 6, I was already a finicky eater. I get it from my grandfather on my mother’s side, whose sworn enemy is the tomato. You’d be lucky to see him eat anything after a tomato has so much as touched his plate. In restaurants, if, say, a little...

Ten Reasons Counting Crows Don't Suck Nearly As Much As You Thought

Sat, 28 Oct 2000 02:20:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author repulsemonkey - My girlfriend is slowly stealing every last piece of my clothing. It started with the T-shirts. She’d put on my "Girls Are Evil" shirt before she went to bed, decide it was cool, and wear it the next day. Two weeks later I’d find that "Girls...

NOT FOR GUYS!!! (I peeked)

Sat, 9 Sep 2000 17:38:13 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author repulsemonkey - My girlfriend still lives with her parents. (Sorry, hon, but you do.) Mornings after I stay with her, I must admit I'm a bit timid when it comes to going downstairs and hangin' with the folks. So while she's gnoshing on pancakes and coffee, I've taken...