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Wow. (The Concert)

Thu, 7 Nov 2002 03:02:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - (I am reviewing a show of their from their tour of this album.)

I have only one intelligible thing to say about this: this was the best show I've even seen in my life, bar none. If you can see this band: do. Period.

Now that I've...

Kevin, You Can Stop Now

Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:32:31 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - As a devoted fan of Kevin Smith's wry wit, I find myself suffering in the clutches of a fierce ambivalence regarding Smith's latest movie, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

I recall watching Clerks with glee, giggling with my best...

Bring 'Em On!

Tue, 8 May 2001 23:29:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - I was sitting at my desk a couple of months ago, waiting for my then-boyfriend Curt (now-fiance) to call from the cell phone to tell me that he was waiting in the parking lot to pick me up for lunch. The phone rang; he wasn't quite there yet, but:...

General Reviews of Verizon Customer Service: Verizon Gets the Boot

Tue, 8 May 2001 22:56:11 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - I have always been averse to the idea of cell phones. Call me crazy (and if you were my brother, you'd immediately respond by saying, "Crazy!"), but I hold myself in slightly higher esteem than vapid teenagers who go out "malling" and feel the need to...

What if... I hadn't wasted my time with this movie?

Mon, 8 Jan 2001 00:05:51 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - I can picture it... the rain falling in the dusky North Georgia late afternoon... the digital marquee (pale under the waning moon) summoning me in understated tones, as the less subtle neon screams its visual profanity. And I stood in line, trembling...

Pleasing and Commendable

Sun, 7 Jan 2001 01:14:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - When I heard that Francis Ford Coppola’s little girl was making a movie, and calling it The Virgin Suicides, my first thought was, “I’ll go see it, and I’ll be charitable; it’ll have all sort of pretentious freshman stumbles, but it should be...

If We're Going To Be Honest, We Might As Well Be Brief

Thu, 2 Nov 2000 20:59:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - Of course, brevity is not exactly my forte. As a matter of fact, I on occasion have a tendency to get a wee bit wordy. I think it's from my mother's side. Gawd, that woman can talk! I remember going shopping with her on weekends, and she'd run into a...

Young and Gifted, Yet Oddly Sharp and Adult

Sun, 29 Oct 2000 21:27:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - I have a recollection of a dusky evening, careening along the constantly-under-construction freeway from Boulder, CO, to Denver, CO, with my brother driving his beat-up old Audi and my mother cringing in the front seat. She and I were converging from...

My Favorite Grrls!

Tue, 3 Oct 2000 14:57:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - Shonen Knife is killer. Shonen Knife is crazy. Shonen Knife will knock you across the room, and then step back to giggle and simper about it.

I don't recall how these remarkable young ladies entered my life. A tape of 712 appeared in...

Really Good Schlock

Sun, 1 Oct 2000 20:58:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - James Taylor is, in my humble and admittedly questionable opinion, the king of soft and schlocky pop-rock music. The question really comes down to, do you like that sort of thing?

As a child, my mother and I used to listen to ol' JT all the...

A Guilty Pleasure

Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:59:07 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - I have a very distinct memory of one of the first times I ever told anyone I liked Elastica. I was in the car with my friend Eva, driving on icy roads in Ithaca, NY, both of us being in town to visit parents while on college vacations...

A look at the man behind the rainbow

Sun, 17 Sep 2000 15:55:49 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - This little collection offers something long sought after by Thomas Pynchon fans: a glimpse into Pynchon's internal workings and artistic journey. At the same time, these stories offer a delightful little taste of Pynchon's style to the novitiate.
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My Most Favoritest!

Sat, 16 Sep 2000 19:17:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - At the outset of my drinking career, I was a true whiskey person. Sure, I could drink almost anything, but if the choice was mine, it was bourbon, scotch, or (most often) plain old whiskey, straight up or occasionally on the rocks. In recent days,...

Never Distrust a Computer

Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:10:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - So, I went to see a live show of Man or Astroman? because of their name... stayed because of their music... walked out with a CD... popped the CD in the player on the way home... and was duly and doubly impressed.

This is kind of a goofy...

More Than Just a Crazy Flick!

Thu, 7 Sep 2000 14:52:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - (But admittedly, way up there as crazy flicks go!)

I am, relatively, a John Waters novitiate. Before this movie, I think I only granted myself the immeasurable favor of watching one of his movies, the highly amusing "Pecker."...

A Tasty Sample of of Silly Punk

Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:36:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - The Dead Milkmen fall into the genre that has recently become one of my favorite of all music: "silly punk." And man o man, are they silly-assed punkers.

My first memory of the Dead Milkmen is of working all night at my theater in...

The Title Makes You Wince...

Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:52:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - ... but the compilation makes you jump, dance, scream, shout, and think!

Talking Heads may be one of the most important bands in American Rock History. Their musical evolution spanned decades and eras, not to mention genres. This band was...

Nice Folks, Great Web Services

Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:38:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - I first joined RFCU in 1998, when I started working for Boeing. I had been with Bank of America, but I got tired of the huge corporate unfriendliness, the excessive fees, the limited services. Besides: credit unions always give me a warm fuzzy because...

Who'd 'A' Thought?

Sun, 6 Aug 2000 16:21:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - I was not so long ago a person who looked down on this era's popular stars. I thought--and still think--that Kurt Cobain was a flaming idiot. Suicide is a tragic thing, but it does not stop someone from being a flaming idiot, I'm sorry to say. So as a...

Another Hollywood Mass-Produced Romantic Comedy

Sat, 5 Aug 2000 17:33:08 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - When a movie's just plain bad, there's no point in beating around the bush. This movie was just plain bad. Not in the hip, amusing way that some movies can be, camping their way into cult obsessions... noooo, this movie takes mediocrity to its...

New York Times: Great News--Killer Web Site!!

Wed, 2 Aug 2000 14:06:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - In a world of dreck reporting, I still find that there is one refuge of journalistic integrity: the New York Times. On a lazy Sunday morning, there is one wonderful thing that helps me meet and greet the world around me: the New York Times. In all of...

Wahoo Is Right!

Thu, 6 Jul 2000 15:21:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - The first Robbins book I ever read was "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues;" from that moment, I was hooked on Robbins. However, I have always considered Robbins to be a bit of a lark. That is, I adore his style, his characters, his verbiage, his...

On Doing What's Right, Regardless of the Consequences

Sat, 24 Jun 2000 16:16:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - Okay, so I'll admit it. I'm a sucker for a movie that even marginally touches on the American civil rights struggle of the '60's, or for that matter, anything at all civil rights-related. Show me people marching, chanting, singing, give me real...

Sell-out!

Sat, 10 Jun 2000 19:54:44 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - I used to adore CNN. Being someone who travels a lot, although I don't generally have a TV at home, I tend to turn on CNN in the morning while getting ready for work when I'm staying at a hotel. I very quickly became enamored of CNN's style of...

The Second-Best Martini I've Ever Had

Sat, 10 Jun 2000 14:31:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sjacobson - I've been on this martini kick lately. I've always rebelled against martini's from the perspective of class conflict, and the stereotype of the snooty executives with their six-martini lunches, and the elegantly clad cocktail parties filled with polite...