Album Reviews
White Reaper: The World’s Best American Band
Like The Strokes in acid wash jeans, White Reaper tear it up on their latest album, keeping a weird hipster streak alive despite sounding like…
The Dirty Nil: Minimum R&B
This is the shit that makes me angry about modern “rock” music. Angry that all that alt-folk, drowned-in-reverb garbage can still appear under the rock…
At The Drive-In: in•ter a•li•a
It’s been a lifetime since At The Drive-In’s last album — literally. A kid born at the release of Relationship of Command would be a…
Television Reviews
GLOW: Season 1
The sad thing is I actually remember when G.L.O.W. was a thing. Granted, I can’t remember the specifics (it was 1986 after all), but I…
Comrade Detective: Season 1
Comrade Detective is just as weird as you imagine it might be. Posed as a lost Romanian cop show from the eighties (before the fall…
Ozark: Season 1
When I first saw there was a series entitled Ozark, my first reaction was, “How is there possibly a series starring Jason Bateman and Laura…
Movie Reviews
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Patti Cake$
There’s nothing like watching a movie about New Jersey in New Jersey. Well, not about New Jersey, so much as enveloped by New Jersey. Such is…
3.5
Win It All
It’s funny. Win It All is an utterly predictable film. Which, in the land of the indie film, makes it an anomaly. Add to the…
3.8
Anomalisa
Do you like to watch puppets fuck? I mean, not in like a weird way. Like in a cinematic, artsy way? Because, if you do,…
Booze & Grub Survey
Dos Caminos – Third Avenue
Not to be confused with Dos Toros, or even Tres Carnes, Dos Caminos is Spanish for “Two Sweatsocks.” Wait, what? Sorry, Google translate fail. Apparently…
Arts and Crafts Beer Parlor – Greenwich Village
It’s always concerning going to a bar this close to NYU. You run the risk of being beaned with a ping-pong ball, getting doused with Coors…
Momofuku Ssäm Bar
I’m still not sure I know what a ssäm is, but I assume it’s some Asian (possibly Korean) wrap type thing that involves meat, rice…
Book Reviews
Before the Fall
Is he a showrunner or an author? Or an author/novelist who’s a showrunner? The man behind such excellently twisted shows as Fargo and Legion breaks…
The Tiger’s Wife
No matter how many times I reminded myself that The Tiger’s Wife didn’t take place in India, (and is actually situated in an unnamed Balkan…
Tapping the Source
So I’d read that Tapping the Source was, in fact, the source material for the movie, Point Break. I mean, sure, there’s surfing and some…
Hipster Diary
Mahekal Beach Resort: Playa del Carmen, Mexico
Oh, Mexico! It’s been a while since I’ve swum in your blue waters and drank the water from your, uh, beautiful plastic bottles… But here we…
Gansevoort Turks and Caicos: Providenciales, Turks & Caicos
Turks and Caicos is two, two, two countries in one. Okay, I don’t know shit about the island nation or why it has two names,…
GoldenEye Resort: Oracabessa, Jamaica
Jamaica is an odd place. It’s mostly known for reggae and track stars, but it’s also a country that has also had intense issues with…
The Last of Us Remastered
Look, I don’t play a lot of video games. I’m an adult with a job and a wife and some kids and some other stuff…
But Wait, There's More
The Good Place: Season 1
It seems like it’s been a million years since I’ve watched a major-network sitcom. Ok, there is one other on my DVR schedule, but New…
Arts and Crafts Beer Parlor – Greenwich Village
It’s always concerning going to a bar this close to NYU. You run the risk of being beaned with a ping-pong ball, getting doused with Coors…
GoldenEye Resort: Oracabessa, Jamaica
Jamaica is an odd place. It’s mostly known for reggae and track stars, but it’s also a country that has also had intense issues with…
Tapping the Source
So I’d read that Tapping the Source was, in fact, the source material for the movie, Point Break. I mean, sure, there’s surfing and some…
3.5
The Lobster
Look, I knew The Lobster was going to be a weird hang. I knew it the second I saw that crumb catcher gracing the upper lip…
The OA: Season 1
Damn I’m a sucker for these types of series. Though I guess a ton of people are, otherwise they wouldn’t keep making these Lost-like shows…
1.5
Digging for Fire
Digging for Fire is apparently part of this whole mumblecore genre. A genre I thought I was okay with. Not thrilled with, but okay with….
Slaughter Beach, Dog: Welcome
The oddly named Slaughter Beach, Dog is apparently a side project of Modern Baseball lead singer, Jake Ewald. It’s not a huge departure from his main…
Search Party: Season 1
I get why they called this show Search Party. I mean, it sums up the plot in two easy words. But it doesn’t really define…
Goliath: Season 1
I believe Goliath is supposed to be part of this “prestige television” movement we’ve seen across all of basic and pay cable and your various…
The Hotelier: Goodness
Let’s talk about spoken-word shit. Actually, let’s not talk about spoken-word shit. Even if The Hotelier somehow thinks this most high school of emotive communication…
Momofuku Ssäm Bar
I’m still not sure I know what a ssäm is, but I assume it’s some Asian (possibly Korean) wrap type thing that involves meat, rice…
Conrad Keely: Original Machines
As the lead singer of …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, you kind of already know what to expect on Keely’s…
3
Steve Jobs
Am I a bad person for kind of liking this movie? Me, the person who constantly rails against biopics in all their forms? Even after…
Quality Eats
Quality Eats is kind of what mid-level New York eating is all about. It qualifies as a steakhouse because of the steak on its menu,…
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: Season 1
I was never a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy guy. To me Douglas Adams went along with Rush, sketch comedy and playing D&D beyond adolescence. In…
Black Mirror: Season 3
Black Mirror is great for several reasons. For one, it’s an anthology series in a time of heavily serialized television. I mean, it’s a prestige…
PUP: The Dream Is Over
Rocking and roiling punk noise from up North of the border is honestly on my list of things that make me consistently happy. And, on…
The Book of Strange New Things
The Book of Strange New Things is not only a mouthful, but is also almost impossible to describe without either sounding way too simplistic or entirely…
LVL UP: Return to Love
I believe this is the second LVL UP album I’ve reviewed in 2016, but why not stick with what you like, right? That said, I…