Popular Voices, Cultural Matters 2009-07-10T12:09:29Z Copyright (c) 2009, PopMatters.com ExpressionEngine tag:popmatters.com,2009:07:10 tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/moving-pixels/35.107913 2009-07-10T12:00:00Z 2009-07-10T12:00:00Z Nick Dinicola tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107968 2009-07-10T11:45:00Z 2009-07-10T11:45:00Z Cynthia Fuchs In Humpday, Andrew can't help but compete with Anna, who has stolen his bro, or more precisely, his slowly receding notion of himself. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.107879 2009-07-10T11:35:00Z 2009-07-10T11:35:00Z Bill Gibron Ridiculing American rubes is like shooting dead, motionless fish in a barrel filled with Jell-O. The only "genius" involved is getting the public to buy it as scandal. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107966 2009-07-10T11:30:00Z 2009-07-10T11:30:00Z Renee Scolaro Mora I Love You, Beth Cooper is yet another in the long line of shameless knock-offs being shoveled into theaters near you. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107469 2009-07-10T06:00:58Z 2009-07-10T06:00:58Z Timothy G. Merello How apropos that Amadou and Mariam were so warmly attired as their sound would prove to be equally bright and radiant. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107871 2009-07-10T06:00:33Z 2009-07-10T06:00:33Z Matt Mazur A grand, intimate philosophical dissection of love, art, creative freedom and self-importance. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.102273 2009-07-10T06:00:25Z 2009-07-10T06:00:25Z Chris Barsanti The insights into desert nomad culture make the always present possibility of death almost pale in insignificance. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/column/19.95263 2009-07-10T06:00:13Z 2009-07-10T06:00:13Z G. Christopher Williams Williams considers the often strange roles that masks serve in Suda51's games and how they implicate us as players of video games. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107504 2009-07-10T06:00:05Z 2009-07-10T06:00:05Z Michael Metivier Whether or not history validates the Jayhawks' legacy, this anthology puts forth a strong argument. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.102302 2009-07-10T06:00:04Z 2009-07-10T06:00:04Z Thomas Britt This is no standards collection, and Dando isn't singing the hits. Varshons is instead a sort of late-career triumph for the Lemonheads. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107626 2009-07-10T06:00:03Z 2009-07-10T06:00:03Z Spencer Tricker One of the best live performances by any band on record, Sly & the Family Stone's Woodstock set remains simply staggering. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107541 2009-07-10T06:00:02Z 2009-07-10T06:00:02Z Matthew Fiander The Guilty Office makes that clear. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107450 2009-07-10T06:00:01Z 2009-07-10T06:00:01Z Evan Sawdey tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107923 2009-07-10T06:00:00Z 2009-07-10T06:00:00Z Mike Schiller Red Faction: Guerrilla's only failing is in its insistence on trying to have it both ways, appealing to some of our basest destructive instincts and then asking us to think about them. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.102203 2009-07-10T06:00:00Z 2009-07-10T06:00:00Z Alan Ranta tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/feature/21.95100 2009-07-10T06:00:00Z 2009-07-10T06:00:00Z Emily F. Popek The paradox of the new media is that for each face-to-face interaction we sacrifice, we open up the possibility of connecting with thousands of like-minded people. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/feature/21.107954 2009-07-10T06:00:00Z 2009-07-10T06:00:00Z Bob Batchelor What today’s students do not realize is that what Google provides is sometimes fact and oftentimes opinion – but never answers. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/feature/21.107946 2009-07-10T06:00:00Z 2009-07-10T06:00:00Z Ben Medeiros As a professor of mine once opined, it is the shift from Rockwell's paranoid "I always feel like somebody's watching me" to the insistence that someone need be watching to validate private feelings. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107241 2009-07-10T05:59:53Z 2009-07-10T05:59:53Z Lara Killian tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/37.107466 2009-07-10T05:59:35Z 2009-07-10T05:59:35Z Christian Carey tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107873 2009-07-10T05:59:11Z 2009-07-10T05:59:11Z J.M. Suarez The series is developing a mythology filled with mysterious agencies, rivals, and characters that often don’t reveal their true intentions right away. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107843 2009-07-10T05:58:45Z 2009-07-10T05:58:45Z Justin Brooks tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/37.107415 2009-07-10T05:58:04Z 2009-07-10T05:58:04Z Matthew Fiander tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/37.95103 2009-07-10T05:57:43Z 2009-07-10T05:57:43Z Andrew Martin tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/37.95112 2009-07-10T05:56:29Z 2009-07-10T05:56:29Z Timothy Gabriele tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.107880 2009-07-10T05:30:00Z 2009-07-10T05:30:00Z Bill Gibron Apparently, previous accomplishments and past reputation mean nothing in the "what have you done for me lately" world of Hollywood hackdom. Just because you've made excellent films as a director... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/marginal-utility/9.107962 2009-07-09T19:10:35Z 2009-07-09T19:10:35Z Rob Horning tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.107956 2009-07-09T17:20:50Z 2009-07-09T17:20:50Z Joe Tacopino tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/graphically-speaking/40.107411 2009-07-09T17:00:42Z 2009-07-09T17:00:42Z Zane Austin Grant Some people move a lot, jumping from city to city, addicted to the newness and the ability to abandon their pasts. Through this process, they begin to refine their autobiographic introductions.... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/sound-affects/34.107951 2009-07-09T15:33:53Z 2009-07-09T15:33:53Z Courtney Young tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.107950 2009-07-09T15:29:29Z 2009-07-09T15:29:29Z Joe Tacopino Toro Y Moi is the moniker of young South Carolinian Chaz Bundick. And as "Blessa" shows, he certainly has listening to a lot of Panda Bear and Flying Lotus. Look for two full-lengths in... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.107934 2009-07-09T13:19:11Z 2009-07-09T13:19:11Z PopMatters Staff SONG LIST 01 Tongue "N" Cheek 02 Bonkers (with Armand Van Helden) 03 Holiday (with... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/moving-pixels/35.107935 2009-07-09T13:08:37Z 2009-07-09T13:08:37Z L.B. Jeffries tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107926 2009-07-09T12:55:55Z 2009-07-09T12:55:55Z Cynthia Fuchs In brief, stark moments, Duncan Jones' movie makes plain how awful it is to be so solitary, how utterly impossible it is to consider this existence a "living." ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.107930 2009-07-09T12:03:40Z 2009-07-09T12:03:40Z PopMatters Staff SONG LIST 01. The Blog 02. Give It Up 03. True Stories 04. Dance! 05. Molly 06. Do It Your Way 07. In the Red 08.... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/short-ends-and-leader/17.107885 2009-07-09T10:45:42Z 2009-07-09T10:45:42Z Bill Gibron It's lasted over six years. It's become the buzz in the background of our daily lives. It's the rote response to any "support our troops" suggestion. And even with a recent 'withdrawal', there still... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/sound-affects/34.107914 2009-07-09T06:41:22Z 2009-07-09T06:41:22Z Diepiriye Kuku tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107807 2009-07-09T06:00:58Z 2009-07-09T06:00:58Z Matt Mazur Clement’s near-perfect film and Wajda’s hugely influential title cannot salvage the validity of the collection as a whole. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107178 2009-07-09T06:00:20Z 2009-07-09T06:00:20Z Zachary Houle Niedzviecki holds a party for his 700 Facebook followers, but is dismayed when only one person is willing to actually show up. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107454 2009-07-09T06:00:09Z 2009-07-09T06:00:09Z Rory O'Connor Watching the Sadies live is like bearing witness to a tornado, a sort of freak of nature that pays no mind to its surroundings in forging a path. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107858 2009-07-09T06:00:06Z 2009-07-09T06:00:06Z Ian Chant tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/feature/21.107585 2009-07-09T06:00:06Z 2009-07-09T06:00:06Z Diepiriye Kuku The ultimate list of icons to pay performance tribute to THE icon. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107391 2009-07-09T06:00:05Z 2009-07-09T06:00:05Z Timothy Gabriele Bibio reinvents himself as a number of different people -- Neil Young, J Dilla, Ariel Pink, bands named after animals -- but retains a thematic proximity to the idea of the persistence of memory. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/feature/21.107828 2009-07-09T06:00:05Z 2009-07-09T06:00:05Z Timothy Gabriele Unlike John Lennon’s clumsy attempts to appear working class or Mick Jagger’s incessant chauvinist posturing, Michael Jackson had no strong desire to be “authentic” or “real”. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.102340 2009-07-09T06:00:04Z 2009-07-09T06:00:04Z Adrien Begrand If this is indeed Voivod's final album, you couldn't ask for a finer way to cap off a sterling career. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/feature/21.107580 2009-07-09T06:00:04Z 2009-07-09T06:00:04Z Kevin M. Brettauer Oddly enough, the Jackson debacle reminds me of another recent death, that of Ronald Reagan just over five years ago. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107012 2009-07-09T06:00:03Z 2009-07-09T06:00:03Z Justin Cober-Lake tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/feature/21.107577 2009-07-09T06:00:03Z 2009-07-09T06:00:03Z Kiernan Curran Michael Jackson is a perennial stranger, an eccentric character with an upbringing which dwarfs any Philip Larkin-esque conception of the fucked up. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/feature/21.107523 2009-07-09T06:00:02Z 2009-07-09T06:00:02Z Teresa Jusino "Thriller" was the first 'meta' horror film, paving the way for much of the genre films we enjoy today. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107829 2009-07-09T06:00:00Z 2009-07-09T06:00:00Z Daniel Rivera Former face of The Distillers exudes a blending of confidence and vulnerablity on this flawed debut. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107016 2009-07-09T06:00:00Z 2009-07-09T06:00:00Z Timothy Gabriele tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107384 2009-07-09T06:00:00Z 2009-07-09T06:00:00Z Lana Cooper Blackout! 2 gives their patient fans a solid disc of party anthems ten years later. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/column/19.92518 2009-07-09T06:00:00Z 2009-07-09T06:00:00Z Shaun Huston We needn’t substitute our daily fears with the supernatural to understand what it means to adopt different identities for different purposes and to feel both tied to and apart from others, but in Barbara’s case, it helps. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/feature/21.107878 2009-07-09T06:00:00Z 2009-07-09T06:00:00Z Michael Caylo-Baradi Sometimes it’s not easy to locate the child prodigy and genius musician in those transformations, as though what constitutes a stellar career is only prelude and financial support for his body’s desired transformations. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107337 2009-07-09T05:59:47Z 2009-07-09T05:59:47Z Kieran Curran tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/feature/21.92653 2009-07-09T05:59:25Z 2009-07-09T05:59:25Z Sean Murphy Mingus Ah Um sounds like the 20th Century: it is a self-portrait of a man who helped define the direction of post-bop jazz, commenting on the country that created him. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/37.107294 2009-07-09T05:59:25Z 2009-07-09T05:59:25Z Michael Kabran tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107849 2009-07-09T05:58:19Z 2009-07-09T05:58:19Z Bruce Dancis tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/37.95181 2009-07-09T05:58:15Z 2009-07-09T05:58:15Z Justin Cober-Lake Kind of Brown resists stylistic novelty, it does provide a highly entertaining way to revisit that old Blue Note sound while taking in something fresh. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/37.107124 2009-07-09T05:57:43Z 2009-07-09T05:57:43Z Joe Tacopino tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/37.95116 2009-07-09T05:56:09Z 2009-07-09T05:56:09Z Estella Hung tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/media-center/15.107909 2009-07-08T21:31:29Z 2009-07-08T21:31:29Z PopMatters Staff Mayer Hawthorne A Strange Arrangement (Stones Throw) Releasing: 6 October 2009 (US) SONG LIST 01. We Made 02. A Strange Arrangement 03. Just Ain't Gonna Work Out 04.... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.107866 2009-07-08T11:43:47Z 2009-07-08T11:43:47Z Cynthia Fuchs Burma VJ articulates a circular, daunting, and inevitable logic: visibility = life. ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/sound-affects/34.107870 2009-07-08T11:09:29Z 2009-07-08T11:09:29Z G E Light Sorry but I couldn't find a video of Little Milton doing his signature tune (don't worry he takes his well-deserved bow later anyway). So you go to a blues festival for the music and 'cuz you're some... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/blogs/graphically-speaking/40.107358 2009-07-08T10:30:16Z 2009-07-08T10:30:16Z Zane Austin Grant More than gore for gore's sake, the best zombie stories are about a force in society becoming normalized into a mob mentality. Night of the Living Dead was about an African American man in... ]]> tag:popmatters.com,2009:pm/review/5.94727 2009-07-08T06:00:49Z 2009-07-08T06:00:49Z Sarah Moore I hate to say it, but it seemed like he was just going through the motions. But for many people, that’s just fine. ]]>