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So, let’s summarize: this is a boring movie, a polar opposite of its prequel. It feels haphazard, scattered, wandering — like the script was still being written during production, and they just decided to hang out in Egypt for the second half until they could figure out a way to wrap it up. When Shia dies and goes to Transformer heaven and meets the Transformer gods, I called bullshit. What a stupid movie.
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So much has been written about Bitte Orca, the newest album by indie rock’s Dirty Projectors, that it’s an almost daunting task to find something worth bringing to the table that hasn’t yet been discussed at length. In the digital age, it’s akin to reviewing, like, Thriller or Revolver or something. The immediacy and over-saturation of the Internet has rendered my thoughts typical; discourse is redundant. What’s left to be said about an album released three weeks ago whose Google search results in well over 1 million hits?
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Omar Rodríguez-López likes to keep himself busy. He’s released an LP with The Mars Volta, dropped two solo albums, lent his production talent to Juliette Lewis’ new band, and collaborated with Hella drummer Zach Hill all just this year. His latest effort finds him both singing and writing lyrics, in addition to the usual guitar [...]
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After 2008’s The Bedlam in Goliath, it seemed as if guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala had painted themselves into a corner. This is not to say that Bedlam was necessarily a bad album – but it was dangerously close to crossing the fine line between controlled, progressive sound and total confusion and mess.
However, [...]
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I was always under the impression that Conan O’Brien was a beloved figure of this generation’s culture. The dude’s been on TV since the early ’90s, wrote for The Simpsons’ best (and most popular) seasons, and has pretty much established himself as a consistent and entertaining performer (not to mention I have never personally met [...]
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