It was supposed to be just another Tuesday. Do some laundry, write a little, get a haircut, and apply for non-existent jobs. That all changed when I woke up to an email from Charlie Meadows asking, “U wanna go Drifting today?” Ummm, huh? I had no idea what that meant. I thought he was cracking […]

Available on the Where the Wild Things Are Blu-Ray and DVD — which comes out today  — is a special feature, a completely unreleased 23-minute adaptation of another of Wild Things author Maurice Sendak’s books, Higglety Pigglety Pop! Starring the voices of Meryl Streep and Forrest Whitaker, the short was directed by Maciek Szczerbowski and […]

Yes, the quality is crap and half the microphones are blown, but if you have 20 minutes in your day then you have time for Mick Jones on TV Party. The cult landmark TV Party (re-released awhile back on DVD) was a free cable access show in New York City that ran from 1978 to […]

One of our favorite (and of course best) LA undergrounds is celebrating its 30th installment this Saturday, January 7.  That’s right – 30 nights of pure techno and its mutations in its freshest form. If you were one of the lucky Angelenos to attend the last installment – Droid’s 7 year anniversary party – then […]

How nobody has stepped up to make a documentary like this is hard to believe, but given the trailer it seems respected documentary filmmaker Chris Atkins (Taking Liberties) may have really put together something truly groundbreaking: “Star Suckers is a feature documentary about the celebrity obsessed media, that uncovers the real reasons behind our addiction […]

If Archer maintains being half as funny as its pilot, it’s gonna be perma-locked into my Tivo. Created by Adam Reed of Sealab 2021 fame, the show follows the exploits of the self-absorbed, narcisistic secret agent Sterling Archer who seems to survive on a shaky diet of lascivious ignorance and nepotism alone (his mom is […]