Tom Waits and Don Lane have really bad screen chemistry. Lane’s sincere admiration and Waits’s well meaning sacrilege clash like Jesus in the Parthenon. Of course neither is a holy deity, but Waits is more 40s screen star gone wrong than ever before, while Lane sort of acts on as Mother Hen, or as Tom […]
9
Aug
The Rain Dog gets awkward, inspires Heath Ledger's Joker
23
Aug
A vague, self-indulgent portrait of a pop icon
Ah, Serge. The type of sex God only France could create: gangly, skinny, big nose, bulging eyes, and looking like a cross between Mr. Burns and Roman Polanski with a lit cigarette hanging from his puffy lips. Despite his crazy appearance, Serge Gainsbourg wooed Brigitte Bardot and wedded Jane Birkin and had women all over […]
26
Mar
Just don't drop the mashed potatoes between the keys
Do you ever find yourself in the middle of dinner thinking, “Man, I could really go for some ragtime Scott Joplin-style piano playing right now.” No? Ok, well even so, this piano/dinner table is a creative innovation from Georg Bohle. The two things in your house that always take up the most space have now […]
28
Jul
When auto-brands, designers and pianomakers unite to make music
In the last decade Audi has completely transformed itslef, largely on the strength of its stunning design and engineering. When Walter de’Silva got ahold of the company in 2002 and began helming its design division, he turned its destiny 180 degrees — culminating in the mindblowing Audi s5, which he’s called his most beautiful design […]
