Toronto International Film Festival 2008 in Review
Glenn’s Toronto Film Festival 2008: For the Love of Film (46 movies in 10 days) THE TIFF Che: "I believe in mankind." 1 – Ashes of Time Redux – Wong Kar-wai 2 – A Christmas Tale – Arnaud Desplechin 3 – 35 Rhums – Claire Denis 4 – Wendy and Lucy – Kelly Reichardt [...]
Detektivbyrån – Wermland
There doesn’t seem to be very much Bohemian-flavored music coming stateside these days, though the release of Little Miss Sunshine helped bring DeVotchKa to the forefront of the movement, and Beirut has been picking up steam lately. As such, it is not surprising when Detektivbyrån (Detective Agency) draw the inevitable comparisons to these two bands. However, [...]
Drifting Into Spring
From the stairwell outside, a dark cigar billows smoke plumes. Not quite the normal smell of spring. These days, everything’s the same but different. I have to walk away from it. From long-distanced hospital beds, to radiated hairs falling from your scalp to my wooden floor, the smell of cancer has reached my nose [...]
I Am Audio Tour (And So Can You!)
2008 was widely proclaimed as “the Summer of Film” in Seattle, where 4 features were shot, ranging from the super-indie Humpday (by local filmmaker Lynn Shelton) to World’s Greatest Dad starring Robin Williams. And I made it my mission to get my face – or at least my body – into one of them. [...]
Hamlet 2
Steve Coogan was funny once. I think it was around 10:38pm on a Sunday night in the late 80s when he impersonated someone famous on UK TV’s lampoon show Spitting Image. Between now and then he has, somewhat inexplicably, become a member of the British acting cognoscenti in Hollywood. Despite the fact that he [...]
Bumbershoot 2008
Randomville just got done going toe-to-toe with BUMBERSHOOT 2008. For three straight days over Labor Day weekend, we conducted interviews, snapped pics, reviewed live performances and met tons of new friends. Were you at the fest and want to compare your thoughts on what you saw? Click right here to see our coverage, and there is plenty of explanations for all [...]
Caspian Takes the Lead in Boston
On August 21st, I attended what was to be an Yndi Halda concert, featuring two other bands called Caspian and Hadoken, at TT The Bear’s Place in Cambridge, MA. I was already very familiar with Yndi Halda and Caspian: the former’s debut album Enjoy Eternal Bliss was received among post-rock fans as hands-down, one of the [...]
Uncensored Interview
Just thought we’d check in and see what our friends over at Uncensored Interview have been up to. UI is a video interview (digital, not VHS!) website that focuses mostly on the independent in the music world. Plus, the interviews are chopped up into small segments (sometimes less than a minute) to focus only on [...]
Want to write for Randomville?
“In Other Words” is Randomville’s entertainment catch-all. If it’s not about music, comics, TV, film, books, or games, you’ll find it here. Been to the rodeo and want to write about it? Want to interview your favorite local comedian? Got a personal anecdote about training for a marathon? Write about it, and we’ll put [...]
The Dark Knight on Two Dark Nights
If you haven’t seen The Dark Knight, the newest biopic of legendary fictitious millionaire Bruce Wayne and his alter-ego Batman, please go find someone who has seen it and ask them to slap you in the face. If you haven’t seen it because of some moral obligation, fine, ask them to place their left hand [...]