Spitball Army

Shutter Island, the new Martin Scorsese picture, is currently scheduled for an October 2009 release. The gothic horror tale boasts a killer cast that includes Leonardo Di Caprio, Mark Ruffalo, Patricia Clarkson, Max von Sydow, Jackie Earle Haley, Michelle Williams, Sir Ben Kingsley.

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“If I can make it here, I’ll make it anywhere.”

So goes the line from the well-worn song “New York, New York.” And, apparently, the inverse rule applies, as well. The last of the giant music retail stores in New York City shuttered completely yesterday, according to this morning’s New York Times.

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There was a large attic vent perched right up on the crest of the roof. It dated back many decades, perhaps even back to the ’20s or ’30s (the house was built in 1925). There is only one other house with such a vent on its roof on my block. Now it is the sole house with that artifact, as I had the roofing company take it down (it was not functioning).

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The “Mr. Flynn!” scene;
Bigelow’s Fruit & Almond herbal tea;
Bobby Bird

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The IFFB has just shown a documentary film about the independent record store culture, entitled I Need That Record: The Death (or Possible Survival) of the Independent Record Store. Not Coming to a Theater Near You’s Victoria Large has posted one of the first reviews of this film at notcoming.com.

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I used to think that 1972 was the be-all, end-all year of pop music, and 1967. Now I’m not so sure which one comes out on top. There is a ten-year stretch in there between the mid-’60s and the mid-’70s when some of my favorite records of all genres were released. I become firmer in my resolve about that with each passing year.

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Aiming to fill a hole in my filmic vocabulary, and to be on a more level standing with my Auteurs cohorts, I rented Stalker.

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