I just received Jim Breuer’s new Comedy Central DVD, “Let’s Clear the Air.” Originally, I was going to give this away, but goddamn it, I like it too much. If you don’t know NYC’s Jim Breuer, he’s been on Saturday Night Live (albeit during its lowest point, from 1995 to 1998) where he was “Goat [...]

I owe Those Darlins a big apology. I’ve been sitting on their self-titled debut for a month now, even though I knew from the first two songs (“Red Light Love” and “Wild One”) that I’d be reviewing this three-chicks-and-a-guy band from Tennessee. Are Kelley Darlin, Jessi Darlin and Nikki Darlin really sisters? I doubt it. [...]

Quixote are a bunch of sneaky bastards. They begin their self-titled debut album with a stutter-stop indie-rock lick that sounds like so many other bands I can’t even figure out what it’s most like.  Yet as that first song, “Annunaki,” moves along, it picks up speed and keeps me reasonably interested, and then takes a [...]

The steroid photo album.  There’s a bunch of pictures like this here.  These two are my favorites.  But definitely go visit the site–there’s a special celebrity picture there.  And it’s not of a person you’d expect. I wonder which one will be the next Governor of California?

My youngest is, as I write this, watching the first X-Men movie again (for the 5th time?). Such a great film. And lately, I’ve been ripping through Joss Whedon’s astonishing run on Astonishing X-Men (the best X-book of all time, hands down) and the pretty nifty Ultimate X-Men bound volumes (Mark Millar is becoming one [...]

Introducing the latest member of the Berkeley Place team, CD the comics writer!  A little bio info, and then his first article–on Blackest Night, the D.C. “event” of the year.  Usually events are risky–and usually they are bloated and confusing.  Will BN be another “Crisis” or Skrull Invasion?  Let’s see what Chris thinks . . [...]

Jay-Z vs. Radiohead (duh). Does it always work?  No.  But it’s cool to hear at least once. 1 – Air Roc (4:22) 2 – Life There (3:29) 3 – Reckoner’s Encore (3:45) 4 – Song and Cry (4:39) 5 – December Backdrifts (4:09) Get the whole damn thing here.

Ladies and gentlemen, at long last, the best album of 2008.  I can’t believe I didn’t get a chance to hear this until the last month, and then only because a small blogger turned me on to it.  What a revelation Plants and Animals are from Montreal, and “Parc Avenue” is not their debut.  But [...]