Blogcritics Author: The Smoking Cupcake

Music Review: Air Traffic - Fractured Life

The Smoking Cupcake — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:59:51 EDT

Air Traffic's debut is sometimes frustrating, sometimes brilliant.
So many times a record’s success is a product of the environment in which it’s released. For example, people were largely looking for something on the lighter side of life by the time (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? came along in 1995. Not that the Gallagher brothers hadn’t already shown their chops on the brilliant debut...

Game, Set, Sampras: Honoring a Champion

The Smoking Cupcake — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:55:59 EDT

Pistol Pete brings MSG to life... one last time?
In September of 1990, I discovered two things that would slowly, over the next 17-plus years, evolve into two great passions: the game of tennis and the game of tennis as played by Pete Sampras. I sat mesmerized almost every night watching that year's U.S. Open on television in awe of so many things: night tennis, the flight paths into...

L.A. On Film

The Smoking Cupcake — Tue, 4 Mar 2008 23:03:17 EST

The Smoking Cupcake hold court on his favorite L.A.-centric films.
Over the weekend I was at a Circuit City browsing around and found a copy of the 1992 Laurence Fishburne film Deep Cover for six dollars. Being a Cupcake who appreciates everything and anything that is deeply discounted, especially something as badass as this film, I scooped it up like Baskin-Robbins. I was introduced to this film a long time ago...