Name: Jordan Richardson
Dateline: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Weblog: canadianaudiophile.wordpress.com
Articles: 133
First Published: Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Last Published: Sunday, July 6, 2008
Currently listing articles 133-101:
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Book Review: Simplexity by Jeffrey Kluger— Simplifies and complicates the world simultaneously.
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Movie Review: What Would Jesus Buy?— Follow Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping as they head to the Promised Land!
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Music Review: Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.— Oh sure, there's posturing and posing all over this. That's the point.
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Music Review: G-Unit - T.O.S.: Terminate On Sight— A conked-out group of mediocre rappers stringing together a chain of suburban soft-core rap.
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Music Review: Immortal Technique - The 3rd World— Tech brings the content and brings it hard.
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Music Review: Calabria Foti - A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening— With ten elegant songs, Calabria Foti's second album is a sultry and silky album certain to steam up the windows.
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Book Review - Stories of a Recovering Fundamentalist: Understanding and Responding to Christian Absolutism By James C. Alexander— A compelling memoir and an intelligent, respectful discussion about Christian absolutism.
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Music Review: Withered - Folie Circulaire— You may wind up missing a limb after listening to this one.
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Music Review: Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward— A frenzied punk salvo from the dubious Nashville four-piece.
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Music Review: Nat King Cole - Sings for Two In Love/Sings Ballads of the Day— More splendid traditional balladry from the baritone crooner.
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Music Review: Amos Lee - Last Days at the Lodge— A perfect companion to a sinking sun on a summer evening.
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Book Review: The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens By Vox Day— Not a substitute for the claims of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens, but a volume aiming to simply prove them wrong..
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Music Review: Ashanti - The Declaration— It will sell well, it's easy-to-digest and flavourless, and it's wholly unremarkable.
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Music Review: 36 Crazyfists - The Tide and Its Takers— This album will kick your stereo's ass.
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Music Review: Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too— Martha's second album features the best Wainwright ready to victimize or be victimized.
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Music Review: We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery— The latest pop-rock nugget from the Cali trio.
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Music Review: Russian Circles - Station— This seven-song-squall is a serious sonic attack.
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Music Review: Danity Kane - Welcome to the Dollhouse— This album is a bag of excremental gibberish better suited to be set ablaze and set on Diddy’s porch.
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Music Review: Larry Vuckovich Trio - High Wall: Real Life Film Noir— Larry and his accomplices provide a soundtrack for a smoky night and a mysterious woman in red.
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Music Review: Jeremy Schonfeld - 37 Notebooks— A collection of quality songs built from the ground up with a sense for the theatrical.
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Music Review: Duffy - Rockferry— The best album of 2008, thank you very much.
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Satire: Gitmo Workers Anxious About Employment Future— With the new ruling, employees are understandably nervous about their job prospects.
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Music Review: Melissa Suzanne - Inspirationally Unplugged— A charming package of music from an up-and-coming singer.
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DVD Review: Jumper (Two-Disc Special Edition)— Too short and too bland to be interesting, this one had me jumping for the exits.
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Music Review: Rustic Overtones - Light at the End— The songs are diverse, running the gamut of sound from straightforward rock songs to sweeping ballads that seem destined for outdoor concerts under moonlit skies.
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Music Review: Elvis Costello and the Imposters - Momofuku— Made in six days in Los Angeles, this is truly a work of Ramen-esque proportions.
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Music Review: Nat King Cole - Ramblin' Rose/Dear Lonely Hearts (Reissue)— Another twofer reissue from Collectors' Choice.
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Music Review: HEALTH - DISCO— Noise music remixed and made ready for a night on the town.
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Domesticating Torture Creates New Jobs— Domesticating torture isn't such a bad idea after all.
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Music Review: The Futureheads - This Is Not The World— A sub-standard entry in the annals of The Futureheads.
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Book Review: God Without Religion - Questioning Centuries of Accepted Truths by Sankara Saranam— Saranam's gentle amendment has more power and more guts than similar tomes of anti-religious content.
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Music Review: Phantom Planet - Raise the Dead— Phantom Planet heads right into the sphere of dull pop-rock humdrum in search of instant gratification and big radio hits.
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Music Review: Jukebox the Ghost - Let Live and Let Ghosts— Set against a sea of comparisons to Queen and They Might Be Giants, Jukebox the Ghost might have a lot of living up to do.
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