Name: Steven Rubio
Weblog: begonias.typepad.com
Articles: 32
First Published: Thursday, January 22, 2004
Last Published: Friday, June 4, 2004
Currently listing articles 32-1:
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Obsessing About Karma— The Karma is not an iPod.
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Sleater-Kinney at the Fillmore— They are better than ever.
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My review of Elephant— walk walk walk BLAM!
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Deadwood women— An extremely limited set of options.
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Acoustic Sunrise— Rhapsody playlist fun
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Happy Birthday— What was I thinking, back in 1974?
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Deadwood— It's a really really good guy show.
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Dirty Pretty Things— A film about the people we do not see.
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Pink as Janis— I am Mr. Prediction
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Forrest Gump— I really detest this movie.
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In This World— In This World is some kind of hybrid movie. I guess you could call it a "docudrama" but even then, it's not all that it
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The School of Rock— Jack Black, AC/DC, ten-year-old kids ... what's not to like?
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Wonderfalls— Fill in the blanks: Barry Bonds is to the San Francisco Giants as ----- is to television.
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The Man on the Train— Johnny Hallyday gets old.
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Michael Jackson: Thriller— This time, at least, 26,000,000 fans can't be wrong.
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Pieces of April— When did "Thanksgiving Movie" become a sub genre?
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Rockism— Rockism gets googled.
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Monster— Charlize Theron is as good as everyone says, and it ain't about the makeup, she gets inside the character.
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A Mighty Wind— That kiss makes a big difference.
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Girl With a Pearl Earring— Slow-moving but not boring, low-key but not without points to be made, and gets the job done in 95 minutes.
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Astral Weeks— Astral Weeks exists on some other plane entirely.
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Lost in Translation— A lovely movie, reminiscent of In the Mood for Love.
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Capturing the Friedmans— A disturbing Oscar-nominated documentary that leads viewers to question their sense of the factual.
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Nirvana - Nevermind— Nevermind was one of the greatest albums ever made.
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American Splendor— One of the many marvelous things about American Splendor is that the extraordinary trickiness of the film's structure is truly the only way to tell
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Big Fish— You're stuck for two hours with an insufferable, self-absorbed blowhard.
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The Golden Age of Television— It's now.
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Seabiscuit— Seabiscuit was nominated for seven Oscars, and I can't say that I understand most of them.
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Tony Peluso— "Goodbye to Love" was the only good record the Carpenters ever recorded.
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The Wire— The Wire is the best show on television.
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the velvet underground— The Velvet Underground was not a popular band.
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Harry Belafonte: Calypso— Harry Belafonte's 1956 album Calypso did not make the Rolling Stone Top 500.
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