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Re: shows and party review




Gary Miller wrote:

> I figured Mammoth would at least give a go at doing something cool.  I
> don't know why I thought that, I just did.  A few streamers and a
> somewhat-ironic cover band does not a cool party make.

Spoken like a true never-been-to-a-Mammoth-party-ite. Man. I think I
actually went to two years' worth of the things before I realized that
the *most* fun one might conceivably have at a Mammoth party would be
(a) watching Jay Faires hit on women, or (b) verbal sparring with the
always-feisty Mammoth publicity staff, both of which one can do anytime
anyway.

Thank god the ability to throw a decent Xmas party has never had all
that much bearing on the ability to put out decent records. There are at
least a half-dozen Mammoth releases sitting in my 150-most-played list
for the past few years, which isn't bad for an uppity little label from
Carrboro.

(Uh, that would be Blackgirls, Vanilla Trainwreck, Joe Henry, SNZ and
now Backsliders, for those of you keeping score at home. Oh yeah, that
Dillon Fence "any other way" EP with "Coal Tattoo" on it rocks bells as
well.)
> 
> Otherwise, I should've been seeing Bo's movie at Holly's house.
> Gary

Or, for that matter, seeing Mars Attacks! Best movie of the
holiday-silly-movie season, I'll wager. Or, as Ben Florin said, "If they
made a two-hour movie of just the aliens walking around inside their
spaceship, I'd go see *that*." 

It's not any less cartoony than any other Tim Burton film, but if you
sat through two and a half hours of the bone-numbing Independence Day,
this feels like major payback. I was tired as hell the night I saw it
and I still wound up giggling like a schoolgirl the whole time. 

And their little heads are just so darn cute when they jiggle and
explode green shit all over the insides of their helmets . . . hell, I'd
watch *that* for two hours.

Ross

oh yeah, Spin's film columnist pointed out that 5 movies this year
featured the Presidential family, and in three of those, the First Lady
gets it by the end of the film. Mars Attacks is one of them. That,
however, pales in comparison to the upcoming (next January) "Murder at
1600," in which the Prexy or his wife apparently kill some woman at the
White House, and attempt to cover it up. Those fuckers who accuse
Hollywood of being all lefty and democratic are out of their bleeding
minds.

Oh, and my favorite part of the trailers for "Murder at 1600" is the
re-creation of the scene from "All the Presidents Men" with Deep Throat
out by the Lincoln or Jefferson Memorials (god, is it one, the other, or
both? I can't recall) . . . only in "Murder," the Deep Throat character
is played by Alan Alda. Huh?
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