SEE DEEZ
M'jU SIC REVI EWS
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Overall Rating: * :i: 2**
This was all right with some nice tight
beats. Yet Bleek's rhymes still need to
come of age. The only reason I would buy
"BIEEk'S RHYMES
STIR NEEd TO
COME OF AGE
this CD is because of Beanie Siegel and
Jay-Z. They have once again saved his
album!!!
For Fans of
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This album is an expression of free will,
individuality and imagination. PJ Harvey
takes her audience on a journey through
the unknown, unfamiliar and dangerous,
while comforting and protecting the lis
Memphis Bleek
The Understanding
RocaFella
Out
Rap
Jay-Z, Beanie Siegel
Uncle Sal
PJ Harvey
Stories from the City,
Stories from the Sea
Island
Fall 2000
Rock
tener. The songs symbolize the fluid, stat
ic and choatic life on the streets of New
York City as compared to the ever-chang
ing, flowing, raging sea. After listening to
"UN kNOWN ,
UNFAIVIIIIAR ANC]
CIANC I EROUS"
the entire album, I was able to conceptual
ize a utopian world that can't exist
because the status quo persists. This
album personifies the notion of social
issues and the inequalities and indecencies
thereof as solvable by the means of com
munity, tolerance and respect.
For Fans of•
Reviewed By: The Gooseman
Artist/Group: Various Artists
Album Title: Valentine Soundtrack
Label: Warner Bros.
Release Date: January 2001
Genre: Alternative Rock
Overall Rating: EO3 :': :°:
If you're the type of person who usually
listens to "105.7 the X," then this sound
track is for you. Artists such as Rob
Zombie, Linkin Park, Orgy, and Soulfly,
among others, are featured. In today's
world, it seems that the soundtrack to a
movie is almost as important as the
motion picture itself. Even though the
artists featured on the Valentine sound
track are not who I typically listen to, the
"AS IMPORTANT AS
THE MOTION
PICTURE ITSELF"
album itself is in no way bad. Like I said
before, if you like these types of musi
cians, then go out and buy this CD.
For Fans of: Modern alternative
Ani Defranco, Tori
Amos, The Breeders
Reviewed By: Dirty
Artist/Group: Voice of a Generation
Album Title: Obligations to the Odd
Label: Epitaph/Buming Heart
Release Date: January 23, 2001
Genre
Overall Rating: .°: .
This is not a good album . . . it's a @&*!
great album. The music and lyrics are grit
ty and fast. At no time does this album
Cheap Seats & Sticky Floors
By Matt Mosley
Capital Times Staff Writer
Panic
I really don't have a whole lot to say
about this film except it was cool as sh*t.
Magical things can happen on a movie
screen when you give a well-established
and amazing character actor a large role in
a small film with outstanding writing and
directing. He did it with Fargo and now
he has done it again with Panic. Plain and
simple, William H. Macy is a god.
To say it in the most complicated and
confusing manner possible, Panic is a
mixture of Quentin Tarantino (Pulp
Fiction) on heroin an(
Atom Egoyan (The Swe(
Hereafter) on spee,
Now, those of you flu:
tered by that analogy, 11
me explain. Panic takes
Tarantino-esque story
hitman who is having
midlife crisis and wane
to quit his job) and giv'
it a slap of depth ant
complexity that is usual.
only seen in the films
Atom Egoyan. You an
given a story that exam.
ines the true psyche
behind the mind of a hit man. Panic is a
wonderful little meditation on an obscure
man, who is part of an obscure crime fam
ily.
William H. Macy, the David Mamet
(Oleana, State and Main) and P.T.
Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia)
fave, takes this role and runs with it. He is
the kind of actor who can convey the com
plex feelings and emotions of a character
Streetpunk/Oi!
REVIEWS
lack energy. This five-piece Swedish
group provides you with anthems to get
drunk to and wreck sh*t! It's punk, it's
"THE MICICRE
FINGER STUFFECI
INTO THE FACE OF
AUTHORITY
Oi!, it's a grand circle-pit! This album is
the middle finger stuffed into the face of
authority!
For Fans of: Rancid, The Business,
Bombshell Rocks, U.S. Bombs.
Ratings Key
Horrible
q rye Heard Worse
BOrrow . or Steal It, Don't Buy . lt:':.
I Would Probably Buy It ':'
Stupendous
film reviews
in a way that is so easily understandable
and so easily touching. Macy is definitely
one of the great and most under-appreciat
ed American actors.
This is not to say that he is the only
actor worth noting in the film: Tracey
Ullman gives a very good and original
performance as Macy' wife, and John
Ritter turns in another fantastic supporting
performance as his psychiatrist.
The only down spot in the film is
Macy's young love interest, "Party of
Five" and Scream's most spunky actress,
Neve Campbell. Now
this may sound a bit
harsh, but the minute she
appeared on-screen, I
wanted to bash that
quirky little mouth with a
sledgehammer.
Campbell gives a one
dimensional and over
acted performance in a
role that never becomes
fully realized. She is a
complete distraction.
and directed by first-time
filmmaker Alex Bromell
(who wrote for "Northern Exposure" and
"Chicago Hope"). Bromell touches so
many levels in this film that it almost
impossible to keep track of them. Bromell
writes with genuine love for the character
of Alex (Macy) and directs with a flare of
grace and peace. He is definitely a talent
who will only blossom with time. Panic is
now playing at the Ritz at the Bourse in
Philadelphia.
Panic was written