The fourth installment of Two Word Reviews (patent pending) for tv shows, movies, and music for 2019, covering the fourth quarter (October, November, and December):
MOVIES
Amazing Grace - amazing performances
Europa Report - solid sci-fi
Transformers: The Last Knight - unbelievably incomprehensible
2036 Origin Unknown - clunky storytelling
Aniara - thought provoking
Frozen II - superior story
Booksmart - smartly sophisticated
MUSIC
Wilco: Ode To Joy - solid effort
The Darkness: Easter Is Cancelled - strong tunes
Cursive: Get Fixed - get this
Jimmy Eat World: Surviving - needed urgency
The Sheila Divine: Beginning Of The End Is Where We'll Start Again - lyrically cutting
TELEVISION
The 100, Season 6 (Netflix) - still entertaining
Mr. Robot, Season 3 (Amazon) - nice reset
Black Mirror, Seasons 1 & 2 (Netflix) - consistently interesting
The Sopranos, Season 1, 2 & 3 (HBO/Amazon) - deserved praise
The Man In The High Castle, Season 4 (Amazon) - landing stuck
The Mandalorian, Season 1 (Disney+) - nice pace
Watchmen, Season 1 (HBO) - watch it
The Expanse, Season 4 (Amazon) - upped game
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season 3 (Amazon) - going strong
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Concert Review: The Darkness at Promowest Pavilion, Columbus, Ohio (6.14.04)
For a brief, glorious moment, The Darkness were a lot of fun. Actually, it was more like a year. In Summer 2003, the band released their debut album Permission To Land. Over the top Freddie Mercury-ish vocals with massive glam metal guitar riffage? It was Buckcherry with a sense of humor, or Steel Dragon with a sense of taste, one of those out-of-nowhere, completely uncool-its-cool popular culture happenings that seem preposterous in retrospect, but at the time was a lot of fun.
I played the hell out of that debut album, learned various riffs on guitar, and generally enjoyed something so out of sync with the times, which was dominated by Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Kanye West and a lot of other very good, but also very serious, music. The Darkness were not serious, and it's good to have a balance, or at least that's what I've learned over the years. If all you do is listen to a very narrow sect of sounds, you're going to either burnout, or becoming boringly repetitive.
I played the hell out of that debut album, learned various riffs on guitar, and generally enjoyed something so out of sync with the times, which was dominated by Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Kanye West and a lot of other very good, but also very serious, music. The Darkness were not serious, and it's good to have a balance, or at least that's what I've learned over the years. If all you do is listen to a very narrow sect of sounds, you're going to either burnout, or becoming boringly repetitive.
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