Word: mishmash
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...thirds of the way through. Inside loses sight of its principal and most compelling storyline—the rise and fall of its stars Linda Lovelace and Harry Reems and director Gerard Damiano—and begins grabbing at socio-historical miscellany to spice things up. The resulting mishmash of music, fashion, and other cultural trivia resembles a bad VH1 “I Love the (insert date here)” special, when the demigods of yesterday’s pop-culture are dragged out and rehashed for those of us who’d either never cared...
...through. Inside loses sight of its principal and most compelling storyline—the rise and fall of Throat stars Linda Lovelace and Harry Reems and director Gerard Damiano—and begins grabbing at socio-historical miscellany to spice things up. The resulting mishmash of music, fashion, and other cultural trivia resembles a bad VH1 “I Love the ’70s” special, when the demigods of yesterday’s pop culture are dragged out and rehashed for those of us who either never cared or had long forgotten...
...records since Vision Creation Newsun in 1999—their most recent, Vision Recreation Newsound in 2001 was a remix album—the immortal-as-they-are-esoteric Boredoms have recently released a new album, Seadrum/House of Sun. Almost 20 years after they began patching together their unique mishmash of experimental noise, the Boredoms are still going strong, releasing more than 15 albums, leaving countless side projects in their wake and recently touring as “the V8rdoms,” consistently putting on immensely long and sprawling psychedelic trance-noise-rock performances. This V8rdoms-esque record, though...
HouseSYSTEM is much more than an online flea market. It’s a mishmash of attractively implemented and well-intentioned services, each unfortunately underutilized. Among these, CriticalMass was heralded last year as a CUE-Guide replacement that would allow students to express their true feelings about their courses. Apparently most people feel apathetic: the most recent posts I could find dated back to last July. The site’s online message board, which would provide a virus-free and unrestricted alternative to House lists, also has yet to take off. Rounding out the services offered, the events calendar...
...Ecks Vs. Sever, and the modern classic Battlefield Earth. It’s that kind of ethos that may be necessary for an auteur like Mamet to attain the status of “box office draw,” but it irreparably damages his ambition by tacking on mishmash such as this to his filmography...