Word: things
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ratcliffe dropped unsigned out of the continental sky into the Winter Music Conference in Miami, tearing up the Cameo with their irrepressible funk-house meltdown and rode their fat beat steed straight into a hot and hungry bidding war over what know-it's everywhere are dubbing the hottest thing to happen to house music this decade. Their freshly released debut album Remedy--everybody's favorite new album--has been hailed as the album of the year, and the eponymous cure to all the things that have gone wrong with house music. And this summer, they were all over Ibiza...
...think the creative team behind the Austin Powers sequel had a script. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing--it just means that the movie needs to be awfully funny to counteract the lack of structure, story, meaning, logic, etc. And somehow, The Spy Who Shagged Me manages to be charming--even though making Elizabeth Hurley a fembot was idiotic, even though Heather Graham should have never opened her mouth, and even though the movie should have been called Dr. Evil 2: Austin Powers Has a Cameo. Myers has a knack for improvisation--and for taking a joke...
...Pretty Woman, it rivaled The Haunting for the I-want-my-money-back award of the summer. Even five screenwriters couldn't come up with a decent joke--the only good gag was so contrived that a FedEx truck had to appear out of nowhere for the damn thing to work. And poor Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. In Pretty Woman, they both clicked so perfectly--man meets hooker, man falls in love with hooker, hooker becomes princess. In Runaway Bride, it's more like schmuck meets ditz, shmuck falls for ditz, ditz remains confused. And come on, that scene...
That's the trouble with beauty: it may be satisfying, but it's pedestrian. It is not the worst thing to content yourself with an image that almost speaks, but this beauty can't tell you anything that you don't already know. American Beauty isn't merely skin deep, but it never quite cuts to the bone...
...There are so many techno/house/blahblah boxes on Lansdowne that Bill's Bar stands out most as a live music venue. The stage takes, well, centerstage in a room plastered with rock n' roll obituaries. The new big thing here is Monsta Mondays, featuring local and touring old school rock bands. This continues the tradition started in the now defunct Mama Kin. Sundays feature reggae and Underground Thursdays dish up anything alternative. Everybody's a friend here. Talk to any of the staff, all of whom belong to one band or another, to find out what's going...