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...feeling a little disjointed. Like most clean-shaven agnostic half-Jews, I get slightly nervous around Hasidim, perhaps because we can't both be right about life. And though my cousin is of mixed-blood, like me, and was never particularly religious, his wedding guests included real-deal Hasids: Ultra-Orthodox men chanting and praying and rocking back and forth, in their fedora hats and tzitzit strings hanging around their waist...
...sings from the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage.” Atmosphere even has a song called “Wild Wild Horses,” for God’s sake (God is Keith Richards, in this case). These allusions confirm that Atmosphere is an ultra-intelligent group, both lyrically and tonally. But do they have the courage to sample something ridiculous like “The Young and the Restless,” à la Mary J. Blige? Well, not in this album, anyway. Then again, the kind of writing and music that Slug...
...Zucca, a Frenchman hired by the German magazine Signal to capture scenes of Paris flourishing under Nazi rule. Zucca's bosses' gave him extremely rare and valuable rolls of Agfacolor film to shoot his busy shoppers, café-lounging lovers, parks filled with parents and playing children, and ultra-chic Parisiennes sporting the last word in fashionably enormous eyewear...
...most ridiculous, most unrealistic, and most hilarious characters. Rudd plays a flaky surfing instructor who gives Peter bits of advice, such as, “When life gives you lemons, just say ‘Fuck the lemons!’ and bail.” Brand is the ultra-cool, ultra-skinny, ultra-British singer Aldous Snow, who is so hip that even Peter can’t help but like him—even when Snow steals the scenes they share. After the slow first half, the funny, well-timed delivery of lines from these characters gives...
...Jezebel James.” You’ve probably never heard of “Jezebel James,” and since it was cancelled last month, you probably will never hear of it again. It’s become a part of an ever-growing panoply of ultra-fast television failures, shows that barely squeak onto the scene before they’re silenced. While TV fans hear plenty about brilliant-but-canceled gems like “Freaks and Geeks” or “Veronica Mars,” these great shows had a seemingly...