The Haute Critique

So I’m watching a movie where Adam Sandler is playing a character who is obviously designed to closely resemble Adam Sandler (in fact, much real young Adam Sandler footage is used to backstory the character) *and* I’m at the premiere where the “real” Adam Sandler is in the audience.  Oh, if only I had a [...]

Last weekend THC was out at the club. The DJ was lily white, like the dance floor. He set it up and let the records spin. The first three tracks set the mood. Nickel Bags of Funk, I Love You Mary Jane and Snoop. Rolling off the G thang, it went a bit stale. It [...]

Wannabes. Shoulder to shoulder staring at a video game with toy guitars behind a toy drum set. It is simple enough. There are no advanced tactics, like strafing, from first person shooters. No complex combo moves. You don’t even have to jump or eat magic mushrooms. That hasn’t stopped Rockband 2, and games like it, [...]

In honor of Comic-Con, this week’s Pack and Play is Phonogramed in. In the follow up to their hip shaking music lover’s wet dream of a comic book, Rue Britannia, (click here to read the first issue) they are currently tapping out The Singles Club. Every issue is set in the same club on the [...]

Another year and another Comic Con in San Diego. Since I moved to San Diego, it has become part of my yearly calendar. Wednesday night is preview night… only open for a few hours, and only to the hardest core nerds with 4 day passes.  Having friends in the industry, they hook me up with [...]

The clock struck 12 as I dropped the needle on The Dead Weather’s Horehound. Traveling down the devil’s highway, I pulled out my cell. It said this call would be roaming because I was in area code (420). I look over at the passenger seat and there she is, my honky tonk partner in crime. [...]

I’ve seen all the Harry Potter movies, but I am decidedly a muggle. In fact, if you are not a muggle, you have already seen this movie and discussed it ad nauseam with fellow wizards. I don’t mean that pejoratively. My wife, Mrs. Gravity, is pure magic. It was with her and a few other [...]

This week Pack and Play gets in touch with our.. er… well, a feminine side. More precisely, a look to the British isles at a few women making music right now. It turns out there may be more to British women than Bridget Jones and Kate Moss. The British invasion took the Elvis’s hips and [...]

It’s mostly a blur. At some point, there was someone’s house. One guy was laying on the floor with a tiny dog licking his face while he giggled uncontrollably. A friend of a friend was picked up and creeping everybody out, and Heather Graham might have called the police on him. That is when I [...]

I can’t say that Up was a bad movie. It was, in many ways, good. When Chicken Run came out, it was 90%+ on the Tomatometer. Over the years I’ve noticed this across the board. Animated movies can be very high (with a few exceptions). Waiting for Up, we saw trailers for two horrible looking [...]