33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Volume 1 Edited by David Barker Continuum Street: 10.30 As the disclaimer at the beginning of this book advises, the 33 1/3 Greatest Hit series is not for everyone. People who canonize their favorite albums, feeling that their commitment to and investigation of said discs (i.e. the search for the actual
The Salt Palace Darren DeFrain New Issue Press Street: 10.2005 The Salt Palace was written by some smarty-pants who was obviously raised in Utah. It is a story about a Jack Mormon who goes on a road trip. I honestly didn’t like the story very much at all. It had more holes in it than Tupac’s
So This Is Reading? Life On the Road With the Unseen (Audio Book) Tripp Underwood Hopeless Records Street: 10.10 So This Is Reading traces the history of the Unseen from their humble beginnings (in a garage at 16) to their current stance as a punk band that many kids have patches of sewed on their
Gears of War Epic Games/Microsoft Game Studios Reviewed On: Xbox 360 Street: 11.06 Gears of War was the action game of 2006 and one of the most popular games to be released on the Xbox 360 to date. Not only does the game look great and have some hair-raising action but it steps beyond the
All the King’s Men Steve Zaillian Columbia Pictures Street: 12.06.2006 Based on Robert Warren’s book which is based upon the life of Louisiana politician Huey Long All the King’s Men is a well executed but sometimes overdone vehicle for Sean Penn to flex his southern diction as Willie Stark. The film follows Stark from a
1966 World Tour Joel Gilbert Highway 61 Entertainment Street: 06.06.2006 From the look of the cover you might think this movie is about Bob Dylan’s 1966 world tour. You might think that you’re going to see and hear some of the tour or even some of Bob Dylan. You might expect an interesting glimpse
Killzone: Liberation Guerrilla/SCEA Reviewed On: PSP Street: 11-06 It’s hard to say what exactly it is that makes Killzone so much fun to play. The graphics are just above average, the game play can be frustrating and the camera angles actually make some parts of the game much harder than they should be. But nevertheless
Marvel Comic Book Creator Planetwide Games Reviewed On: PC Street: 11.2006 I can’t tell you how many times I have cursed my un-artistic hands and their complete lack of cool comic-book creating abilities. Let’s face it, my life is in need of some spicing up and what better way to embellish it than to cast myself
Lost Planet Capcom Reviewed On: Xbox 360 Street: 01.07 The console wars are raging which means good news for us gamers. Lost Planet is the latest from Capcom, one of the premier game developers on the planet. Not only does Capcom deliver with Lost Planet but they have also elevated the action shooter to another
Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines Bill Hicks Soft Skull Press Street: 2004 For the uninitiated, the book will likely read as a strange, awakening and perversely offensive post-humous chronology of a warped, angry little man, though god-damn funny. To those already primed in the legacy left by Hicks, this book might very well
Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music Wendy Fonarow Wesleyn University Press Street: 07.22 Dr. Fonarow exemplifies everything it means to be an academic in the modern world: overthought-out arguments, a compulsive desire to explain everything and the technicality of book learning to back it up. But instead of giving a
Don’t Quit Your Day Job! Adventures for the Working Stiff Jay Toberman IUniverse Street: 01.01 Ever since Toberman went on a floozy trip through the stretches of Canada, he has been seeking “adventure” and, unfortunately, writing about it. Recollections of his sparse international trips are bleak journal-styled accounts that go into as much detail and
