Monday, August 22, 2011

I AM WAY TOO NICE A REVIEWER….




I am way too nice a reviewer. My reviews should be ten times as critical of their subjects. I have given half way decent reviews to bands that a week later I think are inept and have lost interest in. Films I’m probably too nice in reviewing films although notice very closely that I avoid almost all mention of horror films from within the last ten-fifteen years, with a few exceptions like Human Centipede. I don’t see myself reviewing all the various re-make films and such that are coming out these days. I don’t see them as being even worth reviewing. There are a lot of little horror films these days that are made on digital film that are floating around in the magical land of no one cares. Still though, I gave the film Wolfen a decent review that’s a fairly forgettable little film. Books I haven’t reviewed that much.
No, I have my picks for what I think are good projects underway or coming out soon right now-Lou Reed with Metallica, Human Centipede 2, and the David Mamet and Al Pacino. I would say and I feel very confident in this that the works of the post-Revolutionary War era writer Charles Brockden Brown deserves a revival. He was a very good writer. Metal, there are a number of good metal bands, Celtic Frost and Voivod were very good in their time, the black metal bands written about in the book Lords of Chaos are all pretty good. The bands that were on the Metalhit Free Download series albums are almost all pretty good. I don’t feel that ashamed giving those bands good reviews.
Here’s one to think about for a good long while. Newsweek recently ran an interview with Anthony Pellicano from prison in which they asked him why he stopped working for the late Michael Jackson, and he said “he did something worse to boys then molest them.” He refused to explain further. If the answers to what Pellicano is talking about were to come up, that would be a real story. I don’t think this weeks set of indie rock bands are a real story, the only thing to report there is artistic failure.
Now Michael Savage- he is not a great thinker of the right. Not by a long shot. Not by any stretch of the imagination whatsoever. He’s great to write on simply because he was banned from entering the United Kingdom. Provocation is good. What those right wing pundit types do very well whether or not you agree with them is zero in on the topics that are central most to out times, and in the case of Michael Savage he’s sure to throw a temper tantrum about whatever it is, and because he is that way, he makes for a good writing subject. The other thing about that is that by being super excited about the film Human Centipede 2 coming out, and be giving mixed reviews to someone like Savage, I’m working both ends. There’s an inherent hypocrisy in that. I prefer to leave the hypocrisy intact in all its glory.
That’s about as nice as I should ever get in a review.

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