The first two days of Rothbury were excellent, to be sure: filled with both amazing bands and excellent experiences, but they served primarily as an appetizer, Saturday and Sunday were by far the main courses. It’s unusual for a festival to offer anything less than all-weekend passes, but to offer passes for Saturday and Sunday, [...]

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Jacques Lacan wrote about how one’s reality is inevitably mapped onto one’s fantasy, as one’s fantasy directs the actions that lead to one’s reality.  He also said that fantasy realized is nightmare.  And that’s why I love Beth Cooper. Honestly, I do love Beth Cooper.  She is probably the most attractive female I have visually [...]

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Bruno just isn’t that funny.  The movie’s a series of crude jokes that poke fun at both homosexuality and homophobia, yet expects us to understand which is ironic and which is farcical.  Unlike Borat, which was entirely ironic in its anti-semitism (because Sacha Baron Cohen, creator and lead actor, is jewish), Brüno is a convoluted [...]

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