Tag: bowie

• Friday Morning Rock & Roll Idol: Girl In A Coma

  Art, in its multitudinous forms, rewards our attention every once in a while, and all too rarely, with small beautiful moments where thrill meets surprise–I find them most regularly in poems, but also in poems, paintings, and even in pop songs and punk rock.  Such was the case with the little Texas band Girl In […]

  JunkChuck

  March 21, 2014

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  as, bowie, coma, david, down, falls, girl, in, latina, punk, robert, rock, rodriguez, roll, spanish, texas, the, world

• Shameless Filet O’Fish/ Life Aquatic Rip-Off

  Has everyone seen the new-ish Filet O’Fish Commercial that rips off one of my all-time favorite movies, Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou?  Bad enough that this wonderfully quirky, subtle piece of off-beat cinematic brilliance is being draped in ugly commercialism, the Golden Arch-Villains employ a snotty, superior, hipsterish ironic tone to the […]

  JunkChuck

  March 19, 2014

  Commentary, Funny and/or Strange, video

  anderson, aquatic, belafonte, bill, blanchett, bowie, cousteau, david, filet, filet-o-fish, fish, kate, leopard, life, mcdonalds, murray, owen, revenge, shark, steve, wes, wilson, zissou

• My Favorite Christmas Recordings #7 The Edge of Christmas

  Bitter, cynical, and borderline misanthropic for most of the year, I reform for the holiday season and from mid-November to the last minute of Epiphany I’m all about the season.  Readers of Old Road Apples will find themselves under a constant barrage of holiday fare this season–from themed essays to book reviews to a countdown […]

  JunkChuck

  December 23, 2013

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  albums, best, bing, bowie, carols, christmas, donahue, favorite, holiday, kirsty, maccoll, patty, pogues, pretenders, ramones, recordings, records, smithereens, songs, waitresses