Blog Profile / Mixed Media
| URL : | http://motherjones.com/mixed-media | |
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| Filed Under: | Society & Culture | |
| Posts on Regator: | 738 | |
| Posts / Week: | 6.2 | |
| Archived Since: | February 16, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
The Canary Islands Government Allowed "Fast & Furious 6" To Destroy Their Highway With a Tank
Fast & Furious 6 Universal Pictures 130 minutes Hands down, Fast & Furious 6 is by far the best movie ever made to feature Ludacris and Tyrese trapped in a Jeep dangling inches off the ground from an imperiled cargo plane. And thereShow More Summary
"Arrested Development" Was The Best TV Satire of the Bush Era
Arrested Development is finally (for real this time) coming back. On May 26 at exactly 12:01 a.m. PDT, the series' fourth season will debut exclusively on Netflix, the on-demand streaming service that on any given weeknight accounts for nearly a third of Internet traffic in North America. Show More Summary
The NRA's List of "Coolest Gun Movies" Is Astoundingly Dumb
When conservatives try to list their favorite pop-culture items to make a political point, the results are often baffling. In 2005, Human Events released the list of "Most Harmful Books" written in the 19th and 20th centuries (Charles Darwin and John Stuart Mill are put in the same league as Hitler and Mao). Show More Summary
Review: Radiation City's "Animals in the Median"
Radiation City Animals in the Median Tender Loving Empire Dreamy and wistful is the default mode for plenty of modern bands that haven't figured out who they want to be when they grow up, but the striking Portland, Oregon quintet Radiation City shows how to do it right. Show More Summary
The National's "Trouble Will Find Me"—Place on Repeat
Photo by Deirdre O'Callaghan You know how when you get a song stuck in your head, you're not always sure how it burrowed its way in there? Well, people who attended The National's May 5 performance at New York's MoMA PS1 museum can be pretty damned sure. Show More Summary
Spock and Awe: How 4 Lucky Iraq War Vets Landed Roles in "Star Trek Into Darkness"
On April 24, 2005, US Marine Corps lance corporal Adam McCann was on patrol with his fire team, as he had been on many other occasions. His team was inspecting a weapons cache discovered in the city of HÄ«t in Iraq's Al-Anbar province. Show More Summary
This Film Is "Snakes on a Plane," But With Air Force One, Terrorists, and an Escape Pod
Hollywood megastar and snake-punching virtuoso Samuel L. Jackson is going to be President of the United States. At least he will be in director Jalmari Helander's English-language debut film, Big Game. This is a description of the upcoming...Show More Summary
Short Takes: Our Nixon
Our Nixon DIPPER FILMS One morning in 1972, Nixon chief of staff H.R. "Bob" Haldeman gave press secretary Ron Ziegler some big news: Nixon had just gone to meet with Mao Zedong, head of China's Communist Party, marking the first thaw in a quarter century of US-China relations. Show More Summary
Quick Reads: "Any Way You Slice It" by Stan Cox
Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing By Stan Cox THE NEW PRESS In this lucid and lively book, Stan Cox, an environmental writer whose last book charted the effects of air conditioning on the American landscape, explains how "rationing" has become a dirty word. Show More Summary
Review: The Handsome Family's "Wilderness"
The Handsome Family Wilderness Carrot Top Wilderness Albuquerque-based spouses Brett and Rennie Sparks have crafted their idiosyncratic version of Americana for more than two decades, blending his low growl of a voice with her askew lyrics to offer a subtly surreal take on traditional music. Show More Summary
5 Directors Who Should Have Directed "The Great Gatsby" Instead of Baz Luhrmann
The Great Gatsby Warner Bros. Pictures 142 minutes The new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's American classic/required high school reading The Great Gatsby is exactly how I remember the book: With a hip-hop-tinged drunken pillow fight...Show More Summary
Music Review: "Nightlight" by Dungeonesse
TRACK 5 "Nightlight" From Dungeonesse's Dungeonesse SECRETLY CANADIAN Liner notes: Joined by White Life's Jon Ehrens, Jenn Wasner reinvents herself as a dance floor diva, with creamy keyboards, yearning voices, and pumping beats evoking...Show More Summary
Photos: Flamin' Groovies Hometown Return
Cyril Jordan and Chris Wilson of the Flamin' Groovies. Photos by Mark Murrman Following a quick romp through Japan and Australia, San Francisco legends the Flamin' Groovies played a hastily arranged show in their hometown this past weekend—the...Show More Summary
Jake Shimabukuro Rocked the Ukulele Before It Was Cool
While the jury is out over whether guitar rock is enjoying a renaissance or fading from relevance, the guitar's little brother, the ukulele, has entered the zeitgeist in a big way. With it's small body, four strings, and a range of just two octaves, the uke is among the humblest of instruments. Show More Summary
With "Iron Man 3," The Series' Libertarian Streak Is Basically Over
Iron Man 3 Walt Disney Studios 129 minutes "There's no politics here; it's just good old-fashioned revenge," Tony Stark (a.k.a., Iron Man) declares to a swarm of TV news reporters, following a terrorist attack that leaves a good friend of his in a coma. Show More Summary
How Michael Pollan Inspired Zac Efron's Latest Movie
At Any Price Sony Pictures Classics 105 minutes At Any Price, a bleak family drama set against the backdrop of the Corn Belt, is essentially Death of a Salesman, but with genetically modified superseeds. The film is co-written and directed...Show More Summary
HBO's "Manhunt: The Search for Bin Laden": Way Cooler Than "Zero Dark Thirty"
Manhunt: The Search for Bin Laden HBO Documentary Films 100 minutes Forget Zero Dark Thirty. Instead, check out director Greg Barker's intimate look at the dogged nerds and tough-guy CIA officials who spent decades on Osama bin Laden's trail. Show More Summary
Don't Use Jason Collins as an Excuse to Blame Homophobia on Black People
Jason Collins began his coming out essay in Sports Illustrated with the words, "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay." There's a reason Collins chose to mention he was black and gay—as though those two things were inShow More Summary
Quick Reads: "Big, Hot, Cheap and Right" by Erica Grieder
Big, Hot, Cheap and Right: What America Can Learn From the Strange Genius of Texas By Erica Grieder PUBLIC AFFAIRS You know that college friend, the big, boisterous, obstinate one who was always up to party, quick to fight, said theShow More Summary
Awesome Reactions to Jason Collins' Coming Out (Updated)
In the latest issue of Sports Illustrated, the NBA's Jason Collins became the first active player in any of the big four sports (baseball, football, basketball, and hockey) to announce he was gay. His opening sentence: "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. Show More Summary