The Automatik

I have been alerted to this piece of crap from our dear “friends” at Pitchfork magazine. It’s a review of Sloan’s last album, Action Pact. I hope that the fact that this review came out today and the album came out last year is an indication of the delay of its U.S. release and not laziness or apathy.
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Whenever I watch the show COPS (which is actually rather frequently), I’m amazed by the amount of time law enforcement spends on prostitution stings. These are executed in one of two formats: A) a female cop poses as a hooker in order to nab would-be johns or B) a male cop chats up a hooker in order to charge her with solicitation. My concern with this is not that I believe prostitution should be ignored or even legalized; what I object to is the way the police officers cheer as they tally up the day’s total, as if they’re somehow saving the world by throwing men and women in jail for participating in prostitution.
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El Matador
January 10, 2004

“The Paleolithic Era is over! Let’s embrace the dawn of the Iron Age!”

So quoth Mr. Quintron at Saturday evening’s final show at El Matador.
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I saw next to zero new films this year, so making a list of Top Ten Films would be presumptuous. However, there were plenty of other things to talk about, so hopefully you will enjoy them.
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