The Pelican’s Perch

Note to self: Jot down post ideas when they come to you. I swear Friday I had all sorts of great ideas for posts this week, but I can’t think of anything at the moment. So like I usually do, here’s some links to hold you over for you Monday.

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The Contract
Score: 6/10
That was it?! That’s what I said when the credits started rolling at this end of this surprisingly boring movie. With Morgan Freeman and John Cusack, I figured Freeman’s interaction as the bad guy with Cusack’s good guy would bring about some great dialogue and emotional intensity like they’re both known [...]

Meet the Robinsons
Score: 8/10
What a pleasant surprise Meet the Robinsons is. My sister said she loved it, so I decided why not. As with most computer animated kids movies, the people working on the movie spend sometimes years on it, so I expected a great story and clever ideas throughout, I just didn’t expect it [...]

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The video streaming site Grouper is a pretty good new resource for music related videos that are slightly higher quality than those of youtube. I recently got an email telling me about some SXSW videos Grouper had posted so I figured I’d share them.
Annuals at the Lone Star Lounge 3/16/07
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Do You Like It
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Morgan, of Azeda Booth, sent me their new EP yesterday and I can’t get enough of it. He gave me permission to stream the entire EP for you guys so that’s what I’m going to do. I doubt it’s an exclusive at all, but I got your attention didn’t I?
Azeda Booth’s very short, but very [...]

Group at the Top of Their Game (link)
4/20/07
Let’s get straight to the point. This review came about as a result of two recent Modest Mouse related events that happened to me almost simultaneously. The first was the fact that the first headline in my daily Billboard Magazine email read “Modest Mouse earn first [...]

Annuals’ Debut Was Simply Last Year’s Best
3/16/07
The band Annuals is a curious musical creature. The six piece North Carolina band is led by 19 year old Adam Baker and none of the members are over 22 years old. After listening to their debut album Be He Me, the majority of us will reflect on what [...]

Andrew Bird “Armchair Apocrypha” Review
4/27/07

As most of you may or may not have known, last Sunday was Earth Day.  Instead of saving the Earth and doing my part, I spent nearly the entire day burning gas driving three hours up to Kansas City to pick up my sister, then two more hours to Columbia [...]

2nd Annual SXSW Showcase is Randy Bacon’s Best (link)
3/9/07

The South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival in Austin, Texas is considered by many to be the biggest event in indie music each year. Occurring every year in mid-March, this five day festival is the Sundance of indie music, with over [...]