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Can 11,000 Zooey Deschanel fans be wrong?

June 8, 2010 / 4 Comments

Millennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion fits approximately 11,000 people. That is, unless there is a free She & Him show. The Pavilion has 4,000 fixed seats, and the lawn fits about 7,000 people. When She & Him performed at Millennium Park’s concert pavilion Monday, the number of people that can fit in the area grew … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: 500 Days of Summer, Chicago, Hollows, indie, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, M. Ward, Michael Bublé, Millennium Park, Movies, music, She & Him, The Happening, Yes Man, Zooey Deschanel

Music and the Media, Part 3: This is an Advertisement

April 26, 2010 / Leave a Comment

What is one expected to do when the economy’s in the tank and it seems harder and harder to make a decent living in your chosen industry? In music, the route to a sustainable existence appears to be written in the ads. Or, so it seems in the case of the Black Eyed Peas, a … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: 3Oh!3, 500 Days of Summer, Algernon Cadwallader, Annabel, apple, Black Eyed Peas, emo, Family Guy, Fesit, iPod, Lollapalooza, merhcandise, Nintendo, Peter Helmis, The Temper Trap, This is an Advertisement, Tommy Hilfiger, Wall Street Journal, Warped Tour, will.i.am

Make It Stop…

July 31, 2009 / 3 Comments

Tsk Tsk LA Times. I’d already done away with (500) Days of Summer a handful of weeks ago, and this is merely another exaggerated interpretation of “emo culture.” So on the one hand, I’d like to dissect it. But, I think the words clearly speak for themselves: “500 Days” is, as far as genres go, a hybrid picture, … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: 500 Days of Summer, Christopher Hawthorne, emo, Fugazi, L.A. Times, music, My Chemical Romance, Revolution Summer

(Don't Waste Your 500) Days of Summer

July 8, 2009 / 11 Comments

Caught a glimpse of this yesterday on the web: The Cinemash idea – mashing up two distinct films into a “quriky” 3-5 minute byproduct – is particularly ingenious, and I’m sure it can’t hurt that MSN is behind the thing and able to hire the actors from one of the movies to play the parts. … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: 3 Doors Down, 500 Days of Summer, Adaptation, Amélie, Ann Hornaday, Brick, Cinemash, Eternal Sunshine, Fox Searchlight, From Indie Chic to Indie Sheesh, Garden State, IFFBoston, IKEA, indie films, indie soundtrack, Jesse McCartney, Jim Jarmusch, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Juno, Lost In Translation, Marc Webb, Michael H. Weber, MSN, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Pitchfork, Richard Linklater, Rushmore, Scott Neustadter, Sid & Nancy, Somerville Theatre, Spike Jonez, Stereogum, Sundance, The AV Club, The New York Times, The Pink Panther 2, The Proposal, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Temper Trap, The Washington Post, Transformers 2, Twitter, Zack Snyder, Zooey Deschanel

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