John Meyer

• 1 day, 11 hours ago
  John Meyer's comment on:

  'Tis the season for Oscar-worthy holiday movie openings

  Just got word that The Lovely Bones will not open in N. TX until Jan. 15, 2010.

• 2 days, 14 hours ago
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  Dallas' Mockingbird Station plans Victorian-themed party to tie-in with new movie The Young Victoria

  Just don't tell 'em your a guy, Pavel.

• 3 days, 15 hours ago
  John Meyer's comment on:

  Christmas tree sale results still a mystery in Dallas-Fort Worth

  I buy a real tree every year -- getting ready to do so again later today, probably from Home Despot. After New Year's when it's dried out, it makes great starter for the chiminea on the back porch.

• 1 week, 3 days ago
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  Barbecue report: Baker's Ribs off Greenville in Dallas

  Just ate one of their pulled pork tacos. I don't know what to say, really. It was just so dang ... WONDERFUL!

• 1 week, 6 days ago
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  Movie review: The Road

  Mark, I hope you'll see it and return here with your comments. As a dedicated McCarthy fan, I was not disappointed.

• 1 week, 6 days ago
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  Movie review: The Road

  Indeed, CK, McCarthy's reputation for reclusiveness was one reason I included the link.

  Now, if we can just get Thomas Pynchon to emerge from the shadows ...

• 3 weeks, 1 day ago
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  Movie review and talent interviews: Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

  A salient point, Johnny, thanks.

  As you'll discover in the current film, he "dies" sometime in the interim between the two movies -- Special Agent Bloom talks about having attending his funeral.

  However ... that might not be all there is to the story. And I'll say no more.

• 3 weeks, 1 day ago
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  The Leonid meteor shower peaks overnight -- wee hours Tuesday provide best chance for catching the spectacle.

  NWS says "partly cloudy" overnight in Dallas area. But cold as a witch's -- um -- broomhandle.

• 3 weeks, 2 days ago
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  Movie review and filmmaker interview: Tenure

  Um ... thanks? Anyway, welcome to the site, Sergioo.

• 3 weeks, 4 days ago
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  Movie review: 2012

  As I suspected. (Thanks for putting it into words, Lena.)

• 4 weeks, 1 day ago
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  Lewisville resident breaks Guinness World Record for longest drum roll

  Wow, amazing stuff, ROCKN. Can you shoot us a link to the video?

• 1 month ago
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  Dallas Videofest 2009 - Gogol Bordello - Non Stop

  Gogol Bordello Non-Stop is a documentary about the band Gogol Bordello made by filmmaker Margarita Jimeno. Jimeno traces the origins of the New York City-based gypsy punk rockers, centering on frontman Eugene Hutz (who immigrated from the Ukraine with his parents when he was a teenager, and went on to star in a movie made by Madonna.)

  We also get to know the rest of the members of Gogol Bordello, including Oren Kaplan (guitarist), who came on, he says, when "their other guitar player became schizophrenic and disappeared."

  The film -- like the Bordello music -- is a grand Dionysian bacchanal of outrageous imagery and sound. We go live onstage with the band as they whip their delighted fans into a frenzy; we learn that Bela Bartok is a key influence of Hutz's music; we hear an early reviewer describe the band's heavily theatrical performance thusly:

  "The sight was obscene, but it had some unknown aesthetic to it."

  Say no more, but see this film. You'll go apesh*t for Gogol Bordello.

• 1 month ago
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  Dallas Videofest 2009 - The Toe Tactic

  Emily Hubley's The Toe Tactic made its world premiere at Austin's SXSW Film Festival in the Spring of 2008. I was there, but -- like dozens of other films I would like to have seen during those ten hectic days -- it escaped me. Thus, I was pleased to see it would be appearing in the lineup for the VideoFest.

  Lily Rabe stars as Mona Peek, a young woman who finds herself immersed in a world of whimsical and often mischevious fantasy following the death of her beloved father. Through a bizarre progression of seemingly insignificant events, Mona meets and interacts with a panoply of unconventional characters, including a young boy named Wilson (Sean J. Moran) who finds her wallet after it's been purloined by the embodiment of a cartoon character. (Yeah, I know, pretty weird.)

  The boy's mother Lacticia (Sakina Jaffrey) finds herself strangely attracted to a piano teacher (Kevin Corrigan) who lives in an apartment nearby. Wilson takes piano lessons to bring them together.

  Meanwhile, Mona goes to work for an eccentric rich lady named Victoria (Novella Nelson) who collects what appear to be snippets of prose on scraps of paper. The elevator operator in Victoria's building is a purportedly good looking fellow named -- well, we only know him as Elevator Man (Daniel London). Elevator Man writes songs, using for lyrics the things that people who ride in his elevator say to him. This can make for some very short songs, as we soon discover.

  The film brims with animated magic and symbolic power items, such as the piece of bone Mona cherishes from the incomplete cremation of her father's remains. (Again, pretty weird.) It includes an original score by Yo La Tengo.

  Definitely not your standard narrative feature fare. Check it out, perhaps while in an altered state.

• 1 month ago
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  Halloween Eve costume contest at Pegasus News World HQ

  Revealed here, for the first time, is the source of my power:

  
• 1 month ago
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  Halloween Eve costume contest at Pegasus News World HQ

  Thanks, Elliott (I think). Strange that I didn't even conceive of the Obi-Wan angle until people started pointing it out to me.

• 1 month ago
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  Frisco's Floating Phantoms Halloween Store caters to those with a flair for the macabre

  Note from owner James Sale: he's having a 60% off -- um -- sale both today and tomorrow to clear out his inventory.

  Store hours 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. both Monday and Tuesday. Stock up now for next year!

• 1 month, 1 week ago
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  PegStaff's Halloween horror movie favorites, part deux -- and film guy's new gourmet picks

  There's some agreement between our list and Martin Scorsese's (no big surprise), but his list also contains some hidden gems not mentioned here. (Also no surprise.)

  I guess it's just not a day for surprises. BOO!

• 1 month, 1 week ago
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  Halloween Eve costume contest at Pegasus News World HQ

  When it comes to a costume, it's all about how you wear it, m'boy.

• 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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  Lone Star Film Society presents "How To Fest" next Wednesday

  The festival runs five days, Nov. 11-15. We'll be previewing some of the film offerings for you, our loyal readers.

• 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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  Video interview with director and actress from Gravestoned

  A canny reader points out that Christina was voted one of the 10 Most Beautiful Women in Dallas by D Mag.

• 1 month, 3 weeks ago
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  "Fernie's Deep Fried Peaches & Cream" and "Deep Fried Butter" win 2009 State Fair of Texas awards

  CNN's Reynolds Wolf eats everything:

• 1 month, 3 weeks ago
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  Dallas Latino leaders upset with illegal alien Halloween costume sold at Target

  CNN quotes Target folks as stating the costume was "inadvertently uploaded" to its website because of a "data entry error."

  http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/17/ille...

• 1 month, 3 weeks ago
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  The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

  bullydot, this was actually last weekend's (Fri. & Sat., Oct. 9 & 10) midnight show at the Inwood. No future scheduling for it, to my knowledge.

• 2 months ago
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  Lewisville resident breaks Guinness World Record for longest drum roll

• 2 months ago
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  Video interview and performance: North Texas thereminist Robert Froehner

  I may regret saying this, jtmbls, but I like the way you think.

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