Monday, May 26, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #91 - Barton Fink (1991, dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)

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Every film in the Coen oeuvre is undoubtedly best experienced with no previous knowledge of what is about to unfold. There is, however, on...
Monday, May 19, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On #106 - Blind Willie Johnson - Praise God I’m Satisfied

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One has to wonder how much longer people in the modern age will be able to listen to music from the last century and even understand t...
Monday, May 12, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #90 - Billy Jack (1971, dir. Tom Laughlin)

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It’s strange that a film like Billy Jack would qualify for “I’d Love To Turn You On.” This is supposedly the highest grossing indie fi...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

Esme Patterson, In Her Own Words

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Esme Patterson’s new album Woman to Woman will be released on CD and LP by Greater Than Collective this coming Tuesday the 13th. The album f...
Monday, May 5, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On #105 - Prince – Around the World in a Day

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The massive success of Purple Rain made Prince a superstar.  He was in as rare an air as there is, with only Michael Jackson on the same p...
Monday, April 28, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #89 - Criss Cross (1949, dir. Robert Siodmak)

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Surprisingly, we’ve never reviewed a single film noir for our I’d Love To Turn You On at the Movies series, so it’s high time we got star...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On #104 - Duke Ellington – The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse

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A lot of people associate Duke’s music mainly with the 1920’s up through the WWII era, but there is no point in his 50-year career whe...
Monday, April 14, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #88 - Wizards (1977, dir. Ralph Bakshi)

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There was the 60’s, and there has been an interminable “now” that started sometime in the late 70’s and will apparently last until the...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On #103 - Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball

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We were 8 years into owning Twist and Shout and I was finally starting to feel like I was part of the music scene. We started out so comple...
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Monday, March 31, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #87 - Tetro (2009, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

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"You can't look at the light. Don't look at the light" As I stare into the black light of my computer screen aft...
Monday, March 24, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On #102 - Cornershop - When I Was Born For the Seventh Time

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Cornershop are a band that have always seemed a little out of place, as much by design as anything else.  The brainchild of leader Tji...
Friday, March 14, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #86 - The Three Amigos! (1986, dir. John Landis)

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The Three Amigos! Is like comfort food to me. I first saw it when it first came out, when I was in high school, when I was going throu...
Monday, March 10, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On #101 - Franco & Rochereau - Omona Wapi

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In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly known as Zaire (and before that, the Belgian Congo), a style of music known as souko...
Monday, March 3, 2014

I'd Love to Turn You On At the Movies #85 - Caché (2005, dir. Michael Haneke)

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The plot of this film is so simple that it can be boiled down to one sentence on IMDB: “A married couple is terrorized by a series of su...
Monday, February 24, 2014

I’d Love To Turn You On 100th Episode - Sun Dial - Other Way Out

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Oozing into the aural field like high tide imperceptibly covering land, the first song “Plains of Nazca” off Sun Dial’s debut masterpi...