Graeme's Multitude of Reviews

The Cat in The Hat
Directed by Bo Welch

It was cute. The visuals wre kind of neat, Mike Myers was hit and miss. The music was cheesy and actually detracted from the movie. Also, the script decided to try to appeal to an adult audience, and appeal to todays kids at the same time, resulting in humour that noone found funny. Lots of dick and fart jokes, some more racier than others which seemed innappropriate for a Dr. Seuss adaptation. (60%)


Alkaline Trio, Reggie and the Full Effect, From Autumn to Ashes, No Motiv
At the Croation Cultural Centre Dec 01, 2003

No Motiv were boring, pop-punk filler music. We were in the beer garden when they started, but couldn't tell who was playing so I chugged Corinne and I's beers really quickly to go see them. Standard emo fare with wimpy lyrics and power pop guitar riffs. 52%

From Autumn to Ashes would have been much better had the sound been any good. But alas, the Croat robbed them of all their melody. Given their metallic sound, this was a bad thing. Good show despite this. Their drummer also sang, which is something I did not know ahead of time. They also had a screamer/frontman who was very entertaining, and seemed to real try his hardest to get everyone involved. He seemed pretty sincerely happy to be playing the show. 79%

Reggie and the full Effect were ruined by the short set they had to work with. They played only 8-9 songs or so, mostly their more metal ones, in which the screamer from FATA came on stage and screamed with them. They came on stage all dressed in santa suites with black wigs and pencil mustaches. Reggie called the "Santa Klaus." They left the stage, only for just Reggie to back on a motorized powerwheels jeep "with gold rims, yo." He played "Mood 4 Luv" entirely in a pair of orange camo short-shorts, and tiny matching vest and hat. Twas very funny, but the crowd didn't get it. He left, only for the band to come back and play as the Common Denominators. He was dressed only in a pleather devil-hood type deal and a g-string, convered in blood. One guitarist was dressed in a skeloton and the other a vampire. The played a song called "Dwarf Invasion." Good Times. Their set was also plagued with horrible sound, muddying his vocals and the keyboards. They also didn't play a bunch of songs. 75%

Alkaline Trio played a really good set that relied to heavily on Bassist Dan Adriano's songs as opposed to Matt Skiba's. Skiba was sick and it showed in his vocals. (Although he seemed to be having a better time than at the Seattle show earlier this year.) I was up front the whole time with Jym, Tricia, and Andrea. We told some guy to shut up when he was singing really loudly along to a slow song. Song really irritating stage divers and such. I love Alkaline Trio, and they played a lot of good songs. It didn't blow me away, but I had a good time. 90%

Tueday Night Movies at the Den of Sin

Once again, good time were had by all. Dark Habits was a fucked up tale of Catholic smack-addicted nuns, with lesbian overtones and some of the most haggard ladies out there. Quite twisted. All About My Mother was a really good movie that fucked with gender stereotypes and was really quite strange. All in all a very good time. 78%


In America
Directed and Witten by Jim Sheridan

Meh. I got kind of bored half way through, and I felt that it kind of slid into cliche alot. Too many heart-wrenching tete-a-tetes, and tales of woe. It worked a little too neat in the end, and they failed to really run with the parts of the movie that I thought were kind of cool. Acted well, the kids especially, the script is a little hokey and character motivation was severely lacking. It definately needed a little something. 65%