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We Live in Public Review

Release Date: Fall 2009 Director: Ondi Timoner Starring: Josh Harris, Tanya Corrin Cinematographers: Max Heller, Vasco Nunes Studio/Run Time: Interloper Films, 90 mins. Cautionary documentary looks for social media lessons in the story of a dot-com “visionary” Ondi Timoner has a theory and a metaphor about broadcasting our lives online: it’s gradually driving us insane. All of this Twittering, blogging, using-of-Facebook-without-a-concise-verb-to-describe-our-actions, is leading to madness, and Timoner’s cautionary example is entrepreneur Josh Harris....  read more

Live Review: Dandy Warhols @ Terminal 5, 9/17

More than a few concert goers were likely intrigued by the scheduling of The Dandy Warhols two days apart from The Brian Jonestown Massacre,who performed at The Music Hall of Williamsburg on the 19th. The personal lives of both bands were viscerally exposed in the 2004 documentary Dig!, a 7-year rock 'n roll train wreck of brilliant filmmaking with highlights including a camera shot of bandmates snorting cocaine from underneath a glass table and the relationship of lead singers Courtney Taylor-Taylor (The Dandys) and Anton Newcombe (BJTM) transform from musical soul mates to bitter rivals.   ...  read more