
It´s cold cold cold all of a sudden, with snow and ice and windchill factors all in the mix, so we´ll try make this 43rd edition of Wild Weekend as heartwarming as we possibly can. So put another log on the fire, pour a stiff drink and enjoy this six pack of fine fine tunes, while virtually travelling from Japan to Jamaica, from the deep south to the far north, and back again. Have a hot one. We´ll start off in the land of the rising sun with a hot [...]

Anarchist Anti-snarkist David Denby gives the movie Adventureland an unabashedly glowing review in the latest New Yorker . (Such praise for director Greg Motolla!: "Yet Motolla may have the gentlest and surest touch of any director now active in American films.") The review was effective in making me not only want to see Adventureland but also one of Mottola's earlier works The Daytrippers from 1996. Below, a song by Freddie McKay, who is featured prominently on the Daytrippers soundtrack . [...]