As 2010 has come to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors.
Hardcore will never die, at least while Keith Morris is still alive and kicking. The 55-year-old Morris co-founded the legendary Black Flag with Greg Ginn before leaving the band three years later to start the equally seminal Circle Jerks with future Bad Religion guitarist Greg Hetson. That band lasted a decade, though since 1994, the Circle Jerks have continued to tour sporadically but haven’t released a new album since 1995. That was going to change when the band convened last year with producer Dimitri Coats (Burning Brides) to work on new material. The result, however, was Morris quitting the CJs and forming OFF!, a new hardcore supergroup with Coats on guitar, Steven McDonald (Redd Kross) on bass and Mario Rubalcaba (Rocket From The Crypt, Hot Snakes) on drums. OFF! recorded four EPs that will be released as a vinyl boxed set, First Four EPs (Vice), on December 14. The band will also be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with Morris.
Steven: Love And Death is a 1975 Woody Allen comedy starring Allen and Diane Keaton. Not only my favorite Woody Allen movie, most likely my favorite movie of all time. It’s set in Russia during the Napoleonic wars, and Allen and Keaton are two Russians that act and sound like neurotic, mid-’70s New Yorkers. The story leads the two on a wild plot to assassinate Napoleon. Throughout the movie, they are constantly breaking into mock-philosophical debates that I find very funny, even though I’ve never taken a philosophy class. “You accuse me of jejunosity?!” Maybe out of context not so laughable, but at the end of one of their debates, it’s a real zinger. I promise you. Sandwiched between Sleeper and Annie Hall (damn what a streak!), it’s the transition between his full-on slapstick and the later, more-cerebral relationship films. Other favorite line: “What, she takes uppers?!” And then there’s all the deep stuff about, well, love and death. If you don’t know it, give it a shot!
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