Just the Ticket

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. DJ TimeDrop Welcome backward, Ticketholders! It's been a decade or more since I last touched a mixing program, but I'm incredibly proud of (most of) the thirty-plus mash-ups and remixes I was able to put together back then, including the beginnings of a Fort Minor & Modest Mouse Mash-Up album and holiday mixes for Christmas and Valentine's Day, the latter of which I'll be sharing with you today because it's the Throwback Thursday before Valentine's Day in the Month Of Love ). I'll be going over the track list, including my inspirations, changes I'd make if I were to modernize things, and anything else that comes to mind as I write. Give it a listen here (apologies for the lack of video on short notice): First of all, I have no technical music skill, so I don't know about tempo or key or anything like that; I just went with whatever I think felt right together in the moment and did my best with what resources I ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. One Ticketmaster. Welcome backward, Ticketholders, to Samurai Week in the month of Anime August ...and to the longest movie I've ever reviewed! It's been adapted multiple times throughout film and television, including two Magnificent Seven s in 1960 and 2016 , Star Wars: Return Of the Jedi , Burn Notice: The Fall Of Sam Axe , yesterday's Snow White & The 7 Samurai , and the "Lotus and the Steel" episode of X-Men: The Animated Series . And its late director was honored in "One Week" by the Barenaked Ladies . Unlike Kurosawa , I review mad films. But if I made films, they'd have a samurai. Today's mad film I'm reviewing just happens to have seven of them. Akira Kurosawa's 1954 epic, Seven Samurai , clocks in at three and a half hours (including an intermission), and tells the classic story of a rice-farming village in 1586 (in the wake of the Honnō-ji Incident and the Battle Of Yamazaki that mark...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster In vino, veritas , Ticketholders! I mostly decided to do this comparative format for two reasons: it worked out pretty well when I did it for The Incredibles  but I hadn't done it with three versions of the same review (like my "recent" Greatest Hits vs. Archive comparisons in Ticket Stubs ), and I'm still trying to get the last of my SW@ Ticket Archive  content woven into Just the Ticket . If you've been following my content (and you really should  Become A Ticketholder  if you haven't already, leave a comment at the bottom of this post to tell me what movie you have negative nostalgia for, help out my ad revenue as you read so I can feel like blogs will still be relevant next year, and follow me on  Tumblr ,  Reddit ,  Facebook , and  LinkedIn  to like what you see and receive the latest news on said content), then you know I hated Sideways . I didn't want to re-view it, let alone re...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster, Hoping you had an Incredible Valentine's Day! So, I think this is the first time I've ever done this for a Ticket Stubs  post (I've done it for Welcome To the Dead Parade  before, when a new entry in a franchise comes out), but I started watching The Incredibles 2  for Friday's Just the Ticket , and I couldn't remember any details of the original that the sequel was referencing (specifically, at which point and for what reason the "Supers" were outlawed), so I re-watched it for the first time in a Stephen King number of years. Most of what you'll read below, I still agree with, but I will have some comparative analysis when we get back from 2005. But first, please share the love by remembering to  Become A Ticketholder  if you haven't already, comment your true feelings at the bottom of this post, help out my ad revenue as you read, and choo-choo-choose me on  Tumblr ,  Reddit ,  Facebook , and...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster, Hoping you had a Happy Valentine's Day! Back in the RWBY Tuesday series, I spoke a little about the Blue Collar Comedy Tour franchise and how certain jokes (with or without sarcastic finger quotations) have stuck in my head over the years. I slightly misremembered the phrasing (and totally forgot the context) of this particular joke , and like most Blue Collar material (with the exception of Ron White , who should be classified as a National Treasure), parts of it could now be considered to have aged poorly (sexist, chauvinist, insensitive to suicide, etc.), but because I needed a clever review title at the time and algorithmic demonetization wasn't a thing yet, I called the original review  FROM July 24, 2006, SW@ Ticket #50: Why Are You Putting Your Gun In Your Mouth?  Even the If the Lyric Fits at the end references making oral or visual contact with the barrel of a firearm...because it's Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang , get ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster, Wishing you a Happy Valentine's Day! The month of love continues with the end (but it was originally the beginning) of the Fun With Guns  trilogy, and a review that is the only reason I have "fun with dick" on my blog search history. Here are the first two parts if you haven't shown them love yet: Ticket Stubs #54: National Treasure  & Lord Of War Ticket Stubs #55: Mr. & Mrs. Smith You can also share the love by remembering to  Become A Ticketholder  if you haven't already, comment your true feelings at the bottom of this post, help out my ad revenue as you read, and choo-choo-choose me on  Tumblr ,  Reddit ,  Facebook , and  LinkedIn  to like what you see and receive the latest heart-shaped boxes of news on my content. Like the other Fun With Guns  reviews, this one is also  FROM February 14, 2006 , and it was the lead-off review in that lost triple-feature. Jim Carrey h...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster, Wishing you a Happy Valentine's Day! As mentioned in  Ticket Stubs #54: National Treasure & Lord Of War , the reviews for today and next week's Valentine's-ish Ticket Stubs  selections fit into the "not able to find what issue number it came from" category. I know I wrote it some time between the  National Treasure  review and my review of  Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang  (which will be getting a  Ticket Stubs  release later this month), but I don't have an offline copy of the review anywhere, and it was most likely published on Yahoo! Groups, Today.com, or MySpace (none of which exist in their original forms). But I  do  have a date of publication  FROM  that era  (February 14, 2006) , and it was posted on the  SW@ Ticket Archive  (which I am attempting to fold into the  Just the Ticket  sequence right now) as part of  SW@ Ticket Archive #49: Fun With ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster Happy Independence Month, Ticketholders! I was going to do another gun-themed Ticket Stubs  post, but it seemed in poor taste, considering my family history with firearms (see the referenced article on my sister's death from last week's post ) and how that colors our feelings on the explosion-laden atmosphere at this time of year), so I combed through the remains of the SW@ Ticket Archive  for something just as patriotic, but far less ballistic to cover. And I was reminded of a short-lived WB (precursor to the CW) television series called Jack & Bobby , which was supposed to follow the lives of a TV-typical American family of the time (which is to say, "just like us," but younger, richer, whiter, and better-looking) and try to capitalize--in it's own, slightly differentiated way--on the serialized, timey-wimey format that Lost  made popular at the time (see tomorrow's GFT Retrospective  for more over-use ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster When things of the past fade, it can be hard to track down certain pieces of information. It could be something personal and important, like the names of my three nieces, whom I've never met, and were just babies when my older sister died on Independence Day in 1995 . Or less important things like what the sequence number was on a particular review I did for a social media platform that no longer exists. The former is a bit too heavy of a subject for me at the moment, but we are still in the month of Independence, where we use loud noises and colorful explosions to celebrate our freedom from other white people whose accents and form of government are foreign and formerly oppressive to us. Among those freedoms are the right to bear arms (the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ) and the enjoyment of excess (not so much with the Constitutional enumeration on this one). So this week, I bring you a double-feature of Nicolas Cage...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster. Hey, Ticketholders! I am crack! As opposed to being on  crack (like a large portion of my city of residence) or having my head up  my crack (as is my natural state of existence). Welcome back to Ticket Stubs , where, just like last week, I am going to repost an old review that I forgot was already reposted on here as one of the Ticketverse Throwbacks . Go give that post some readership love here , and please remember to like and comment down below, subscribe to my blog, and follow me on  Tumblr ,  Reddit ,  Facebook , and now, Twitter  again, for the latest news on my content. I doubt that telling you the plot of the movie, giving away all the funny parts, and telling you it's the best thing I ever saw could in any sense be called a review (except that I now watch at least two movie reviewers on YouTube who do almost the exact same thing: Doug Walker and Decker Shado ). I'm calling it a review a...