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JAMES PARKER

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Clean and sober

The Hills , Shooting Sizemore , and more from The Apprentice: LA and I’m from Rolling Stone
Slow week in Reality Land. Yes, there was the premiere of Season #2 of The Hills , but what can you say about The Hills ?
By JAMES PARKER  |  January 23, 2007

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Gulag days

Martin Amis’s Soviet sojourn
For a writer, what a complicated pleasure it is to read Martin Amis — complicated, that is, by thrills of envy, larcenous surges, and bleak shafts of professional despair. Phrase for phrase, nobody should be this good.
By JAMES PARKER  |  January 17, 2007

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Planet of ass

Naked Happy Girls , My Bare Lady , Armed and Famous (NSFW)
Collapsed Catholic that I am, I’ve always had trouble with the concept of “erotic photography.”
By JAMES PARKER  |  January 17, 2007

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Trump of judgment

The Apprentice , I’m from Rolling Stone , and Beauty and the Geek
“Some people cast shadows,” wrote Donald Trump in a 2005 letter to the New York Times Book Review , “and other people choose to live in those shadows. To each his own.”
By JAMES PARKER  |  January 11, 2007

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Poor Nick

A folk legend’s brief life’s journey
His miraculous guitar technique was a protective force field shielding him from the sadness in his own songs.
By JAMES PARKER  |  January 09, 2007

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Real-world follies

A year in television
For hard rock, heated debate, child-care tips, and latex puppetry, 2006 was a banner year in television. Who says the culture’s going to the dogs?
By JAMES PARKER  |  December 18, 2006

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Between Heaven and Earth

The twisted legacy of the Doors
When it comes to Jim Morrison and the Doors, the image factory went out of business a long time ago.
By JAMES PARKER  |  December 13, 2006

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Psych wards

Dead Meadow, Middle East Upstairs, November 20, 2006
No band, as far as I can tell, more perfectly marries the mediævalist echoes of the neo-folkies to the low-end wallop of bong metal, the ballad to the blood mountain.
By JAMES PARKER  |  November 28, 2006

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Tears of joy

The best reality show ever — and the real ones
The best reality show ever will be called Monarch , and it will feature Donald Trump, Asia Carrera, Tony Robbins, Andy Rooney, Barbara Bush, Chuck D, Mike Barnicle, Bianca Jagger, Steve-O, former senator Conrad Burns, Soledad O’Brien, and General John Abizaid in a contest to become sovereign ruler of these United States.
By JAMES PARKER  |  November 28, 2006

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Pity the fools

Mr. T and Ice-T get real  
I would have begun this column by declaring that it’s impossible not to like Mr. T — his meaty good cheer, his pantomime gruffness — were it not that my wife seems to find it quite easy.
By JAMES PARKER  |  November 14, 2006

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Ghost hunters and God chasers

The paranormal extremes of reality TV
How quaintly reverent it now seems, The Blair Witch Project .
By JAMES PARKER  |  November 07, 2006

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Poetic justice

Joanna Newsom rises to the occasion on Ys
Hang your heads, folk pretenders, because this it what it means to write lyrics.
By JAMES PARKER  |  November 09, 2006

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Touched by God

The sacred and the profane in this week’s reality TV
Last time, in a weakly alliterative moment, I promised that this column would return to the “dysfunction and doggy-do” of House of Carters.
By JAMES PARKER  |  November 02, 2006

Harmonic insurgents

The graphic intensity of Converge
A mile away from the hockey-rink boom of the current metal moment, the user-friendly riffs and breastbeating melodies, these dudes demand their own definitions. Converge, "No Heroes" (mp3)
By JAMES PARKER  |  November 01, 2006

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Ready to rumble!

Mixing it up with Ultimate Fighter 4 , the Cowboys cheerleaders, and the ’kats
Rather depressing, one imagines, to catch a spinning backfist to the head, particularly when it’s the very thing you’ve been determined to avoid since the last time you caught a spinning backfist to the head.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 25, 2006

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For Pete’s sake

The return of the mighty Who
It’s been 24 years since the Who released a studio album. Townshend’s follies: Pete's pet projects. By James Parker.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 25, 2006

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Houses of pain

A tough week in reality TV
Stay tuned, motherfuckers. Watch a preview for the second season of Meerkat Manor (YouTube)
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 19, 2006

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Heavy Metal Dreamland

Iron Maiden, Agannis Arena, October 6, 2006
Hurrah for the good humor of Bruce Dickinson! Slideshow: Iron Maiden at Agannis Arena, October 6, 2006
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 10, 2006

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Gigantourism

All for the love of Opeth
You don’t get in a fistfight over Opeth — you wilt, and shed a few petals.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 10, 2006

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Men of mettle

Another smackdown from Motörhead
Like three trolls in a speedboat, the men of Motörhead have hitched their age-old warty grievance against humanity to a roaring musical accelerant, and yet again they are writing heavy-metal history.
By JAMES PARKER  |  October 03, 2006
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