This Week’s Picks: Slumdog DVD, PJ Harvey, Yoga Dorkage and…Reptilian Humanoids.

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Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire makes its way to DVD this week. It will be curious to see if the Oscar hype has legs, or if bread-and-butter America would rather slap their money down on Adam Sandler’s Bedtime Stories. While the ending still makes us trickle a tear, this take on the final dance makes us figgle a giggle.

PJ Harvey/John Parrish

The new album from PJ Harvey and John Parrish, A Woman A Man Walked By, marks their second collaboration together. Out Tuesday, it satisfies our Polly Jean itch but keeps us scratching for a new PJ solo record (it’s been nine years!).

A Wolf At The Table

Augusten Burroughs leaves his mommy issues for his daddy issues in A Wolf At The Table, out this week on paperback. Reviews of the hardcover were pretty harsh but we think that’s just because he is a light-to-carry, airport-book kinda guy. Long distance drivers take note: the Audiobook release contains music from Patti Smith, Ingrid Michelson, Tegan Quin and Sea Wolf.

Attention Yoga Lovers!

Enlighten Up is a documentary out to prove that yoga can transform anyone, even the film’s subject (a skeptical New York Journalist). The movie opens in NYC this week and goes semi-wide later in the month.

Coast To Coast AM

Just another week at Coast To Coast AM: Reptilian humanoids, haunted funeral parlors, 2012, near-death experiences, telepathy and time travel. If you’re into crazy shit and have never heard this radio show, catch the live stream or catch and old podcast here coasttocoastam.com.


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Tom is the editor of MatadorLife. He's currently taking a lap of Earth, living in 12 countries over 12 months in 2009, all the while documenting this trek in a book to be called Wayward. He is also pretending to be a third person right now and is obviously writing his own bio. He knows that you knew that, despite the deft maneuvering of pronouns.

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  • Julie replied on March 30, 2009

    I’ll give “Slumdog Millionaire” a chance–still haven’t seen it (I know!), but I’ll leave Augusten Burroughs– I think he’s a mediocre writer who’s overhyped.

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  • Kate replied on March 30, 2009

    Although Tom has established that I have no soul and therefore lack credulity as far as reviewing of entertainment goes, I’m with you, Julie. When I read “Running With Scissors,” I was inspired because I thought, “if this guy can get published, surely I can, too.”

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  • Julie replied on March 30, 2009

    Thanks, Kate; I feel validated. Finally. You don’t know how many people I’ve railed to about Burroughs’ hypedness (in same category as Jeanette Walls–and not because of the TMI, either) who have looked at me as if I simply possessed no appreciation for fine writing. Bah.

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  • admin replied on March 30, 2009

    He got me with a book called “Dry”. It’s about being a drunk in NYC. Maybe I just related too much….

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  • Turner replied on April 2, 2009

    The Slumdog Millionaire movie sucks – just stick with the book.

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  • Tim Patterson replied on April 3, 2009

    Figgle a giggle? What would that sound like, Tom?

    I’d like to see enlighten up. Spent a perfectly good hour last night researching yoga studios in Boulder, CO.

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  • portugal for sale replied on August 13, 2010

    It seems like alot of people have been listening to David Icke. And although some of his stuff seems to be “far out”, alot of what he says rings true.

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