Monthly Archive: November 2013

2013 Austin Essentials: Volume 3

And now, before Thanksgiving consumes us all, I present to you the last part of my Austin Essentials (here are Volume 1 and 2).  Hopefully you’ve had fun.  If you didn’t, what the hell happened? ...

Movie Breakdown: Nebraska

People are doing traditional-style reviews all over the web, so we decided to try something different.  In each “breakdown” we’ll take a look at what a film’s marketing lead us to believe, how the movie...

2013 Austin Essentials: Volume 2

Hey!  Look at that, we’ve arrived at volume two of my Austin Essentials.  As I mentioned yesterday, there’s no particular rhyme or reason for the order of the entries, I was just looking to share...

2013 Austin Essentials: Volume 1

A couple of weeks back I was thinking about my annual Top 50 Songs/Top 25 Albums lists (expect those to start on 12/2), and it dawned on me that I should do something separate specifically...

Weekly Movie News Rundown

Time for your weekly movie news update!  Below you’ll find a slew of sentences meant to provide a brief glimpse of what’s been going on over the past week in movieland.  If something leaves you...

Hip Hop Hooray (Leah)

To pretend that I haven’t gone on at length on this blog that I cherish novelty rap because it fulfills the ultimate definition of art by being almost completely useless would be an exercise in...

Stream This

The SOTO inbox is always full of cool stuff that never gets to see the light of day on the actual site, and I’d like to change that.  So, every Friday I’ll be posting the...

Ages And Ages

Here I am just a few days from entering total year-end list mode and Ages And Ages – an act that topped my song list back in 2011 – decide to put out a new...

Magic Trick (Noah)

I don’t actually know how many times I’ve written about Magic Trick on this website, let alone The Fresh & Onlys, or some other strange and wonderful side project from this prolific San Franciscan. Magic...

Walker Lukens, The Good Music Club (Jennifer)

Winter is approaching, but there’s no need to hibernate and miss out on some great local shows. This weekend Walker Lukens is celebrating the end of a busy, successful year by headlining a two night...