Book Reviews, CD Reviews, DVD & Video Reviews and Interviews
Greetings Constant Reader:

Greetings Constant Reader:

July 22, 2000
Reviews
Those of you who read the Beef every month may have noticed that last month there was no Beef. When I started this web zine I started this column thinking that it would be easy to rant about something that was bothering me that month. In fact, I figured that I would have an overabundance of stuff to rant about in print. Just a drive to the grocery store is enough to keep me in material for months...I thought.…
Read More
CD Reviews

CD Reviews

June 30, 2000
Reviews
Music & Spoken Word BURT BACHARACH The Best of Burt Bacharach Hipp-O Records, (A & M/MCA) A funny thing happened to me when I was growing up, my parents played music that I actually liked. One of their favorites was Burt Bacharach. They also played stuff that I thought was overblown mush, but there was always something snappy and cool about Burt's music that went beyond the usual middle brow fare. The best of his stuff had an economy…
Read More
Olmsted’s DVD Astro Hell THOSE SHIT-SUCKING VAMPIRES

Olmsted’s DVD Astro Hell THOSE SHIT-SUCKING VAMPIRES

June 23, 2000
DVD
MODERN VAMPIRES (Sterling Home Entertainment) RAZOR BLADE SMILE (A-Pix Ent.) Straight to video no longer has the stigma it once had, since distributing a film costs so much now that studio lack of faith hardly means a bad movie. However, in the following two vampire epics, that's exactly what it means. "From the creators of FREEWAY" says the blurb on the cool box for MODERN VAMPIRES. After consulting IMDb, the only two names that are connected with FREEWAY are…
Read More
Video Reviews

Video Reviews

June 1, 2000
Reviews
AYN RAND - A Sense of Life Documentary First Look Pictures "Howard Roark laughed." For my money, that is still one of the punchiest three word opening paragraphs ever penned. Right up there with "Call me Ishmael." But that is where the similarity stops. Our boy Melville went on to write a whale of a story, pardon the pun, which became an enduring American classic, delving into deep philosophical waters. Ayn Rand merely went on to write another didactic…
Read More
Olmsted’s DVD Astro Hell WITCH YOU WERE HERE:

Olmsted’s DVD Astro Hell WITCH YOU WERE HERE:

May 21, 2000
CD
THE WITCHES THE DEVIL RIDES OUT Anchor Bay, distributor LUCINDA'S SPELL A.D. VISION Oh, that editor Carlye! Cut to behind the scenes of Astro-Hell - imagine, if you will, the curious pleasure of getting 3 DVDs to review in the mail without any kind of note and realize what our fearless leader is looking for - in this case a clearly pagan theme which I also realized would actually be featured in the Halloween issue of IRS. So, considering…
Read More