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

Greetings Constant

May 29, 2018
Features
You'll notice that this issue of the IRS is extremely late. So late in fact that I'm not even sure of my own production schedule anymore. Which brings me to the subject of this month's editorial. How does one properly cope and hopefully recover from an experience as life altering as the events of September 11th. Even the recitation of the date speaks volumes. You don't need a year or a location, just the date. Like December 7th, September…
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ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU

ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU

May 14, 2018
Interviews
19 Questions for R.U. Sirius R.U. Sirius has partied with Timothy Leary, emphasized the sexual possibilities of VR on the Donahue show and ran the first technoculture magazine. In the year 2000 he wants your vote for President. He is running on a 19 point platform which is laid out in a little red book called, THE REVOLUTION ®. I had a chance to ask him a few questions about his run for the roses and was pleasantly surprised…
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The Tragedy of the Whale Ship Essex Nathaniel Philbrick Viking Press Historical Non-Fiction

The Tragedy of the Whale Ship Essex Nathaniel Philbrick Viking Press Historical Non-Fiction

May 10, 2018
Books
This is the most amazing non-fiction book I've read all year. Told with a historian's eye for fact and an artist's eye for detail, IN THE HEART OF THE SEA makes everything from the history of Quaker run Nantucket to the nutritional details of cannibalism interesting and understandable.    The whale ship Essex was the background that inspired Herman Melville, a whaler himself, to write his epic, MOBY DICK. The ship was sunk after an attack by a sperm whale…
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DESTINY GIRL

DESTINY GIRL

May 10, 2018
Reviews
What BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER tells us about kids today and war tomorrow  "Into each generation, a Slayer is born. One girl, in all the world, a Chosen One. One born with the..."  "...the strength and skill to hunt the vampires, to stop the spread of evil, blah blah. I've heard it, okay?" -Rupert Giles and Buffy Summers, "Welcome to the Hellmouth"    Myriad critics have recently come around to what legions of fans had been saying for the past…
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JOHN MAYER

JOHN MAYER

May 6, 2018
Reviews
Bridges Auditorium CLAREMONT, CA April 6, 2002 A clean-cut crowd sold out Bridges Auditorium on Saturday to see John Mayer, the 24-year-old singer/songwriter whose boy-next-door charm and catchy, upbeat melodies have fueled the ascent of his debut CD, Room For Squares. Opening with "3 x 5" (his favorite tune), Mayer played nearly every track from the CD, with the kind of crossover appeal that is likely to earn him a high position on the Billboard charts. Squares, a disc…
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