Eyes Adrift

'ACL' sides

"...Eyes Adrift(SpinArt) Here's a supergroup for ya: Curt Kirkwood, Krist..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Music Review by Michael Chamy

Laggies

Keira Knightley stars with Chloë Grace Moretz in Lynn Shelton's likable but aimless film about arrested adolescence.

"...seamlessly with Shelton’s oeuvre which has centered on young, adrift adults. Megan lives with her high school boyfriend Anthony..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shaadi No. 1

In a country famous for its exhaustively over-the-top filmmaking, India’s Shaadi No. 1 is an extreme case: a maddeningly manic comedy-romance painted in vibrant shades of neon pink and Day-Glo violet.

"...and nonstop musical numbers that the jaw drops, the eyes glaze over, and the mind boggles, battered and adrift..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

An American Rhapsody

"...glimpse at the immigrant experience as seen through the eyes of a teenage girl, its sober take on the..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Vanaja

Unlike the Bollywood films most mainstream audiences expect from India, Vanaja operates on a far more realistic level, with the added bonus of a melodramatic story that's a real heartbreaker.

"...of a film, you can see with your own eyes that it's never anything less that breathtakingly, stunningly beautiful...."

Oct. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

"Austin City Limits" Festival Picks & Sleepers

"...EYES ADRIFT: This much is simple: Eyes Adrift are Curt..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Neil Diamond comes to town, the Metro stays open, Cotton Mather searches for a deal, Hamstein sells its publishing, Wynton Marsalis visits the Elephant Room, and much, much more.

"...The most notable aspect of Eyes Adrift's local coming out last week at Emo's was..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

SXSW needs venues, and the TABC keeps shutting 'em down. Public Enemy would be proud.

"...Look for Curt Kirkwood's new combo Eyes Adrift, wherein the head Meat Puppet joins forces with..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Exhibitionism

Big River: Pleasantly Adrift

"...under the stars as if on one's own raft, adrift. The production suffers from the Zilker musical's typical weakness..."

July 30, 1999 Arts Review

Lake of Fire

Meat Puppets, Chapter 3: Curt and Cris Kirkwood, reunited, and it feels so good

"...was going," says Curt. The older Kirkwood squints his eyes against the sun, a cultivated detachment screening his own..."

July 20, 2007 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Meats Puppets Open Sound City Players SXSW Showcase

Local cowpunks ready another career high in ‘Rat Farm’

"...don’t think I’ve seen him since I was in Eyes Adrift with [Nirvana bassist] Krist Novoselic and [Sublime drummer]..."

March 13, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...band and a glancing blow with Krist Novoselic in Eyes Adrift, Curtwood's gnarled acoustic gigs at the Cactus attest..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature

Meat Puppets

Record Review

"...Your Clothes" isn't exactly pusillanimous either. With its leader's Eyes Adrift, Live could well be the Meat Puppets swan..."

April 26, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Creed III

Jordan and Majors hit hard in this first post-Stallone Rocky flick

"...search for a spiritual release of greatness amidst an adrift sense of American malaise. Every sequel and spinoff since..."

March 3, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Live and Recorded Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Black Pistol Fire, BLXPLTN, Jazz for a cause, and more

"...me handily in back-to-back games – him tossing easy bull's-eyes and me desperately heaving hatchets to make up huge..."

July 23, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Slam as It Ever Was

The nationals come to Austin amid the polarizing medium's 20th anniversary

"...measured and pensive, but by the look in his eyes behind the black-rimmed glasses, it's clear that he'll engage..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Arts Feature by Shawn Badgley

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...97 min.) Not reviewed at press time. To our eyes, this more or less looks like a modern reworking..."

Nov. 17, 1995 News Feature

Damage

"...puts between himself and everything else has set him adrift in an unspeakable loneliness. Enter the enigmatic Anna, his..."

Jan. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...muddy tracks created during the passage but ends up adrift in a silent snow bank. (12/8/95)2.5 stars (M.B.) Village..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers

An anthology offering remediation for those who believe that there is value to understanding other national perspectives and reading – if not always traveling – widely.

"...Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers..."

April 27, 2007 Books Review by Dan Oko

The Tenth Annual "Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest Results

"...hair trying to untangle the mess. I averted my eyes. I wondered how people on TV maintained their composure...."

Oct. 19, 2001 Books Feature

Art + Commerce

Marc English Design's DIY Criteria

"...test that got caught in the crossfire between Angel Eyes and Tuco. It's the good, the bad, and the..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...Laura's descents into zombie-like trances complete with glazed over eyes, so her triumphant recovery at the end of the..."

Sept. 8, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...from its opening scenes of the teenaged Lothario Telly adrift in his favorite pastime: deflowering young girls. After the..."

Sept. 1, 1995 News Feature

The Vortex Repertory Company's Heartland

Gabriel Jason Dean's new drama makes a sensitive study of three people in two different countries and where they belong

"...did. There, she meets Nazrullah, an Afghani in whose eyes Getee is American, and as they grow close, his..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Mac Demarco

SXSW showcase reviews

"...member of Mac DeMarco's band flat on his back, eyes closed in the corner of the stage. I'm not..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature by Luke Winkie

Field Study: Stories

Rachel Seiffert's sparse, airy prose belies a profound concern with individual identity and historical memory

"...a young girl's first encounter with death through the eyes of a beached seal in "Tentsmuir Sands" or the..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Books Review by Russell Cobb

Further Reflections

"...of Johnson's. Missing teeth and leathery with age, his eyes twinkle when he thinks back to the ol' days,..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Trauma From the Past, Trauma From the Skies in Descendent

Peter Cilella on the myth of control in his SXSW sci fi domestic drama

"...a movie stall out, I wasn’t working, [I] felt adrift, and like I didn’t have any control over my..."

March 10, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2024, Power Ranked!

Welcome to Top of the Hops IX

"...lot of the store’s heavy lifting, particularly in Foggy Eyes, the brewery’s mainstay New England IPA. Lady Wood Spruce..."

Oct. 17, 2024 Food Post by Eric Puga

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