Warm… Leatherette…
OnOne of the folks at work turned me on to this great video of Trent Reznor, Jeordie White, Peter Murphy and Atticus Ross doing a cover of The Normal’s “Warm Leatherette” live in studio. Check it out.
All Things To All People
One of the folks at work turned me on to this great video of Trent Reznor, Jeordie White, Peter Murphy and Atticus Ross doing a cover of The Normal’s “Warm Leatherette” live in studio. Check it out.
Cover via Amazon [Purchase DVD] There’re a lot of complaints typically thrown at musicals. Some people say that the songs are overblown and hokey. Others say that the songs don’t emerge organically out of the action; no one, in real life, just…
Cover of Persepolis [Purchase DVD] [Purchase Comic Book] I admit, going in, I was a little apprehensive about whether or not I would enjoy the film of Persepolis; I hadn’t yet read Marjane Satrapi‘s comic and I often don’t find these types…
The video opens with one of those cheap plastic placards reading: “[BAND NAME] DISTRIBUTOR’S MEETING” (perhaps letters would be missing; maybe band name misspelled, depending on the name)
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase DVD] I’ve long been drawn to the idea of Z; I first heard of it when I was young and my family would always have the Leonard Maltin Movie & Video guides. I would spend hours flipping through…
Image by Mot via Flickr As promised in the Our Favorite Things review, there would be more about the CD that comes with the DVD by the 180 Gs. It’s an absolutely jaw-dropping collection of Negativland songs covered by a 5-or-6 piece…
Here’s the thing. I don’t really like pancakes that much. I am not into the whole spongy, doughy, eggy sweet thing for breakfast. I mean, pancakes are alright I suppose… but I have never ordered them in a restaurant. Also, pancake mixes…
[Purchase DVD] It’s probably pretty obvious, at least to those who know me, that I’m a pretty huge Negativland fan. I’ve got loads of their posters in my room at home, pretty much everything they ever put out (a notable exception is…
Fans of The Comics Curmudgeon will most likely already be familiar with not only Rob “Reynard Noir” MacArthur’s The Seedy Underworld Of Slylock Fox, but also its source material, Bob Weber Jr.‘s Slylock Fox & Comics For Kids. While Weber’s original creation…
Recently, Salon started a new comic, Kansas O’Flaherty… Secret Agent by New Yorker illustrator Tom Bachtell and former Village Voice columnist Toni Schlesinger. Kansas, the latest in a string of Salon-commissioned cartoon serials, has the unfortunate distinction of one of the most…