Film Reviews: Six scenes I like from movies I've seen
OnCover of Stalker: A Film by Andrei Tarkovsky NB: CHOCK FULL OF SPOILERS When people ask me what I thought of a certain movie, I am often forced to describe it in the most general terms: “It was kind of OK”, “I’d…
Book Review: Ocean Of Sound
On[Purchase Book] Will Johnsen loaned me this book after an interesting conversation we were having about music, copyright, and collage, amongst other things. One of us had mentioned David Toop — I can’t recall which — and it turned out that we…
Film Review: Harvey
OnCover of Harvey [Purchase DVD] Harvey is one of those films like My Neighbor Totoro that is so completely good-natured it’s impossible to hate. In fact, I would find it hard to see someone who didn’t find it utterly charming. It’s a…
Why I Collect?
OnWhy do I collect records? I ask myself this from time to time (usually when I?m feeling as though I?m wasting a whole lot of money) and it?s at times like tonight that I realize exactly why I do. I?ve recently been…
Lost America
OnThese photos look like my dreams. I think the “roadside” pics are my favorite, closely followed by “urban exploration.” Related articles by Zemanta A Grisly Discovery (ask.metafilter.com) The subterranean sprawl of New York City’s Freedom Tunnel [Mad Urbanism] (io9.com) Happy Fourth of…
Review: Sleepwalk
OnI wrote all sorts of gibberish yesterday about this record and today I take a breath and start again. Scribes. The name implies what we (Him and I) do. Hell, it is what many people do. We write. Everybody writes. Some just…
DVD Review: Sound Mirrors: Videos & Remixes
On[Purchase CD/DVD] Last year’s Sound Mirrors was an outstanding album. Coldcut have long been among the best producers/DJs/whathaveyou, and while Sound Mirrors was quite a different turn — I often described it as a record by a band with the same guys…
HONK!
OnEmily Saliers via last.fm This excellent post on Mefi about “underground” type marching bands includes Atlanta’s own Seed & Feed Marching Abominable… who have been bringing the weird to various shows, festivals, parades and protests for something like 30 years. The last…
OH NOEZ!1! LULZ ON THE ATTACK!1!
OnImage via Wikipedia Via Tiff_Seattle on LJ, This is a HILARIOUS TV news piece about 4-Chan/the dangers of LULZ. Perhaps the funniest thing about it isn’t so much the actual attacks (which are basically pretty annoying, but whatever) but the WAY in…