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Your Older TV-Gods. 2006-12-30 13:31:00 Only a few words: Most Genuine and Heartwarming TV-Show ever, see it for yourselves before you die.Alias is like James Bond at its worst in a way. It is silly and meaningless spy action, which doesn't make for very interesting tv. The big BUT however here is that Season 1 weaves in absolutely great family drama and this is so tightly written it makes my jaw drop. Forget all the other Alias Seasons for it is utter crap but go and see the first one. The original family premise is brilliant.I made the bad call of watching Serenity before seeing Firefly. And it was only after I saw the series that I could get a real grasp of the world. Firefly is sometimes kind of trashy and over-the-top but don't be mistaken by some of its minor flaws (the actors, the cgi, the silly humour, etc). Whedon deconstructs the western and scifi genre in a very clever way and makes one heck of an interesting new hybrid. The Whore becomes the Courtesane, The Refugee becomes The Hero, The Preacher becomes
Best Albums of 2006! 2007-01-03 16:16:00 I finally made my mind up about the 2006 top ten list. It has actually been really difficult to choose and define a list that represents this past year fully. I truly hated excluding some records but also at the same time felt the spectrum wasn't as broad as it has been in my record player, which is why the songs list serves as the perfect sidedish. You will also notice there's a lot of Swedish music on my list and that two 2005 albums (Ignatz & Devendra) made the final roll call but I just had to include these. Expect the same thing in 2007 btw, I have still this whole 2006 list waiting to check out.As far as the online critics list goes, I'm truly appalled at the omission of certain albums (Current 93 being the most obvious here), plus surprised at the popularity of certain other albums (Tv on the Radio?). But I must also admit it's good to see The Knife, Joanne Newsom and Cat Power get some props. So if you'd like to check the critics, here's a few links to their lists: P
Igor's & Hemdjes Music List 2007-01-04 02:56:00 Senor Igor does the album listing as well:0. FM3 - Buddha Machine 1. Amen Ra - Mass III2. Shora - Malval3. Aidan Baker - The Sea Swells a Bit4. The Ocean - Aeolian5. Manyfingers - Our Worn Shadow6. Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet7. Om - Conference of the Birds8. Ignatz - s/t9. Kanding Ray - Stabil10. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Old Ghosts, New Ghosts, All Ghosts11. Liars - Drum's Not Dead12. Isis - In the Absence of Truth13. Ocean - Here Where Nothing Grows14. Cat Power - The Greatest15. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon16. Ellen Alien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles17. Amute - The Seahorse Limbo18. The Goslings - Between the Dead19. Sickoakes - Seawards20. Max Richter - Songs From BeforeAnd baldie oldtimer Hemd adds:Shora - MalvalOm - Conference of the BirdsAmen Ra - Mass IIIKeith Fullerton Whitman - LisbonKanding Ray - StabilTim Hecker - Harmony in UltravioletIsis - In the Absence of TruthTwin Zero - the tomb to every hopePaavoharju - tuote akatemia unien savonlinnaYear Read more:Music
New Dolores 2007-01-20 10:52:00 Dolores does another Milow music video, choose your version here:Quicktime (large)Quicktime (ipod)Windowsmedia PlayerDirected by Isaac E. GozinD.O.P. Rik ZangProduced by Jonathan VandenbroeckEditing by Stijn DeconinckPicture by statik Read more:Dolores
Out there. 2007-04-25 22:30:00 From stormy New York last week to sunny Provence tomorrow, we sure are busy travelling at the moment and staying away from the computer. Hope all you kids are doing good as well and don't forget: "Remember When..." is the lowest form of conversation. Go out and holy thou road.
Sleepless Long Nights 2007-04-13 15:56:00 We already declared our eternal love in 2004 to Leslie Feist upon watching her doing the slickest moves with Richie 'Buck 65' Terfry... But now Leslie is coming out with a new album and by golly gosh, what a brilliant suprise it is again. The first single & music video "1234" is putting me in such a good mood I would almost break a leg while grooving along. Improving on their previous collaboration, director Patrick Daughters may be somewhere inspired by Gondry and Björk but is still very much able to stand out on his own. More eternal Feist Loving!
Intelligent doesn't mean lack of clarity. 2007-04-12 18:16:00 Shorten your words, shorten your meanings, make it snap, make it count. Genius is doing something brilliant with simple things. Here's to Daniel Johnston's magnificent Devil Town lyrics (and the pretty awesome Bright Eyes interpration).I was living in a Devil TownDidn't know it was a Devil TownOh Lord it really brings me down About the Devil Town And all my friend were vampires Didn't know they were vampires Turns out I was a vampire myself In the Devil Town I was living in a Devil TownDidn't know it was a Devil TownOh Lord it really brings me down About the Devil Town. Read more:Intelligent
Kill For Peace 2007-04-04 18:02:00 Great music video for the song "Kill For Peace
(& Peace Will Die)" by The BlackBox Revelation, directed by Jonas Govaerts.
The Best Trial Movies 2007-03-19 10:20:00 The following list is by Patric M. Verrone, in an article from the ABA journal/November 1989.THE 12 BEST TRIAL MOVIES1 The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)2 "M" (1931)3 Twelve Angry Men (1957)4 The Wrong Man (1957)5 Paths of Glory (1958)6 Anatomy of a Murder (1959)7 Inherit the Wind (1960)8 Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)9 The Trial
(1962)10 To Kill a Mockingbird (1963)11 A Man For All Seasons (1966)12 The Verdict (1982)Very interesting list; I tend to agree, although I haven't seen all yet (Wrong man, Anatomy of a murder, Inherit the wind & A man for all seasons).The one I would include as well though would be Adam's Rib. A light trial comedy but definitely top 5 material.
Lots of love to Jason Schwartzman's genes 2007-03-11 04:44:00 Jason Schwartzman is a little genius in the making. Not only is the 26-year old a fabulous actor, he also co-wrote the upcoming Wes Anderson pic The Darjeeling Limited with Wes himself and Schwartzman's cousin Roman Coppola (yeah, son & brother of). These pics were taken in India where they have just wrapped up filming the movie. Hopefully it will hit the theatres before the year is over.But to make things even worse, I also discovered Jason's myspace page which features probably one of most fun & poppy songs of the year so far: West Coast. So the boy can sing as well? Damn you Jason, damn you! Read more:Jason
R.I.P. Jean Baudrillard 2007-03-06 19:51:00 Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly. Thus perhaps at stake has always been the murderous capacity of images: murderers of the real; murderers of their own model as the Byzantine icons could murder the divine identity. To this murderous capacity is opposed the dialectical capacit of represenations as a visible and intelligible mediation of the real. All of Western faith and good faith was engaged in this wager on represenation: that a sign could refer to the depth of meaning, that a sign could exchange for meaning and that something could guarantee this excahnge--God, of course. But wha Read more:Baudrillard
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Soul. 2007-03-02 09:43:00 The first essential, the life and soul of Tragedy, is the plot; and then the characters come second. Compare the parallel in painting, where the most beautiful colours laid on without order (unity) will not give one the same pleasure as a simple black-and-white sketch of a portrait.-- Aristotle
Scottish Can Be Sexy Too 2007-02-27 11:20:00 And she has been holding on for too long.And where will she go?But don’t worry cuz I am leavingAnd don’t worryAnd your thoughts aren’t clearAnd I’m thinking about youAnd your brother won’t be foundAnd you’ve stoppedAnd you’ve stoppedAnd you’ve stopped killingThe Glasgow-based band The Twilight Sad are great guys to hang with and their self-titled EP is slowly becoming one of my most played records of the year sofar.In a few weeks time (march 19th) Fat Cat will release their debut album called "That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy".I'm not sure if the album has the same songs as the EP, but hopefully this amazing song Three Seconds of Dead Air is on it. Read more:Scottish
Oscars recap 2007-02-27 08:01:00 Well thanks to the amazing TVU player we were still able to see the Oscar show and let me first say that for the best night out you should bring friends, a bottle of champagne, ben & jerrys icecream and all have a bet. It truly makes things fun and even the more tedious categories interesting since each wrong prediction could mean a defeat or a win (in our case the prize was a bottle of champagne and for the record: I won)As far as the fashion police goes: I truly missed the real cute women this year (natalie portman?), so I have to say the elder women looked sometimes better than the younger generation. Helen Mirren is still looking strong at 60. Dress awards go imho to Nicole Kidman (although I woulda cut that neck noose), Helen Mirren and Reese Witherspoon. Worst choices this year wo Read more:Oscars
How To Watch The Oscars 2007 Broadcast Online! 2007-02-25 12:38:00 Thank God for the internet again. Everyone who won't be able to see the oscars tonight through their local or national television, do not panic! You can see the whole show easily and for free through the p2pTV application TVU player.STEPS1. Download the TVU player here. (i'm using the latest beta)2. Save it to your hard disk, open the zip, run the setup and install.3. Connect to the TVU channel 38474 which says "2007 Academy Awards" (EDIT: as of now, the channel is 51222, they are directly broadcasting from ABC!!)4. Follow up any questions you might have on the andromeda forum 5. The schedule is as following:17:00 (GMT): Countdown to the Red Carpet: The 2007 Academy Awards (E!)23:00 (GMT): Live from the Red Carpet: The 2007 Academy Awards (E!)01:30 (GMT): The 2007 Academy AwardsEDIT2: p Read more:Oscars
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Kurt D'Haeseleer 2007-02-18 14:23:00 Kurt D´Haeseleer does some amazing visuals for the new Tuk music video on the belgian (K-RAA-K)³ label. Watch it here: lo-res (16mb)hi-res (61Mb)
Tasting the stars. 2007-02-17 13:00:00 There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.-- Bette Davis. Read more:stars
There are only so many good ideas in the world. 2007-02-13 03:13:00 Another amazing CS podcast, this time with Jonathan Nolan, the little and 40 pounds heavier brother of director Chris Nolan. Jonah came up with the idea of Memento, worked as a creative consultant on Batman Begins, co-wrote The Prestige with his brother and is now writing the second Batman installment.I pitched him this short story I was writing called Memento Mori about a guy who has memory loss and needs to use the tattoos on his body as a roadmap and I said to him: ‘I think this is more of a cinematic thing, why don’t you see what you can do with it’. And then I went back to school and after three months he called me up and he’s all excited and said: ‘I finally figured it out, I’m going to tell the screenplay backwards.’ And I said: ‘that’s the stupidest thing I eve Read more:ideas
Michael Arndt 2007-02-12 06:06:00 Great podcast with Michael
Arndt, on writing and going through development hell with Little Miss Sunshine:I was writing scripts where everybody got killed and nobody wants to see that stuff. People don’t go to the movies to get depressed. I really feel happy endings are underrated because they are usually done badly and they are not earned. People say I really put my characters through hell in Little Miss Sunshine. But I really feel that’s important. It’s not like they are all happy at the end and they’re all going to get along with each other. But they have gone through a real life-changing experience. Not in a way they have swerved 180 degrees but I really feel you do want your character to turn like 10 degrees and take one step forward. And that’s enough of a change fo
I spent my days with way too much bitchin' 2007-02-04 21:37:00 But the thing that has always distinguished Cahiers du Cinéma from the rest is our principe of laudatory criticism: if you like a film, you write about it; if you don't like it, don't bother with tearing it to pieces. One need only stick to this principle.-- JL Godard.
Dolores updates his site 2007-02-02 13:58:00 Loves You And Thinks Of You When You Give Him Work.Both... But Maybe Sunset fans may find their fix here as well. Read more:Dolores
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