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Best of YouTube Today 2006-10-04 23:22:00
Thanks also to DD for contributions. Waste your life on the internet kids. Read more:Today
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A Twentysomething Love! 2006-10-03 18:06:00 Following up on last night's post, we'd like to wish our very dear friend a happy dreadful twentysmth birthday! May that love & beauty shine and don't let the dirt get ya. Free drinks & presents in november!
Where You Take It To. 2006-10-02 02:02:00 Once again, these words and sounds and images have all your answers. Luckily some people and blogs have important things to say unlike others raving about snaky shapes. Dirt does not equal authenticity, just as authenticity doesn't have a value in itself.i ♥ sommarljus
But with a little sex in it. 2006-10-02 01:50:00 I should write and stop being lazy and lavishly praise and analyse and produce reviews and convince each & all of you how this is one of the finest and most important dvd boxes ever released.But all I can mumble at this point after being squashed away by genius is: go out and see and play.There is a little
sex in everything.
The Age of Irony 2006-09-17 03:12:00 So we finally went ahead and saw S.O.A.P as the internet phenomenon has been abbreviated. I'm not really going to try to explain the whole joke: there are people who get it, others who don't. And I do realize the real fun and novelty of it all is over, I mean we've been sticking with the same jokes for over 10 months now and I'm sure people are getting tired of it. But one must always try to close a charade in STYLE. So we did. And I had just such a blast.Anyone observing this whole soap opera should realize it's all about your personal experience at the movie theater. Because the movie obviously STINKS. It's of no use asking about the quality of the movie. No reason to get into the story or the characters or the cg or the snakes. The filmmakers think they bring joy and laughter but their jokes are bad, the action is stupid and the acting really really sucks. But all of that don't matter. It is you who is having fun because you are PERFORMING the title. The story is y Read more:Irony
A succession of many empires that rise and fall 2006-09-12 21:52:00 Extremely massive and wonderful essential reading with David Tibet by Pitchfork. I'm reprinting it completely here, copyright and stuff by Brandon Stosuy:Pitchfork: Black Ships Ate the Sky took quite some time to complete. That, along with the number of collaborators, gives it the air of a magnum opus. Did you intend to for it be the biggest statement of your career?David Tibet: Well, no I didn't. It was a really important album for me, and like a lot of Current 93 albums, it starts off with a conceptual idea, which is sometimes just a phrase. So with this album the phrase came to me, "Black Ships Ate the Sky", then I started having a lot of very intense dreams and a lot of text would come in. It's difficult to explain-- it sort of falls into my head. I get the sensation that a hole, or like a slit, opens in the top of my skull, and colors and words started falling in. It happened before with other records or sometimes paintings, but this time it was particularly intense, and it Read more:empires
Philosophers Think of Death.Beautiful Women of Love. 2006-09-12 02:56:00 "But what a marvellous destiny:To love no one, To be alone.To be loved by no one, To be free!""Ah you've smiled at me. Don't say no. You smiled. Life is beautiful and so are you. So beautiful too, so beautiful." Read more:Philosophers
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Custer was a cunt... The End. 2006-09-12 02:28:00 "Every day takes figuring out all over again how to fucking live."
Find out what's playing online 2006-09-04 22:51:00 I recently stumbled upon http://www.ticklebooth.com, which is a blog dedicated to "finding the best and maybe even the worst (when it can't be helped) of all that can be played online
". And indeed , there's so much good stuff on there, that you should immediately hop on over and adjust your bookmarks. Find out which commercial UNKLE exactly sampled, or how Dylan channeled his crush on Scarlett or what trailer mashups exactly are. And when you're on your way out, one of the contributors Dek also has his own blog, which is very worth your while.Alright.
Up North 2006-10-24 02:24:00 The noctos Lovetrain is preparing their trip for Denmark & Sweden next week. Do we have any Danish visitors here with suggestions about which cool places to visit around the Odense area? Historicial sites, cultural places, movie thingies, musical endeavours, wine tastings, strip clubs, danish pimps, anything really?We're going by car, so further south or west of Odense is also fine. Point us in the good direction and we would be very much obliged. Read more:North
Ik Dvil Oew Tiepel Suiken. 2006-10-29 11:30:00 So that most pleasant time of the year has come and we bid our most faithful readers farewell for a week. We leave tomorrow for the most sexy sounding lands of Europe. Please come and talk to us if you're in the Danish or Swedish area. We are still looking for a desperate porn & gonorrhea fix, so if you're Cliff Richards or speak any scandinavian, try to look for a car filled with two hot men partying on chocolates, beer, champagne, good music & wine.Also if our Belgian friends need any knäckebröd, smorgäsbord, Akvavit, the new Jens Lekman or just royal family postal cards, now is a good time to say so.Adieu & we will try to update with some travelogue pictures of us getting roadhumped and dogeaten by scary gothenburgian bigguns. Be jealous, be very jealous!
Come Alive! Give yourself to living every inch of the way! This is the life! 2006-11-06 19:42:00 And so came the most wonderful week of the year to an end. What began on a cloudy monday afternoon with a shot of Talisker and the voice of good old Sal Paradise wishing us holy luck, quickly poured down our veins and spirits through the blessful lands of Fyn and Copenhagen where the ladies on the graffiti wall sang and where the mtv awards gave our pockets a headache but through snow and minus-celsius-degrees with sturm and drang we arrived at our little walhalla for the week where the most amazing happiness and laughter and discussions and sexylanguage and wine and champagne welcomed us and still the mighty good gods had to create their music and blow us away with their enthusiasm and high spirits, leaving us completely overwhelmed that morning at 8am in the beautiful sunny deserted gothenburg streets when we had to leave it all behind again. The road gives you life and the people gave us love. It was such a humbling, such a joyful and sincere experience that we can only thank all Read more:Alive
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All that road going & all the people dreaming in the immensity of it 2006-11-20 01:38:00 All the stories I wrote were true 'cause I believed in what I saw. I was travelling west one time at the junction of the state line of Colorada - its arid western one, and the state line of poor Utah. I saw in the clouds huge and massed above the fearing golden desert of even fall - the Great Image of God with four finger pointed straight at me. Through halos and rolls and gold foals that were like the existence of the gleaming spear in His right hand which sayeth c'mon boy, go thou across the ground. Go moan for man. Go moan. Go groan. Go groan alone. Go roll your bones. Alone. Go thou and be little beneath my sight. Go thou and be minutest seed in the pod. Go thou go thou - die hence, and if this world report you well and truly.-- J. Kerouac Read more:people
Of Fallen Angels and Living Dead 2006-11-22 04:23:00 Beloved CrissCrass is once again awing us with his Asian explorations. Quickly hop over there to read and see the beauty of it all. Read more:Fallen
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Gitarrmongot 2006-11-23 09:17:00 A little tiny Swedish gem movie I picked up after a very gentle recommendation and I must say some of the scenes really took me by suprise. It's a very minimalistic, lowbudget movie, pieced together like a mosaic, with a static camera the whole time. Somewhere between Jackass and a Roy Andersson movie, although it is only along the lines of the latter as far as rythm and approach goes. It lacks the surrealistic visual greatness of a Songs from the Second Floor, nor are all the scenes intrinsically on to par with each other. And that's exactly where Gitarrmongot fails in my opinion: you could have easily deleted quite a few scenes without anyone ever noticing it. Especially the second act drags on from time to time and you have no clue where the story is going to. Also it's such a pity they filmed most on DV because the aesthetic qualities of the movie are quite poor at times (although some shots are really good and seem to have been shot on film, i guess this was due to financ
Best Movie of the Year so far. 2006-11-24 07:54:00 It had already been praised and pimped by dolorians and igorians but damn, what I just saw, easily exceeded all expectations. The boys were far too modest. I probably won't see a finer movie this year than The Squid and The Whale.And Noah Baumbach is slowly becoming one of the best contemporary screenwriters around. I had somewhat anticipated that he was probably a crucial factor behind the greatness of The Life Aquatic, the first Wes Anderson I truly adored and also, not coincidentally obviously, the first collaboration between Anderson and Baumbach. And I guess The Squid and The Whale proves this point. The scenes in itself, the writing and the dialogue are of such grandeur, that one can only be amazed that it doesn't stop there. The acting (Daniels and the two kids my god!) and Baumbauch's directions are impeccable as well. This film feels like a postmodern The Graduate or something, there is such a nostalghic seventies quality feeling to it (obviously the music contributes
Sarcasm is the refuge of losers. 2006-12-07 01:40:00 Such a corny litte cute sweet and sour movie, made for kids and grandpas to enjoy but so nicely done. What Before Sunset did for the romcom genre, Little Miss Sunshine does for the family movie genre. Go out and See. Read more:Sarcasm
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The New Animation Ensemble. 2006-12-09 07:23:00 And since we're still on the Swedish tip, it's really wonderful to see a familiar name pop up on all the blogs and become the new YouTube hype: Kristofer Ström, who records his solo music under the Ljudbilden & Piloten moniker and who is also a member of Kalligrammofon's hottest quintet Alina, made a great animation music video this summer for Minilogue and well let's just say the number of views would even outrank a bloody U2 concert. Also check Kristofer's other work on YouTube, it's all truly cheery & great. Read more:Animation
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That pop-i-ness 2006-12-09 06:15:00 Is it still the ABBA effect that's shaking up the world of blogging or is it that good old pop quality which yields the number of blogs specialising in Swedish music only: I already knew It's A Trap, Swedesplease or Catchy Tunes of Sweden but I also just received a nice letter from a new contender: the Absolut Noise blog covers our friends up north in both french and english, so go and check it out.
Silent Shout. 2006-12-19 17:13:00 If anyone is making 2006 lists, music- movie or underwearwise, feel free to send them in or drop a link, it will be posted later on. I'm still compiling mine. Read more:Silent
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Five Virgins on an Island. 2006-12-21 10:34:00 First-time movie director Joe Wright summarizes his brilliant adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice best when he comments on the final almost-kiss scene. Truly a director to remember and surprisingly, a must see movie.I battle with this scene. I battle with myself over this scene because it's probably a bit over the top and over-romantic and slushy, but if we haven't earned it by now, then we never will have.One of the make-up artists stood beside me while we were shooting this. And she whispered very quietly: "I wish that was my life." And I think wish fulfilment is... wish fulfilment serves a purpose. A lot of people consider it a cop out or a... or a cynical act, but I think wish fulfilment is really important in drama. And it's important for the people who watch it and the people who make it. We need to have something to reach for. Not to settle for less. Read more:Virgins
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A SELECTION OF 2006 SONGS 2006-12-23 13:47:00 Alright so the lab presents its first end-of-the-year list and unlike last time, we start with the songs. Disclaimer here should be that I haven't included any songs from my top albums. The true intention of this list is to recognize the artists who didn't make it in the top albums list but did produce great material. So these are not necessarily the best songs but they do reflect my 2006 favorites.1. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy2. Isis & Aerogramme - Low Tide3. Helios - Bless This Morning Year4. Cat Power - The Greatest5. Akron & Family - Before and Again6. Spankrock - Bump 7. Devendra Banhart - Inaniel8. Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice - Dread Effigy 9. Royskopp - What Else Is There10. Lupe Fiasco - Kick Push II 11. Joanna Newsom - Emily12. DJ Shadow feat. David Banner - Seein Thangs13. Beirut - Mount Wroclai14. Cat Power - Hate15. Wixel - Your Home is My Last Resort 16. Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous Girl17. aMute - Hit My Country18. Our Brother The Native - Apodiform
2006 and Best Movies 2006-12-25 16:07:00 So here it is. The top 10 of most appreciated movies in 2006. Again due to different releases in Europe, sometimes even only on dvd, the list contains a few 'technically 2005' films but anyone nitpicking about that can mail me and get a date.The number 10 spot is quite populated because a) these movies excel in their craft, but b) they are all majorly flawed one way or the other, which I could try and summarize a little something like this:- Most Awesome Visual Achievement with a dull story: Children of Men- Most Thrilling Reckoning with the worst ending : Munich- Most Fun in The Age of Irony: Snakes on A Plane - Most Mutilated Masterpiece by Producers and Studio: SyrianaAll in all, I must say 2006 was a far better year than 2005. Quite some movies totally disappointed though (The New World, Miami Vice, Mission Impossible III, A Scanner Darkly, Pirates of the Caribbean II, Where The Truth Lies, Brokeback Mountain, Superman Returns), others exceeded expectations but not good enough
YOUR 2006 TV-WALHALLA. 2006-12-30 13:55:00 If 2005 was a sign of what was to come, 2006 truly marked the year of the television. Thinking we saw most of the good stuff last year was, to say the least, a slight error of judgement. Strangily enough it is still hard to convince some people to watch a television series because the old adagio of television being some random entertainment still rings true in some ears. And ignorance is definitely not bliss here. In fact, I can't stress enough how most of the geniuses are writing in television these days. Putting in these countless hours behind the telly has just been this amazing, intoxicating and inspiring ride I could recommend to all. Hopefully this list can help the uninitiated.For this top 10, I selected ten series that are still on the air. Next to this list, there are also five cancelled or wrapped up shows which I only caught up with this year. You should relativily easy find most of these series on dvd. The big problem with making a top 10 is the vast quality differenc
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