Friday, 22 January 2010
Friday, 12 December 2008
Top Shit for 2008
1. Fennesz ''Black Sea'' on Touch
2. Gang Gang Dance ''St. Dymphna'' on Warp
3. The Fall ''Imperial Wax Solvent'' on Castle Music
4. Fuck Buttons ''Street Horrrsing'' on ATP
5. Flying Lotus ''Los Angeles'' on Warp
6. 2562 ''Aerial'' on Tectonic
7. Dj Rupture ''Uproot'' on The Agriculture
8. Grails ''Doomsdayer Holidays'' on Temporary Residence
9. Gavin Bryars, Philip Jeck & Alter Ego '' The Sinking of the Titanic (1969-) on Touch
10.Crystal Stilts ''Alight The Night'' on Slumblerland
Single of the year: Dj Mujava ''Township Funk''
Top 10 for Films in no particular order:
1. Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2. Hunger
3. Man On Wire
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Dark Knight
6. Tropic Thunder
7. Gommorrah
8. No Country For Old Men
9. Funny Games
10. Wall-E
2. Gang Gang Dance ''St. Dymphna'' on Warp
3. The Fall ''Imperial Wax Solvent'' on Castle Music
4. Fuck Buttons ''Street Horrrsing'' on ATP
5. Flying Lotus ''Los Angeles'' on Warp
6. 2562 ''Aerial'' on Tectonic
7. Dj Rupture ''Uproot'' on The Agriculture
8. Grails ''Doomsdayer Holidays'' on Temporary Residence
9. Gavin Bryars, Philip Jeck & Alter Ego '' The Sinking of the Titanic (1969-) on Touch
10.Crystal Stilts ''Alight The Night'' on Slumblerland
Single of the year: Dj Mujava ''Township Funk''
Top 10 for Films in no particular order:
1. Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2. Hunger
3. Man On Wire
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Dark Knight
6. Tropic Thunder
7. Gommorrah
8. No Country For Old Men
9. Funny Games
10. Wall-E
Thursday, 27 December 2007
Top Shit for 2007
Another year, another lane, another turn,another list, blah blah blah, yaka yaka yaka...
Top 10 for Music in no particular order:
1."Person Pitch" by PANDA BEAR on Paw Tracks
2."Theory Of Machines" by BEN FROST on Bedroom Community
3."The Hired Hand OST" by BRUCE LANGHORNE on Blast First
4."Trees Outside The Academy" by THURSTON MOORE on Ecstatic Peace
5."Pilgrimage" by OM on Southern Lord
6."Fabric 36" by RICARDO VILLALOBOS on Fabric
7."Radiant Mirror" by FLOWER/CORSANO DUO onTextile
8."Cendre" by FENNESZ/SAKAMOTO on Touch
9."Black Sabbath E.P." by VENETIAN SNARES on Kriss
10."No Shouts No Calls" by ELECTRELANE on Too Pure
Top 10 for Films in no particular order:
1. EASTERN PROMISES by David Cronenberg
2. THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP by Michel Gondry
3. INLAND EMPIRE by David Lynch
4. THIS IS ENGLAND by Shane Meadows
5. SUSHINE by Danny Boyle
6. ZODIAC by David Fincher
7. THE FOUNTAIN by Darren Aronofsky
8. CONTROL by Anton Corbijn
9. THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM by Peter Greengrass
10. PLANET TERROR by Robert Rodriguez
Top 10 for Music in no particular order:
1."Person Pitch" by PANDA BEAR on Paw Tracks
2."Theory Of Machines" by BEN FROST on Bedroom Community
3."The Hired Hand OST" by BRUCE LANGHORNE on Blast First
4."Trees Outside The Academy" by THURSTON MOORE on Ecstatic Peace
5."Pilgrimage" by OM on Southern Lord
6."Fabric 36" by RICARDO VILLALOBOS on Fabric
7."Radiant Mirror" by FLOWER/CORSANO DUO onTextile
8."Cendre" by FENNESZ/SAKAMOTO on Touch
9."Black Sabbath E.P." by VENETIAN SNARES on Kriss
10."No Shouts No Calls" by ELECTRELANE on Too Pure
Top 10 for Films in no particular order:
1. EASTERN PROMISES by David Cronenberg
2. THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP by Michel Gondry
3. INLAND EMPIRE by David Lynch
4. THIS IS ENGLAND by Shane Meadows
5. SUSHINE by Danny Boyle
6. ZODIAC by David Fincher
7. THE FOUNTAIN by Darren Aronofsky
8. CONTROL by Anton Corbijn
9. THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM by Peter Greengrass
10. PLANET TERROR by Robert Rodriguez
Friday, 23 November 2007
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
Le firmament ment. Il n'y a pas d'étoiles mais juste des étincelles pour nous crever les yeux
Silence noble,
Des descendants venus de Mars, Pluton, Syrius, Orion, des époques lointaines comme celles du Far West et des Temples d'Iraklion, transcendants encore, comme une flamme par dessus les fers blancs et les paroles de marchands, funambules à tout prix pour casser la barraque à vendre des pains comme on vend du venin
La route est belle sur la voie royale de Sténopée
Silence noble,
Des descendants venus de Mars, Pluton, Syrius, Orion, des époques lointaines comme celles du Far West et des Temples d'Iraklion, transcendants encore, comme une flamme par dessus les fers blancs et les paroles de marchands, funambules à tout prix pour casser la barraque à vendre des pains comme on vend du venin
La route est belle sur la voie royale de Sténopée
Monday, 29 October 2007
Monday, 17 September 2007
Tuesday, 31 July 2007
Celebrating Unpopular Culture
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'Eccentric Scholarship, Weird Journalism and Obsessive Research. Nothing else like it.'
Strange Attractor Journal 1
Strange Attractor Journal 2
Strange Attractor Journal 3
'Eccentric Scholarship, Weird Journalism and Obsessive Research. Nothing else like it.'
Friday, 27 July 2007
Tuesday, 17 July 2007
Tuesday, 26 June 2007
Op de roooöÖÖd Jackowerskyerk !!
Les autoroutes de France, les péages, les cafés à 3 franc cinquantes, les rivières d'eau sales qui longent les filets de carburants, les camions qui se dépassent entre eux, les familles qui sentent le vide intérieur, les jeunes filles nues sous leurs mini jupes, les moustachus qui sifflent aux jeunes filles nues.
Et puis la Costa Brava, del sol etcétéra.
C'est parti mon kiki, mon caca, mon chichi, mon coco, ha ha ha
Monday, 25 June 2007
Les vaches ne survivent plus à la hausse des températures estivales. On les pèche à longueur de journées, dans les fleuves et cours d'eau de la campagne belge. Elles voudraient semblerait-il migrer vers des contrées plus suaves où les hommes ne les mangent pas mais les gardent en semie liberté avec les porcs, les moutons et les champs de fleurs sauvages. Oui, elle ne demandent que ça, rester tranquilles dans la prairie douce et vallonée, avec de temps en temps de la pluie suivi d'éclaircies ensoleillées.
Wednesday, 20 June 2007
OM
From Sleep to Earth with Sabbath looking in:
Conference Of The Birds by OM
Variations On A Theme By OM
Fait peter le shit, sa va dechirer des barres avant de s'endormir...
Le coulis est passe, les feuilles faudras presser,
le stick est dorer...dark...souple...hypnotisant...
et les nuages de fummee commencent a se disperser,
Tenebreux maintenant...ca va..
Mieux...
Vive les annees 90 pour ses reves de metal epolgant,
Vive le temps present pour le savoir faire eccletique,
Vive ou pas vivre la mort nous guete constament,
OM-moi le chemin, la ligne qui tourne de sa droiteur,
OM Ba Shibaye, OM Ba Shibaye
Conference Of The Birds by OM
Variations On A Theme By OM
Fait peter le shit, sa va dechirer des barres avant de s'endormir...
Le coulis est passe, les feuilles faudras presser,
le stick est dorer...dark...souple...hypnotisant...
et les nuages de fummee commencent a se disperser,
Tenebreux maintenant...ca va..
Mieux...
Vive les annees 90 pour ses reves de metal epolgant,
Vive le temps present pour le savoir faire eccletique,
Vive ou pas vivre la mort nous guete constament,
OM-moi le chemin, la ligne qui tourne de sa droiteur,
OM Ba Shibaye, OM Ba Shibaye
Monday, 18 June 2007
Jihad Techno
Chante Omar,
Montre nous ta belle moustache,
Nage maintenant,
prouve nous ton amour,
les brioches cuisent
Et moi quand j'y pense
J'aime mon maitre d'homme...
Thursday, 31 May 2007
Exotic Kicks
Martin tu est la voix de mon chagrin,
Le cris de mon destin,
Ouverture de mon parchemin,
De la Musique pour des Calins...
J'ecoute, je vibre, je danse et je m'en prive
rarement,
D'une musique enchantee de calmants,
D'un rhytme tellement envoutant,
Mais surtout d'un penchant soulignee de vibrations
Martin, le Denny's' de Martin
Wednesday, 25 April 2007
Mali quand tu nous tient
C'est Giri, en revenant de Londres... qui m'avait montré ce groupe touareg plus ou moins modernisé mais bien enraciné dans leur tradition (Tarinawen)
Voilà qu'ils viennent au bota dans le cadres des nuits. Avec deux autres "groupes", Tartit, qui vient du Mali et Toumast, du Niger.
IL ya des liens sur le site du Botanique...
Allez, que le désert enchante nos yeux et nos oreilles blasés
Thursday, 12 April 2007
Comme le serpent qui change de peau
Wednesday, 11 April 2007
'The Exciting Hellebore Shew'
'Piping out unenlightened smog for the inverted jet nozzle of your sound perception to spray your brain internally with sweet anti-music.'
If you ever feel 'uncreatively' bored there's nothing like this archive site to cheer your up. Click here, here and here...
One a day will take the pain away...
If you ever feel 'uncreatively' bored there's nothing like this archive site to cheer your up. Click here, here and here...
One a day will take the pain away...
Friday, 6 April 2007
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Friday, 16 March 2007
Thursday, 15 March 2007
Perfect Companion or Corrupted Adaptation?
Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardener; City of God) is directing the film adaptation of José Saramago’s novel Ensaio Sobre A Cegueira (Blindness). José Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998 and is one of Portugal’s best-known writers. For those who don’t know, Blindness is set in an unnamed city inexplicably plunged into an epidemic of blindness.
I don’t know what to make of this. Should I be happy to see one of my favourite books being adapted by a director that, until now, hasn’t made a bad film? Or should I be offended that such a masterpiece should be subjected to a vulgar dissection by the Hollywood money-grabbing machine?
Daniel Graig and Julianne Moore are confirmed to star as the main characters’ and I confess this casting decision already confuses me. 007 as a blind Ophthalmologist? Maybe Julianne Moore will be able to bring a much needed human sensibility to the story…
Let’s just hope this won’t be another catastrophe like Saramago’s last film adaptation ‘A Jangada De Pedra’ (The Stone Raft). This adaptation again demonstrates how a brilliant book can be completely butchered by the talentless idiots who called themselves filmmakers.
It would be a great pleasure to make Blindness enter my ‘Perfect Companion’ section (and a great honour to both Saramago & Meirelles I'm sure). I guess we’ll have to wait till next year to find out. Meanwhile I suggest a reading or re-reading of one of the most brilliant written books of the 20th Century.
P.S.- The English Edition cover didn't appeal to me so I left it out.There...
I don’t know what to make of this. Should I be happy to see one of my favourite books being adapted by a director that, until now, hasn’t made a bad film? Or should I be offended that such a masterpiece should be subjected to a vulgar dissection by the Hollywood money-grabbing machine?
Daniel Graig and Julianne Moore are confirmed to star as the main characters’ and I confess this casting decision already confuses me. 007 as a blind Ophthalmologist? Maybe Julianne Moore will be able to bring a much needed human sensibility to the story…
Let’s just hope this won’t be another catastrophe like Saramago’s last film adaptation ‘A Jangada De Pedra’ (The Stone Raft). This adaptation again demonstrates how a brilliant book can be completely butchered by the talentless idiots who called themselves filmmakers.
It would be a great pleasure to make Blindness enter my ‘Perfect Companion’ section (and a great honour to both Saramago & Meirelles I'm sure). I guess we’ll have to wait till next year to find out. Meanwhile I suggest a reading or re-reading of one of the most brilliant written books of the 20th Century.
P.S.- The English Edition cover didn't appeal to me so I left it out.There...
Saturday, 10 March 2007
*
The garage door has a remote control
just in case they’ll have to leave in a haste,
just in case cold washing delicate fabrics,
petit fours, hot cross buns and Christmas decorations
are one day not enough.
And at night she lies awake, staring gimlet-eyed.
Imagines each grain of the dark brown wood.
Memorises for the morning: There is an inlet, innate
But in the morning tells him: By the way,
this year around, I wish for another fur coat, Darling.
Some nights, standing up she pulls the shawl harder
around her shoulders, empties a bucket,
rinses a tunnel, notices an unheard of archipelago.
She blinks and it’s the same old garden.
There are so many gardens to leave
the holy-water-sprinkler in and earth
closets to empty all over. Candle and torch
sweep across crunchy clear-cut Area Code
taken for being sand dunes.
A pile of chips clatters, sways like she
used to do when she walked on stilts and Maybe
with a foam-machine I can cover all this Debris
she thinks as she hides behind the jalousie
like a Chinese theatre piece. Then kills also this
uninvited guest. Dumps it in the garden with the rest
of thoughts in yet another wolf cub’s hour.
just in case they’ll have to leave in a haste,
just in case cold washing delicate fabrics,
petit fours, hot cross buns and Christmas decorations
are one day not enough.
And at night she lies awake, staring gimlet-eyed.
Imagines each grain of the dark brown wood.
Memorises for the morning: There is an inlet, innate
But in the morning tells him: By the way,
this year around, I wish for another fur coat, Darling.
Some nights, standing up she pulls the shawl harder
around her shoulders, empties a bucket,
rinses a tunnel, notices an unheard of archipelago.
She blinks and it’s the same old garden.
There are so many gardens to leave
the holy-water-sprinkler in and earth
closets to empty all over. Candle and torch
sweep across crunchy clear-cut Area Code
taken for being sand dunes.
A pile of chips clatters, sways like she
used to do when she walked on stilts and Maybe
with a foam-machine I can cover all this Debris
she thinks as she hides behind the jalousie
like a Chinese theatre piece. Then kills also this
uninvited guest. Dumps it in the garden with the rest
of thoughts in yet another wolf cub’s hour.
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