Saturday, August 8, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
The language of love.
A movie that plays solely on the imagination, using language (quite literally as the story unfolds) suggestion and sound to evoke some of the greatest "chill moments" I have experienced in quite a while.
It's also quite witty and somewhat surreal at times. It reminded me of listening to an old radio play, à la Orson Welles War of the Worlds, with a bit of Sartre's No Exit thrown in for good measure.
One reviewer is quoted as saying: Think of this witty, economically gory little tour de force as 28 Days Later written by linguist Noam Chomsky.
That's pretty apt.
Highly recommended.
...and on a separate note; this is worth checking out also.
Friday, July 31, 2009
I am such a suave motherf**ker!
After Claude Monet's The Picnic.
This scene depicts me midway through a rendition of Gregory Corso's The Night Last Night was at its Nightest.
Go here: madmenyourself
Lifted once again from somebody else's blog:Good Dog.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Harry Patch RIP
The last British survivor of the World War I trenches, Harry Patch, has died at the age of 111.
Mr Patch was conscripted into the Army aged 18 and fought in the Battle of Passchendaele at Ypres in 1917 in which more than 70,000 British soldiers died.
He was raised in Combe Down, near Bath, and had been living at a care home in Wells, Somerset.
Taken from: news.bbc.co.uk
Mr Patch was conscripted into the Army aged 18 and fought in the Battle of Passchendaele at Ypres in 1917 in which more than 70,000 British soldiers died.
He was raised in Combe Down, near Bath, and had been living at a care home in Wells, Somerset.
Taken from: news.bbc.co.uk
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Shara Worden
I quite seriously should never have sold that second set of Decemberists tickets, as it was without a doubt one of the best concerts I have ever been to (possibly even pushing seeing the 'Weddies' in 88 into second place; and that, coming from me... is really saying something!)
One of the reasons it was so good was partly down to this lady:
The fantastic Shara Worden!
When this woman took the stage the audience just erupted! A guitar playing rock goddess with a stage presence and a voice that would have an opera singer cringing in the corner and whimpering like a fat baby; powerful with an almost ethereal quality that just forces you to sit up and pay attention.
'Nina Simone meets PJ Harvey while shoving Kate Bush outta the way to kick Tori Amos in the stomach while trying desperately to resuscitate Beth Gibbons' type of thing!
I was personally completely captivated by her.
Shara Worden is in a band called My Brightest Diamond and coincidentally enough the other guest female lead vocalist(Becky Stark)is in a band called Lavender Diamond.
Go figure...
She's the one to the far left of pic...
The Decemberists should really consider making these two part of their "permanent" line up.
Seriously Meloy...
Just do it!!
One of the reasons it was so good was partly down to this lady:
The fantastic Shara Worden!
When this woman took the stage the audience just erupted! A guitar playing rock goddess with a stage presence and a voice that would have an opera singer cringing in the corner and whimpering like a fat baby; powerful with an almost ethereal quality that just forces you to sit up and pay attention.
'Nina Simone meets PJ Harvey while shoving Kate Bush outta the way to kick Tori Amos in the stomach while trying desperately to resuscitate Beth Gibbons' type of thing!
I was personally completely captivated by her.
Shara Worden is in a band called My Brightest Diamond and coincidentally enough the other guest female lead vocalist(Becky Stark)is in a band called Lavender Diamond.
Go figure...
She's the one to the far left of pic...
The Decemberists should really consider making these two part of their "permanent" line up.
Seriously Meloy...
Just do it!!
Monday, July 20, 2009
Okay, so I sold the extra Decemberists tickets!
...and then the Cowboy Junkies decide to cancel their show!
Bleedin' 45 bucks; half shagging price I let those tickets go for! I would have quite happily gone to see the Decemberists twice... twice I tell ya!
More like: Cowboy "flunkie" Junkies!
Bleedin' 45 bucks; half shagging price I let those tickets go for! I would have quite happily gone to see the Decemberists twice... twice I tell ya!
More like: Cowboy "flunkie" Junkies!
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