One of the dire pleasures of trawling my way through the Wire 100 records that set the world on fire is discovering music that slices in at the heart of something I have always liked anyway. That is what we have in this list of five. From the cruisy blues of Ram John Holder to […]
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 21 – 25
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The Weeknd: Echoes of Silence
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This album is being touted as completing ‘The trilogy’ of one man outfit The Weeknd’s R & B contribution for 2011. It landed at the base of our chimney’s December 21 – and it turns out its settling in somewhere between ‘Baloons’ and ‘Thursday’. Despite it being a break with popular opinion, I preferrred Thursday […]
1Q84: Murakami and the great disappointment.
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I’ve just completed reading most of the Amazon reviews for 1Q84, and the recurring advice those who have completed the novel give to those about to take it on, is – Don’t think too hard. That is excellent advice. To be fair, they all say don’t start reading Haruki Murakami with this novel either […]
Trent Parke: The Christmas Tree Bucket #2
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The Trent Parke Christmas Tree Bucket is a beuatiful series of photographs and many of you have been coming to take a look. So I thought I would add the rest of the series. These stunnings images of a typical Australian suburban Gothic Christmas are available for puchse through the Stills Gallery here. Believe me […]
Red Desert : Michelangelo Antonioni embraces colour
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Giuliana”…must confront her social environment. It’s too simplistic to say – as many people have done – that I am condemning the inhuman industrial world which oppresses the individuals and leads them to neurosis. My intention… was to translate the poetry of the world, in which even factories can be beautiful. The line and curves […]
Trent Parke: The Christmas Tree Bucket
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The Christmas tree Bucket is a collection of suburban Australian Christmas photogrpahs taken by Magnum photographer, Trent Parke. I went to a lecture given by Trent Parke about this collection and other works a few years back when the exhibition was current. The story behind the above photograph goes, Trent came home ‘unwell’ around Christmas […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 11-20
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Feel the fire and groan the moan, this is the passion based 10 series from the greatest list ever. I’m listening to Dr John as I write this and letting the music fill me up – is there anything like a groove that ‘works’? That magical moment when you have exactly the right music for […]
Luis Bunuel: The Phantom of Liberty – A review
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I had the sublime pleasure of watching The Phantom of Liberty on the weekend, Luis Bunuel’s second last film and the one he felt best summed up all he was trying to say as a film maker. Surrealism is an older concept now. Freudians (or Lacanians rather) have moved past the idea of the latent […]
The Malady of Death; Intricate lace by Marguerite Duras
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I have spent one of the most pleasant hours of my life today in a pub with a decent chardonnay and Marguerite Duras’ Malady of Death. Marguerite Duras is considered to be an ‘experimental’ writer. She came of writing age during the neauveu roman era of French literature. She differs from Robbes-Grillet and others of the […]
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