“Objectivity is the partner of total power.” How does one value the quality of a film? If film is art, then like all art, it’s value can’t necessarily be measured in as pure quantifiable logic but must be felt. And yet those “feelings” need to be of a certain quality. It needs to challenge, have […]
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January
07
Panabrite: The Baroque Atrium – experiments with electronic sound. (music review)
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I never thought a vocoder could produce a sound that moved me after ELO ruined them forever, but Panabrite’s The Baroque Atrium is an album filled with surprises and that’s just one of them. Panabrite is the solo recording project for Norm Chambers and this is the second album under that moniker. This is a beautifully made record […]
January
07
Permanent Vacation – Jim Jarmusch starts his journey of cool. (film Review)
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“You know, sometimes I just think I should live fast and die young, and go in a three-piece suit like Charlie Parker. Not bad, huh?” Probably the most arresting thing about Permanent Vaction (besides the ambition behind this first feature by Jim Jarmusch) are the opening images of an empty New York City. They reminded […]
January
06
Short and Sweet – a little bit of this and a little bit of that in ten minutes. (Theatre)
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Well, hot on the heels of The Now Now music festival, I’ll be heading off to The Short and Sweet theatre festival. Short+Sweet began life in Newtown (Sydney, and my home base) has expanded nationally to Melbourne, the Central Coast, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide, Newcastle, Townsville and Rockhampton; as well as internationally to Auckland, Malaysia, Singapore, […]
January
06
Onward Chariots – This is my confession (music review)
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I’ve been cleaning my house today and none of that matters because I’ve been listening to Onward Chariots début album, This is my Confession, and its making everything ok. I’m not usually one for cheering on the first rounder, preferring bands with a little under the belt before I give them my (very serious) listening time, but there is some decent […]
January
05
The Vanishing Point of Desire – Vi Khi Nao: Eroticism at its most intimate. (book review)
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The opium pipe of ink runs through the river of your breath. You inhale. I exhale. A trail of reddish brown, the drug, unravels the air. I am still outside the corridor. Time, the Gentleman, still inspects the palimpsest of desire. He takes his time. He looks carefully at the torn pages. The slit. The […]
January
05
Iatrogenics – Various artists and an overwhelming optimism. (music review)
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… and thanks to fantabulous internet land, I recently received this email: Hi Lisa I saw your kind and generous review of” Iatrogenics” from EDCC which I was hoping would have been long forgotten by now but apparently, it has come back to haunt me. My name is Scott Knol and that is me on […]
January
05
The NOW now festival – A Festival of Exploratory / Spontaneous / Experimental / Improvised / Outsider / Other Musics.
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January is always a busy time for Sydney-siders with our festival on and all, but this year I’ve decided to stick to the lesser known realms (even though Nick – i am madly in love with you – Cave is in town) and check out some art projects and such. I’ll be attending the Now Now festival – […]
January
05
The Kingdom Pt 1 – tons of fun the von Trier way. (film review)
posted by lisathatcher
Television has always left me cold. I haven’t had it habitually on for over a decade in my life, preferring films. There are television shows I like – comedies – but I get these on DVD. Even the so-called brilliant mini-series of late… notably The Wire and Breaking Bad failed to reach me. I […]
January
04
71 Fragments of a chronology of chance – Haneke ice cold. (film review)
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Someone close to me whose film tastes I admire greatly told me this film affected them very deeply, so out of respect I raced to the video store to rent it last week. What I also got on the disc was a thirty minute interview with Michael Haneke which was fantastically interesting – I almost […]
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