In the cover of That Overt Desire of Object, Phillip Greenlief explains conversations between him and collaborator Joelle Leandre often turn to the subject of greed and the way it impacts the world and the “malaise” it causes. (his words) This is the general feeling of unease or “feeling out of sorts” that greed and […]
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That Overt Desire of Object – Leandre and Greenlief produce sound as longing.
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In Box drops – some music and stuff that’s landed on me this week.
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I thought I would toss a couple of sounds your way, seeing as a bit of stuff has been landing on me recently. I won’t be able to review all of the below – some of it is happening next week… but here are some tasties that will be around over the next few weeks […]
Strangers – Kane Ikin and David Wenngren speak across the miles.
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I try not to do too many write-ups on this blog about music that is no longer available. But I picked this up at a Keith Fullerton Whitman concert earlier this year (fantastic, amazing concert) so I guess some copies are still in circulation. Either way, I like the disc so much I wanted to […]
You Will Be My Son – Gilles Legrand films the pathological fear of death.
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You will be my son is a film about power and money and about a persons ultimate reach for power – the power over death. Cleverly using the father/son mythology of Oedipus and King Laius, this story examines what would have happened if King Laius didn’t bind his sons feet and leave him on a mountain to die, but […]
King Dude: Burning Daylight – a little dark / a little light.
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I’ve always been slightly uncomfortable with the “bad boy” image in Rock. It all seems so white bread, like the worst these “rebels” can conjure up is taking drugs, trashing a hotel room and cheating on their spouses. And this extends to other genres as well. Ambiguity is meant to be carried through; the “words” […]
Reminder – Submissions for Henry Magazine are now open.
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“HENRY” is a new bi-yearly magazine in Le Zaporogue’sfree press collection. It is a magazine about literature, arts, music, philosophy and those who make it by those who make it, in other words, writers, artists, musicians and philosophers. It will be a heartfelt magazine about passion and creation, far from the traditional academic literary mags. It’s […]
How to read Lacan: Zizek on Lacan – Part 4. Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien. (pt Three)
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This is a post based on Slavoj Zizek’s little booklet How to read Lacan. For the previous post to this one, go here. For the first in the series, go here. Zizek goes on to cite some beautiful passages of Shakespeare to describe what he means here by Lacan’s “real”. He also cites an example from […]
End of Watch – David Ayer takes the cop buddy movie a little deeper.
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I’ve read that Ayer write this script in under a week, and I have to say you can tell. There is enough good stuff in the film to carry it, but a huge let down for me is how underdeveloped the Brain Taylor (really well-played by Jake Gyllenhaal) character is. There are far too many […]
Alex White – Genuine Instability: Intensity pushed to the edge
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Justice Yeldham @ Alex White’s ‘Genuine Instability’ album launch (AVANT WHATEVER), Serial Space 18.02.11 from Records: Experimental Sydney on Vimeo. Alex White is a laptop musician from my hometown, Sydney Australia. This is a true noise musician in the electronic style, taking pure sound and attempting to order it into some vague coherency we can […]
Lawless: Nick Cave and American violence.
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I wrote an article at the start of this blog entitled: Why I love Miller and hate Hemingway, or how I pick and choose my misogynists, and I confess it’s in the spirit of what I talked about there that I have to enter this review of Lawless. I’m not 100% sure why I love […]
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