What an absolutely beautiful film. This was pure delight from start to finish. An established masterpiece, Ikiru was made in 1952, between Rashomon and Seven Samurai, and stars Takashi Shimura. He played the woodcutter in Rashomon, leader of the Seven Samurai and in Ikiru he’s a crabbed, middle-aged civil servant suddenly faced with his imminent […]
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Alternative TV – The Image has Cracked:
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Alternative TV (sometimes known as ATV) were an English rock band, formed in London in 1976. Their punk rock and post-punk sound was influential for several musical artists. 01 Alternatives 02 Action Time Vision 03 Why Don’t You Do Me Right? 04 Good Times 05 Still Life 06 Viva La Rock’n’Roll 07 Nasty Little Lonely 08 Red 09 Splitting In Two bonus […]
Broken Things by Padrika Tarrant – Stories that will never leave you.
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Until today, I always pushed a pram, just in case I find a baby. People lose them all the time, don’t they, so the chances are some day I’ll get lucky and pick one up. I’m kind and ever so patient. A baby wouldn’t be badly of with me, I don’t think. I save stuff, keep safe what nobody else […]
Marketa Lazarová – The greatest Czech film of all time
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Marketa Lazarová is a 1967 Czechoslovak historical film directed by František Vláčil. It is an adaptation of a novel of the same name by Vladislav Vančura. Although, it is my understanding that it is not a particularly close representation of the book, but rather draws heavily on one small aspect and expands this into a film. I’ve leaned heavily on […]
The Breadwinner – Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet make art out of the everyday.
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A regal soul, inadvertently surrendering to the crab of lust, the octopus of weakmindedness, the shark of individual abjection, the boa of absent morality, and the monstrous snail of idiocracy! Lautreamont, Les Chants de Maldoror The Breadwinner musical settings for common environments and domestic situations I did a review on here around Christmas time of […]
Alles ist gut – DAF give us sound sex.
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Alles ist gut is the third album by the electropunk/NDW band D.A.F. from Düsseldorf, Germany. It was released in 1981 and was the band’s first album on the British Virgin label. The album Alles ist gut received the German “Schallplattenpreis” award by the “Deutsche Phono-Akademie”, an association of the German recording industry. Track listing Sato-Sato (“Sato-Sato”) Der Mussolini (“The Mussolini”) Rote Lippen (“Red lips”) Mein Herz macht Bum […]
Music That Accentuates Life
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I wanted to share some art and music highlights for me over the last year and a half or so. I know it’s an odd, random sort of post, but Music became very important to me – quite suddenly a year and a half ago, and the how’s and why’s of that journey can be […]
Bear Ground – The sound of objects / the object of sound.
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I’ve had the most glorious day today with this CD caressing my ears. My assumption on this blog is that I speak mostly to those who don’t know much about this sort of music, but a fast analysis of my stats on the weekend revealed that (sigh) my experimental music posts are not very popular […]
White Teeth: The brilliance of Zadie Smith
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Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway. At 06.27 hours on 1 january 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate face down on the steering wheel, hoping the judgement would not be too heavy upon him. He lay forward in a prostrate cross, […]
Alien City – Alien City (1979): A little pre-punk in the post -punk era.
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“Alien City was composed over a period of five years. It is a song cycle of epic proportions centering around the incarnation of Celestial Visitors to this planet. They take youthful bodies with the soul mission of increasing the intelligence of the human race. Alas, in their compassionate endeavors they become trapped in the pernicious […]
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