I’ve gone a little mainstream in my listening pleasures in the last couple of nights. Its been an intense listening period as I’ve prepared some reviews and I do like to unwind with some old favourites, my disdain for sound colonization not withstanding. Glazxo Babies have been high on the rotation with a little Nick […]
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The Rules of the Game – Greatest film ever made.
posted by lisathatcher
What a week – month – year – of viewing I have had! Cinema buffs may lament the day and age we live in, that film makers like Michael Bay can get funded, let alone watched, but what we do have over every generation before us is access, like there has never been before, to […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 86 – 90
posted by lisathatcher
Impossible not to get excited about this portion from Wire’s list. We’re well into the 1990’s now, and yet as with so many albums on this list, no respect is paid by these great artists to context. Here is music that picks and pulls from many different traditions and ages, leaving us with a taste […]
Farewell Nora Ephron
posted by lisathatcher
“Like most of my contemporaries, I first read The Fountainhead when I was 18 years old. I loved it. I too missed the point. I thought it was a book about a strong-willed architect…and his love life….I deliberately skipped over all the passages about egoism and altruism. And I spent the next year hoping I would meet […]
Maajun – French prog 70’s style with a tiny bit of everything else.
posted by lisathatcher
Oh Prog – how I love thee. Let me count the ways! I’m not completely sure why I love prog rock so much – it may be the drama and the glam – it may be the undisguised theatrics – who knows? It’s probably my generation – I love this post “rock n’ roll” ethic […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 81 – 85
posted by lisathatcher
The overlaying theme of todays little additives is experimental – but where these guys took that is not into the now rather clichéd world the previous decades of beloved records were taking them. Sure Royal Trux (sigh) had the free jazz undertones, Conlon Nancarrow has electronica sourcings, Fingers say thanks to soul, and if you […]
SFF: On the Road – Salles takes Kerouac for a spin
posted by lisathatcher
One great thing that this film version of On The Road did for me was get me onto excellent whiskey. I must say, after watching the film the desire for one was intense. Was it watching these youths swill it for two hours or the desire to forget these youths that switched me onto it? […]
SFF: Beasts of the Southern Wild – A film for the Bourgeoisie.
posted by lisathatcher
It’s difficult to talk about films like this – films that create a lot of buzz, are very complex in their multiple themes, and rely very heavily on the advantages of context. Overall, I would have to say I didn’t like Beasts of the Southern Wild. I found it arrogant, preachy and patronizing. Having said […]
Eiliff – Eiliff (1971): Fuse into a little jazz fusion
posted by lisathatcher
Formed in the late 60’s by Rainer Brüninghaus, Houschäng Nejadepour, Detlev Landmann, Herbert J. Kalveram and Bill Brown, EILIFF were a German instrumental band who turned fusion on its head with a pair of studio albums featuring classy Canterbury-style jamming with bass, guitar and keyboards plus some ethnic instruments thrown in (mostly the sitar). Two […]
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