Long Weekend: My lack of attention to detail really screwed me up on this one. I had intended to download Colin Eggleston’s original version, but I ended up with Jamie Blanks’ 2008 remake starring James Caviezel and Claudia Karvan. A lot of folks seemed to have called for the new guy’s head since the original [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Movie review: The ‘what’s going on down under…oooh shit’ edition
Posted in film, tagged 1970s Australian cinema, backwaters of Australia, Black Water, Black Water movie review, Brad Oxenbould, cinematographer Dean Semler, Claudia Karvan, Colin Eggleston’s original, Comedy Inc, director David Nerlrich, director Greg Mclean, director Russell Mulcahy, dugong, eco horror, Eggleston’s original, James Caviezel, Jamie Blanks, Long Weekend, Long Weekend movie review, mangrove swamps of Northern Australia, national parks in Victoria, new wave surrealism, Peter Brennan novel, Razorback, Razorback movie review, rogue, Russell Mulcahy, wolf creek on August 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What is democracy?
Posted in Ma Familia, tagged democracy in india, what is democracy on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is possibly the most valid definition of democracy I have heard.
Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep meet to decide who is for dinner.
Liberty is when the sheep has a gun
- Kamikaze Reporter from Chennai
The crossroad blues that once came to Kollywood
Posted in sound, tagged Chandramukhi soundtrack, dancer Lawrence, isai tsunami deva, movie Thendral, music director Vidyasagar, parai, parai drummer, parai instrument, Parthiban, Putham Pudhu Pattu, Ramesh Khanna, Thankar Bachan, Thankar Bachan’s Thendral, Thendral, Uma Pathmanaban on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wonder what in the hell the devil would want with Kollywood music director Vidyasagar’s soul. I can think of no other scenario in which he created the track – Putham Pudhu Pattu – for the movie Thendral other than one in which he sold his soul to the horned-one for a bit of artistic [...]
“They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky”
Posted in sound, tagged A Whole New Thing, Africa Talks to You (The Asphalt Jungle), Bobby Byrd, Family Affair, Mick Jagger, Phish, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly Stone, Thank You For Talking To Me About Africa, The Family Stone, There’s A Riot Goin On, There’s A Riot Goin’ On review, Time, Trip To The Heart on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
tada da den (click click)
tada da den (click click)
I have had a sheltered view on Sly Stone; despite many heartfelt claims by some of whom I greatly respect that this gifted Texan kickstarted the grand congregating of soul, funk and psychedelia during the late Sixties. Yeah whatever, I thought. Well, replace soul with alt country, [...]
Movie review: Christopher Guest edition
Posted in film, tagged A Mighty Wind, Best In Show, Best In Show review, Bob Balaban, Catherine O’Hara, Christopher Guest, Christopher Haden Guest, Corky St Clair, Death Becomes Her, Eugene Levy, For Your Consideration, For Your Consideration review, Fred Willard, Harry Shearer, Herzog’s films, Jennifer Coolidge, Jim Piddock, Johnny Savage, Larry Miller, Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock, Michael McKean, movie reviews, Parker Posey, Rachel Harris, Ricky Gervais, Spinal Tap, Waiting For Guffman, Waiting For Guffman review on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Best In Show: Christopher Guest has a weird sense of humour. My guess is that he just wants to have a good laugh and in the process let us in on the joke as well. Personally, I find a lot of Herzogian elements in his mockumentaries. Take away the poetry, the boorish (justifiably so) intellectualism [...]
Quintessential Tarantino
Posted in film, sound, tagged Across 110th Street, April March, Battle Without Honor or Humanity, Bobby Womack, Chick Habit, Death Proof soundtrack, Dick Dale, Dimitri Tiomkin, Grindhouse Blues, Jackie Browne, michael madsen, Misirlou, Pacific Gas & Electric, Planet Terror soundtrack, pulp fiction, quentin tarantino, reservoir dogs, Rex, Robert Rodriguez, Rose McGowan, Stealers Wheel, Stuck In The Middle With You, Tarantino film, The Coasters, Tomoyasu Hotei on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Man, that Quentin Tarantino really knows his music. Matter of fact I haven’t seen a Tarantino film that didn’t use music as a great enabler between the audience and the storyline.
Take Reservoir Dogs, for instance. Why does the image of Michael Madsen grooving with a razorblade come to mind? (apart from the fact that Mr [...]
The world according to Devendra Banhart
Posted in sound, tagged wikipedia, Woody Guthrie, Devendra Banhart, folk music, modern folk music, folklore, William Thoms, indie folk, acoustic music, funk musicians, Seahorse, Insect Bite, Lazy Butterfly, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, Cripple Crow, devendra banhart review on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Folk music, apart from being a natural extension of cultural folklore, has also built up quite the reputation for echoing the cries of the working class. As described by English antiquarian William Thoms, the word itself supposedly encompasses “the traditions, customs, and superstitions of the uncultured classes”.
Nowadays, you can associate folk music with neither dissidence [...]
Everybody needs soul after dinner
Posted in sound, tagged aretha fraklin, Mahalia Jackson, soul music, souled on, while the blood runs warm, youtube on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few requests for splendid soul music have come marching in , so I guess it’s time for YouTube to make a rare appearance in its full glory.
(clears throat)…just in case you haven’t already visited Souled On to whet your appetite for afro-centric music, here’s a gentle reminder why…nah screw it, just listen to Aretha [...]
Movie review: Citizen Kane can go screw itself and other tender ruminations
Posted in film, tagged 2pac still alive, Adrien Brody, All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, Amber Heard, Buffalo Bill, bullet, Citizen Kane, Citizen Kane overrated, George Romero, Greatest film ever, indie movies, Jonathan Levine, Julien Temple, killer’s motive, Machiavellian, mickey rourke, ODB, Orson Welles, Ronnie Zant, Rosebud mystery, Satriani sucks, slasher film, Ted Levine, Tupac Shakur, Verbal Kent on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Citizen Kane: Very few people I know disliked Citizen Kane. Even fewer could exactly tell me just what it is they liked about the film. Some only pretend to appreciate it because their movie geek friends would judge them if they didn’t. I have watched Citizen Kane a couple of times and I’m yet to [...]
