i started making a video for this track using bits from twin peaks. I'm not going to bother now.
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Saturday, 25 June 2011
Thursday, 16 June 2011
commonplace book june
Hitler discovers the ‘brown note’. Possible great escape remake/sequel?
Town of New Cardiff founded by ostracised Italians and Welshmen on Oregon trail – Daniel Day Lewis/Steve Coogan?
Eccentric arms dealer finds portal in space-time. Sells space age weaponry to south american junta, dies lonely in bleak Glaswegian estate.
‘The Gorbals Goebbels’ – events of WW2 transplanted to bleak Glaswegian estate.
Weegie Rider – remake reprising Robert Carlyle’s Begbie character. Replace LSD with bleak social realism.
Medieval Eastern European market town overrun with mysterious illness, wisecracking african-american snake oil salesman arrives. All is as it seems.
Youtube video causes an international trade crisis.
Bill Murray is smalltown news reporter who must live the same day over and over until he gets it right.
War Photographer encounters enchanted darkroom – photos brought to life, shadowy cabal intervenes.
Street sweeper struck by lightning – can see through time. No one believes outlandish predictions until it is too late.
John Cusack is a wisecracking something or other.
Westward Ho! – Gangland/Western musical set on Devon seaside.
Arrivederci ‘ackney! – 15th Century Italian Nobleman is transplanted into early 20th Century east London. Befriends salt of the earth chimney-sweep, cackling land-baron, prostitute with heart of gold. Music by Tears For Fears.
Kleptomaniacal botanist bites off more than he can chew when he steals a cursed rose.
Uptight bank clerk and his fun loving brother search for their birth parents whilst competing in a cross country firetruck race.
Town of New Cardiff founded by ostracised Italians and Welshmen on Oregon trail – Daniel Day Lewis/Steve Coogan?
Eccentric arms dealer finds portal in space-time. Sells space age weaponry to south american junta, dies lonely in bleak Glaswegian estate.
‘The Gorbals Goebbels’ – events of WW2 transplanted to bleak Glaswegian estate.
Weegie Rider – remake reprising Robert Carlyle’s Begbie character. Replace LSD with bleak social realism.
Medieval Eastern European market town overrun with mysterious illness, wisecracking african-american snake oil salesman arrives. All is as it seems.
Youtube video causes an international trade crisis.
Bill Murray is smalltown news reporter who must live the same day over and over until he gets it right.
War Photographer encounters enchanted darkroom – photos brought to life, shadowy cabal intervenes.
Street sweeper struck by lightning – can see through time. No one believes outlandish predictions until it is too late.
John Cusack is a wisecracking something or other.
Westward Ho! – Gangland/Western musical set on Devon seaside.
Arrivederci ‘ackney! – 15th Century Italian Nobleman is transplanted into early 20th Century east London. Befriends salt of the earth chimney-sweep, cackling land-baron, prostitute with heart of gold. Music by Tears For Fears.
Kleptomaniacal botanist bites off more than he can chew when he steals a cursed rose.
Uptight bank clerk and his fun loving brother search for their birth parents whilst competing in a cross country firetruck race.
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
choking to death in a sun that never sets
very much looking forward to this film by Nichola Bruce:
Bitten by the ‘Moonbug’, photographer Steve Pyke set out on a journey across America in his search to meet and photograph the Apollo space pioneers. A journey in which he was to meet the adventurers, risk takers and dreamers who were behind one of the most historic endeavours of our time... Moonbug is both a photographic road trip and an exploration of how photographs become signposts for history.
Plus, the soundtrack is by the world's most underrated multimedia genius type, Matt Johnson of The The
More info here. Can't find any info on a theatrical release, but it looks like it's out on DVD soon-ish.
Bitten by the ‘Moonbug’, photographer Steve Pyke set out on a journey across America in his search to meet and photograph the Apollo space pioneers. A journey in which he was to meet the adventurers, risk takers and dreamers who were behind one of the most historic endeavours of our time... Moonbug is both a photographic road trip and an exploration of how photographs become signposts for history.
Plus, the soundtrack is by the world's most underrated multimedia genius type, Matt Johnson of The The
More info here. Can't find any info on a theatrical release, but it looks like it's out on DVD soon-ish.
Monday, 13 June 2011
Angel of History
A Klee drawing named “Angelus Novus” shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe that keeps piling ruin upon ruin and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.
Walter Benjamin - On the Concept of History
Frankfurt was heavy but man, this guy was depressed. All melancholic and that. Turn your back on the past, Walter.
Adorno, your next.
Sunday, 12 June 2011
Thursday, 9 June 2011
Prettay, Prettay good.....
Following on from an earlier post about the new Curb' series I found this, a rather charming interview with the particularly beige Letterman. Larry David asked his dad for pocket money at 25.
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Statue of Liberty - Season 8
Now. Whilst at risk of typecasting the writers of this site as the kind of self loathing guys who lack social skills outside of conversations that involve the National Geographic or the latest Warp release, I must alert you to the new Curb Your Enthusiasm poster.
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