Thursday, July 30, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
camera obscura
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
You kissed me on the forehead
Now this kiss is giving me a concussion
We were love at first sight
Now it's crush
It's crushing
Now choose two stops through the city though
I'm lost easily
I took to the desert but my heart just whines
and deceive me
Now we're in love again
And you're wherevers
I'm not a child I know
We're not going steady
You're pain's gigantic but it's not as big as your ego
Promise not to abandon you, please let me go
Now I've been hurting your feelings
Yeah they were worth protecting
They say I'm too kind and sentimental
Like you could catch affection
Oh in your eyes there's a sadness
Enough to kill the both of us
Are those eyes overrated?
They make me want to give up on love
I'll brace myself for the holiness
Say hello to feelings that I detest
This maudlin career has come to an end
I don't want to be sad again
This maudlin career has come to an end
I don't want to be sad again
This maudlin career has come to an end
I don't want to be sad again
This maudlin career has come to an end
I don't want to be sad again
cult me in 12
''Possibly, this is a story about moving on from a friendship, potentially sexual, which is going nowhere, due to the inability of one of the friends to overcome addiction, and function in an unwelcome world. So, "Withnail & I" is a little too vague its dramatic intentions; but, the obliqueness does wind up mirroring Withnail's character. It gives the film a (perhaps unintentional) eerie quality; it's as difficult to completely grasp what's going on beneath the surface as it is for "Withnail & I" to figure out how to exist in reality. The "Hamlet" ending is great; but, before that, some final sequences seem abrupt''
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
cult me in 11
Clerks [1994 ~ USA]
dir. Kevin Smith
''Extraordinarily funny, Clerks gives us a new look on working life i.e. how many messed up things can happen to a person in a single day and just how does one deal with these tough situations. Kevin Smith demonstrates that he is truly fearless, giving his characters some of the most offending lines that are so deliberately insulting that you just have to laugh. This is one of the single funniest films I think I have ever seen and I just wish I'd seen it ten years ago. Anyone who has not seen it, please do so. You have no idea what you're missing. It'll be one of the most hilarious 90 minutes you'll experience. Also no Kevin Smith movie would be the same without a trademark Star Wars reference. With that said, go out and watch Clerks and to you Master K, "May the Force be with you"''
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
cult me in 10
Plan 9 From Outer Space [1959 ~ USA]
dir.Ed Wood
''This is one of the best of the worst films of all time. When viewed with the right mindset it never fails to entertain. Poor production values, terrible acting, worse directing, and dialog that has to be heard to be believed, combine to create a cinematic gem''
Monday, July 13, 2009
cult me in 09
This Spinal Tap [1984 ~ USA]
dir.Ron Rainer
''The gritty, unpretty reality of rock music is on display in director Marty DiBergi's unsparing rockumentary "This Is Spinal Tap," which chronicles the British metal band's tour through the United States in the latter part of 1982.
Cold sores, drugs, late-night debauchery, and the brutal snubbing of a Sinatra-loving chauffeur are just some of the antics on display, in what could be the most penetrating and uncensored examination of the rock n' roll lifestyle since "Gimme Shelter." Whereas that movie features one grainy, out-of-focus killing, this film actually shows the band's drummer spontaneously combusting on stage! And apparently this was the second time that happened (or maybe I'm thinking of the drummer they lost to an unexplained gardening accident, I'm a little unclear.)''
Thursday, July 09, 2009
cult me in 08
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
twilight sad
awesome new video from a great band...
''Joining Beirut in the race for 2009's best hooker-titled song, BTW and OKX alum the Twilight Sad have lined up "I Became A Prostitute" as the second single from their forthcoming Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters followup, Forget The Night Ahead. It's track two from the album that's already impressed with the excellent "Reflection Of The Television," and another sample of the Scots' uncanny knack for steam-pressing smoldering, shoegazing guitars to anthemic, skyward bound choruses. James Graham doesn't fully explain how this song turned him into a whore, but as always his vocal, by turns tuneful and blistering, gets the benefit of that good gravitas that seems a birthright to the best Scottish accented singers''
stereogum
The Twilight Sad - Reflections of the Television
Wednesday morning
Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band - Spoiled
Baby got his feelings hurt singing that old standard
You can't break a rule that ain't been made
A starlight chasing ponytails and mushroom clouds and black fields
I don't want to feel this entertained
Sitting on a crowded coach, staring at the stereo
Watching all the hippies through the haze
From gentle soul to sad and stoned 'cause no one wants to be alone
But you know you can't always have your way
So tell me what you're gonna do now
You get everything you wanted and you still let down
Tell me what you're gonna do now
You get everything you want, you still feel down
Farmer, he's a sentient being sipping on his canteen
Passes it to me, I can't say thanks
Coco she stays clear of me, remembers all those bad scenes
If she'd just sit still I could explain
And every time I fucked her mind it's 'cause I thought I was in love
And I woke up with that same thought today
So it goes the ebb and flow, happiness was never us
If it's all free why would you ever pay?
So tell me what you're gonna do now
You get everything you wanted and you're still let down
Tell me what you're gonna do now
You get everything you want, you still feel down
Yeah you do, yeah you do
Tell me what you're gonna do now
You get everything you wanted and you still let down
Tell me what you're gonna do now
You get everything you want, you still feel down
Tell me what you're gonna do now
You get everything you wanted and you still let down
Tell me what you're gonna do now
You get everything you want, you still feel down
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
cult me in 06
Kitchen Stories [2003 ~ Norway & Sweden]
dir. Bent Hamer
''"A hilariously absurd, offbeat Norwegian film applauded for its inventive examination of solitude, friendship, and the bizarreness of human habit. Based on actual experiments conducted in the 1940's, one of the film's two main characters, Folke, is a Swedish "kitchen researcher" sent on a mission to observe the domestic habits of a cantankerous old Norwegian bachelor, in an attempt to design a more efficient kitchen''
a wish..
The Boy Least Likely To - When I Grow Up I Want To Be A Boy Again
The smell of suntan cream reminds me of
you smiling, sadly, back at me
as I sat there in my bubble
stacking pebbles up on a sunny day
I still remember when I was young
I thought I would be young forever
I swim 'round and 'round on my tinfoil pond
like an ugly duckling that does not want
to have to turn into a swan, yeah
when I grow up I want to be a boy again
I still get excited when it snows
sitting in my bubble with my imaginary friends
wishing that we didn't have to be so realistic all the time
I lie awake at night and count the stars
I fill jelly-jars with plastic flowers
I go 'round and 'round in circles on my hamster wheel
I can feel the whole world
quietly closing in on me in my little bubble
when I grow up I want to be a boy again
I still get excited when it snows
sitting in my bubble with my box of felt-tip pens
wishing that I didn't have to be so realistic all the time
fresh!
Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
Sat in the cafe by the cracker factory
You were practicing a magic trick
And my thoughts got rude, as you talked and chewed
On the last of your pick and mix
Said your mistaken if your thinking that I haven't been caught cold before
As you bit into your strawberry lace
And then a flip in your attention in the form of a gobstopper
Is all you have left and it was going to waste
Your past-times, consisted of the strange
And twisted and deranged
And I love that little game you had called
Crying lightning
And how you like to aggravate the ice-cream man on rainy afternoons
The next time that I caught my own reflection
It was on it's way to meet you
Thinking of excuses to postpone
You never look like yourself from the side
But your profile did not hide
The fact you knew I was approaching your throne
With folded arms you occupy the bench like toothache
Saw them, puff your chest out like you never lost a war
And though I try so not to suffer the indignity of a reaction
There was no cracks to grasp or gaps to claw
And your past-times, consisted of the strange
And twisted and deranged
And I hate that little game you had called
Crying lightning
And how you like to aggravate the icky man on rainy afternoons
Uninviting
But not half as impossible as everyone assumes
You are crying lightning
Your past-times, consisted of the strange
And twisted and deranged
And I hate that little game you had called
Crying lightning
Crying lightning
Crying lightning
Crying lightning
Your past-times, consisted of the strange
And twisted and deranged
And I hate that little game you had called
Crying
Monday, July 06, 2009
cult me in 05
Infinite Playlist for Sadie no8
Bloc Party - One More Chance
Fanfarlo - Harold T. Wilkins Or How To Wait For A Very Long Time
Dappled Cities-The Price
Former Child Stars - You're So Different
Cancel the Astronauts - I Am The President Of Your Fanclub (And Last Night I Followed You Home)
Marina & The Diamonds - I am not a robot
My Awesome Mixtape - Me & The Washing Machine
The Whispertown 2000 - Done With Love
Me My Head - Tumbling Down
St. Vincent And The National - Sleep All Summer
Infinite Playlist for Sadie no8
lend an ear...
''These guys unashamedly jump from the pages of The Smiths songbook, with their jangly, flicking guitar riffs and coo-ing vocals. It’s all backed by some sweet, chiming sounds and a rattling beat that fires rapid shots over the bow''
Flashguns - I Don't Not Love You
Flashguns - Locarno
Flashguns - Roshambo
Flashguns - Timehouse Blue
I Don't Love You
cult me in 04
The Warriors [1979 ~ USA]
dir.Walter Hill
Sometimes breathless, heavily stylized, and technically well-made memorable cult film from veteran screenwriter and director Walter Hill, in which a street gang is accused of the murder of a prominent gang leader and have to fight their way back to their home turf.
"The Warriors" is a consistently entertaining film that was notorious in its day for drawing real-life gangs into the theaters to watch it who would then inexorably tangle with each other
So....Can You Dig it?
Sunday, July 05, 2009
love is the king of the beasts..
Bill Callahan - Eid Ma Clack Shaw
Working through death's pain
Last night I swear I felt your touch
Gentle and warm
The hair stood on my arms
How?
How?
How?
Oh show me the way, show me the way, show me the way
To shake a memory
Show me the way, show me the way, show me the way
To shake a memory
I flipped my forelock, I twitched my withers, I reared and bucked
I could not put my rider aground
All these fine memories are fuckin' me down
I dreamed it was a dream that you were gone
I woke up feeling so ripped by reality
Yeah, love is the king of the beasts
And when it gets hungry it must kill to eat
Yeah, love is the king of the beasts
A lion walking down city streets
I fell back asleep some time later on
And I dreamed the perfect song
It held all the answers, like hands laid on
I woke halfway and scribbled it down
And in the morning what I wrote I read
It was hard to read at first but here's what it said
Eid ma clack shaw
Zupoven del ba
Mertepy ven seinur
Cofally ragdah
Eid ma clack shaw
Zupoven del ba
Mertepy ven seinur
Cofally ragdah
Oh show me the way, show me the way, show me the way
To shake a memory
Show me the way, show me the way, show me the way
To shake a memory
Eid ma clack shaw
Zupoven del ba
Mertepy ven seinur
Cofally ragdah
Oh show me the way, show me the way, show me the way
To shake a memory
Show me the way, show me the way, show me the way
To shake a memory
Saturday, July 04, 2009
cult me in 03
Synecdoche New York [2008 ~ USA]
dir. Charlie Kaufman
''Synecdoche, New York is a ridiculous, absurd, and funny film. It is a disturbing, scary and depressing film. If you go into it with an open mind, it can be all of these things, sometimes at the same time.
Caden Cotard (Phillip Seymour-Hoffman), is a theatre director living in Schenactady, NY. He's directing a regional production of Death of a Salesman with younger actors playing all of the roles. He is vaguely unhappy. His wife, Adele (Catherine Keener) is an artist. She is preparing for a show in Berlin. She ends up taking their 4-yr. old daughter and leaving Caden. He is depressed. He gets a MacArthur fellowship and uses it to rent a warehouse and start up an experimental theatre production involving actors that's going to represent real life by being "brutal and honest." He is also sick and going through a constant stream of medical examination that is more Kafka-esquire than sex with Woody Allen. He might be dying.
Does that sound boring? Well, it's not. Bizarre things happen, fascinating ideas are explored, wonderful dialogue is spoken, and everything unfolds in a deliberate, steady pace. The less you know about the actual story, the better''
Infinite Playlist for Sadie no7
The Thermals - Now We Can See
Jack Penate - Be The One
My Teenage Stride - To Live & Die In The Airport Lounge
Deckchair Orange - Solid Lie
Susie Ledge - When You're Gone
Tigers That Talked - Black Heart Blue Eyes
God Help The Girl - Funny Little Frog
Noah & The Whale - The First Days Of Spring
The Veils - Sun Gangs
Jarvis Cocker - I Never Said I Was Deep
Infinite Playlist for Sadie no7
Infinite Playlist for Sadie no6
Chairlift - Bruises
La Roux - Tigerlilly
Florence & The Machine - Hospital Beds
Pocketbooks - Footsteps
The Jaguar Club - Sleepwalking
The Mighty Stef - Downtown
The Radio Dept. - David
The National - Vanderlylle Cry Baby
Conor Oberst - Big Black Nothing
John Vanderslice - Sunken Union Boat
Infinite Playlist for Sadie no6
lend an ear...
"a dynamic sound that captures the spirit of the classic 80's underground, Echo & The Bunnymen,Psychedelic Furs,The Cure,The Sundays.Chiming guitars and haunting vocals make for a ride that takes you through retro-indie UK band and makes it modern"
Ringleader
Sealegs
Ten Thousands Miles
Anywhere Else
Easter Eyes
Friday, July 03, 2009
cult me in 02
''Cannibal: The Musical was a film based upon the exploits of Alfred Packer. Alfred Packer was a gold seeker who went off into the mountains with several other fortune hunters. A nasty snow storm trapped the party deep in the mountains. Everyone thought that they all died except one came back. Trey Packer and Matt Stone used this story to make a cheesy horror, comedy, musical. A low budget film that is actually quite impressive for the first time director/actor/writer Trey Parker. He plays the lead as "Juan Schwartz". Matt Stone and Dian Bachar also co-star as members of Alfred Packer's party. The gore is effective and the musical numbers are funny. Hard to believe that a couple of years later Parker and Stone would strike it rich with South Park''
The acting is awful, the effects are cheap, but damn its a great movie!!
Infinite Playlist for Sadie no5
Florence & The Machine - Howl
Joy Formidable - Whirring
Loney Dear - Airport Surroundings
Rubies - Diamonds On Fire
The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
The Scholars- This Hearts Built To Break
The Libertines - You're My Waterloo
My Sad Captains - Great Expectations
Regina Spektor - Laugh With
Morrissey - I Have Forgiven Jesus
Infinite Playlist for Sadie no5
Thursday, July 02, 2009
cult me in 01
The American Astronaut [USA ~ 2001]
dir.Cory McAbee
''Cory McAbee plays Samuel Curtis an astronaut on a mission. His mission is to take a cat to a bar on an asteroid to trade it for the clone of a woman and then to take the clone to Jupiter and trade it for the boy who once saw a woman's breast, and then take him.... Ah, don't worry about the rest. It doesn't matter, because in this movie, as is usually the case in life itself, the destination isn't as important as the journey''
David Lynch meets Fellinni and Salvador Dali in a bar and they form a rockabilly band, and that band then decides to do a musical western comedy as a small noir Indy film.
p.s to download the movie, check the comments
1. The American Astronaut
2. Shaving
3. Ceres Walk
4. Henchmen
5. Hey Boy
6. Love Smiles
7. Death of A Pirate
8. Sandman
9. Ship Alarm
10. Jupiter Arena
11. A
12. The Baby in the Jar
13. Death of Vilensky
14. Party
15. Like Nothing Ever Heard
16. The Silver Miners Tale
17. Bodysuit
18. Venus Landing
19. Venus
20. The Girl with the Vagina Made of Glass
The American Astronaut ost
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
You Just Haven’t Earned It
Moz performs Classic SMITHS tune for first time!
The Blacksmith Mix
Girlfriend In a Coma
Cemetry Gates
Frankly Mr.Shankly
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Boy With The Thorn In His Side
Half A Person
Ask
Girl Afraid
The Goldsmith Mix
Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty
Panic
I Started Something i Couldn't Finish
There is A Light That Never Goes Out
Bigmouth Strikes Again
What Diffrence Does It Make?
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
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