Sydney Film Festival
Great films (Cronocrimines, Revue, Sukiyaki Western Django, My Winnipeg, ...) and the State Theatre is at the height of it's pre-Depression glory.
Amazingly awful online ticketing though. I had to wait three days from booking a multi-pass to being able to book in to particular films. My advice is to buy paper tickets at the box office like we did last century. The woman behind us in the queue who came down from Brisbane for the long weekend had spent three hours on Ticketmaster trying to book a few movies.
posted Wed 11 Jun 2008 in /media | link
Chomsky on a motorcycle
Interesting example of framing in today's Age:
The man and woman died because their car struck a pole; the motorcyclist died when he struck a pole. Blame is imputed to the car rather than its driver, but to the rider rather than to his vehicle.
posted Thu 17 May 2007 in /media | link
danger
Some critics refuse to listen to their music on account that they are positive the band is trying to brainwash their listeners for unknown motivations, citing references to David Koresh and occult symbols as proof.
posted Sun 10 Jul 2005 in /media | link
Weekend on Corinthian
I rediscovered Weekend on Corinthian, by Nick's band Love is Chemicals.
It's good. It's better than good — maybe the best songwriting debut I've ever heard.
Maybe you can call it emo-pop... but I don't really need to describe it, because you can get the mp3 and listen yourself. (You can show the mp3 to your friends in the future when they're famous.)
We are all bored, and this makes us bad people...
posted Fri 24 Sep 2004 in /media/music | link
BBC Repeats R Us
People Like Us (ABC, 10pm Tuesday nights) is a masterful dry satire.
posted Wed 22 Sep 2004 in /media | link
Cremaster cycle
We went to see the Cremaster Cycle (episodes 4 and 5) in Sydney this weekend. How can something be so interesting but so tedious?
Thinking later: it's not a movie. There's no narrative. It is, as
Stephane said, art made with film
, not a film
.
If it was playing on a screen in a gallery it might be understood as
art
not film
, and one might look at it and look away and
find the repetition less tedious.
If you get irritated with double-quotes around art
,
film
and meaning
, this may not be for you. If you can
put handle that, you might enjoy Cremaster. The more I think about
it, the more I like it in retrospect.
posted Wed 25 Aug 2004 in /media | link
mp3blogs
posted Tue 17 Aug 2004 in /media/music | link
Things We Lost In the Fire
Low's Things We Lost In The Fire, on Kranky, is great. If you like Kranky records, you'll like this.
posted Tue 16 Mar 2004 in /media/music | link
Listening to
Sonic Youth, a thousand leaves
A great all-day-breakfast of an album. The distortion sections can be hard to take if you're not in the right mood, but provide an interesting crunchiness against the gentle feelings elsewhere:
If Huck Finn was an LSD distributor on the Mississippi, circa 1968, this is the song he'd listen to as he dangled his naked feet in the water, sitting on the edge of his raft that he constructed from VW Bus tires.
posted Thu 14 Aug 2003 in /media/music/listening | link
Monkey Magic
Stephane bought a couple of Monkey Magic DVDs, the cult classic dubbed Japanese Buddhist myth/action/comedy show. I think any Australian kid from the 80s would remember it fondly.
It has aged really well. We enjoyed it enormously.
I had always wondered if Tripitaka was meant to be a man or a woman. It turns out that he is a boy, but played by a female actor.
posted Fri 13 Jun 2003 in /media/video | link
Archives 2008: Jun May Apr Feb 2007: Jul May Feb Jan 2006: Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun Jan 2005: Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Jan 2004: Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Jan 2003: Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May
Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Martin Pool.