Dynamo, Turku November 12th. 3€.
21:30 Nightsatan
22:30 Kap Kap
23:30 K-X-P
K-X-P - Pockets (Annie Vocal Mix) mp3
Tuesday 30 November 2010
Books of Summer/Autumn
Narziß und Goldmund (1930) ★★★★★
Narcissus and Goldmund is considered Hermann Hesse's literary triumph. The main theme of the book is the wanderer's struggle to find himself.
Goldmund, a young man, is filled with the desire to experience everything, learn about life and nature in his own hands-on way. With his friend's support, he leaves his monastery and wanders around the countryside, setting the scene for a story that contrasts the artist with the thinker.
Solaris (1961) ★★★★
Solaris, by Stanisław Lem, is a Polish science fiction novel about the ultimate inadequacy of communication between human and non-human species. Solaris is pervaded by a powerful, poetic sense of the physical remoteness of outer space. The sense of loneliness that this engenders is among Lem’s philosophic explorations of man’s anthropomorphic limitations.
Cien años de soledad (1967) ★★★★
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez, is the multi-generational story of the Buendía Family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, the metaphoric Colombia. The magical realist style and thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an important, representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s.
A dominant theme in One Hundred Years of Solitude is the inevitable and inescapable repetition of history in Macondo. The protagonists are controlled by their pasts and the complexity of time. The fate of Macondo is both doomed and predetermined from its very existence.
Running with Scissors (2002) ★★★★
Running with Scissors is a 2002 memoir by American writer Augusten Burroughs. The book tells the story of Burroughs's bizarre childhood life.
The New York Trilogy (1985-86) ★★★
The New York Trilogy is a series of novels by Paul Auster. Originally published sequentially as City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room, it has since been collected into a single volume.
The New York Trilogy is a particular form of postmodern detective fiction which still uses well-known elements of the detective novel but also creates a new form that links the traditional features of the genre with the experimental, metafictional and ironic features of postmodernism.
Chump Change ★★
A blackout brought on by a Mad Dog binge that ended with a self-inflicted steak knife wound bought Bruno Dante another stint in the nuthouse, no different from all the rest. Bruno heads back to Los Angeles for a fraught family reunion, where the tension and stress force him to dull the pain the only way he knows how — with alcohol. And when he wakes up naked in a stolen car with an underage hooker whose pimp has stolen his wallet, Bruno realizes the trip has just begun.
The book expresses the bewilderment of its hero and its author with rawness, crudeness, and shock, and also serves as a very beautiful and touching homage to Fante's famous father John Fante.
Feel free to recommend books that I might enjoy!
Narcissus and Goldmund is considered Hermann Hesse's literary triumph. The main theme of the book is the wanderer's struggle to find himself.
Goldmund, a young man, is filled with the desire to experience everything, learn about life and nature in his own hands-on way. With his friend's support, he leaves his monastery and wanders around the countryside, setting the scene for a story that contrasts the artist with the thinker.
Solaris (1961) ★★★★
Solaris, by Stanisław Lem, is a Polish science fiction novel about the ultimate inadequacy of communication between human and non-human species. Solaris is pervaded by a powerful, poetic sense of the physical remoteness of outer space. The sense of loneliness that this engenders is among Lem’s philosophic explorations of man’s anthropomorphic limitations.
Cien años de soledad (1967) ★★★★
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez, is the multi-generational story of the Buendía Family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, the metaphoric Colombia. The magical realist style and thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an important, representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s.
A dominant theme in One Hundred Years of Solitude is the inevitable and inescapable repetition of history in Macondo. The protagonists are controlled by their pasts and the complexity of time. The fate of Macondo is both doomed and predetermined from its very existence.
Running with Scissors (2002) ★★★★
Running with Scissors is a 2002 memoir by American writer Augusten Burroughs. The book tells the story of Burroughs's bizarre childhood life.
The New York Trilogy (1985-86) ★★★
The New York Trilogy is a series of novels by Paul Auster. Originally published sequentially as City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room, it has since been collected into a single volume.
The New York Trilogy is a particular form of postmodern detective fiction which still uses well-known elements of the detective novel but also creates a new form that links the traditional features of the genre with the experimental, metafictional and ironic features of postmodernism.
Chump Change ★★
A blackout brought on by a Mad Dog binge that ended with a self-inflicted steak knife wound bought Bruno Dante another stint in the nuthouse, no different from all the rest. Bruno heads back to Los Angeles for a fraught family reunion, where the tension and stress force him to dull the pain the only way he knows how — with alcohol. And when he wakes up naked in a stolen car with an underage hooker whose pimp has stolen his wallet, Bruno realizes the trip has just begun.
The book expresses the bewilderment of its hero and its author with rawness, crudeness, and shock, and also serves as a very beautiful and touching homage to Fante's famous father John Fante.
Feel free to recommend books that I might enjoy!
Wednesday 24 November 2010
Tight as a camel's arse in a sandstorm
Kes (1969) ★★★★
Ranked seventh in the British Film Institute's Top Ten Films.
Directed by Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes the Barley).
Torrent
Subtitles (strongly recommended......)
24 Hour Party People (2002) ★★★
A British film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It begins with the punk rock era, and moves through the 1980s into the "Madchester" scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The main character is Tony Wilson, a news reporter for Granada Television and the head of Factory Records (played by Steve Coogan), and the narrative largely follows his career, while also covering the major Factory artists, especially Joy Division and New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, and the Happy Mondays.
The film is a dramatisation based on a combination of real events, rumours, urban legends, and the imaginations of the scriptwriter.
Torrent
Ranked seventh in the British Film Institute's Top Ten Films.
Directed by Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes the Barley).
Torrent
Subtitles (strongly recommended......)
24 Hour Party People (2002) ★★★
A British film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It begins with the punk rock era, and moves through the 1980s into the "Madchester" scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The main character is Tony Wilson, a news reporter for Granada Television and the head of Factory Records (played by Steve Coogan), and the narrative largely follows his career, while also covering the major Factory artists, especially Joy Division and New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, and the Happy Mondays.
The film is a dramatisation based on a combination of real events, rumours, urban legends, and the imaginations of the scriptwriter.
Torrent
Wednesday 17 November 2010
The Twilight Sad
Tuesday 16 November 2010
Tuesday 9 November 2010
The Maltese Falcon, Adventureland
The Maltese Falcon (1941) ★★★
Written and directed by John Huston, the film stars Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade; Mary Astor as his femme fatale client; and Peter Lorre (the creepy fellow from Fritz Lang's 'M'). The film was Huston's directorial debut and was nominated for three Academy Awards.
The story concerns a San Francisco private detective's dealings with three unscrupulous adventurers who compete to obtain a fabulous jewel-encrusted statuette of a falcon.
The Maltese Falcon has been named as one of the greatest films of all time by Roger Ebert, and was cited by Panorama du Film Noir Américain, the first major work on film noir, as the first film of that genre.
Torrent
Adventureland (2009) ★★
From the director of Superbad.
Soundtrack: The Replacements, The Cure, The Velvet Underground, David Bowie etc.
Torrent
Written and directed by John Huston, the film stars Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade; Mary Astor as his femme fatale client; and Peter Lorre (the creepy fellow from Fritz Lang's 'M'). The film was Huston's directorial debut and was nominated for three Academy Awards.
The story concerns a San Francisco private detective's dealings with three unscrupulous adventurers who compete to obtain a fabulous jewel-encrusted statuette of a falcon.
The Maltese Falcon has been named as one of the greatest films of all time by Roger Ebert, and was cited by Panorama du Film Noir Américain, the first major work on film noir, as the first film of that genre.
Torrent
Adventureland (2009) ★★
From the director of Superbad.
Soundtrack: The Replacements, The Cure, The Velvet Underground, David Bowie etc.
Torrent
Saturday 6 November 2010
Tenniscoats
Dynamo, Turku 18.11. 3€!
We Are Everyone (2005):
Totemo Aimasho (2007):
Tan-Tan Therapy (2008):
Temporacha (2009):
Pastels/Tenniscoats: Two Sunsets (2009)
N.B. As before, I have not uploaded any of these albums, merely providing the links.
We Are Everyone (2005):
Totemo Aimasho (2007):
Tan-Tan Therapy (2008):
Temporacha (2009):
Pastels/Tenniscoats: Two Sunsets (2009)
N.B. As before, I have not uploaded any of these albums, merely providing the links.
Friday 5 November 2010
Thursday 4 November 2010
Tuesday 2 November 2010
Monday 1 November 2010
London Gigs
Yes, back in Turku. ☹
Last but not the least: the Halloween night and 3/5 of the Horrors! Spider Webb and Coffin Joe in "a freakbeat cultish supergroup" The Diddlers whose set was a selection of Bo Diddley songs. And in support Cramped (feat. Joshua Third) made their live debut with a bunch of Cramps covers.
Unfortunately, no quality videos available.
Last but not the least: the Halloween night and 3/5 of the Horrors! Spider Webb and Coffin Joe in "a freakbeat cultish supergroup" The Diddlers whose set was a selection of Bo Diddley songs. And in support Cramped (feat. Joshua Third) made their live debut with a bunch of Cramps covers.
Unfortunately, no quality videos available.
Poliţist, adjectiv, Howl
Poliţist, adjectiv (2009) ★★
Poliţist, Adjectiv is a 2009 Romanian drama film directed by Corneliu Porumboiu. The movie focuses on policeman Cristi, who is investigating a teenage boy who has been smoking hashish. Over time, Cristi begins to question the ethical ramifications of his task. Police, Adjective won the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. The film was the official Romanian entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards.
- Wikipedia
Howl (2010) ★★
Howl is a 2010 American experimental film which explores both the Six Gallery debut and the 1957 obscenity trial of 20th century American poet Allen Ginsberg's noted poem Howl. The film is written and directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and stars James Franco as Ginsberg.
- Wikipedia
Poliţist, Adjectiv is a 2009 Romanian drama film directed by Corneliu Porumboiu. The movie focuses on policeman Cristi, who is investigating a teenage boy who has been smoking hashish. Over time, Cristi begins to question the ethical ramifications of his task. Police, Adjective won the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. The film was the official Romanian entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards.
- Wikipedia
Howl (2010) ★★
Howl is a 2010 American experimental film which explores both the Six Gallery debut and the 1957 obscenity trial of 20th century American poet Allen Ginsberg's noted poem Howl. The film is written and directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and stars James Franco as Ginsberg.
- Wikipedia
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