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The first time i saw it my overall feeling was that to circumvent lazy criticism of the premise and wordy style of the film Linklater went and got some people to colour it in... ;) this is fine and i think it'll always have a freshness, but equally i can imagine people in the fifty years...

i almost started another thread about this but... I really liked American Splendour and I’m not sure that it’s playful, elastic reality has anything to do with Sideways apart from Paul Giamatti [amusingly the spell checker wants to turn ‘Giamatti’ into Gamete]. It seemed to me like a vivid and...

I didn't go see Babylon here last night - should i be kicking myself?

i saw this the other and I’m pretty bemused by both positions - i didn't find it so hot, but then neither did I hate it as a textbook example of all that’s wrong with Cinema… An apparently vacuous if good-bad-not-evil asshole who clearly suffers from some grim psycho-pathological dysfunction...

one of the thing's i like about this film is that the effects probably won't outlive the next version of Photoshop; it'll date like a magazine cover - so distant, so close, so evocative... maybe.

I wish the Zap had been that interesting when i worked there a couple of years ago. Being a parochial kind of guy my perception of aged clubbing is skewed by the time i spent working in a club in my home town (Whitley Bay) the crowd was usually containing many over thirties to the over fifties...

how limited are the Art Yard reissues? i've been looking about for a copy of Media Dream for a few months and never seen it (could well not be looking hard enough mind). You have all got me really hyped on Sleepng Beauty!

Hearing the singles on daytime radio i have to admit to seeing the attraction (Kilamanjaro(sp?) was lodged in my head last month). However the media coverage is bleak and twadry in the extreme - faux concern, vicarious narcotic glamorisation/demonisation, nudge-nudge moralising…

Kind of too late and off topic... MF Doom on the cover of this month's Wire. (Un)Interesting? As a fan I thought it was well cool - he looks great on the front of a magazine – but my thoughts did turn to the Wire's continuing blind spot to what's happening down the road (to be rectified in...

shades of ambient a la Eno, no?

I love The Invisibles and Kill Your Boyfriend but I have to admit I’ve a big hole in my knowledge when it comes to Doom Patrol – I’ve just never managed to get around to it; I’ll have to. The Filth was essentially The Invisibles again but it definitely had it’s moments for me: I just loving...

if i like something i'll probably end up rereading it and it's as near to definite if i actually own it. I was going to say i wish that i could read stuff once and have it internalised but actually thinking about i'm not so sure... I really enjoy the feeling of knowing where something is going...

exactly!

Having just come out about my Comic Book past, present and foreseeable future on the Madvillainy thread and having bought the first issue of Vimanarama today i thought i'd ask "What's the Dissensus is on Grant Morrison?" I've been really into the past few mini-series - The Filth's bubblegum...

For what it's worth I know of one lifelong Conservative voter (who isn't Anne Widicombe[sp?]) who won't vote for Howard because of “his blood” (!) Creepy beyond belief. I guess that’s a disadvantage for him. I agree that the values of the campaign/current debate are sickening - bewailing the...

Surely Wind and Solar shortcomings are engineering issues too? Getting as much as possible for as little as possible put in - in terms of surface area or quantity or whatever.

I don’t think I do like Guided By voices but I really like Madvillainy. It definitely is a and a grower, it's flattened sound gradually ingraining itself in my head. I really like it’s bitty IntroHalfSongAludeCoda mixtape-y feel - the beat fragments and extra percussive detail buried in the mix...

yeah. i was thining of that one and less-ironic-more-reactionary Country records too; i was adding to the Always list...

K-Punk (& therefore Ballard) scarily on the money...

Audiomulch + Fruityloops rated here too. just about the only other thing i use is a little program for transferring files from my MRS4 recorder to the PC.