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| Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 | | 1:27 am |
random music thoughts
--Now and then I muse that 1982 was the best year in contemporary music. A consistent year in pop music, with a number of fine musicians making above average work. The year where popular music finally began to gel into its own sounds, and the underground matured beyond the 1970s thrashing of punk. --But the fact that Big Country didn't release "In A Big Country" until the following year means I can't close the book on the argument. --The MAD MAX trilogy has run back to back to back on AMC (and does so again tomorrow). Hearing it again confirmed another belief: that "One of the Living" (the OTHER song Tina Turner sang on the BEYOND THUNDERDOME soundtrack), in some alternate universe, was performed by Siouxsie and the Banshees. --In reality, "One of the Living" (as well as "We Don't Need Another Hero") was written by Holly Knight, or, as I like to think of her, the cool Diane Warren. Warren wrote that piece-of-shit theme for STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE; Knight co-wrote the theme for ANGEL. --Many of my friends have written off Mel Gibson for his rampaging homophobia. I can not forgive him the things he's said in that arena, but at the same time I'm not going to write off his accomplishments: the MAD MAX trilogy, GALLIPOLI, SIGNS, APOCALYPTO. Besides, I like to think that the leather-clad Max gave some young queers a hero to call their own, whether Gibson intended it or not.  Fuck, yeah. --Okay, that last one was a film note. My journal. Deal with it, pinky. | | Monday, November 16th, 2009 | | 11:53 am |
| | Friday, November 13th, 2009 | | 9:56 pm |
and good evening
It's Friday the 13th. I've felt slightly woozy all week, like I could get sick if I put a little effort in, and work was a mite difficult. On top of that, someone appears to have sodomized San Francisco's mass transit system, and I got home late. On the plus side, I got a fat paycheck and I'm back among the insured as of Sunday (my COBRA ran out on Halloween, so I applied to continue thru Kaiser directly, which will cost me less than half what the COBRA did). Beyond that, a marvelous/dangerous idea for a play has been shat into my head (no word back from the valued and essential collaborator on it, though), some fine films await this weekend (and I don't mean 2012. Seriously, fuck that movie), and I'm seeing Isaac, a good friend from grade school, for the first time in nine years tomorrow night. In December 2000 I did a performance of GHOST NIGHT, my millennial spoken word/theatre piece, in New York City. In the audience were friends from grade school, high school, college, and beyond, as well as an ex-girlfriend and a future girlfriend. The dinner after was marvelous. The guests included Isaac, then sporting a thickish Russian accent. Wonder how he'll sound tomorrow. Does anyone drive this kind of bicycle  for any other reason than to declare oneself scientifically-minded and lovably eccentric? Current Music: Pop Will Eat Itself, Ich Bin Ein Auslander | | Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 | | 9:42 pm |
| | Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 | | 11:43 pm |
and greetings from Arlington, VA
Back for the reunion - not sure how much access I'll have over the next few days. If anything awesome/embarassing/hilarious/painful/ca thartic happens at the event I'll let you know. I'll likely not have time to see my non-HS friends while I'm here - I'll be back for two weeks round Xmas and hope to see you then. Meanwhile, there're now four posts over at the House of Sparrows. See you in my past. | | Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 | | 11:51 am |
| | Sunday, October 18th, 2009 | | 10:14 pm |
quiet weekend
APE: A quiet day at the Alternative Press Expo - good stuff on view but a lower energy than usual. Definitely worthwhile to get caught up with Jill (LOVE the collage piece!) and to talk BATMAN, Wagner (the RING OF THE NIEBELUNGEN creator, not the Hunter Rose creator), and iconic myth with SONAMBULO creator Rafael Navarro. A modest but quality hall (oh, sweet jesus fuck) I mean HAUL included the aforementioned Jillcollage, the new Sonambulo one-shot, two issues of EERIE, a VEROTIK with a Martin Emond cover, and a book of Keith Knight comix. And you now have three posts up at The House of Sparrows, including the first actual review written for the blog for a movie you likely haven't seen, and probably didn't like if you have. The one-post-a-day pace is almost certainly not going to be maintained, though I continue to scrawl notes for a number of possible topics. A three-day work week to come, followed by a trip home for a high school reunion. Hold me! | | Friday, October 16th, 2009 | | 11:59 pm |
huh. 21st Century Schizoid Blogger
You're invited to a housewarming over at The House of Sparrows, a new blog I've set up for my thoughts/rants on fantasy and horror films. My monthly film roundups will remain here, and I'll link to revelant reviews there. We'll see where this goes! | | Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 | | 9:01 pm |
an ongoing time of struggle, reflection and change
And good evening. --The new office is coming together slowly. The building feels in some ways more remote than the San Mateo digs. The commute is less comfortable (25 minutes on the 22 Fillmore), but it's a hell of a lot shorter. In the building is a men's room with the single angriest toilet I have ever encountered. --Somewhat at odds with my new but free digital cable box. It kept finking out last night and before. So far the radio's playing fine on it, but we'll see if I have to plug back into the wall to enjoy EASTWICK tonight. --2009 powers on and a number of my friends are contending with unemployment, or ongoing contract employment like mine. San Francisco feels like a shit market right now, but it's been through booms and busts. And so have I. And so, I presume, have you. It'll come together. --Indeed, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) misslatex, displaced to New Orleans over a year ago, was in town these last few days and got an old job back by simply going into her old office and asking for it. So her sentence in the Big Easy (a mild paraphrase of how she described it) is drawing to a close early next year. --While she was here, on a mandate of LET'SGOTOTHEMOVIES,DAMMIT, she and I hit a few films, including the entire Three Mothers trilogy by Dario Argento, which was a revelation. And an inspiration. --(For another blog, and maybe even a play, both of which I'd love to execute by Halloween.) --But anyway, the Technicolor print of SUSPIRIA was just fucking gorgeous.  INFERNO offered more revelations, both the second time around and within the context of the Trilogy - those two work best as fairy tales, I think, the former more than the latter. INFERNO's the most dreamlike and abstract film in the trilogy, MOTHER OF TEARS the most plot-driven, with SUSPIRIA about even between the extremes. And pretty extreme itself. No nightmares this time around (I would always have them after watching SUSPIRIA) - perhaps I now lack the innocence needed to get lost inside Argento's world, but maybe in exchange I've gained perspective to appreciate his images and his craft. At any rate, though I recognize MOTHER OF TEARS as a vastly less ambitious conclusion to its predecessors, I enjoyed it more the second time through, finding it a satisfying conclusion and quite entertaining in its own right.  What's up with you? | | Thursday, October 1st, 2009 | | 12:11 am |
movie round-up, September
136. LA BELLE PERSONNE 137. EVANGELION 1.0: YOU ARE NOT ALONE 138. HALLOWEEN II 139. IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY 140. BRIGHTON ROCK 141. PEEPING TOM 142. SORORITY ROW 143. HAEUNDAE 144. LIVERPOOL 145. THE INFORMANT! 146. AFTER HOURS 147. EXTRACT 148. JENNIFER'S BODY 149. FILM IST: a girl and a gun 150. THE CRIMSON KIMONO 151. SCREAMING MIMI 152. NIGHTFALL 153. PANDORUM 154. 9 ( Rundown of this busy month behind the cut... ) | | Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 | | 6:44 pm |
movie round-up, August (spoilers in comments)
121. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DE COMMERCE - 1080 BRUXELLES *122. 24 CITY 123. WOODSTOCK 124. THE COLLECTOR 125. VERS MATHILDE 126. THIRST 127. THE MAD MAGICIAN 128. DEAD MAN 129. NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD 130. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS 131. PONYO 132. YOUNG AMERICA 133. SONG O' MY HEART 134a. CRIMES SQUARE 134b. THE GIGOLO RACKET 135. VISIONS OF EIGHT A diverse round of films, between ten minutes (134a) and four hours (123) long. Some of the worlds great filmmakers gave us new, award-winning work (126, 130, 131), but Jia's achievement in 24 CITY is too great to ignore. I'm keen on giving BASTERDS another try, though. Great stuff in rep, with three stunning films at YBCA (121, 125, 135), and a very packed Sunday at PFA with asluk and the UCLA film preservation gang (132-134b). And I was not expecting such a gripping, moving, and even-handed spectacle when ambrose1am and I gave four hours to WOODSTOCK. 124, I think, finally gave me enough films to compile a worst list for 2009. | | Sunday, August 30th, 2009 | | 1:16 pm |
SEA--> SF--I mean, OAK. Sunday.
Flight: Cancelled. Boarding a flight to Oakland instead in a coupla hours. Have eaten and peed. Have two books to read. Coulda been worse. And good afternoon. | | 1:14 pm |
SEA. Saturday.
The wedding: Lovely. The priest clearly a beneficiary of the 60s. Kyle & Becky: Married. Awesome. The reception: Sweet. Great cake. My parents danced. My Colombian semi-relatives: Fun. Nice. Intrusive. Kinda hot. Intrusive. | | 1:13 pm |
Friday.
SFO-SEA. Family: Hee. Mount Rainier: Tall. Primordial. Sunn O)))'s Alice. Hotel: Tallest building in Federal Way, WA. Saturday: Wedding. | | Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 | | 10:18 pm |
from yesterday's Arts section
"If I felt the script was too heavy, I didn't want it -- because then I had to learn too many lines." -George Hamilton in The Hollywood Reporter on how he chose his films George Hamilton's a douchebag. | | Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 | | 9:53 am |
Sunn O)))
A glorious show on Saturday night, which stuck with me and ambrose1am longer than we'd thought it would. The video below gives a good impression what it was like, if you can imagine it a little foggier and TEN THOUSAND times louder: | | Friday, August 7th, 2009 | | 12:12 pm |
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| | Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 | | 9:40 am |
movie round-up, July
103. SON OF FRANKENSTEIN 104. THE MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG 105. FOOD, INC. 106. JULES ET JIM 107. UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US 108. UNDERWORLD 109. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER 110. LA CIENAGA 111. THE HEADLESS WOMAN 112. OKURIBITO (DEPARTURES)* 113. GRAPHIC SEXUAL HORROR 114. THE HURT LOCKER 115. 48 Hour Film Fest Awards Screening 116. BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE 117. THE HOLY GIRL 118. JULIA 119. DEAD SNOW 120. ORPHAN ( Brief notes behind the cut... ) | | Friday, July 24th, 2009 | | 2:24 pm |
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