The Advisory Circle - Other Channels 'What the 70s really looked like' goes the tagline for "The 70s Dimension", the idea being that the utter marginalia of a time (the disc compiles inane TV commercials) speaks more truthfully than a run-through of iconic images. The DVD is a release off of Craig Baldwin's label - Other Cinema - and these are indeed the...
ABN - Still Throwed From what might be the year's best rap album. Many effective pairings here: electric guitar crunch across glimmering synth, tuneful drawl across rapid-fire flows, elegiac Still masking hostile Geto Boy 'Still' (...waters run deep), Z-ro and Trae - two really rich weathered voices, experience-stained w/ all the varnish peeled off. Ashanti ft. Robin Thicke - Things You Make Me...
THE ADVISORY CIRCLE - OTHER CHANNELS 'What the 70s really looked like' goes the tagline for "The 70s Dimension", the idea being that the utter marginalia of a time (the disc compiles inane TV commercials) speaks more truthfully than a run-through of iconic images. The DVD is a release off of Craig Baldwin's label - Other Cinema - and these are indeed the...
Howling through the streets, from the point of view of an anonymous driver, with only a revving car engine as a soundtrack, the film C'était un rendez-vous is shot in one thrillingly long single take. A short made in 1976 by Claude Lelouch in cinéma vérité style, the feat is common today on youtube, often duplicated by like minded speed junkies from the...
Jesus! It's Gackt's new single, with video set in a grungy murksome bunker where wacky military repentance occurs and Gackt screams the Lord's name in vain for salvation or perhaps disgust. For Gackt's inappropriate use of divine cognomen, I quote a sardonic wit who remarked rather dryly whilst I wrote the above description... "he burrows into the names and delineates the divergent properties...
As in great literature, book art has a self contained logic, one that is personal to the world of the book and the person that creates or inhabits such a world. An "art" book is part recycled fantasy and outsider logics, the resultant landscape imbued with Cornell-esque mysteries ripe for dramatic unlocking. While a certain level of escapism is undeniable, the lo-fi charm...
"Mr Potato head is PoMo." -- lionessa ...
Reformat the Planet (Paul Owens, 2008) Lucky Star OVA (Yasuhiro Takemoto, 2008) Mr. Freedom (William Klein, 1969) Anime Series: Kaiba (Masaaki Yuasa, 2008) Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (2008) ...
Not a huge handful of rappers from the 80's have made graceful career exits. A few, of course, have the musical productivity and GNP of a small (african) nation. And then Coolio, well he has Cooking with Coolio.From this..."I'm tryin' to find a place where I can live my life andMaybe eat some steak with my beans and rice..."To this..."This here's a steak....
One day I would love to have a nice plot of land where I can grow vegetables, live lightly, and raise a small herd of llamas. Unfeasible as that dream is at the moment, I have my local CSA to tide me over. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture and basically means I pay some money to become a "shareholder" in a local...
The other day we got this crazy looking contraption in our CSA box. A type of heirloom cauliflower - not an alien birthing pod - the romanesco is also the answer to the question of the secret of life apparently. Here is a nice article on the vector phenomenon of this delectable vegetable. I would suggest serving "level 1" formations to geeks with...
The other day we got this crazy looking contraption in our CSA box. A type of heirloom cauliflower and not an alien birthing pod, the romanesco is also the answer to the question of the secret of life apparently. Here is a nice article on the vector phenomenon of this delectable vegetable. I would suggest serving "level 1" formations to geeks with an...
200 Pounds Beauty (Kim Yong-hwa, 2006) Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut, 1968) Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1989) Night Watch (Timur Bekmambetov, 2004) Feiern (Maja Classen, 2006) Fine, Totally Fine (Yosuke Fujita, 2007) 5 of 7 shorts from Genius Party (2007) - "Genius Party" (Atsuko Fukushima) - "Shanghai Dragon" (Shoji Kawamori) - "Doorbell" (Yoji Fukuyama) - "Happy Machine" (Masaaki Yuasa) - "Baby Blue" (Shinichiro Watanabe)...
So, we finally bought a new vacuum cleaner to replace our beefy, retro upright from the 70's. The Hoover Windtunnel canister vac is mostly made of plastic, but has metal wands that extend easily as well as a reinforced hose. There's a 15" powered carpet head and a mini powered head that both do a pretty good job at edge grooming. The crevice...
While The Complete Book of Sewing from DK has nice photo images, The Reader's Digest: New Complete Guide to Sewing has better step-by-step instructions for various tasks, like trimming a neckline with piping, and includes more decor sewing projects, such as a small quilt. I probably reference the Complete Guide to Sewing most often and would recommend buying the newest edition rather then...
An informative web compendium of interviews, reviews, and author bios for weighty contemporary literature. "The Modern Word is a large network of literary sites dedicated to exploring twentieth century writers who have pushed the envelope of traditional narrative and structure. This includes many writers associated with Modernism, surrealism, “magical realism,” and postmodernism. Our mandate includes both writers who have experimented with prose styles...
A collection of interesting shorts for designer and architects curated by Eames Demetrios and including some work by Charles Eames. A collection of interesting shorts for designer and architects curated by Eames Demetrios and including some work by Charles Eames. ...
This late posting is what comes of not following Dears and Jrock Revolution as a daily sacrament... Gackt stars in Bunraku, a Hollywood film directed by Guy Moshe.Info is scant on the samurai spaghetti western, but IMDB says the film is in post production and is set to release in 2009. The cast includes Woody Harrelson, Demi Moore and Ron Perlman. Below is...
Gackt's bishi bodhisattva warrior Vocaloid avatar.Gackpoid - limited edition Dear's Version ...
From the Dust Returned: a Family Remembrance is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury written over the course of 50 plus years. Fleshed out and strung together in 2001, the resulting narrative is both Gothic and ghostly, the poetic style departing from Martian chronicle mode, but the spirit retaining a melancholy rumination on death and love that make the best Bradbury...
"From the first, we just wanted to get out of this place. McMurdo has climate controlled facilities, its own radio station, a bowling alley. Abominations such as an aerobics studio and yoga classes. It even has an atm machine. For all these reasons I wanted to get out in the field as soon as possible." -- HerzogA film maker who likes to pit...
The Harder They Come (Perry Henzell, 1972) The Painted Veil (John Curran, 2006) The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Andrew Adamson, 2008) Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (Stuart Samuels, 2005) Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog, 2007) ...
Beautifully intricate trims at Les' Bon Ribbon and Accessories. ...
In her novel of post WWI novel Germany, Anna Segher follows the frantic lives of seven men, political prisoners escaped from a Nazi camp. Segher portrays the insidious effects of the regime - the generational divide, the fear that replaces domestic normalcy, the dogma of eugenics - in a matter of fact prose effective in recreating a tone of oppressive brutality. The musings...
Result of my first assignment for Intermediate Clothing Construction... cleaning out my closet, determining what to make. From top left, clockwise...1. Dry cleaning, alteration projects.2. Worn out, stained, scratchy, thick and bulky, shiny and slippery, baggy, fussy and busy, overly frilly, sexy or cute. "Raving" clothes. Grungy beach chic.3. Sentimental. Saved only those items that have unique details, favorite fits, fabrics, etc.4. Tanks,...
Perfectly proportioned reuben served with tartly dressed salad greens and a tall chilly glass of Delirium Tremens. The buttery-textured pastrami and charcuterie are house-made with a balanced flavor. Absolutely worth the ride out from the city, though next time, I might bring my own bread for the cheese plate. Perfectly proportioned reuben served with tartly dressed salad greens and a tall chilly glass...
A sometimes overly whimsical but always informative portrait of American sushi by Trevor Corson. Freehanded in his dramatization of early cross pollination between Los Angeles culinary history and Japanese tradition, Corson's book offers tidbits of wisdom both gustatory and trivial. For instance, the science behind the flavors of fish in different development stages is demystified, while a Mack Daddy's frippery is likened to...
The Warriors (Walter Hill, 1979) The Flight of the Red Balloon (Hsiao-hsien Hou, 2007) Rough Magic (Clare Peploe, 1995) Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Guillermo del Toro, 2008) ...
I just bought this iron at Joann's based on brand recognition among sewing circles. The Rowenta Power Duo 6650 is fairly sturdy, feels nice when pressing and the buttons are smooth. However, since the iron doesn't have an auto-off feature, I find it very curious that there isn't even a basic on/off switch. Instead, you have to plug and unplug the cord whenever...
Jim and Neil are consummate dirt bike cowboys - two riders with campfire narratives whose tales are occasionally and blatantly tall. But, for the most part, their outlandish stories are simply true beyond belief. I grew up imagining perilous gorges crossed by a single railroad tie and the adrenaline rush of ditching police cars across the desert of San Bernardino county. My first...
Three utterly different lovers, all selfish in their own ways, rolling around together in a pell mell of apples and oranges while the world rots around them. I suppose "the painted veil" of Maugham's novel is a euphemism for ignorance, the kind that only an enduring 16 year old franchise can perpetuate. And then again, "the veil" is a metaphor for the painfully...
While the structural tragedy of the ending is no great surprise, from the lip pursings of dry academians to the mythological anarchy of ancient faerie, two worlds of Victorian "magic" combine ambitiously to satirize human folly in a wittily gruesome yet wistful way. Susanna Clarke's writing is an entertainment (in a good way) and her ideas provoke beyond the tropes of genre fantasy....
"Umeboshi luv... Salivary pains attack! Little balls of joy..." -- M.N. ...
