Friday, 3 April 2009

Wild Things.... I think i loves youse

Beautiful beautiful trailer........



Hope the film lives up to it.

Thursday, 5 March 2009

Where do the Dukes live?

I haven't seen the film yet, and I guess there's lots of info about India's famous slums out there already. Anyways, here's some more curry for your naan!

India. Mumbai. 2006. A girl walks along a water pipe in the Industrial Area of Dharavi. Although it functions as a throroughfare through this area of the slum, the water in the pipes is headed for the more affluent southern areas of the city. Dharavi is one of Mumbai's biggest and longest standing slums. Home to somewhere between 600 000 and one million people, it is a beehive of recycling and manufacturing industries. However, Dharavi sits on prime real estate right in the heart of the booming megapolis, and is in close vicinity to the new Bandra-Kurla Complex, a new financial hub. Dharavi is now scheduled for redevelopment, meaning everything in the slum, for good and bad, is set to be demolished. © Jonas Bendiksen/Magnum Photos
http://www.theplaceswelive.com/




Saturday, 28 February 2009

Where's it (rorsch) at




I know there's already email talk about the next curry night and trying to combining it with a viewing of the Watchmen movie - but I just wanted to underline how fricking excited and slightly weird I feel about it about the thought of it.

We are all around the same age and I knew most of the Dukes when Watchmen came out on paper, and I'll put money on us all getting our copies from the same store - Forever People - and bagging them up after reading, too. And some of us were in a band named after the lead character. Although Rorschach's pop-punk riffing and knockabout love of stoopid wasn't quite as well captured by Alan Moore as it could have been. (Does this, by the way, make Two Busted Flippers a collector's item?)

So, anyway, it feels a little like a watershed moment, it coming out on film and all that, after all this time. Kind of makes me feel really old, and 16 again.

PS - I want to post a music track here - how?

Wednesday, 18 February 2009

Disco and me. Feb 09

I suppose I was the perfect age for disco being a 70's teenager, if only I'd been brought up in New York or Paris instead of Longfrickingwell Green, things might be a bit different!-) This track by Sheila & B Devotion has a beautiful shuffle feel with lush Chic production. Proper earloop for me at the mo this one.
It's 1979 and you can feel the end of era, last days of disco sound. Crap footage though!-)

Music.Love.Eye.

MGMT
I know they've been big with da yoot for a while now, but as I ain't yoot no more I feel it my duty to get into bands about a year after eveybody else...recently the LP has got right under my skin! Something really 70's in tracks like Electric Feel gives me the fuzzglow...I wanted to embed the vid for it here, but Sony don't like that, gits!
So here's a different clip of another of mine and Migs faves (tehe) Klaxons from last year with Calm Trees. I love this kind of fan shot footage, complete with out of tune vox, half arsed drumming, but who gives a shit? The bit with the washy SG guitar sound a minute or so in, I dig...fo'real...watch in high quality