faith no more / "epic"
remember when music actually mattered? when popular bands actually tried to come up with new sounds?
for the last 15 years we seem to be caught in this spiral of mediocrity and pop bubblegum shit, started by britney spears and backstreet boys and onto this 12 year-old muppet named Bieber something.
im becoming an old man...
still, i find Faith No More far more transgressive and revolutionary then a Madonna ripoff artist like Lady Gaga who's idea of a career is going to a Mets game and giving people the finger instead of making cool music.
anyway... the video for EPIC by Faith No More still is fucking awesome:
nice... they just posted the english version of the trailer for THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE. opens in NYC in a couple weeks... i cant wait. im halfway thru THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS' NEST...
tomorrow is 'cheer up keanu day' so cheer up keanu... that sandwich couldn't have been that bad plus you're insanely rich so there's that. and you banged some sexy chicks: lori petty, carrie-ann moss, charlize theron, winona ryder, gary busey... so cheer up buddy...
2010 is the 50th anniversary of Godard's BREATHLESS. There may be better made movies but BREATHLESS is one of the most influential and certainly one of the coolest films ever made.
Like with Antonioni's L'AVVENTURA, there is cinema before BREATHLESS and there is cinema after. BREATHLESS was quite simply a revolution on celluloid.
Handheld camerawork, location sound, ambient lighting, improvised performances, youth culture - Godard popularized it all with BREATHLESS.
Here's the trailer + happy birthday A BOUT DE SOUFFLE...
Like with Antonioni's L'AVVENTURA, there is cinema before BREATHLESS and there is cinema after. BREATHLESS was quite simply a revolution on celluloid.
Handheld camerawork, location sound, ambient lighting, improvised performances, youth culture - Godard popularized it all with BREATHLESS.
Here's the trailer + happy birthday A BOUT DE SOUFFLE...
here's a review of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO that i did for the new pop culture site critical mob started by a friend.
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is a remarkably prescient pop cultural phenomenon and a thrilling piece of moviemaking. In the film, based on the first novel of the late Stieg Larson's bestselling Millennium trilogy, corrupt bankers and industrialists run roughshod over society, pillaging, stealing and raping whenever they see fit. It takes a pair of outcasts, Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), a disgraced journalist, and Lisbeth (Noomi Rapace), a 24 year-old punk hacker with the titular tattoo, to take them on. This is ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN for the 21st Century. Brought to a remote Swedish island to solve the 40 year-old disappearance of a teenage girl, Blomkvist and Lisbeth uncover a plot involving a powerful family that blends greed, fascism and plain old-fashioned psychopathy.
Director Niels Arden Oplev's adaptation unfolds with precise pacing and often terrifying suspense. After some expository missteps in the opening act, by its midpoint, the film settles into a gripping and relentless rhythm and doesn't letup until the mystery is unraveled. But THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO isn't simply a taut potboiler; it also works as an indictment of the Swedish elite's complicity with fascism and a patient character study of two unlikely heroes. The other two books in Larson's trilogy have already been adapted into films in Sweden and will be released this year in the US. As expected, a Hollywood remake is also in the works.
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is a remarkably prescient pop cultural phenomenon and a thrilling piece of moviemaking. In the film, based on the first novel of the late Stieg Larson's bestselling Millennium trilogy, corrupt bankers and industrialists run roughshod over society, pillaging, stealing and raping whenever they see fit. It takes a pair of outcasts, Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), a disgraced journalist, and Lisbeth (Noomi Rapace), a 24 year-old punk hacker with the titular tattoo, to take them on. This is ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN for the 21st Century. Brought to a remote Swedish island to solve the 40 year-old disappearance of a teenage girl, Blomkvist and Lisbeth uncover a plot involving a powerful family that blends greed, fascism and plain old-fashioned psychopathy.
Director Niels Arden Oplev's adaptation unfolds with precise pacing and often terrifying suspense. After some expository missteps in the opening act, by its midpoint, the film settles into a gripping and relentless rhythm and doesn't letup until the mystery is unraveled. But THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO isn't simply a taut potboiler; it also works as an indictment of the Swedish elite's complicity with fascism and a patient character study of two unlikely heroes. The other two books in Larson's trilogy have already been adapted into films in Sweden and will be released this year in the US. As expected, a Hollywood remake is also in the works.
a couple of months since i blogged so i figure im about due.
why dont i introduce you to the newest member of the family: "Y Ddraig Goch" the red dragon on my right arm. fucking love the ink. done by one of the best in the country: steve boltz here in brooklyn @ smith st tattoo.
the dragon is my mum's side (welsh) and will match a bengal tiger im getting on my left arm for my dad.
here's some pics:
why dont i introduce you to the newest member of the family: "Y Ddraig Goch" the red dragon on my right arm. fucking love the ink. done by one of the best in the country: steve boltz here in brooklyn @ smith st tattoo.
the dragon is my mum's side (welsh) and will match a bengal tiger im getting on my left arm for my dad.
here's some pics:
hey friends + lovers...
sorry for being out-of-commission for the last little while but i've been in thailand + laos for the last few weeks on this research trip. which has been pretty incredible. we just spent the last week down south on the island of Don Det which sits on the Mekong River on the border with Cambodia. a really stunning place.
apart from the wonderful people who are really warm and kind, Laos also has a fucking fantastic beer:
some great adventures thus far including taking a long bus ride packed next to 2 tons of rice and some wild chickens.
im currently in the capital of Vientiane where we're going to meet with a Laotian filmmaker later this afternoon. drop me a line and let me know how you're doing as i'll have more regular access to email for the next lil bit (and lemme know if you want a postcard too - im all about the postcards).
im back in NYC on march 29th and im looking forward to seeing + hearing + kissing you all again soon.
sorry for being out-of-commission for the last little while but i've been in thailand + laos for the last few weeks on this research trip. which has been pretty incredible. we just spent the last week down south on the island of Don Det which sits on the Mekong River on the border with Cambodia. a really stunning place.
apart from the wonderful people who are really warm and kind, Laos also has a fucking fantastic beer:
some great adventures thus far including taking a long bus ride packed next to 2 tons of rice and some wild chickens.
im currently in the capital of Vientiane where we're going to meet with a Laotian filmmaker later this afternoon. drop me a line and let me know how you're doing as i'll have more regular access to email for the next lil bit (and lemme know if you want a postcard too - im all about the postcards).
im back in NYC on march 29th and im looking forward to seeing + hearing + kissing you all again soon.
can someone please explain what the fuck is going on with this Kirsten Dunst / McG video of "turning japanese? it is wrong on so many levels and im so confused....
