June 28, 2004
Burning Down the House
Posted by nerdling | June 28, 2004 04:46 PM
The Kinks are getting even more re-release treatment: as previously reported, Village Green will be reissued this year, and to honor the 40th anniversary of the band, thirteen other albums are on the way to Super Audio reissue glory!
Oh boy! Another essential Talking Heads collection! We really don't have enough of those already. Thanks, Rhino!
A super limited edition Shellac LP sold for $810 on eBay. Apparently there are other Shellac fans out there still holding the torch aloft for the magic that is Steve Albini.
If you are an iTunes shopper who desires a more flexible backup option than just burning CDs, iTmsBackup is here for you. (For Mac OS X only.) {Via Signal-to-Noise}
Suddenly Deep Red makes so much more sense. Argento is among the masters of the Italian giallo, a specific kind of murder/mystery/suspense tale based on pulp fiction of the 1930s.
Cinematically the giallo, even from the earliest Bava-films up to Dario Argento’s latest, has always been highly stylised. Much attention is paid to photography and editing, which renders most gialli exciting mise-en-scene and narrative structures. Experiments with point-of-view-shots are common and much work often go into the murder scenes which unlike in most horror/thriller cinema have an active part in the story’s development and in the portraying of the killer. The soundtrack also plays a vital part in most gialli.
Forgive the grammar; the content is very enlightening. {Via Bitter Cinema, or blog-by-Sean-of-the-excellent-content}
Michael Moore will sleep well tonight: Fahrenheit 9/11 broke documentary sales records this weekend, beating out his own Bowling for Columbine to take top honors as the highest-grossing documentary of all time. And showing further proof that there are people with principles left in the world, some theaters flat-out ignored the MPAA and refused to enforce the R-rating on F9/11.
A bereaved mother in Sacramento purposefully disobeyed Pentagon policies regarding photos of caskets—namely, that they should not be taken nor published—and invited the press to be on hand when she picked up the body of her son at the airport. She openly encouraged those present to photograph the coffin and publish the pictures in protest against Pentagon policy and the war in Iraq.
