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All Tomorrow’s Parties

So the reviews are in and it’s all good.
At the time of writing GTA IV has a 99 on metacritic which is pretty unheard of.
To be able to consistently meet and surpass expectations of this kind is really quite extraordinary. Got mine on pre-order and will be zoning into Liberty City for a good few hours over the bank holiday weekend. My own expectations hinge on whether it is able to evoke the kind of emotional connection that tv and film can so easily provoke and video games have long promised.
All the graphical sophistication, all the realistic physics models, all the uncanny ai in the world doesn’t matter a damn if you don’t care about the characters.
Give me Liberty….
music
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- 23.Apr
- standing on tippy toes
My visits to the latitudes, leaving parcels of goodness at your door are getting fewer and farther between. If I keep going at this rate, l’ll soon be as illusive and as Father Christmas (though with a less predictable timetable) and with the way my belly’s swelling that red suit’s going to fit too.
As mentioned […]-

- 22.Apr
- Quaid in Full
Best known for his excursions into the outer limits of scifi electronics and freaky remixes, Joseph Quaid returns this week with a mix highlighting the influences and aspirations of the firemusic sound. It’s a head-y brew of deep detroit flavoured soul and futuristic afro rhythms boding well not just for the deep range series as […]
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- 07.Apr
- Do Me
Being of a certain age, it can a battle not to succumb to easy cynicism. With music (perhaps now more than ever) constantly re-hashing old ideas there can be a tendency to be very suspicious of anything new and to take refuge in the safety of readily affirmed past classics.
Of course rust never […]
culture
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- 05.Feb
- (Oh No!) Not the Beast Day
Photo via coops amazing toy collection
We’ve been pretty excited about cloverfield ever since the trailer first leaked onto the internet. It’s probably enough to say that the film lives up to those seemingly impossible expectations and delivers a masterclass in how to make an intelligent, original popcorn movie.
It’s not perfect, the opening sections feels long […]-

- 16.Jan
- Air and Graces
Via somekind of rare astral alignment, the subject of today’s post and the track I’m most into are perfectly suited for each other. Usually, either we write something then search for the appropriate soundtrack or we are so excited by a track that the text is just an expression of love for that particular bit […]
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- 10.Jan
- No Country for Old Men
(pic via)
No Country for Old men is one of those films for which it’s very easy to start bandying around superlatives. It’s a contender for my film of the year (I saw it at the very end of 2007) but would still be in the running if I had seen it on January 1st. It […]
miscellania
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- 18.Apr
- Slow News Week
Sorry for the general lull round these parts in recent days/weeks, it’s partly the real world dominating our tender thought processes and a general, seasonal, sense of need to change and move on.
As easy as it is when there is a natural urgency and tempo to posting, sometimes you become more and more aware of […]-

- 04.Apr
- A Bruge Too Far
Time for the second kelly brother stag in a six months this time the action takes us to Brussels for a weekend of fine dining, quality ales and some ritual humiliation.
Could go either way to be honest, but is almost certain to involve a few too many 8% beverages and some moules et frites.
Not […]-

- 05.Mar
- The Beautiful game
This picture make me want to cry.
Last night, and the few weeks leading up to it, seem to encapsulate all that’s good in supporting a football club. The desperate lows of eduardo’s injury and seeing the team falter and struggle against resolute but inferior teams, followed by the mighty highs of a dream-like victory against […]
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- 09.May
- Big Trouble in Little China
- 02.May
- J. Tillman joins Fleet Foxes
- 01.May
- New Dark Knight Posters
- 01.May
- johnson (plural johnsons). (slang) the penis
- 28.Apr
- Krugman:Thoughts on Oil
- 28.Apr
- Strata East Blog
- 24.Apr
- GTA IV Multiplayer Preview
- 23.Apr
- ulysses 81? (the first incarnation?)
- 22.Apr
- The reality of depending on 1000 True Fans
- 22.Apr
- RIP Bebe Barron
- 21.Apr
- Meltdown 08 Lineup
- 21.Apr
- 21st Century Boombox
- 16.Apr
- Tokyo Drifter Volume 2
- 14.Apr
- Tron Redux
- 13.Apr
- Build your own fonts
- 11.Apr
- Polar Bear Pics
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