Monthly Archives: March 2007

something for the (birthday) weekend

It’s been a long week. But for all the right reasons. It’s time to kick back and enjoy the fruits of our labour-to spend time with people we love, to enjoy the space we have spent time and money and… Continue reading

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i’d still be on my feet

every so often i’ll come across a song which absorbs me into its sphere in a unique way. a way where the rest of the world could cease to exist and it wouldn’t matter because that one song is so… Continue reading

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A swarm of angels

And so as B-day rapidly approaches-thoughts (in my household anyway) turn to musical selections. Usually, I’m ashamed to say, it’s just a question of taking a few classics from the racks to bolster the virtual record bag I take with… Continue reading

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rich vein of form

  i’m all for recognisable production styles – i mean i like nothing more than picking out the way a guitar is recorded or a handclap, or bass squelch as the leitmotif of a particular producer. and it can be… Continue reading

Category monologue, music

laid bear

sometimes songs just stick with me despite myself and maybe its something about the coming of spring which takes me back to beach boys-eque material but panda bear‘s comfy in nautica has been my sunshine tonic for the past two… Continue reading

Category miscellania, music

For Sparta

The wonderful recent adaptations of ‘Spiderman‘ and ‘Batman Begins‘ have perhaps obscured the traditionally uneasy relationship that exsists between comics and film. At the heart of this unease are the fundamental differences in the audience and approach of the two… Continue reading

Category film

under the radar

a week in cannes and a hefty stint of 14 hours days at my desk has meant that some stuff has rather inevitably slipped under my radar, like the fact that portland beauties, dolorean released a new album in february.… Continue reading

Category miscellania, music

baptiste30 and firemusic present…..

The big news of the year (well the week at least) is the launch of a brand new bi-monthly basilika night. Featuring a full quotient of horse latitude deejays and doubling up as a lavish celebration of a certain beautiful… Continue reading

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salvage – can we still be friends?

since i’m the single-minded, wordy type this is my first foray into the flotsam and jetsam of salvage so i’ll try to keep it low on word count and high in fibre. y’all should check out this essay by sufjan… Continue reading

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won’t you take a ride with me?

now, owing to the magic of science -some of the latitudes caught michel gondry’s brilliant the science of sleep from the comfort of a sofa on saturday night. and frankly i can’t recommend it enough. gondry’s eternal sunshine of a… Continue reading

Category film, music