Sunday, April 28, 2013
How Did I Miss the Trailer for Joss Whedon's Much Ado about Nothing???
And I totally missed this when it landed almost two months ago.
Why is it whenever I hear or see the name of this Shakespeare play I hear or see 'Much to do about Humping' first? I feel like it was on a marquee in an episode of the Simpsons, back in like the fourth or fifth season? Anyone?
UPDATE: and I really have to laugh at myself for posting this originally as "How Did I Miss the Trailer for Joss Whedon's Much to do about Nothing???"
Good lord.
Red Trailer
So as a kid in the 80's I loved action movies. Then I grew up, the 90's hit and in a weird synchronization of timing, it seemed like Hollywood matured about the same time my friends and I did. Action movies all but went away (well, they never really go away, but Mr. Tarantino and friends helped relax their grip on the vernacular of film) and smart-talking, indie cinema Savoir Faire took over. These days action movies are back, but in an upgraded, definitely gone-through-the-meta-paradigm-and-come-out-the-other-side way. The thing is, the good ones know what they are and they don't want you to take them seriously - they can barely take themselves seriously. And when in the hands of good actors this works. The first Red was a good example of this. It excels in its meta-snarkyness in all the ways that a franchise like The Expendable does not*, wh It caught my eye because it's based on a comic by Warren Ellis. It was pretty damn good (I think the only thing I disliked was the music). This one looks right in line with the first, and it seems as though the 'amping up' that is always sure to happen in an action sequel will even be done in a tasteful, elastic way. Not just "MORE BLOOD! MORE EXPLOSIONS!" but Dame Helen Mirren with two guns and Storm Shadow in tow.
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Popcorn flick extraordinaire!!!
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*Admittedly I've only seen the second Expendable, and in spite of myself I did enjoy it (though its visceral violence quota was a bit much for me) but it isn't a 'justifiable' 'Like' the way Red is.
Boards of Canada Mystery Deepens with... A tv Commerical?
This apparently aired on Cartoon Network's Toonami block last night, so thanks to Pitchfork for reporting it, as I do not have a television set that plays anything but DVD's, let alone cable. And go to Pitchfork again here to read about one of these surprises I missed, where NPR's All Things Considered and Radio 1's Zane Lowe show each featured a further mystery snippet.
I LOVE this.
DUDE!!! The Rolling Stones played THE ECHOPLEX LAST NIGHT!!!
With a cap of three-hundred something people for an audience, this is just crazy!
I suppose I should point out I was not there and thus this is not my video. Thanks to the mighty Brooklyn Vegan for posting this -- it was the first thing I saw when I woke up and it blew my mind!!!
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Roni Size - Watching Windows - Ed Rush & Optical RMX
All that Dee-Lite stirred up some shit from this era. Here's another oldie but goodie (fucking hell, when did this get old? Or did it - Roni Size just played that place in the desert). The bass at 1:31 RULES!!!
Crystal Castles - Doe Deer
More Crystal Castles - one of my favorites from them. Is Alice Glass the female David Yow? Perhaps at times...
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