August 25th and 26th, 2009

MUSIC

Some people would have you believe that Fuck Buttons sound like an angry Dan Deacon. Backwards. Dan Deacon sounds like a happy Fuck Buttons. Anyway, the new Fuck Buttons song is awesome and the video is perfect. Apparently Stereogum thinks their new album is "too polite." Please indie world let's not lose our heads; their name is FUCK BUTTONS.

So wow, I wasn't too into the new Massive Attack at first to be honest, but that goofy riff eventually just takes over you, like some subliminal message saying "we are all going to die" until you kinda believe it but still want to bob your head to it.

Crookers and Fever Ray sounds like an awkward mix, (I'd rather have Cudi and Fever Ray!) but it's basically just Crookers being friggin' Crookers with a few samples from Fever Ray to justify strapping it to the upcoming Fever Ray release. Not really complaining.

So... many... leaks! Jigga's latest is a prickly little thing, kinda slides along. The battle of Venus versus Mars, of course, ends in sex. (Duh!) And holy shit, Drake ft. Eminem and Weezy and Kanye. Any reason Em didn't go this hard on his latest release? And yeah, you can be sure I'm catching that Jay-Z show on my DVR.

I hadn't even heard of Weird Tapes a month ago, and now he is everywhere at all times.

FILM

Avatar is really going crazy. Midnight tickets are available four months in advance? A goofy-ass lawsuit? Sigourney Weaver is involved or something?

Emile Hirsch's play at Hamlet will go for scares. Honestly, it sounds pretty cool.

Wall Street II looks fantastic.

AICN readers dislike Halloween II.

Black Dynamite is coming to theaters! People are going to expect a romp and end up squirming in their seats. It will be a surreal movie-going experience.

WEIRD

Cool Lost poster is cool.

McG's authorial stamp: boobs.

WORLD

Ted Kennedy is dead.

Wikipedia is set to launch substantial revisions to page controls, according to the BBC. Also via the BBC, Karzai's lead is widening.

PERSONAL

Ahhh school!

August 24th, 2009

RSS feeds make my life a little easier. But ONLY a little.

MUSIC

Hov is leaking so much material.

FILM

Oh no... /Film, I love you guys, but your musical analysis is on a lower plane than your film analysis. Saying Karen O's new song sounds like Arcade Fire and the Flaming Lips is... an interesting choice. To be frank, I kind of think the song (a soundtrack piece for Where The Wild Things Are) sucks. It's not just that I think Karen O is Siouxsie Sioux-Lite and all that, I just don't think it's a good song. It's kinda cringe-worthy to be frank. But oh well, maybe it's a grower? /Wrists.

It's really disconcerting to hear how the beloved Weinstein brothers pissed all over somebody's indie film.

Bioshock is moving ahead with a new director in tow.

Avatar Day reactions buzzing around.

Van Sant has a new film in his pipeline.

Inception's got a trailer! And it looks ace.

WEIRD

Nuthin'!

WORLD

According to the BBC, a new treatment could reduce the severity of MS symptoms. Also via BBC, some more analysis on the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

August 23rd, 2009: What the hell?

How the hell did all of these days go by? It's really kind of disgusting that a week and a half slipped away without me noticing.

I don't have time to trawl through the dead of summer. Suffice it to say, health care is starving, some good music (that I can finally buy again) is on the horizion, and Avatar's trailer is causing a shitstorm. I urgently need to see Thirst, Inglourious Basterds, and District 9.

Regular posting is renewed tomorrow.

August 12th, 2009

Slow news day.

MUSIC

Uh... the Verve broke up again? No site had anything that caught my interest today. I dunno, Natalie Imbruglia has a new song so that'll be on the radio. Or hey, here you go, maybe this is a Radiohead leak. Nobody's actually sure.

FILM

There's gonna be an Atlanta doc. And Astro Boy could be cute. Uhh...

WEIRD

Harrison Ford: Family Man.

WORLD

The health care "protests" have exploded.

PERSONAL

Seriously though, everybody, if I'm starting to blog daily, you've gotta be givin' me more than this. Alright?

2009 FILMS SEEN: 23
2009 SONGS ON MY ITUNES: 981
Current Computer Situation: MacBook Pro, hoping Kendall's name can be cleared!

August 11th, 2009

Wow, a blog entry about a single day! This has become the rarest of things for me, like stumbling upon a legendary Pokemon in the wild. Even more rare. Like, I caught it with a normal Pokeball on the first throw after dealing no damage. And it was level 99 but somehow obeyed my orders before my first gym badge. Okay, now I'm just fantasizing.

MUSIC

I had never heard of Naomi Shelton, but TMT set me straight!

Hoooooly shit, MikeWaxx and Nero are friggin' younger than me, whaaaaat? Also from illRoots, yet another dope mixtape.

Almighty Defenders (Black Lips + King Khan + BBQ) sound kind of like what would happen if a novelty 50s/60s revival band got really bored and decided to up the weird by about ten notches. In other words, they sound awesome.

This is one of the weirder music videos I've seen in... ever. Memory Weird Cassetes Tapes something something something.

FILM

"World Cinema" is an absolutely fantastic short via the Coen brothers circa 2007.

The Red Dawn remake is, uh, rollin' along...

The battle over Kick-Ass begins!

WEIRD

Dane Cook acting like a dick? Naaaahhhhh way!

WORLD

Oh god

PERSONAL

Had a lot of folks over today! We watched soap operas.

2009 FILMS SEEN: 23
2009 SONGS ON MY ITUNES: 979
Current Computer Situation: MacBook Pro, hoping Kendall's name can be cleared!