Dir: Alexandre Aja (2006) For too long, whenever I would wax lyrical about fantastically addictive eye-crack The Hills (which is a regular occurence with me, sister), the response from bemused 20-somethings would be ‘The Hills Have Eyes?’ I would then have to clarify that, no, the everyday Hollywood travails and tribulations of Lauren, Audrina, WhitneyContinue reading “The Hills Have Eyes”
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Harvey Milk – Harvey Milk (a.k.a. The Bob Weston Sessions)
Hydra Head (1993/2010) Following critical acclaim of Harvey Milk‘s latest album Life… the Best Game in Town (2008), current home, Hydra Head, has gone into the archives for this new/old album. Originally recorded in 1993 by one Bob Weston, these recordings never officially saw the long-playing light of day. Until now. The band is knownContinue reading “Harvey Milk – Harvey Milk (a.k.a. The Bob Weston Sessions)”
Jaga Jazzist – One-Armed Bandit
Ninja Tune (2010) Half a decade after the gorgeous What We Must, Jaga Jazzist finally return with a band album. Lars Horntveth did recently release an album of his own, the forty-minute song Kaleidoscopic. And he was involved in the second National Bank album, in 2008. But it’s not the same: you hear something asContinue reading “Jaga Jazzist – One-Armed Bandit”
Random play
Today was another of those days when the portable music player just seemed to be fantastic at DJing for me. Granted, it was yours truly who actually populated the thing with music (from scratch, since the great iPhone 3.13 upgrade debacle), but the boy done good. Oh, according to Google Docs, ‘debacle’ is not aContinue reading “Random play”
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