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Post Midnight English Folk Grooves
Jul. 17th, 2019 12:43 amSome gentle sounds for the night hours.
John Renbourne - The Lady and the Unicorn
( More folk tunes here )
Enjoy!
John Renbourne - The Lady and the Unicorn
( More folk tunes here )
Enjoy!
Jul. 17th, 2019
Pissing Arriva
Jul. 17th, 2019 07:47 pmI did a couple of visits on the island in Sheerness. A charity shop and a supermarket. But that is not the reason for my rant. It is a fucking bus company. That company which is German-owned by the way is Arriva. From the 28th they are cutting back on services. The 333 service will no longer run from Sittingbourne to Faversham at just before six for the last bus, oh no, it will now be around four something! So anybody living in the outlying rural area will be fucked. Thank you heir German bastards!
Then Stagecoach is dropping their weekly hourly 3X bus service from Canterbury to Sittingbourne to Saturday only.
In a time when we need to reduce our carbon footprint, this is utter madness, a totally backwards move, and isn't it about time we nationalised the bus companies comrades/
Then Stagecoach is dropping their weekly hourly 3X bus service from Canterbury to Sittingbourne to Saturday only.
In a time when we need to reduce our carbon footprint, this is utter madness, a totally backwards move, and isn't it about time we nationalised the bus companies comrades/
Today's Finds
Jul. 17th, 2019 09:57 pmI was on the island again doing a couple of shops and these are the goodies I found in my covert shop. Bloody bargains in fact!All for four quid.
The Work of Director Michel Gondry 2 x DVD
Still sealed and thus unopened -
Mozart's Don Giovanni - Bryn Terfel,etc,London Philharmnic Orchetra conducted by Georg Solti (Decca 3 x CD)
and this hardback book
A very satisfying haul.
The Work of Director Michel Gondry 2 x DVD
Still sealed and thus unopened -
Mozart's Don Giovanni - Bryn Terfel,etc,London Philharmnic Orchetra conducted by Georg Solti (Decca 3 x CD)
and this hardback book
A very satisfying haul.
Michel Gondry
Jul. 17th, 2019 10:37 pmBrilliant to find this double DVD again!
![The Work Of Director Michel Gondry [DVD] [2003]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51CsVRH0K9L._SY445_.jpg)
This is what the Wire magazine said in their review (Cross Platforms) December 2003.
Michel Gondry (The Work Of Director Michel Gondry, Director’s Label 5990419 DVD) is perhaps the most engaging, also the least subversive of these three directors. He introduces his own DVD with a re-enactment of an awards ceremony at which he “stiffed”. A drummer with his own group, Oui Oui, whose fetchingly infantile videos are included in this collection, he first got his break working with Björk. She’s also a client of Jonze and Cunningham, incidentally, but she has a particular affinity with Gondry, as an interview in the documentary I’ve Been 12 Forever suggests. He directed “Human Behaviour” and “Army Of Me” among others, both of which are synergetic exercises in what you might call formidable whimsy. It’s to Björk’s credit, incidentally, that she is so bold in her choice of videos – if we must have them, then at least let’s make them good – but it’s perhaps also an indication of her high maintenance as a singer. Unorthodox her vocal style maybe, but those mannerisms get awfully familiar after a while – hence her need for a voluminous, continual stream of musical reinvention and visual variety. Gondr y is an innovator, though his ideas were quickly subsumed into insurance ads and The Matrix. The Rolling Stones employed him for a hip makeover and he obliged. If all that leaves a bland taste in the mouth, then all is redeemed by his video for Daft Punk’s “Around The World”, a sort of robo-Busby Berkeley routine which reduces choreography to emotionless geometry. The result is one of the most addictively odd and teasingly sexy videos ever made.
His video for Daft Punk - Around The World
and this classic Cibo Matto song Sugar Water -
Love both these artists as well as Bjork.
Enjoy.
This is what the Wire magazine said in their review (Cross Platforms) December 2003.
Michel Gondry (The Work Of Director Michel Gondry, Director’s Label 5990419 DVD) is perhaps the most engaging, also the least subversive of these three directors. He introduces his own DVD with a re-enactment of an awards ceremony at which he “stiffed”. A drummer with his own group, Oui Oui, whose fetchingly infantile videos are included in this collection, he first got his break working with Björk. She’s also a client of Jonze and Cunningham, incidentally, but she has a particular affinity with Gondry, as an interview in the documentary I’ve Been 12 Forever suggests. He directed “Human Behaviour” and “Army Of Me” among others, both of which are synergetic exercises in what you might call formidable whimsy. It’s to Björk’s credit, incidentally, that she is so bold in her choice of videos – if we must have them, then at least let’s make them good – but it’s perhaps also an indication of her high maintenance as a singer. Unorthodox her vocal style maybe, but those mannerisms get awfully familiar after a while – hence her need for a voluminous, continual stream of musical reinvention and visual variety. Gondr y is an innovator, though his ideas were quickly subsumed into insurance ads and The Matrix. The Rolling Stones employed him for a hip makeover and he obliged. If all that leaves a bland taste in the mouth, then all is redeemed by his video for Daft Punk’s “Around The World”, a sort of robo-Busby Berkeley routine which reduces choreography to emotionless geometry. The result is one of the most addictively odd and teasingly sexy videos ever made.
His video for Daft Punk - Around The World
and this classic Cibo Matto song Sugar Water -
Love both these artists as well as Bjork.
Enjoy.
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