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2012 or It’s the End of the World as We Know it (And I Feel…*shrugs*)
Within Korea (and outside) I think PSY may find with time that the exposure (and its attendant irony) will defuse any political/social motivations behind the song and render it the exact opposite: a total glamorisation and endorsement and validation of the very things he sought to ridicule. Everyone LOVES “Gangnam Style” = it’s totally cool to be Gangnam Style. Oppan Frankenstein…
The Problem With My Endless Love Of Music
Remember the future? The old future of SF paperbacks with blocky robotic font and sweeping imaginative artworks? It was a future that still seemed like the future. The future was going to be different. Well, now the future is here and most of it looks like a cover version of the past…
The Ten Best Films I Saw In 2011
There were some great films released in 2011. Lars VonTrier, despite his Hitler comments at Cannes, produced another great work in Melancholia. Woody Allen served up his best film in years with Midnight In Paris. Kevin Smith tried something different and almost succeeded with his off-beat horror film Red State. Margin Call and The Ides Of March proved that decent drama is not yet dead. The much-maligned Apollo 18 breathed new life into the slowly fading mockumentary sub-genre, much like last years’ The Troll Hunter…
Have a Musical Christmas
This came out around the time I was getting into Low, which is cool because it has stayed one of my favourite albs/EPs of theirs. I actually noticed “Just Like Christmas” being used in an ad on TV the other day, and I thought: Oh well, it’s only taken people 12 years to wise up to what a great band they are, and what a great song it is. Better late than never, I suppose…
12 Days Of Christmas Giveaway!
What’s not to love about the 12 Days Of Christmas – the Sequel?… 48 indie t-shirt brands; 4 surprise event participants; 12 lucky tee winners; 2 lucky bonus winners; and over $1,000 USD in prizes!
Suzanne Vega – Solitude Standing (1987)
She’s the kind of artist I imagine who has some pretty devoted (read: borderline obsessive) fans who debate the definitions and decipher her imagery ’til dawn. And good on ‘em, but it’s not for me. These days I tend to leave her on in the background, like ambient music, and fill the room with that aromatic Vega vapour and just breathe it…
The Roaring 20′s
The “roaring 20’s” as they were called, began with such promise. The United States was reeling from World War I (1914-1918) and the great influenza epidemic of 1918. The 1920’s could only be better, right?…
Radio Free Metropolis (or Show Me The Monáe)
Janelle Monáe has something she wants to say, and it’s an empowering message of love and empathy (laced with a subtext that raises cautionary questions about our behaviour in the future…)
Robots And Pretty Girls And Soldiers And More!
Being a 70′s child I was, like many others, a huge Star Wars nut. Especially when it came to the toys, which were like crack to a young child’s mind. There was a certain buzz in scoring a new Star Wars toy and ripping it free from its packaging that couldn’t be matched by anything else…Everything about the experience was pure bliss…
2010 – The Year In Film
But of all the films I did see in 2010, the clear winner as far as brutal odour was the Brothers Strause’s Skyline. Maybe it’s a case of one brother holding the other back; but whatever the case, Skyline featured half-dimensional characters (yep, not even one-dimensional) and a ridiculous story, and even managed to blatantly steal from at least a half-dozen sci-fi films (probably more, but I lost count together with my interest)…
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