Yoko Kanno - "Chant 3-Reincarnation" ("Ghost in the Shell" OST)

Twinging the nerves of my ears. Beautiful

Yoko Kanno - "Chant 3-Reincarnation" ("Ghost in the Shell" OST)

Twinging the nerves of my ears. Beautiful

I Monster - "Neveroddoreven" and "A Dense Swarm Of Ancient Stars"

Particularly like their uptempo-music (not much sleep last night), with silly voices and friendly beats, but their slow songs aren't bad either, all in minor, with strange effects and curious lyrics.

DJ Shadow - "Do Androids Dream of Electronic Beats / GI Mix"

Star Wars theme on organ.

Catchy music, soundvibes, "I hear songs that should never end and places I can't comprehend"

Nice mix. 80's classics. Ambient beats. Mac-voices. Throaty techno-voices.

Almost at the end, U.N.K.L.E. and Thom Yorke's "Rabbit in your headlight"... eerie.

Dead Weather - "Horehound" (2009)

Strong rock, punk-ish. The singing sometimes becomes a bit like White Stripes' Jack White during his getting-crazier solo's.

"Birds" has good intro. Is this the single?

Reflection - "The errornormous world"

Strange music. Beats, samples. Half-trippy, dub. Repeating, almost-changing, repeating lyrics.

Made by two Japanese guys sharing their last names (brothers? father-son? nephews? unrelated?)

Becomes a bit tiresome after a while.

12 Angry Men (1957)

Don't think I've ever seen it, but now, finally. And indeed it's a wonderful piece.

There were pieces of dialogue, rather repetitions of dialogue, I did not find too believable, but, for example, how they all literally turn their back on the angry old guy, is a wonderful piece of performance.

I tried to focus on dialogue and shots, getting a feeling for the rhythm, how they used shots, close-ups, &etc to tell this story, but I must admit I did follow the story thoroughly and this kept me from focussing on the "meta-side" most of the time.

Wonderful film.

Frouke Arns - "De camembertmethode"

Wakker. In een bed vol slaap.
Waarin ik gedachten wegwoel, zoals ik vroeger
in zee een gat wilde scheppen. Met meisjeshanden
en vrouwendenken: misschien weer niet genoeg
mijn best gedaan.

Of vermoeden dat ik camembert ben. Zachtrond
en melkwit op temperatuur lig te komen tussen de
lakens van klamme gedachten. Langzaam uitlopen.
Honger krijgen van de metafoor en dan
de koelkast leegroven.

Het zó graag willen grijpen, woorden voor wat
niet wil gaan slapen. Woorden voor het oude gat
in het water waarin ik nooit kon verdwijnen.
Naast mij een gedicht in diepe rust,
begint zachtjes te snurken.

Eels - "That look you gave that guy"

100% Eels, as soon as I heard it.

Whether it is this particular moment or whether it holds true in general, but I love the sound of this song. Must look into the album ("Hombre Lobo")

Wall of Arms

Heard on KinkFM, "2meter live" of 2010-01-07. Compared with Arcade Fire, and, soundwise, rightfully so. The same chaotic sound, bit-falsetto voice.

Interesting

"Pirates of the Carribean - At World's End"

some random notes, not for publication

The people have been fighting the lost cause of their lives. People fight when it has no purpose because

1. they simply do not know any better
2. it keeps them occupied, otherwise they have to face themselves
3. fantasy. is that different from #2?

• quest to betray
• quest to gain
• quest for fullfillment
  one of the most intriguing ones, because it can never be fulfilled yet will always be sought after.
• quest for identity.

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Pirates Of The Caribbean - At World's End (2007)

Yes, it's over the top. Yes, when I'm serious and harsh I should judge this film not worthy of my time, blabla, &etc &etc.

God curse the critics, hell is being their comrade (sorry Sartre).

Sucker for this kind of film. First, because it's over the top, but (most of it) in a good way. They didn't overdo the slapstick comedy as much as the second part, they did stretch and complexify (is that a verb) the storyline too much, yet at least characters -do- something.

Loved the Ennio Morricone tribute when the East Indian Company and the pirates meet.

How can Barbossa steal Jack Sparrow's "9 pieces of 8"-piece when before it was strongly urged that a pirate Muss Pass It On When He Dies?

The weddingscene; over the top, yet..funny. Shoot me.

Don't blabber on about character arcs. You like sex because you want to climax, be honest and face it. Geez.

VPRO Interview - Hans Achterhuis

"De meeste Franse filosofen, ook al bewonder ik hun denken, zijn vaak heel snorkend rethorisch bezig."

"Er is een beroemde spreuk van Camus die me, hoe naar het ook is, aan het hart ligt. Dat is dat ieder mens in zijn of haar leven maar twee of drie originele ideëen heeft en daar mag je dan blij mee zijn, en dat je hele leven bestaat uit het uitwerken van die ideëen en ik zie dat helaas bij mezelf ook steeds meer gebeuren."

Rousseau: bwonderde de vrouw en belemmerde haar: ze moest zich laten bewonderen, maar wel binnen de vier muren. Vader van de "Loi de l'homme"; maar homme betekende in de Franse Revolutie áltijd "man", nooit "mens"!

Mooi stuk als ze wat muziek opzetten en gewoon door blijven praten. "En wat dus niet in mijn boek naar voren komt...[AANZWELLEND MOZART CONCERT]" met kraak en al. Prachtig. Tussendoor; "Waar je me ook mee verraste, was de vraag.."

Shigeru Umebayashi - "No Way Out" ("House Of Flying Daggers" (2004) OST)

"Ghost in the Shell" & "Ghost in the Shell 2 - Innocence" - OST

Nice, theatrical music, flying you through a busy yet desolate world. "Kugutsuuta kagirohi ha yomi ni" is epic.

I Monster - "A Dense Swarm Of Ancient Stars"

Same wonderful craziness. "A pod is waiting", an old man, waiting for time. Echos of loneliness, sadness. and craziness, always the craziness

"Dear John", money-counter, Madness-ish. Residents. Chord-schemes of Babyon circ us?

"Sucker for your sound", with a female voice that reminds you of the Knife or Emiliana Torrini

Kôkaku kidôtai (Ghost in the Shell) (1995)

Good. Less philosophical as I thought. That might've been the second film, "Innocence".

Impressive drawings. Some breast-happy people there, but it never gets too corny. Can't compare to "Wonderful Days" though.

David Arnold - "Shaken and Stirred"

(James Bond reinterpreted)

Diamonds are forever - catchy rhythm

Aimee Mann does not do a bad job at "Nobody does it better"

Pulp - "All time high", love his rendering, but it's a love-it-or-hate-it version

"Thunderball" by Martin Fry is good... but kind of very much like the original. Oye, he does this "phrasing" though... not good!

Natacha Atlas (who?) does a fairly ok version of "From Russia with Love" which looses a certain amount of Bond-ness, but adds... Oriental influences. Tiny ones.

Propellerheads bounce off with a techno-ish "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". It has its good points, it has some boring parts.

I Monster - "Neveroddoreven"

Curiously triphopy music. Vocoders.

Daydream in Blue sounds familiar. Remix?
It's all very much like "Heaven". In a good way.

"Who is She", grand.

"The Blue Wrath", happy, muppet-like

Randy Newman - "Short People"

They got little baby legs
That stand so low
You got to pick em up
Just to say hello
They got little cars
That go beep, beep, beep
They got little voices
Goin' peep, peep, peep
They got grubby little fingers
And dirty little minds
They're gonna get you every time
Well, I don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
Don't want no short people
'Round here