Short on youtube. Beautifully made, amazing backdrops and visual character designs. Think of Brazil's dystopia with a Gorgelbeesten ending.
The story is simple but ok.
The voice-over seemed a bit too much at times. Not irritating or overwhelming, but simply not necessary. Maybe it is a personal preference to have as few spoken words as possible in a flic like this. The unspoken is more intense.
Still, beautiful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbM4ffXX6M
Saturday, 3 December 2011
Saturday, 12 November 2011
Friday, 11 November 2011
Glitch Mob - "Bad Wings" (Drink The Sea)
instrumental, interesting electronic "slow-hop"
slophop?
shlop?
slophop?
shlop?
Thursday, 10 November 2011
Universal Hall Pass - "Sally's Song" (Subtle Things)
(nothing to do with the Nightmare Before Christmas)
Strange, girlish-singing in the style of Emiliana Torrini, but more electronic background, triphop'd.
Strange, girlish-singing in the style of Emiliana Torrini, but more electronic background, triphop'd.
Mono - "Life In Mono" (Formica Blues)
very ethereal voice, think Françoise Hardy, with electro sound and rhythms.
Definitely not for every moment, but nice at times.
Definitely not for every moment, but nice at times.
Tom Waits - "Watch Her Disappear" (Alice)
Last night I dreamed that I was dreaming of you
And from a window across the lawn I watched you undress
Wearing your sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair
That rose in strangled ebony curls
Moving in a yellow bedroom light
The air is wet with sound
The faraway yelping of a wounded dog
And the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak
Your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the black summer heat
A light goes on and the door opens
And a yellow cat runs out on the stream of hall light and into the yard
A wooden cherry scent is faintly breathing the air
I hear your champagne laugh
You wear two lavender orchids
One in your hair and one on your hip
A string of yellow carnival lights comes on with the dusk
Circling the lake with a slowly dipping halo
And I hear a banjo tango
And you dance into the shadow of a black poplar tree
And I watched you as you disappeared
I watched you as you disappeared
I watched you as you disappeared
I watched you as you disappeared
And from a window across the lawn I watched you undress
Wearing your sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair
That rose in strangled ebony curls
Moving in a yellow bedroom light
The air is wet with sound
The faraway yelping of a wounded dog
And the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak
Your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the black summer heat
A light goes on and the door opens
And a yellow cat runs out on the stream of hall light and into the yard
A wooden cherry scent is faintly breathing the air
I hear your champagne laugh
You wear two lavender orchids
One in your hair and one on your hip
A string of yellow carnival lights comes on with the dusk
Circling the lake with a slowly dipping halo
And I hear a banjo tango
And you dance into the shadow of a black poplar tree
And I watched you as you disappeared
I watched you as you disappeared
I watched you as you disappeared
I watched you as you disappeared
Tom Waits - "Watch Her Disappear" (Alice)
Last night I dreamed that I was dreaming of you
And from a window across the lawn I watched you undress
Wearing your sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair
That rose in strangled ebony curls
Moving in a yellow bedroom light
The air is wet with sound
The faraway yelping of a wounded dog
And the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak
Your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the black summer heat
A light goes on and the door opens
And a yellow cat runs out on the stream of hall light and into the yard
A wooden cherry scent is faintly breathing the air
I hear your champagne laugh
You wear two lavender orchids
One in your hair and one on your hip
A string of yellow carnival lights comes on with the dusk
Circling the lake with a slowly dipping halo
And I hear a banjo tango
And you dance into the shadow of a black poplar tree
And I watched you as you disappeared
I watched you as you disappeared
I watched you as you disappeared
I watched you as you disappeared
And from a window across the lawn I watched you undress
Wearing your sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair
That rose in strangled ebony curls
Moving in a yellow bedroom light
The air is wet with sound
The faraway yelping of a wounded dog
And the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak
Your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the black summer heat
A light goes on and the door opens
And a yellow cat runs out on the stream of hall light and into the yard
A wooden cherry scent is faintly breathing the air
I hear your champagne laugh
You wear two lavender orchids
One in your hair and one on your hip
A string of yellow carnival lights comes on with the dusk
Circling the lake with a slowly dipping halo
And I hear a banjo tango
And you dance into the shadow of a black poplar tree
And I watched you as you disappeared
I watched you as you disappeared
I watched you as you disappeared
I watched you as you disappeared
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Misc music (vpro, luisterpaal)
- Oneohtrix Point - "Never" - electronic. In the beginning I was reminded of the "Beast" soundtrack, those woolly '80's synthesizer sounds. Ok, but nothing special
- Laura Veirs - "Tumble Bee" - folk, children's songs. Very non-intrusive music. Her rendition of "All the pretty little horses" didn't really do it for me.
- Laura Veirs - "Tumble Bee" - folk, children's songs. Very non-intrusive music. Her rendition of "All the pretty little horses" didn't really do it for me.
Darkness Falls - "Alive In Us"
dreamy, pop.
Music-wise it reminds me of Mark Lanegan & Isobel Campbell
* "Timeline" - electro-feel to it
* "Hey" - teremin!
* "Paradise Trilogy III" - drums, Western-whistling
Music-wise it reminds me of Mark Lanegan & Isobel Campbell
* "Timeline" - electro-feel to it
* "Hey" - teremin!
* "Paradise Trilogy III" - drums, Western-whistling
Bill Ryder-Jones - "If"
Bombastic, filmscore-ish. Supposedly an (the?) old The Coral guitarist. But what should that tell me?
Soft voice at times. Haven't listened to the words.
Lingering violins.
Soft voice at times. Haven't listened to the words.
Lingering violins.
Monday, 7 November 2011
Geike - "For The Beauty Of Confusion"
ex-Hooverphonic, luisterpaal says.
* "In Gold" - beat, long-stretched use of voice, familiar. nice
* "Icy" - slow, nothing special
* "Rope Dancer" - broken rhythm, catchy
* "Blinded" - pretty Hooverphonicy (sorry), and therefore pretty enjoyable
* "In Gold" - beat, long-stretched use of voice, familiar. nice
* "Icy" - slow, nothing special
* "Rope Dancer" - broken rhythm, catchy
* "Blinded" - pretty Hooverphonicy (sorry), and therefore pretty enjoyable
James Dashner - "Mazerunner"
A recommendation within the adolescent fantasy in Frisco's City Lights Bookstore.
No past. A maze to solve. Riddles...
It sounded quite fascinating. The story I liked a lot, but his editor must have been asleep because the writing is often abundant. Repetitive thoughts, hints that you already understood two pages back spelled out in the extreme...
For a while I wondered whether not being part of his audience might have been the reason, but Roald Dahl isn't repetitive, is he?
Again, the plot was interesting enough (we just did buy #2 and #3 of the trilogy, the latter in hardcover) but too bad about the writing.
7 at most.
No past. A maze to solve. Riddles...
It sounded quite fascinating. The story I liked a lot, but his editor must have been asleep because the writing is often abundant. Repetitive thoughts, hints that you already understood two pages back spelled out in the extreme...
For a while I wondered whether not being part of his audience might have been the reason, but Roald Dahl isn't repetitive, is he?
Again, the plot was interesting enough (we just did buy #2 and #3 of the trilogy, the latter in hardcover) but too bad about the writing.
7 at most.
James Dashner - "The Scorch Trials"
Not written better than #1, but the story was interesting enough, though basically they give away most of the mystery side of the plot within the first 50 pages.
Maybe that's a good thing. You cannot stretch something like this too long.
Maybe that's a good thing. You cannot stretch something like this too long.
Stephen Fry in America
Wonderful documentary (it is pretty difficult for me not to like anything he has done or written, and this is both written and presented by him) where in he traverses through the United States. Big cities, small moments, it is a random collection of this vast country.
It doesn't show everything, but how could it? It shows enough to love this country, to be mesmerized by its size, people and differences.
It doesn't show everything, but how could it? It shows enough to love this country, to be mesmerized by its size, people and differences.
Plus, of course, living here right now puts things in such a different light.
One more disc, three more episodes to go...
And every next disc as lovely as the previous.
Friday, 4 November 2011
Kirstin Hersh - "The Letter"
Can you hear me?
Don't forget that I'm alone when you're away
You make me act like other people do forgive me
Comfort me You comfort me You make me die
I'm gonna cry I won't go home
Don't kill the god of sadness
Just don't let her get you down
See the man inside this book I read can't handle his own head
So what the hell am I supposed to do ?
I wonder how he died
My hands are shaking don't you love me anymore
I only need a person, keep my shoulders
Stand around lie down move your hand above the floor
Gather me up because I'm lost
Or I'm back where I started from
I'm crawling on the floor rolling on the ground
I'm gonna cry you look for me
Don't forget that I'm alone when you're away
You make me act like other people do forgive me
Comfort me You comfort me You make me die
I'm gonna cry I won't go home
Don't kill the god of sadness
Just don't let her get you down
See the man inside this book I read can't handle his own head
So what the hell am I supposed to do ?
I wonder how he died
My hands are shaking don't you love me anymore
I only need a person, keep my shoulders
Stand around lie down move your hand above the floor
Gather me up because I'm lost
Or I'm back where I started from
I'm crawling on the floor rolling on the ground
I'm gonna cry you look for me
Jane Austen Argument - misc
* "Under The Rainbow" - sad, yet I don't like the wordless meanderings his voice picks up halfway through the song. Do really like the rest
* "Staying Single" - funny
* "Phoenix" - doesn't do much for me
* "Staying Single" - funny
* "Phoenix" - doesn't do much for me
Bill Bryson - "A Short History Of Nearly Everything"
Cool book, lots of facts, but more something you should not read in one go: too many factoids and stories jumbling together. This is not a fault of mr Bryson in my opinion, it is simply an overload of data.
- oxygen: used by white bloodcells to kill bacteria
- stromatolites: "living rock", emerged 3.5 billion years ago, still in existence today
- slime molds: single cell organisms when conditions are good. Group together into a slug when impoverished. Can become a plant, with a stalk and a fruiting body, full of spores for the single cell organisms
- opabinia: 5 eyes and snout with claws
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
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