Archive for February, 2006

Misc Random Crap

Friday, February 10th, 2006

My dream: The Super Bowl halftime show sponsored by Kranky Records featuring Low, LaBradford and Stars Of The Lid
I’ve been playing around with this great music streaming service called Pandora. You give it a few bands and it starts streaming similar music for you. The collection seems pretty good and in the two different channels [...]

The Newtown Neurotics

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

I never wanted to be the MP3 blog guy but I was driving around today listening to these guys and I was just thinking about how its a shame nobody knows about them. The Newtown Neurotics were a late-70s/early-80s punk band from England and they are criminally overlooked. They played unabashedly leftist anthems heavily influenced [...]

Trailer Watch

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

I am really happy that The World’s Fastest Indian is finally coming out so I never have to see that damn trailer again. The most interesting and promising trailer I have seen recently was for The Libertine, starring Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton and John Malkovich. I’m not really into period pieces but Depp looks like [...]

Caché (2005, Michael Haneke)

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

I liked this movie, and it is growing in my mind the longer I am away from it, but I really think I need another crack at it. I spent too much time focusing on the whodunnit, which in the end I believe is really beside the point. More after the jump and it is [...]

Munich (2005, Steven Spielberg)

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

This movie is good, certainly the best of anything Senor Spielbergo has done since AI (and he even managed to land it without flying off the edge of the runway for a change.) Still I don’t get all the accolades, the people saying that Munich is awesome. After discussing it with a couple people recently, [...]