How about we start again

This is me.
I'm starting over on here.

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The Rip

It is sticky and disgusting here. Enough with the thunder and rain! We aren't in a bad horror movie.

Good news. My film was nominated at my school's annual best-of selection.

Off to get my mop cut.

Check out Radiohead covering arguably the best track off Portishead's most recent album!:
(loving Thom's classic metronome head movement)


Some pics I took during Portishead's amazing performance at Coachella:

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"From Pop Music to Pig Farming..."

It has been a strange, mixed week of films:

'L'Avventura'- a little drawn out but beautiful. Loved the stark ending.



It is beautiful in large part due to Monica Vitti




'The Strangers' - Actually quite tense. Great score by tomandandy (can they do no wrong?) and use of sound and atmosphere. Loved the masks and reason for the killing- "because you were home." !!!!

and

'If....' (Lindsay Anderson, 1968)- Some great moments (slo mo look of desire between boy and gymnast) and an ending that sticks with you.

Also features this great track:

Working to the bone these days at the hospital. One old lady really got to me. She was shaking and begging me to show her the way home.

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Blue Eyed Soul

Crave Fear

Never Hide

oh, and:



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Gobbledigook

Saw M83 last night at The Mod Club. It was a beautiful show.

The vid for their single "graveyard girl":



Woke up and watched 'Hellraiser' for the first time. Loved it. Creative, dark and hot and pushing the envelope. Why don't they make horror movies like that now?



Sigur Ros has a new album coming out. Too bad the new video and song sucks. A departure in a bad way. I love them and the work of Ryan Mcginley (and you think pairing the two would create a dream team) but go to their website and check out the vid for yourself. You will be disappointed. Hopefully the rest of the album doesn't sound like "Gobbledigook."

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One, two, Freddy's coming for you...

I finally watched 'Nightmare on Elm Street' for the first time late last night.
Loved the imaginative dream sequences and blurring of reality and dreams. Johnny Depp was looking pretty good getting sucked into the bed by Freddy!

Philip-Lorca diCorcia is a photographer I have just discovered and here are a few examples of his work (from his "Hustlers" series). From 1990 to ’92. DiCorcia photographed male prostitutes in Los Angeles at the height of the conservative crackdown on “indecent” art and in the wake of the Reagan Adminstration’s tardy response to the AIDS crisis. Apparently he cheekily paid them with money he’d received from a 1989 National Endowment for the Arts grant- brilliant! I love how the series blends and blurs the line bewteen a documentary perspective on hustlers and the Hollywood myth of the male prostitute. I like the cold, detached feel.

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Dark and Beautiful

The new Presets album does not disappoint! Pick it up.

Check out the dark and beautiful vid for "this boy's in love." Is this what love sounds like?

Two posters for upcoming films I am dying to see:

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