So, in lieu of blogging, I guess?
My wife has been making some excellent music comps.
She's been doing them in monthly installments and needless to say, I'm usually begging for them as soon as the new month hits.
February's comp. included the following:
Little Thoughts - Bloc Party
This Is Not A Photograph - Mission of Burma
Let the Formula Forge Itself Fantastic - Vague Angels
(Chris Leo's new band. YEA!)
Disco 2000 - Pulp
Guess I'm Falling In Love (Instrumental) - Velvet Underground
Sing Child - Heart
It Ain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It) -
Fun Boy Three feat. Bananarama
Chewing Gum (Headman Vocal Remix) - Annie
What Tom Said About The Girls - The Blow
Cruel Summer - Bananarama
Go, Man, Go - The Wedding Present
Never As Tired When I'm Waking Up - LCD Soundsystem
What Happened To The Sands - Pas/Cal
I Say A Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin
As a whole her mixes are quite remenicent of her old radio programme -- yes, I spelt it the British way -- Facsimile Pop.
Overall, a lot of fun with some quirk thrown in... but no ZANINESS.
(Good God, don't call it that.)
Best of all, it's all done without any ironic tone.
From the Britney Spears-esque pop meets Prince production of Annie, to the prog-rock wail of Heart -- I KNOW! HEART. PROG? YES!,
the post punk of Bloc Party and Burma, AND two tracks featuring Bananarama?
Sultry British babes who are more vixen than rockstars? ...but this is the British way, no?
Awesome. Plus some Brit-Pop, something that Allison claimed to loathe. This is all music she loves. Especially the Wedding Present song... she's adored this song since I first met her... and it still lingers.
I'm sure if you were to beg her for them, she'd make 'em for you as well.
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Note: I lied. She just updated her blog.
It's a short piece, remenicent of her previous post, but it's a start.
And I despise the way she hates on my old stomping grounds...
The O.C. (Oakland County) has plenty of UGGS too.
(Both wearers of boots and ugly locales.)
EAST SIIIIIIIDE!
Sunday, March 06, 2005
Monday, February 28, 2005
Dark Dreams of Disaster
When I was younger I had dreams/nightmares of living in a post-apocalyptic/barren/scorched Earth future.
I'm not necessarily sure that I'd be one to survive any kind of mass hysteria mob, frenzied or slo-mo version zombies, a plague/virus, an alien invasion, or nuclear strike, but a boy-nerd can dream, can't he?
While these all weren't necessarily post-apocalyptic they fueled the fire:
Roleplaying games
Mad-Max/The Road Warrior/BeyondThunderdome
The Police's Syncronicity II video
Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon
Soylent Green
The Omega Man
The Day After
Stephen King's The Stand (superflu!)
The Tripod Trilogy by John Christopher
Red Dawn
Night of the Comet
1984
Max Headroom
Blade Runner
Zombie movies --
Night of... Dawn of... Day of..., the bad remakes, and sequels,
28 Days Later, etc.
And of course, growing up during the Ronald Reagan era of the Cold War.
I bring up all of these because I was just introduced to a new source:
Miracle Mile starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham.
Granted, I just watched a heavily edited version, (UPN on a Sunday afternoon will do that to you and it seems as if whole scenes have been wiped) however it's the very short period of mass hysteria that grabbed me so quickly. From the time we see the police bolting from the "cop killer" as they are informed of the imminent to when Edwards and Winningham make it back to the rooftop heli-pad can't be more than a few minutes in "real-time," but it's enough intensity to get me to stop surfing.
In it's fully non-edited version, it's probably not the best of the aforementioned pack, as oddly enough it starts out much like a romantic comedy of sorts... but thank goodness it's out on DVD so I can make that determination myself. Of course, Netflix has pointed me in the direction of some others.
(Threads --the UK version of The Day After, an '83 pic called Testament, A Boy and his Dog, and Luc Besson's Le Dernier Combat)
Maybe you can make some suggestions too?
I'm not necessarily sure that I'd be one to survive any kind of mass hysteria mob, frenzied or slo-mo version zombies, a plague/virus, an alien invasion, or nuclear strike, but a boy-nerd can dream, can't he?
While these all weren't necessarily post-apocalyptic they fueled the fire:
Roleplaying games
Mad-Max/The Road Warrior/BeyondThunderdome
The Police's Syncronicity II video
Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon
Soylent Green
The Omega Man
The Day After
Stephen King's The Stand (superflu!)
The Tripod Trilogy by John Christopher
Red Dawn
Night of the Comet
1984
Max Headroom
Blade Runner
Zombie movies --
Night of... Dawn of... Day of..., the bad remakes, and sequels,
28 Days Later, etc.
And of course, growing up during the Ronald Reagan era of the Cold War.
I bring up all of these because I was just introduced to a new source:
Miracle Mile starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham.
Granted, I just watched a heavily edited version, (UPN on a Sunday afternoon will do that to you and it seems as if whole scenes have been wiped) however it's the very short period of mass hysteria that grabbed me so quickly. From the time we see the police bolting from the "cop killer" as they are informed of the imminent to when Edwards and Winningham make it back to the rooftop heli-pad can't be more than a few minutes in "real-time," but it's enough intensity to get me to stop surfing.
In it's fully non-edited version, it's probably not the best of the aforementioned pack, as oddly enough it starts out much like a romantic comedy of sorts... but thank goodness it's out on DVD so I can make that determination myself. Of course, Netflix has pointed me in the direction of some others.
(Threads --the UK version of The Day After, an '83 pic called Testament, A Boy and his Dog, and Luc Besson's Le Dernier Combat)
Maybe you can make some suggestions too?
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