Thursday, December 10, 2009
Some more Blakroc awesomeness...
[#] posted at 4:59 PM (GMT +1200)
"Ain't Nothing Like You" on Letterman...
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Thursday, December 03, 2009
A bit of a mash up post here...
[#] posted at 6:10 PM (GMT +1200)
Am also approaching that 'need to get a haircut' point. Telling factor is after a shower my hair becomes this almost Beatles like bob cut. But anyways...
A pretty good list of what one man considers The 10 best long tracking shots ever filmed which I can wholeheartedly agree with.
An article and sample of Philip Glass's new opera can be found here.
A rather bizarre article on a Vietnamese man dug up wife's corpse 'so he could hug her'.
For Empire's 20th anniversary, they've gotten a whole slew of actors to recreate some of their more famous roles. It's pretty neat-o and can be found here.
And then lastly some science articles...
Why we shouldn't release all we know about the cosmos
A trio of astronomers have warned that, unless we use the information sparingly, we risk squandering a once-in-eternity opportunity. If the whole data set is released at once, as is planned, any new ideas that cosmologists come up with may have to remain untested because they will have no further data to test them with. [full article]
Death of rare giant star sheds light on cosmic past
An enormous explosion observed in 2007 was the death of one of the most massive stars known in the universe, new calculations suggest. Similar blasts may have polluted the early universe with heavy elements, altering its evolution. [full article]
Labels: images, movie stuff, music, random articles, science articles
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Blac Roc - Nothing Like You
[#] posted at 3:03 PM (GMT +1200)
Lord knows how many times I've rewatched/listened to this. An upcoming collaboration album with The Black Keys and a slew of hip-hop guest artists including Mos Def, Q-Tip and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard. Comes out end of this month and I so can't wait.
Labels: blac roc, music, music video
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Monday, October 26, 2009
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[#] posted at 2:10 PM (GMT +1200)
What a week and weekend. Most of all the Armageddon Expo decimated my bank account and I've got a lot of things bookmarked that I've neglected to post...
Dave McKean is making an animated adaptation of his own comic Cages. This is gonna be sweet and it's one of my all time favourite comics for multiple reasons. [full article]
Some Hot Fuzz slash fiction from the actual creators of Hot Fuzz. [website]
Mild America is a Wellington band that Michelle Savill, director of Betty Banned Sweets is a part of. There's some tracks available at their website here and definitely worth listening to.
Some of the images are pretty rough but make for essential viewing into the fallout of the international drug trade following a UN report after 100 years of drug control. Recommended checking out here.
Labels: dave mckean, hot fuzz, images, mild america, music
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Friday, October 16, 2009
The Dead Weather - I Cut Like A Buffalo
[#] posted at 1:53 PM (GMT +1200)
New official video from Jack White's new super group and still probably one of my favourite albums of the year...
Labels: music, music video
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
My Friends Make Music
[#] posted at 2:53 PM (GMT +1200)
Almost forgot to post these, seems my friends have been popping out some lil' musical numbers and they're available for your downloading/listening pleasure...
Sairalei's Birds of Passage EP.
And Mask of Demetrius' Brown Gold album (along with a few others).
Enjoy.
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
How'd I Forget to Post This?
[#] posted at 2:58 PM (GMT +1200)
New track off the Massive attack EP coming next month. Finally.
Labels: music
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Live! From the Hovering Robot Circus!
[#] posted at 12:24 PM (GMT +1200)
Rejoice! As Depressing Comic Week returns to Cyanide and Happiness. {previous weeks here and here).
Laugh! As a man locked out of his house is forced to break back in while dressed up with a sword and ammo belt for a fancy dressed party get the armed offenders squad called out on him. [article]
Amaze! As you read the background of current music obsession, the rapper known as Cage (Chris Palko). Either through his wiki page, this feature article or this interview.
Enjoy! The website of the awesomeness that is Beck. The man has been posting some brilliant stuff, ranging from videos to interviews and all should see. [beck.com]
Labels: amusing articles, comics, music
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Dream Girl
[#] posted at 4:29 PM (GMT +1200)
Still the strong obsession of the week, this is Dream Girl from The Lonely Island's Incredibad album. Quite possibly my favourite and features the hot talented awesomeness that is Norah Jones.
Labels: music
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Monday, August 17, 2009
They Need to Make a Video For This
[#] posted at 10:31 AM (GMT +1200)
From their debut album incredibad, The Lonely Island has Jack Black special guest on this track and while I've got a lot of love for the both of them respectively, the two together is just the best combo ever. Check it out.
Labels: music
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Updates, Updates, Blah, Blah, Blah...
[#] posted at 2:32 AM (GMT +1200)
Christ it's easy to slack off on posting blogs sometimes... So what's happened since the last time?
Went to The Kills concert which was awesome. They were, the venue was total crap and packed full of 'hip indie' kids which annoyed me to no end and the place was too small for the size of the crowd, but The Kills themselves were fantastic and thanks to some inside sources, we got to go to the gigs after party. Also got to exchange a hello with Jamie and snap a picture with Alison Mosshart who's nothing but retardedly hot both on and off stage. But apart from that, was too much of a chicken shit pussy to talk to them in depth or anything.
Settled into new flat and it hasn't been as insane as previously... hoped for or hoped against? I'm not quite sure at this point. But its good, but I'll still be looking for work in Auckland, which at this point I should really gear up a notch or two on doing.
Had several setbacks last week, most prominently my current phone which has come to be my favourite phone of all the phones I've owned so far, started gargling death rattles and has pretty much up and died on me. New phone has been ordered and hopefully will arrive by the end of the week. Great timing on that one as I've actually got a need to establish quite a few contacts and phone calls with it.
And in the other more blog worthy news is that registrations for the 48 Hours Filmmaking competition opened last week and since then I've been asked on a daily basis if I'm entering again this year and the answer is yes. I'll be entering in the Hamilton regions one final time, at least in a competitive level with the intention of winning. Of course, that's not my main intention, but that'll be a drive for doing it this year. If I enter in further years, in the Hamilton section at least, I'll be doing it just for pure, retarded, fun reasons (ie filming myself naked for seven minutes singing the theme songs to 70s TV programs while churning a barrel of butter)... actually, screw it, that's a great idea and it's going on the ideas pile for this year.
Labels: 48 hour film competition, music, really long posts about the week in passing
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Friday, March 13, 2009
The Dead Weather
[#] posted at 5:45 PM (GMT +1200)
Less than two weeks till The Kills NZ tour and I'm looking very forward to it. It's surprising how popular they've become really. Anyway, Jack White just announced a new band called The Dead Weather and The Kills' Alison Mosshart fronting and that's awesome.
Here's their first video for their song Hang You From The Heavens...
Labels: music, music video
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tough Like the Ukulele
[#] posted at 2:32 PM (GMT +1200)
Best Nirvana cover ever.
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Friday, February 06, 2009
Just Science and Music today
[#] posted at 6:04 PM (GMT +1200)
Ryan Adams was great. Though I'm not the biggest fan of his latest album, he still put on a great show and played a lot of personal favourites from previous albums. Well worth it.
I'm not going to Kings of Leon and just to save my sanity for that decision, I've convinced myself that they won't play as many of their awesome songs from Aha Shake Heartbreak (which I still love and play constantly) and will instead perform more from their later albums which are nice, but not as awesome.
Meanwhile what I'm really looking forward to is The Kills in March. I just love this duo and their album Midnight Boom was one of my favourites of last year. Should definitely check it or any of their other albums out.
So onto the interesting stuff of the internet...
Is the Roman Pantheon a colossal sundial?
During the six months of winter, the light of the noon sun traces a path across the inside of the domed roof. During summer, with the sun higher in the sky, the shaft shines onto the lower walls and floor. At the two equinoxes, in March and September, the sunlight coming in through the hole strikes the junction between the roof and wall, above the Pantheon's grand northern doorway (see diagram). A grille above the door allows a sliver of light through to the front courtyard - the only moment in the year that it sees sunlight if its main doors are closed (see diagram). [full article]
Alien world is slimmest and fastest known
Astronomers have found an extrasolar planet with the smallest diameter yet measured - it is no more than twice as wide as Earth. The rocky body is also the fastest known, whipping around its star in less than a day. [full article]
Giant Titanoboa snake ruled the earth after the dinosaurs
It weighed 1.25 tonnes and with a length of 45 feet or more it would have been able to take on and eat pretty much any other animal it came across.
The newly discovered type of snake, named Titanoboa in honour of its immense size, was for 10 million years the largest land predator on earth.
At least 28 individual specimens have been uncovered in Colombia and, with all of them being around 40 feet long, researchers said it is likely the species could have reached much further than 45 feet. [full article]
Bill Gates Unleashes Mosquito Swarm
TED, the annual gathering of the most pretentious people from the fields of technology, entertainment, and design, just got punk'd. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates released a swarm of mosquitos into the crowd.
Ending malaria is a particular passion of Gates's, whose Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent millions fighting the disease. But he apparently didn't feel like TED attendees were taking the threat seriously. "Not only poor people should experience this," Gates said as he let the bugs loose on his audience. [full article]
The newly discovered type of snake, named Titanoboa in honour of its immense size, was for 10 million years the largest land predator on earth.
At least 28 individual specimens have been uncovered in Colombia and, with all of them being around 40 feet long, researchers said it is likely the species could have reached much further than 45 feet. [full article]
Ending malaria is a particular passion of Gates's, whose Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent millions fighting the disease. But he apparently didn't feel like TED attendees were taking the threat seriously. "Not only poor people should experience this," Gates said as he let the bugs loose on his audience. [full article]
Labels: music, random articles, science stuff
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Pre-Mercury Awards
[#] posted at 5:50 AM (GMT +1200)
The Mercury Prize award is on tonight, well, in the UK at least. I wonder if i can be viewable online. But either way, lots of good acts should be on and quite a few albums nominated I'm pretty keen to win. But probably want it for Radiohead cause I'm a biased ammoral fan like that. Though these guys called Portico Quartet are pretty cool too...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Film Festival 08 Yayness
[#] posted at 5:23 AM (GMT +1200)
Made a last minute decision on Friday night to go to a kind of triple birthday party in Auckland. Had loads of booze and fun and got to hang out with some totally awesome people as always.
One thing I forgot though was to pick up a copy of the international film festival booklet while I was up there. Every year now for... I dunno... seven? eight years now, I've kept one and it's great. For now I'm just going through the website which is a little more tedious process, but already I'm seeing a lot of films I'm so keen to see.
Top of them would probably be the redux of Wong Kar Wai's Ashes of Time, which no doubt will kick ass with the big screen of sexy Christopher Doyle cinematography and the hotness of Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung and Leslie Cheung. Oh and Brigitte Lin and Carina Lau. Fuck it, it's just more sexy Chungking Express times awesome on the big screen. I can't wait.
Others of note so far are Stephen Chow's new CJ7, Gondry's Be Kind Rewind, Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django and the amazing ensemble awesome of To Each His Own Cinema. Others of interest are the Evangelion redux, awesomeness of The Adventures of Robin Hood, Patti Smith doco, new Vincent Ward film, King of Kong doco and Anita O'Day doco. Come to think of it, I've got a lot of docos in mind this year, something different, but the full planning can be made once I get one of those damn programs.
Well, in the meantime here's the mentalness of a reporter arrested for the murders he's actually been reporting on here.
And a musician named Tywanna Jo Baskette whom I'm growing more and more fonder of her music as I listen to it here.
Labels: drinking, film festival, music
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Sunday, February 25, 2007
Out On The Weekend
[#] posted at 11:59 AM (GMT +1200)
Started out Friday with very little sleep, worked, rested, filmed a charity auction (with beer) and then played poker (with burbon), slept for two hours and then with a hangover in hand worked for just over eleven, then hung out with more people (more burbon and then rum), but not for too long as hangover was still hovering above my tired body at that point. Eventually slept for many many hours and woke up this afternoon not feeling very filmmaker like much to my disappointment (sorry Ross). Will have to reschedule Spit-Takes for another day (not too far away). Today was also friend Zoe's birthday, where eating and drinking wine out of a jar (classy) took place and now I sit content to not be doing much.
Have started using tags for this website and have been attempting to tag previous posts, but there have now been over 100 made and that makes for a lot of clicking and tagging... ah well.
For coolness, here are a series of photos taken at just the right angle with just the right object, creating some of the coolest illusions around. Click on the sample photo for more.
And on my recent occasional visit to the Mountain Goats site where I wait with bated breath for their next New Zealand tour, I've noticed their website has had a new design. Do I mention how much I love the Mountain Goats enough here? Do you love the Mountain Goats? If you don't, that makes you a communist. Forever I'll have Rob to thank for introducing me to them on a fateful drive to Wellington, thus allowing me to pass the Mountain Goats love to a good portion of Hamilton. I wonder if he still reads this site... if you do... sup.
Here's "No Children" live...
Labels: drinking, filming, hangover, images, mountain goats, music, photo illusion, spit-takes, website, youtube
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Behold!
[#] posted at 1:47 AM (GMT +1200)
A slightly new and hardly noticeable update of this site's design...
Added a slightly different layout to most other pages around and changed some of the fonts, as I discovered the one I used previously isn't usual part of most windows or mac font packs and this one is as close to how I originally had it. Also note there now a total of about 50 header images up for your viewing/refreshing pleasure.
Film subsections are going to be the next upload and hopefully, finally, new artworks after that.
Currently reading Neil Gaiman's collection of short stories Fragile Things which is really, really good and should be read by anyone and everyone.
Also, one must check out the latest Hot Fuzz trailer, cut alongside Robert Roderiguez, it's great and can be viewed here or just download it here.
And links from Robbie, this is the coolest greatest music video to have come out for a long time, if not ever. Download it!
And awesome midi music remixes to be heard here.
Labels: hot fuzz, music, music video, neil gaiman, trailer, website