Anomie and bonhomie isn’t just an album, it’s a lifestyle.
Sansho the Bailiff doesn’t haunt me like Ugetsu, but Mizoguchi does things with light and texture unlike any other filmmaker. Recommended.
I’ve been in a mid-year rut with music. I’m disappointed in the New Pornographers’ Challengers on first listen; I haven’t heard any good buzz about Spoon’s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga [aside from the lovely New Yorker retrospective]; and I’m worried that the new Liars’ record will be a complete bust. What can I say? I’m a pessimist! I hope I’m wrong [or that something unexpected happens to renew my interest in music 2007.]
Arthur and Yu is pleasant. Bloody Panda are pretty cool. Chris told me to give Gowns a chance. I may be done writing for Paper Thin Walls, but I can think of few sites so thoroughgoing in their curatorial capacity. Not sure if that translates into traffic, but cred has to count for something, doesn’t it?
[Confidential to WOEBOT: S. Reynolds has been manufacturing crises for material for quite some time now. He wears cultural trends like a jacket he can toss on the couch whenever he feels like it. How’s that for bringing back “discursive energy?” I mean, how can you lament the democratization of a technology and music?]
Reading Mediaor is great, but it also points up just how much redundancy their is in Web/Music 2.0 applications. I just want something to replace MySpace now — awful ad-cluttered interface, spam nightmares with a horrible media player. Somebody? Anybody?
Speaking of which, I want want want to read this like yesterday. I’ve been a little more interested lately in where digital music and video and the internet are headed more than the video and music that are driving it.
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