Author: J T. Ramsay
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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…
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It was like going to the movies during the day.
Though it’s gone downhill recently, Cinemarati will be sorely missed. There’s always Filmbrain…I hope! And here’s something I applaud over at Self-Styled Siren!
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We sipped from a freon tank together for relief.
I think we as American music critics expect too much of British artists. We want 1984 and Billy Liar. Portishead and the Kinks. So I had to laugh when I saw Wiley on the cover of The Wire this month. Do they not know that the whole world went post-grime the moment Lady Sov first…
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It’s about love and death and revenue sharing. Up-selling abounds.
I’m not sure that Hypebot’s six part series on eMusic’s recent turbulence was anything more than sound and fury signifying nothing, or at best, very little about digital music at all. Seems to me that it was more about the blood in the water than anything else, and like frenzied sharks, eMusic representatives took the…
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The landslide didn’t bring me down. It was the avalanche that hit first.
I’ve been swamped. I love ducking in here like I’m trying to get out of the rain…which is a nice segue [cough] into: Rihanna — ‘Umbrella’ [I’m interviewing her later this week. It’s about that time for R&B protection ballads. There’s a war on, after all.] Mutant Sounds. I was a little tired of Chocoreve [even…