I guess I still do this?


Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
Clor - Clor
The Futureheads - News and Tributes
Interpol - Antics
Metric - Live It Out
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell

You only get nine. I've been busy the past six months.

So: my favouritest remixes:

Bloc Party - Banquet (Phones Disco Edit)
Bloc Party - Plans (Replanned by Mogwai)
Bloc Party - Two More Years (MSTRKRFT Remix)
Death From Above - Little Girl (MSTRKRFT Edition)
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out (Naum Gabo Re-Version)
The Futureheads - Decent Days and Nights (Max Tundra Remix)
The Futureheads - Meantime (Echo Channel Polite Mix)
The Killers - Smile Like You Mean It (Fischerspooner Remix)
Metric - Monster Hospital (MSTRKRFT Remix)
Moving Units - Available (Junior Sanchez Remix)


YVAN EHT NIOJ


~parker.

I vote: yay on the following albums, in terms of finding them awesome during the second half of 2005. Yay!


Caesars - Paper Tigers
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Moving Units - Dangerous Dreams
The New Pornographers - Electric Version
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
The Rakes - Capture/Release
Razorlight - Up All Night
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary


Also pretty sweet:
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm Remixed
The Kills - No Wow
Shout Out Louds - Howl Howl Gaff Gaff (both versions)
Bloc Party - Two More Years (Single)
Razorlight - Somewhere Else (Single)


Deelightful.

~parker.

The Rakes - Animals

So as noted, Syriana was I thought pretty awesome. While it was about politics, I disagree that it's really a leftist critique of the right, or of the current administration, or of U.S. foreign policy, it's more of a portrait of it. While people may derive a political message from the movie, I think that it's more based on the context from which you are watching, then from the movie itself.

The main theme was self interest. The nations involved, and the people involved, were all self interested, as we all are, and the movie was mostly about that. It didn't say that the U.S. should stop interfering in the middle east, it just shows us that it does, because of its self interests.

I also enjoyed the visual style, and the performances were as far as I can recall quite excellent. I really want to see it again, as soon as possible. Which will probably be after christmas.


Anyway, also new are the teasers for X3 and Mission: Impossible III, both due in May 2006. X3, I wasn't really expecting too much from, because I don't really trust Brett Ratner, but the teaser looks promising. And: it's got Ken Leung! M : I : III, as they seem to be calling it, doesn't look as promising, and I'm hoping it's just because the teaser isn't that well cut. Most of it's too quick to really see much, which just made it incoherent. I did like PSH in the teaser, so am looking forward to that, and hopefully, a better trailer in time. Looks like the Matt Todd Experience just got a whole lot more... impossibler.





So, that's all I can think of. One exam down, two to go, then Toronto for four days, and Stars while we're there. Yay!


~parker.

The Rakes - Retreat (Phones Remix)

Here, I think, is everything I've seen so far from 2005:


Constantine
Be Cool
The Pacifier
Sin City
Sahara
The Interpreter
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
XXX: State of the Union
Kingdom of Heaven
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Crash
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Batman Begins
War of the Worlds
Fantastic Four
Wedding Crashers
The Island
Sky High
The Dukes of Hazzard
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Red-Eye
The Constant Gardener
Transporter 2
Lord of War
Flightplan
Serenity
A History of Violence
Waiting...
Doom
The Weather Man
Jarhead
Syriana



That said, my "list" so far, despite not having seen a lot of movies I want to, is as follows:

#1 Syriana
#2 Jarhead
#3 Batman Begins
#4 The Weather Man
#5 The Constant Gardener
#6 Crash
#7 Lord of War
#8 The Interpreter

[Edit]

Saw Kingdom of Heaven finally, it was okay, but I really didn't like the way it was edited. I'm looking forward to the director's cut, that'll be like, 3 hours, because maybe it won't seem so ridiculously rushed.

[Edit]

Oh man, Syriana was so freaking awesome, except for the fire alarm that went off around 3/4's of the way through for like, four minutes or something. Meh, didn't really make too much difference. Go geopolitics!


~parker.

The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat

Awesome? I vote: yes. It's nice that after using up an album, there's still more lurking around the internet.

I've been thinking about horror movies lately. As a genre, they're a subset of "thrillers," and then break down into a few more categories. They're a genre, because there are elements that only make sense within the context of a horror movie, most notably the specific techniques that are used to frighten (music, loud noise, visual effects, etc.).

The first sub-category would be gore horror (or, "horror" henceforth, as in horrifying, as in "an intense, painful feeling of repugnance and fear") where the threat is against your body in a physical sense. That is to say, it's unsettling because it's disgusting, because it makes you consider being horribly mutilated. Ew. With this sort of movie, you might decline viewership because "you might like to eat later tonight."

The second is what I would call "terror" movies, because, being terrifying, they "instill intense, overpowering fear." They're the movies that prevent you from sleeping later. They're disturbing, but it a different way: they suggest a threat to you as a whole, as in, something could "get" you sometime somehow.

The first (horror) category is more of a specific threat. The second (terror) is a deeper threat, but does not need to present a specific type of horror. Many movies from the horror genre include elements of both. ANyway, this has been a short musing on the topic of some thing I was thinking about one time.



Right, so that's that. 'Night.


~parker.

The Streets - Fit But You Know It (featuring The Futureheads)