December 2007
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2007 In Review: Best Films
In no particular order. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg) Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino) Les Chansons d’Amour (Christophe Honoré) Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant) Zodiac (David Fincher)
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2007 In Review: Best Music Video
Battles - Atlas
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2007 In Review: Best Live Show
Sonic Youth @ Paredes de Coura (via ups2006)
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2007 In Review: Albums
In no particular order. Portuguese Albums: Norberto Lobo - Mudar de Bina JP Simões - 1970 Old Jerusalem - The Temple Bell Lobster - Sexually Transmitted Electricity David Fonseca - Dreams In Colour International Albums: Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil The Shins - Wincing The Night Away LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver The National - Boxer Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam Arcade Fire - Neon...
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72 Ideas to Simplify Your Life →
A Simple Living Manifesto by Zenhabits
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There Will Be Blood is a masterpiece →
“With his fifth film, Paul Thomas Anderson goes from the brainy poet of new American cinema to its deranged visionary.”
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WatchLive at Other Music: No Age (Episode #2) A truly insane performance. Weirdo Rippers (Fat Cat Records), is one of the more impressive debuts I’ve heard in quite some time.
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15 Worst Christmas Songs Ever Created →
“Some are old, some are new, all of them are awful.”
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The bands of 2008 →
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“We went to Israel to play some shows, but we figured it’d be good karma to...”
– Black Lips
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Blindness
Directed by Fernando Meirelles and based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago (Portugal), Blindness is one of the reasons why 2008 will be an awesome year for movies.
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Life Through A Plastic Lens →
Holga Lovers of the World Unite!
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“Through immaculate use of picture, sound and time, the director adds another...”
– Todd MacCarthy about Van Sant’s Paranoid Park. Once again, he makes the point.
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pict.fm - free avatar service →
If you’re addicted to last.fm, you can’t miss this one
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Sight & Sound Films Of 2007 →
1 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu) 2 Inland Empire (David Lynch) 3 Zodiac (David Fincher) 4 I’m Not There (Todd Haynes) The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) 6 Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas) 7 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik) Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) No...
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Reuters Year In Review 2007 →
Some great photos from 2007 from Reuters. — via davedunne
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The Take Away Shows →
“The Take Away Shows are a Video Podcast produced by the french weblog La Blogothèque. Every week, we give away a session, shot with a band, in an unusual, urban environment. Sessions are always filmed as a unique shot, without any cut, recorded live. We usually haven’t much time to record them, so the groups have to be spontaneous, to improvise, play with what they have with them, and with...
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Top 10 Magazine Covers →
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“Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by...”
– Samuel Butler
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Voice of the Seven Woods
“Voice of the Seven Woods achieves a waking dream-state, and it’s illuminated by the purest light, casting shadows off objects which morph and reassume beguiling forms. It is an inspired and ultimately timeless achievement that never ceases to captivate.” (Tiny Mix Tapes)
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“While an acoustic jam in a year of overproduced nonsense was somewhat like a...”
– about “Delilah” by Plain White T’s - via Double Viking.com
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Pat Graham's new Silent Pictures book →
Graham’s work has been used on many album covers of such bands as The Shins, Modest Mouse, The Make-Up, Fugazi, The Delta 72 and in numerous magazines. His pictures have helped to shape the iconography of an entire underground music scene.
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Banksy returns to Bethlehem
Banksy has painted new murals on the West Bank barrier which runs beside Bethlehem. The murals are part of an exhibition in Bethlehem opening on Monday (Santa’s Ghetto, as previously blogged). Several other international and Palestinian artists are taking part(i.e see previous post about Santa’s Ghetto). Here, in the town of Jesus’s birth, an Israeli soldier...
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Is War Photography Art? →
Interview with legendary war photographer Philip Jones Griffiths
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“A superbly wrought yarn set in the milieu of first-generation Russian mobsters...”
– Todd McCarthy - Variety
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And the nominees are... →