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:: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 ::

I hope everyone had a good Easter. Now on with the Blog.

Micro-Film Review (do you see what I did there?)
Shaun of the Dead:
Hilarious zom-rom-com from the makers of Spaced. Contains some great concepts and some brilliant set pieces but misses a lot of the cleaver dialogue you would expect. Some reviews refer to its brilliant one liners but in my opinion these are almost completely missing. The most memorable line in it is when Shaun is on the phone to his mother and asks her if she was hurt when some zombies attacked, "They were a bit... um... bitey," is her brilliantly understated response. Lots of cameos from the leading lights of British sitcom, but in all focuses too much on the rom-com and not enough on the zom.

Via g3rm:
UK Circuit Benders
...and...
Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) contributes to the countless millions of column inches generated about Kurt Cobain at the tenth anniversary of his death. No not worthy in itself but I love this quote from it:
"We were in a Brooklyn basement full of artists and sound-poets gathered to watch musicians throw down extreme noise improvisation. One performer played records with two customized tone arms on his turntable; the discs broke and scratched, creating shards of hyperfractured beat play. He was followed by a quartet of young women scraping metal files across amplified coils mixed through junk electronics. I was to perform a spontaneous guitar/amp feedback piece with a stand-up bass player on loan from his teaching post at Berklee College of Music and a free jazz percussionist who had traversed through New York's downtown underground in the 60's. Not your typical night of alternative rock."
Sounds great to me!

:: Dan 13.4.04 [Arc]    ::
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