Little Nobody who we bigged up last year are entered in a short film competition with their film ‘What Cassandra Saw’. It’s really good, sort of dark fairy tale thing, reminds me a bit of Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb. And it has a nice looking girl dressed in strange clothes with pink high heels on whose shadow turns into a cat. and an animated worm thing wearing a bow tie. If that soesn’t convince you then nothing will
Can’t find a way to embed it, but here is the link
Amazingly beautiful animation, and cool swordfighting etc as you’d expect
Has a bit of rudeness, but just a teeny bit
This is ace. RZA talking about the kung fu samples he has used on some Wu-Tang tracks, as well as audio samples. Also a full interview with him talking about the films he’s scored and a bunch of other stuff.
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/15-11/pl_music
“En garde, I’ll let you try my Wu-Tang style.“
This may be the best claymation ever, the best I’ve ever seen. Incredibly inventive. It’s going to be a new advert for Sony Bravia which I assume is a TV……
But anyway, watch and enjoy
visit the website and see it in hi-res here
Ok, so this isn’t a new video, it was made in 2005, and a lot has changed in Breakcore since then, many artists have become more established, new people have come up etc etc. Living out of the country it is difficult for me to keep up with what is going on, as far as I can tell from my visit home, and keeping up on the internet, there are more parties than ever, and although the buzz isn’t quite as intense as it was when this film came out, there is still plenty of new and exciting music coming out, and nights starting up all over the shop (Although Toxic Dancehall closed :(:(:()
But it is still a good watch. 30 minute long video about the ‘Breakcore’ scene made by a couple of Austrian guys. Very well made, with a nice compilation of live sets and interviews with some of the main artists.
It’s a new series where I tell you to hail something random and possibly post a link to something to do with it. My role is to find stuff. Your role is to enjoy it.
I’m off to the Wickerman festival tomorrow, last year the whole thing was worth it for the mighty, mighty, mighty Eek a Mouse.
Have a couple of vids :)
Legend.
The first in an occaisional series of film reviews starting with:
Zidane - A 21st Century Portrait
Ostensibly a cinematic version of Sky’s player cam, ‘Zidane’ is both the best and worse of the contemporary fethistic view of football. On the one hand, this claims made about this film are almost ludicrously pretentious yet on the other, the resulting watch is both sumptiously rich and refreshingly stark. How, I hear you cry, can this dichotomy exist?
Simple: Zidane - Why is 90 minutes of one man running up and down, fleetingly touching the ball and occaisionly yelping ‘hey’ strangely compelling - Because, simply, it’s Zidane, because it’s the genius, the enigma, the dark, moody magic, a player who existed without hype, without hyperbole who seemed to just, well, be fucking amazing.
The film captures his intense concentration, his incredable touch, his fantastic knack of drifting into space - To a none football fan, I really doubt whether this film has appeal beyond 5 or ten minutes, but to someone like me, then this is curiously compelling watching. - In short, the richness is the physical genius of Zidane, one headed pass alone is just outragously good and ridiculously cooly executed.
What then, of the starkness? - The cinematography gives us no replays, no slo-mo’s, no voice over, just vision and crowd and some times the yelps and breaths of the players. It felt good to watch football on a screen and escape from the conventions of the football production, to feel like an onlookers at a recorded event, not a consumer of a designed product.
Mogwai’s soundtrack blends well with the layers and textures of the stadium noise and gives a lovely floaty feel to some of the less edifying passages of action, which in turn give the film a refreshing snse that, actually, you are being given time to reflect and study, rather than sold an icon in a highlights reel.
Football’s place in culture is an uneasy one for me - I do think the world’s greatest game deserves recording and examing for it’s ability to elicit passion and bring together millions weekly - conversely I also think much of this attention is sloppy, lazy, sentimental and aimed at selling a nice comfy version of ‘the football experience’ or ‘the most important thing in the world TM’ - For me, Zidane avoids the latter and despite obvious difficulties for a wider audience achieves something simple - provides a document of one of the greatest modern players and as such is an admirable success.
If you avoid the bullshit about ‘this film represents a physical musing upon existential questions blah, blah, blah’ - you can’t help but like it
Barry Cooper sells a DVD on how to stash pot in your car without getting caught. This fall he will release a second one on how to keep police from raiding your home for marijuana.
Now for the kicker: Cooper is a former narcotics officer once considered among the top cops in Texas, where more marijuana is seized each year than in any other state.
The formerly straight-laced lawman has become a shaggy-haired militant for the legalization of weed.
Six months ago he released “Never Get Busted Again,” in which the former star of West Texas’ Permian Basin Drug Task Force gives tips on hiding marijuana (dashboards are rife with nooks and crannies) and throwing off drug-sniffing dogs (coat your tires in fox urine).
“I’m not helping them to break the law. It’s clear the law is already being broken,” said Cooper, 38, who left law enforcement a decade ago. “I will do anything legal to frustrate law enforcement’s efforts to place American citizens in jail for nonviolent drug offenses.”
Was watching ‘Black Belt Jones’, a rather stodgy 1974 blaxploitation/karate/mafia picture with Jim Kelly, and came across this fella Mel Novak, who’s a second string gangster in it. He’s definitely a familiar face - you’ll probably remember him from things like ‘Game Of Death’, or perhaps ‘Truck Turner’… Or maybe even one of his more recent flicks, like, ah, ‘Vampire Assassins’ or ‘Pocket Ninjas’. Or maybe not.
Anyhow, this dude doesn’t just star in Hollywood’s finest films; he also does his own stunts! And not only that, he’s “a dedicated Soldier for Christ, is an Ordained Minister called by God to share the Good News of Jesus Christ and salvation to the homeless on skid row and in prisons”!!!
According to Mel, he’s been blessed with personal experience of Teh Lord’s Good Workz:
Although Mel believes that Christ heals more important things than bodies, he has personally experienced God’s miraculous healing power. As a child, Mel’s leg was saved from amputation through prayer. Years later, his throat was healed by the Lord after having ten failed surgeries in ten years. The Lord healed a serious injury to the eye, a torn cornea, only hours before surgery. During Easter of 1983, Mel was spared from death after serious hemorrhaging from surgery. On March14, 1998, Mel almost died from peritonitis caused by an anti-inflammatory prescription medication. For the fourth time God spared Mel’s life. It was his twenty-first surgery.
A native of Pittsburgh, Mel was an outstanding athlete in several sports. He passed up 60 football scholarship offers and signed a pro baseball contract with the Pirates. His career was cut short by a massive rotator cuff injury. Despite the pain and setback from his injury, Mel learned even more clearly “that God works all things together for the good of those who love him and for those called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28), After sixteen years, he once again experienced a miracle. His shoulder was healed, including a complete deliverance from pain.
Crikey dude, if that’s miraculous then pass the smelling salts, I’m steering well clear, sounds all too painful 
Anyhow, Mel documents all this and more in his personal Give For God page, where he also talks about some of the films he’s been in and stuff you godless heathens might be interested in…
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