Kafka On The Shore: Archive

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Four Tet - She Just Likes To Fight I had never...

Jan 29th

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First Aid Kit - In The Morning I’m not as...

Jan 28th

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“I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren’t true and...”

– Neil Gaiman interviewed by Dana Goodyear for The New Yorker Bear in mind that Gaiman was raised as a Jewish Scientologist, which, to me, puts this quote in perspective. Also, dried dragon sperm?… really?

Jan 28th

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Jan 27th

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →

Surfer Blood (29) Florence + The Machine (26) Fool’s Gold (20) Vampire Weekend (19) Hot Chip (17) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Jan 25th

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The New Yorker on The xx →

A very nice write-up on The xx by Sasha Frere-Jones, for The New Yorker.

Jan 24th

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David Bowie - I’m Deranged Unbelievable how...

Jan 24th

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David Foster Wallace on the Lynchian crew

Grips tend to be large, beefy blue-collar guys with walrus mustaches and baseball caps and big wrists and beer guts but extremely alert, intelligent eyes; they look like very bright professional movers, which is basically what they are. The production’s electricians, lighting guys, and effects guys, who are also as a rule male and large, are distinguished from the grips via their tendency to...

Jan 24th

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David Foster Wallace on Balthazar Getty

I think [Balthazar] is one of the most gorgeous and absurd real-person names I’ve ever heard, and I found myself on the set taking all kinds of notes about Balthazar Getty that weren’t really necessary or useful (since the actual Balthazar Getty turned out to be uninteresting and puerile and narcissistic as only an oil heir who’s a movie star just out of puberty can be). ...

Jan 24th

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David Foster Wallace on David Lynch

The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his movie, he’s peeing on a tree. This is on 8 January in L.A.’s Griffith Park, where some of Lost Highway’s exteriors and driving scenes are being shot. He is standing in the bristly underbrush off the dirt road between the base camp’s trailers and the set, peeing on a stunted pine. Mr. David Lynch, a...

Jan 24th

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“Most of Lynch’s best films don’t really have much of a point, and in...”

– David Foster Wallace on David Lynch This is my cop out for not attempting to interpret Lost Highway, let alone Mulholland Drive.

Jan 24th

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Jan 23rd

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Hot Chip - Alley Cats I have been waiting a long...

Jan 22nd

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Grizzly Bear - Boy from School (Hot Chip Cover) A...

Jan 22nd

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Jan 22nd

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The Antlers - Shiva [a Blogotheque’s Take-Away Show] Impossible not to like these guys. They released one of my favourite albums of 2009 and this little Blogotheque performance is just perfect. I missed them live last year because I couldn’t be bothered that day. Someone slap me please.

Jan 21st

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Jan 20th

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →

Vampire Weekend (49) The Wrens (37) Noah and the Whale (17) The Drums (8) Two Door Cinema Club (7) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Jan 19th

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Jan 17th

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“I tiptoed up the stairs, hooves en pointe, having a close call only when...”

– Udder Madness by Woody Allen, for The New Yorker The narrator and main protagonist is a cow. In this scene, the cow is using stealth (!!) in an attempt to murder an insufferable New York film auteur. Picturing the cow flattening itself against the wall while the maid is passing by completely...

Jan 17th

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Health @ Nouveau Casino, Paris (via La Blogotheque) This is a really nicely shot segment taken from a recent Health show. I saw these guys last year in London (they were the support for Deerhunter) and they’ve got to be the most deafening live experience of my life (I was in the front row, which made matters worse). The sheer memory of that gig is making my eardrums bleed all over again. ...

Jan 17th

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The Cursing Mommy Cooks Italian →

Chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop clatter chop skitter crash bang—FUCK! Stir stir stir stir stir stir stir stir stir stir stir stir stir stir stir stir stir stir stir stir skid bang skitter bang crash—SHIT! Ian Frazier for The New Yorker

Jan 17th

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