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Non-Music Shit / Re: What tv show are you watching and what do you have to say about it ..pt 2

« on: October 16, 2016, 05:39:12 PM »

High Maintenance is my fave, but Friday's was flat ... Hope it doesn't get deep into pandering. The Ben Sinclair character starting to get smug and that interfering with its portrayal of the pure cuntiness of New York. Sometimes I think they went through a lot of their best stuff in the web series. By the middle of that stretch each ep was 7-9 minutes of hits, all killer no filler.

Tony Bourdain, who has maybe the best job in the world and probably the worst taste in music, stays insufferable but when his show delivers on the escapism it's a kick hard to find anywhere else. And then Obama shows up to bring the hammer down on ketchup.

The Westworld premise doesn't work for me on any level -- I who love Black Mirror twilightisms -- everything in this just seems never to get to bottom of whatever motivates the thought experiment. It's more impotent than, say, Lost. But oh so expensive looking.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: What tv show are you watching and what do you have to say about it ..pt 2

« on: September 13, 2016, 07:35:49 AM »

"Atlanta" was great. So much post-Louie action going on: "Better Things" and I think I liked it but I'm not sure cause I was half-asleep. "Gomorra" s01e01 was compelling. Less like the movie of the same name then, say, "Pusher."

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Movies I've been watching

« on: September 09, 2016, 04:25:31 PM »

Neon Demon wasn't good. pretty though. like a magazine.

Yeah when I saw it I was like, wasn't that just basically Elle Fanning Interview magazine, May '14 -- and then I heard some interview with Winding Refn and sure enough.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: What tv show are you watching and what do you have to say about it ..pt 2

« on: September 06, 2016, 06:38:11 AM »

I guess he's got you there.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: What tv show are you watching and what do you have to say about it ..pt 2

« on: September 04, 2016, 01:41:26 PM »

Encouraging. Didn't like the movie but I will give it a try.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: What tv show are you watching and what do you have to say about it ..pt 2

« on: September 03, 2016, 07:42:33 PM »

Is Gomorrah the TV show like Gomorrah the movie?

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Music Shit / Re: Picture Discs

« on: September 02, 2016, 02:50:17 PM »

"The Sounds of Earth" (Voyager). Limited. One-sided. First pressing contains ultra-pure sample of the isotope uranium-238. Sirius $$$

Secret messages encoded in the grooves.

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Music Shit / Re: Rap / Hip-Hop 2016

« on: September 01, 2016, 02:15:54 PM »

Mostly agree, yeah. It doesn't include "Turn Up," for example, which is presumably being saved for uh ... " Hy!?UN35 ".

I dunno about the Quan pairing, but maybe. Any case I certainly want Quan to get it together to string together more than one "Flex" or "Type of Way" at a time.

New Staples awaits me. I kinda don't know about dude, but more "Blue Suede"-type stuff would be welcome.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: August 31, 2016, 03:21:03 PM »

Oh I forgot also Dawn Powell: "Wicked Pavilion" -- if you're a sucker for Fitzgeraldian Cedar Tavern nostalgia.

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Music Shit / Re: Rap / Hip-Hop 2016

« on: August 31, 2016, 05:34:16 AM »

I'm pleased Thug has taken a different direction production-wise. But it might be too late? I'll revisit someday.

Someone turned me onto the (very) early Kodak Black, which for some reason I am liking more than just about any of the new record exc. "Vibin."

I have not yet had the patience to attempt Sremm 2. I dipped into the Gucci but it seemed pretty uninspired.  And then just put on the Funkees instead.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: August 31, 2016, 05:25:01 AM »

I read Colson Whitehead: "John Henry Days," which I was told was the most promising of his lot by someone who had just read all of them. It wasn't very good, though.

Still clipping through Henry Green. "Back," is, again, ingenious. First chapter is gloriously sharp, like a prose Louis MacNeice, and then through some amazing conceits it gets much nastier, or at the very least nastier in a different way than the social satire of "Nothing," or "Party Going" -- like a much, much subtler Waugh. Astonishing to me the same character is capable of writing this little black egg; the gem-like, screenplay-ready "Loving;" those two comedies of manners; the wonderfully bittersweet but maybe even slightly earnest "Concluding" (sometimes my favorite); and the almost ostentatiously tricky but somewhat aimless "Living." Next: "Caught."

Meantime reading uh cntrl v Bohumil Hrabal: "Too Loud A Solitude" which is very short, and very enjoyable. Which are qualities appealing to me. Reminds me of Walser. Also, I thought, Flann O'Brien? Read "The Third Policeman," again, by accident, first compare to Hrabal and then inexplicably kept reading it. A fantastic beginning that he sabotages though I can't quite tell which part of it is the problem -- the deliberate "Watt"-style tedium or the footnote subplot. It's strange because it didn't seem to me he had that problem, not really anyway, in either "At Swim" or "Dalkey," despite those being at least as silly and certainly on some occasions painfully late-Joycean. Also for the millionth time the first chapter/story in Beckett: "More Pricks Than Kicks," also for purpose of comparison. Less traction comparison-wise than Walser, but the part where he makes the sandwich never gets old.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: What tv show are you watching and what do you have to say about it ..pt 2

« on: August 31, 2016, 04:57:29 AM »

I liked Stranger Things but -- maybe I wasn't paying attention -- did no one observe that it's just a more shaggy, but really only barely elaborated, Super 8?

I liked The Night Of but it lost lots of purpose and a bit of coherence in the last coupla eps.

Presently mopping up the rest of Deadwood.

Fretfully anticipating the major-label debut of High Maintenance.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: WSJ: A Gift For Music Lovers Who Have It All - A Personal Utility Pole.

« on: August 16, 2016, 12:29:02 PM »

Pre-pole, he says, the vocals didn?t sound as lively as this.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: What tv show are you watching and what do you have to say about it ..pt 2

« on: July 30, 2016, 10:33:27 PM »

It's written by Richard Price. So parts of it are great. The acting is swell and so is the directing. We'll see how it all congeals.

Thus far Price has just been reiterating the English version, almost verbatim.

Gandolfini was supposed to play Turturro's role. But then he died.

I can see that, De Niro was mentioned in the interim, can't see that.

Scene report: DJing at a bar with my laptop and surfing the 'net. So this is what all those assholes were doing all those years. My needles are at home, happy.

Fuck you. What bar?

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Non-Music Shit / Re: What tv show are you watching and what do you have to say about it ..pt 2

« on: July 30, 2016, 03:27:50 PM »

I liked most things about Stranger Things, even the corny shit, but the monster suuuuuuuuuuuuuucks. GTFO with that Clive Barker/Guillermo del Toro shit.

Yeah, totally GDT.

Also agree abt Robot, where the first season had some interesting shots and you could almost ignore the bad parts. Now it's all bad parts.