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Thursday, April 10, 2008

The Side Street Project: An Update To My ‘Best Of 2006′ Entry

Posted by frenchie under Music, Nightlife/Hot Spots, Television
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Last year when I wrote about my best concerts of 2006, high up on the list at number 5 was a triple bill of Emm Gryner, Buck 65 and Holy Fuck @ Cherry Beach Studios. The show was being taped for a TV show/DVD called The Side Street Project that has yet to be released. It was a mind blowing concert that I still proudly gloat about attending to this day.

A long while after writing the article, one of the producers of the show commented on the page and contacted me via email. Since then they have kept me updated on going-ons regarding the taping. Recently they sent me over some links to videos from that night posted on YouTube.

Here for your enjoyment I give to you some examples of why I loved the show so much:

Holy Fuck performing “Lovely Allen:”


Holy Fuck, Buck 65 and Emm Gryner performing a really cool and fresh version of Deff Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me:”

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

The Spanish Swede & His Colourful Bouncing Balls

Posted by frenchie under Music, Television
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A while back, I was browsing reviews on the indie music bible site Pitchfork, when I noticed a list of the albums surfers search for most often. Up at the top was an album called Veneer by some bloke named José González. I ignored this. After several months of constant Pitchforking, I saw that this José González fellow was still number one in searches, I decided to investigate.

As it turns out his album Veneer was released in 2003; curious that an album was still being investigated by so many “I only listen to the newest shit” music nerds some 4 years later. The review for the album gave it a 7 out of 10 and explained that although the album was released in oh three in Europe, it took several years before it got noticed and subsequently re-released in North America in 2006.

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Monday, February 25, 2008

“Live” Blogging the Oscars

Posted by Beal under Internet, Media, Movies, Television
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Pun!I was using the Internet the other day and I noticed that every single website was gearing up to hatefully liveblog the Academy Awards. Seemed to me that if every single website was doing it, there must be a good reason, and it didn’t take long for me to figure that reason out: it’s really, really easy. Cause for hate abounds, and what you write — sorry, what you blog — doesn’t even have to be good, because people know you’re not getting to edit yourself, and that as-it-happens edge is enough to keep it compelling. They feel a connection with the writer — “Hey, I’m watching that right now too! I thought that dress was ugly/speech was lame/win was undeserved too!” Just keep it peppy, add in a swear or two, and crank the hate up to 11.

That last part will not be hard. This is gonna be hell.

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Monday, February 25, 2008

And Now For Something Completely Michael Palin…

Posted by graemepowell under Books, Television
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The All important BOOK coverWhen I first discovered Monty Python in my teens, the show was already 25 years old. I had no idea that it had become passé to quote old Python sketches, and that endlessly repeating “we are the knights who say Ni!” could very quickly end parties. While I don’t quote the Argument sketch ad nauseam anymore, my reverence for Python still runs very deep. So it was with great pleasure that I set out to read Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years, Michael Palin’s personal diaries about his life during the rise of Monty Python.

In the late 1960s, just as Python was rearing its not-at-all-ugly, comic head, Palin decided to keep a daily journal. Journals are always easy things to begin; maintaining them over a lifetime, however, requires a great deal of willpower. But thankfully for us all, Palin stuck to it. Perhaps it was willpower, or perhaps it was all part of some grandiose plan to have material ready to publish when he was older. I mean let’s face it, all he had to do was possess a bit of talent, help found one of the most highly-respected comedy troupes ever, and maintain minor celebrity status for over 30 years. How hard can that be?

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Monday, December 31, 2007

2007 Was . . .

Posted by graemepowell under Movies, Music, Television
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Posted by: Sarah P

Baby Zoe. . . the year of a great beginning. Like all new moms, the birth of my child was physically the most traumatic, and emotionally the most tremendous moment of my life. Nothing can touch it. For all those out there who don’t have kids, I’m sorry to be so predictable and prosaic, but if you are ever graced with the birth of your own child, you’ll understand. Hey, maybe you already do.

But this is not a blog about family life (far from it). Instead it’s about culture. Mostly male-oriented culture, let’s be honest, and I’m not male (also far from it). So while the baby monitor static clicks away in the background, I’m going to get in a few cultural highlights of my year that I doubt anyone else here would bother with. (more…)

 

Monday, December 24, 2007

Top Things

Posted by Beal under Books, Comics/Graphic Novels, Movies, Music, Television, Video Games
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Is it ten already? This is some good shit.Seems I haven’t really done much for this page in the last little while. Sure, my various vanity projects are burning up the Internet, but that’s no excuse for neglecting the first-born, is it? But the thing is, I really don’t want to spend too much time or energy writing something up for The Culturatti Proper. I need some kind of nothing to write about, something that won’t require any thought, something that could probably be dictated into my computer microphone in under half an hour and converted through one of those speech-to-text programs which have made the lazy into the most productive members of our society. But there’s no kind of written article that requires absolutely no effort to produce, is there?

Oh, but there is. The list. And here we are, breaknecking towards the end of ‘07 . It’s December: list season is upon us. (more…)

 

Monday, December 3, 2007

When Creative People Protest

Posted by graemepowell under Movies, Television
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You find the rest of them at Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily, a great little site for getting the latest news on the WGA strike. llewopemearg

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Thursday, October 4, 2007

The Chris Cunningham Collection

Posted by James17930 under Music, Television
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It’s often the case with the entertainment media and the blogosphere: someone gets a lot of attention for a little while — people rave about the person — and then they inevitably fall victim to ‘what have you done for me lately’ syndrome and tend to get forgotten or ignored, or at least put on up on a shelf in and rarely if ever taken down again.

Chris Cunningham seems to be one of these guys. He made several acclaimed and groundbreaking music videos during the late nineties, people raved about him, he had a ‘Best of’ DVD collection released in 2005 . . . and then he just kind of fell off the earth. He’s made two videos for Aphex Twin in the last two years and that’s it.

Partly because of this lack of recent work, but also partly because everyone just got sick and tired of hearing about how good he was, you never really hear talk of him anymore. So I thought I’d talk about him again. Well, not really talk about him — more like give you a quick and easy fill of his stuff and let you remember why he garnered all that acclaim in the first place.

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Monday, August 27, 2007

Joss Whedon @ A.V. Club

Posted by James17930 under Articles/Magazines, Comics/Graphic Novels, Internet, Movies, Television
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Just came across a great interview with Joss Whedon at A.V. Club.  He provides a current accounting of all his various on-the-go projects and talks about other issues past and present.  Watch for spoilers though.03971semaj

 

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Maybe Better Than The Real Thing

Posted by graemepowell under Television
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By: Sarah Powell

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Okay, I’ll come out and say it. I love all things British. I love British accents. I am a complete anglo-phile, and my England includes the BBC. It’s not that I indiscriminately applaud everything the Brits do on telly and on the radio, but chances are, if they try at something, they are way more likely to succeed than their North American counterparts. Not that that’s saying much. Be it historical, dramatic, or goofy fun (a.k.a. Doctor Who), the BBC just knows what it’s doing. (more…)

 

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