Hello. Today is Monday. The new PJ Harvey album 'White Chalk' is released in the UK today. I've yet to hear any new material, but I loved the last album 'Uh Huh Her' and I'm in the process of re-discovering her previous records. Might just give this new one a go - will have to see how I feel next time I'm wandering past a record shop. Another new album that I'm looking forward to hearing is 'Situation' by Buck 65 which is due at the end of October. If I had some money I'd be tempted to head up to London to catch Bucks show at Bush Hall tonight in the hope of hearing some new songs. Looks like he's heading out on a major US tour soon, so I guess he wont be hitting the UK again for a while. Oh well. On the subject of live shows in London I must mention the 'Thrill Jockey is 15' Party which is at the Koko in November. It will be running over two days, but it's the second day that interests me, featuring as it does my favourite Detroit electro-poppers Adult., alongside Tortoise, Bobby Conn and KTL. I don't think I'll be able to make it unfortunately, but it does look good.
Next time I have a spare 20 minutes I'll post a review of INLAND EMPIRE - the latest David Lynch movie. If you like a bit of Lynch though I suggest you check out www.dugpa.com which is my favourite source of Lynch news on the web. Bye for now.
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sanguinearts
- Monday, 24. Sep, 2007 @ 12:36:56
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JohnnyBlog
- Tuesday, 25. Sep, 2007 @ 03:23:17
hello saneman,
thought i'd drop in a few words about lynch's latest.
inland empire, a modern mash-derpiece. peppered with treasure from lynch's dark oeuvre - the brunette from mulholland; laura dem's husband, ben harper; dark, lengthy corridor scenes; muted palettes; the coffee and cigarettes; the weird animals and groteque close-ups... - this epic is akin to miniaturizing oneself to paint-fleck size before wandering over a big auerbach after closing.
lynch has with i.e. created cinema on his own terms - including all those listed above. with repetition, multiple characters given one actor, and it seems an intuited screenplay, lynch is with such terms fusing a mistyness; a menace; and most importantly, an overlapping, into conventions of cinematic time and space, (including all the altman-eque multi-narratives hackneyed by bad-hollywood). that it is three hours long is thus irrelevant.
interesting too is lynch's phenomenology: he deals with the psychology of characters in terms of their surface and actions, as would a painter like hopper or manet; or the painter lynch is. there is no fictive mind of the character here as the mind is the cinema itself.
i.e. is then a delicious, disturbing mesh of tarkovsky, faulkner, this mortal coil, watchable only in a small, decrepit art-cinema. (i saw it openinig night at one of seoul's few art cinemas, with only the projectionist in attendance. perfect.) it feels beyond criticism - that point to which all art must get for rothko - and is a honed, perfectly drawn, misty, dark-green-purple, menacing formalist epic. best seen alone, in a seoul mind.
jb -
Wire review of PJ Harvey in September issue was quite good, suggested album might be more folky than Uh Huh Her (which I haven't listened to much recently, but enjoyed - think it was quite noisy, in a good way)