Category Archives: Culture / Music / Big City Stuff

Immigrant Song

Okay, hyped or not, everybody cares about this movie.

I think the original film is better, but it doesn’t come with this incredible title sequence. And oh, OH, NO BIG DEAL, JUST TRENT REZNOR AND KAREN O FINALLY WORKED TOGETHER ON A SONG. It’s forgivable that it’s a Led Zeppelin song too (just go with it).

Blur did the effects for this sequence, led by creative director Tim Miller.

Here’s a sweet article and interview with Tim Miller on io9

The books seem like a waste of time, but the Swedish films are pretty damn entertaining. David Fincher’s films are always pretty, so those are worth a look.

Hard Wear

I love hardware.

BOND Hardware makes jewelry based on my favorite aisle at the hardware store.

Thanks BleachBlack, as always.

 

Eleventy-One

1. I think in list form often,

2. Music is the only constant comfort in my life,

3. Number 2 seems like an dramatized version of the truth; it could be.

TOP 30 (Seriously?) ALBUMS OF 2011:

30. Cults – CULTS

29. Washed Out – WITHIN AND WITHOUT

28. Liturgy – AESTHETICA

27. This Will Destroy You – TUNNEL BLANKET

26. Skeletonwitch – BEYOND THE PERMAFROST

25. Chelsea Wolfe – APOKALYPSIS

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Summerholidays vs. Punkroutine

Holy shit I kind of absolutely NEED THIS SHIRT.

By the way, as if you didn’t already know: Refused are reuniting.

I kind of choked up when I read “See you in the pit”!

ATDI is reuniting too, but they deserve a post of their own.

We said goodbye to 2011 by going to the American Nightmare reunion show in LA too. Also deserves its own post – but in the meantime, check out this guy’s Flickr for photos of American Nightmare, Trash Talk, Touché Amoré and Weekends.

I’m Yours

Busy! That’s the place to be.

E&O is all mine and my dearest, but I also started contributing to Los Angeles I’m Yours, a city-specific arts and culture blog run by Kyle and Bobby from The Fox Is Black, because collaborating is GREAT, kids!

I love Los Angeles, I am unabashedly a native, and I’m grateful to contribute to a blog that shows off the great things about this city.

Here’s what I have posted at LAIY so far:

Hedi Slimane at MOCA Pacific Design Center

Gather in Silverlake

Oldfield’s Liquor Room in West LA

All photos by Justin Sullivan

Enjoy!

It Hirst

Myths, Monsters & Legends

Soon.

Boofin’ Up

You know me? I’m really into um, teddy bears.

Like this guy.

And this internet famous, moody British chap.

So this Weetabix cereal commercial makes me really, really stoked. Stoked on life. Stoked on bears. And dancing. And cereal. And commercial production.

The ending with the last bear made my face go like >_< then O_O

SO CUUUTE!

Here’s the awesome behind-the-scenes video for the commercial. Bear costumes what! No Furry jokes plz! Pedobear free-zone too, gawd, gosh, srsly.

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Thernody for the Victims of Hiroshima

Aphex Twin

“Thernody for the Victims of Hiroshima” remix

Performed at the European Culture Congress, Wroclaw, Poland, 2011

Original composition by Krzysztof Penderecki

The video and sound qualities are shit, but those didn’t stop me from geeking out hardcore. This original piece by Penderecki is famous for a lot of reasons, but also because it showed up in films like THE SHINING and CHILDREN OF MEN.

I just wish I was there to witness Richard D’s remix and to get a better look at the video art going on behind the musicians.

Painting The Roses Red

Alice In Wonderland, 1951

Sometimes I get this song stuck in my head when I’m working in art department.

It’s an accurate assessment of what we do.

#ArtDept

However You Want Me, However You Need Me

BELLY, Dir. Hype Williams, 1998

I was on turntable.fm today and dropped one of my favorite 90s songs, Soul II Soul’s “Back To Life” and immediately remembered this film.

BELLY has one of the best introduction sequences ever. Elements at hand include: an incredible, minimal remix of the aforementioned song, black lights, Nas, DMX, strippers, a strip club, money, strobe lights, armed robbery, NEON EYEBALLS, Malik Hassan Sayeed’s cinematography, and Hype Williams’ styling at its zenith. It seems like every hip hop music video tried to copy this sequence afterward.

I wish there was a better-quality video of this segment out there.

The rest of the film is pretty good.

(Big ups to an old friend who showed me this clip once upon a time, back in the day, however that goes)

Oh, ooh, and there’s T-Boz on that TLC tip. Miss you girl.