Yeah that definitely sounds like my experience with Berberian Sound System. I'd not heard of Black Rainbow but after investigating I'll definitely be on the look out for that one.

I finally got to see The Duke of Burgundy and, wow, that's an amazing film. I liked Bereberian Sound System well enough but felt like it got slightly lost along the way. Not so for this movie where everything, even the more surreal scenes, felt like they were tightly in service to a story that had a lot to say. The…

It was Mother's day in the good old U of K today and I got to cook a meal for 4 Mothers. That'd be my Mama, my Baby Mama, My Baby mama in law and my Grand Baby Mama (my daughter). Then i got caught up on an American show that I really like, Broad City, and the first two episodes of this third season were really…

Our music is red-with purple flashes

I have to say that I find their all out country boogie mode less interesting than the shape shifting band that they were when dropping disparate gems like Home Together and Get Back To Love but I'm open to convincing again.

As NonUnionMexicanEquivalent mentioned below the new Elzhi record arrives this month. It's a crowd funded joint* that's faced a lot of trials and tribulations in getting to market but I'm fully confident that it's going to be worth the wait because the kid is straight up one of the most talented and affecting M.Cs…

I know this because I only had Saturation on (orange) vinyl originally and the first time I heard this track was on the 12" single of Sister Havana and that was what it was credited as. And of course, holy shit that was twenty three years ago!

Urge Overkill's Operation Kissinger from their Saturation album is a great, deranged glam stomper. And Super Furry Animals' Citizen's Band from Guerilla is pretty great as well.

Nell Zink's Mislaid, oh my gosh! Everyday time I start doubting that this book really is that good I read on and, hells yeah, it really is that good.

I feel blessed that the years of my children growing up coincided with a golden age in kid's cinema. So I'm delighted that I now have grandchildren to accompany me to the movies and I can check out more recently released children's films again. This morning was The Good Dinosaur which, to my surprise, I thought was…

Andy Serkis in a mocap suit, you can fill in my monkey features later.

When Prime Minister Pete Nice (not actually a prime minister) was beefing with MC Serch after the break up of 3'rd Bass (after two pretty fucking great long players) he featured a phone message on his album Dust to Dust (another pretty great long player) which, I believe, was meant to be from Serch's Mum but was…

How to market a Hip Hop album:-
a) Choose the hottest track or two and release them on 12" with a remix from Pete Rock or DJ Premier or, if your budget doesn't run to that, go for Large Professor, Buckwild, the SD50s, Diamond D or The Beatminerz because the chances are it'll still be super fresh!*
b) Don't let Jay…

Feb 14'th is also my birthday, my postman thinks I'm a total player and he's right I am.

Roseanna the first book of the Martin Beck detective series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö which is great and very funny and simultaneously I'm reading Nell Zink's Mislaid which I must confess I didn't think I'd like from reading the blurb but has turned out to be pretty bloody great and, again, very funny.

Lindisfarne~Lady Eleanor
Open Mike Eagle & Paul White~Check To Check
Sly & The Family Stone~Let Me Have It All
Portishead~Glory Box / Scorn
Ashford & Simpson~Maybe I Can Find It
Thee Oh Sees~Fortress
Diana Ross~Love Hangover
Yusef Lateef~Plum Blossom
Little Simz~Kiki's Future (ft. Kent Jamz)
Tortoise~Yonder Blue

Barry White~Theme From Together Brothers
Flora Purim~Stories To Tell
D'Angelo & The Vanguard~Back To The Future (Part I)
Big Youth~Dread In A Babylon
Return To Forever feat Chick Corea~Where Have I Loved You Before / The Shadow Of Lo
Gladys Knight & The Pips~Help Me Make It Through The Night
Main Source~Lookin' At The Front…

Ugh, what a parasite. I actually think Giamatti dialled down the creepy if anything. Thanks for the clip.

My friends will be relieved that they can finally talk about The Force Awakens in my company after my youngest daughter and I took our late passes to the cinema to see it (I'd been waiting for pay day). For what it's worth I thought it was just spectacularly well executed and great fun.
I'm a huge Beach Boys fan, if…

That's some synchronicity there, I was only listening to Aretha's This Girl's In Love With You yesterday and burning some tracks from the vinyl on to the computer and was blown away all over again by Allman's work on that record, especially It Ain't Fair and Call Me.