came across 'the first minute of a new day' in a used CD bin yesterday… it was fun, funky and urgent… a perfect antidote to all the Merzbow I've been listening to…

Breathtaking! I demand more, Georgy!

that coward robert ford?

yes- Alex and his roommate.

…or takeru kobayashi…

I certainly don't want every film to be like Void, I'm satisfied with one. I do want every filmmaker to take the same risks visually, conceptually; I am also not dazzled by textbook cinema or celebrity costume parties, but I can understand their thrall over the malnourished.

yup- I agree!
Perhaps my taste in film excludes the polished work, and both films (swan and grit) are certainly the product of big studio process… and I think they suffer for that. It's unfortunate that some feel that the cinematic experience needs a seamless narrative, or a narrative at all, and judge a film like…

sorry you got trolled Oats, but I needed to sleep… anyway, I was using the term, oh, let's say poetically, as in a kind of indiscriminate mush of what was once proud timber… something that came out of a mill, basically. I do know the genre 'Pulp', and its tropes, and I don't think much is at play in either movie BUT…

yes! I was duped into both Black Swan and True Grit… both are expensive, pulp garbage. Enter the Void, on the other hand, is… um, well… I've never taken DMT and I like this movie very much, is what I'm trying to say.

I started with 'Last Date', oddly, but mainly that was the only Dolphy record I could get my hands on… for many years, until CD re-issues came out. It was actually a good introduction: dense and fully abstract-bop, as well as having that spooky cavernous sound… and Dolphy's ghostly last words to the audience. Also an…

… the charge of the light brigade…

@Reg Gonz

yes, well… that breakdown isn't happening fast enough for me…

I'll be there, man.

many, many albums and stylistic eras to choose from…
standouts off the top of my head include

The Ex are always difficult…
I hope you continue to listen to the album, Heller…

(dives behind the couch)

Shadze of White
Stars of David
Wolf Band Name
and
Crassics (Crass-string quartet cover band)

Nilus- spot on. Unfortunately, you can't finish saying: "Percussionist" without being drowned out by laughter. Ah, well, fuck 'em. Zorn has two drummers AND a percussionist, and they destroy.

what films are the article's pix from? I've got to re-view Dracula and Frankenstein now, and possibly paint a portrait of Udo Kier…