Thursday, August 31, 2006
PICK HIT
Robert Christgau has been given the shove by the Village Voice. Weep, weep. Death of music journalism, blah blah blah. Too bad for whoever inherits his desk, says I.
MORE IN SORROW THAN IN ANGER
My review of Lamb of God's Sacrament is running in Cleveland this week. So's my write-up on this year's Relapse Contamination Tour.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
BACK IN BUSINESS
I haven't posted anything on paperthinwalls.com in a couple of weeks, but today you can read my take on Teeth Of The Hydra, then listen to the MP3 and decide whether or not I'm completely full of shit. (About the band, or my doom-vs.-sludge theorizing; your call.)
BACK TO BUSINESS
Four-day weekends are nice.
Wednesday morning start-the-work-week random 11:
Pig Destroyer, "Verminess"
Agoraphobic Nosebleed, "Hammer Fight"
Arve Henriksen, "Paralell Action"
Bad Brains, "F.V.K."
Cream, "Sleepy Time Time (Live)"
Thelonious Monk, "Japanese Folk Song (Kojo No Tsuki)"
DJ Krush, "Day's End Feat. Kazufumi Kodama (After-Dusk Mix)"
Early Man, "Brain Sick"
Clifford Thornton New Art Ensemble, "15th Floor"
Alice In Chains, "We Die Young"
Miles Davis, "My Funny Valentine"
Wednesday morning start-the-work-week random 11:
Pig Destroyer, "Verminess"
Agoraphobic Nosebleed, "Hammer Fight"
Arve Henriksen, "Paralell Action"
Bad Brains, "F.V.K."
Cream, "Sleepy Time Time (Live)"
Thelonious Monk, "Japanese Folk Song (Kojo No Tsuki)"
DJ Krush, "Day's End Feat. Kazufumi Kodama (After-Dusk Mix)"
Early Man, "Brain Sick"
Clifford Thornton New Art Ensemble, "15th Floor"
Alice In Chains, "We Die Young"
Miles Davis, "My Funny Valentine"
Thursday, August 17, 2006
HOW TO PISS OFF NERDS, BY F.F. COPPOLA
I bought the fancy new double-disc version of Apocalypse Now, which is one of my top five movies ever by anybody (the others, today anyhow: Repo Man, Blade Runner director's cut, The Big Red One posthumous long version, and Road House tied with Day Of The Dead) yesterday. I am disappointed and angered by it, for one very big reason.
The set features both versions of the movie - the 1979 original, a/k/a/ "the good version," and Apocalypse Now Redux, a/k/a "what the fuck were you smoking? Seriously...the French plantation scene? Dude..." - along with an assload of bonus features, including full-length director's commentary tracks for both versions, a lost scene that's extremely damn creepy and dream-haunting, a bunch of other extended scenes in very rough form that wouldn't have added much of anything to either version of the flick and in some cases are pretty inexplicably weird, and a fistful of behind-the-scenes stuff about the sound mixing and the editing and all the stuff only hardcore geeks like me care about, but hardcore geeks like me care about those things a great deal indeed. (Side note: wasn't it great how I used "fistful" and "assload" in the same sentence right there? I know that's the kind of thing that keeps you folks coming back.)
Here's the problem, though: rather than do the sensible thing and put Apocalypse Now on Disc 1 and Apocalypse Now Reallysux on Disc 2, along with however many bonus features could fit, or putting both movies on Disc 1 and all the bonus features on Disc 2, they (and by "they," I mean Francis Ford Coppola, since he had to have signed off on this thing) put "Act 1" of each movie on Disc 1, and "Act 2" on Disc 2.
According to Coppola's logic, Act 1 runs from the beginning through the massacre of the family on the sampan, and Act 2 picks up right after that - basically, Do Lung Bridge to the end.
So now I have to keep my bare-bones AN DVD for when I feel like watching the movie for itself (have I made my disdain for the re-edit clear enough yet?), and I can pull out the extra nerdy party pack when I feel like listening to Marlon Brando read "The Hollow Men" for 15 minutes. Damn you, Coppola!
The set features both versions of the movie - the 1979 original, a/k/a/ "the good version," and Apocalypse Now Redux, a/k/a "what the fuck were you smoking? Seriously...the French plantation scene? Dude..." - along with an assload of bonus features, including full-length director's commentary tracks for both versions, a lost scene that's extremely damn creepy and dream-haunting, a bunch of other extended scenes in very rough form that wouldn't have added much of anything to either version of the flick and in some cases are pretty inexplicably weird, and a fistful of behind-the-scenes stuff about the sound mixing and the editing and all the stuff only hardcore geeks like me care about, but hardcore geeks like me care about those things a great deal indeed. (Side note: wasn't it great how I used "fistful" and "assload" in the same sentence right there? I know that's the kind of thing that keeps you folks coming back.)
Here's the problem, though: rather than do the sensible thing and put Apocalypse Now on Disc 1 and Apocalypse Now Reallysux on Disc 2, along with however many bonus features could fit, or putting both movies on Disc 1 and all the bonus features on Disc 2, they (and by "they," I mean Francis Ford Coppola, since he had to have signed off on this thing) put "Act 1" of each movie on Disc 1, and "Act 2" on Disc 2.
According to Coppola's logic, Act 1 runs from the beginning through the massacre of the family on the sampan, and Act 2 picks up right after that - basically, Do Lung Bridge to the end.
So now I have to keep my bare-bones AN DVD for when I feel like watching the movie for itself (have I made my disdain for the re-edit clear enough yet?), and I can pull out the extra nerdy party pack when I feel like listening to Marlon Brando read "The Hollow Men" for 15 minutes. Damn you, Coppola!
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