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Nomi, no you
wonder if this guy was the inspiration for mike myer's sprockets dieter character?
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4th Feb 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Cocteau Twins At Coachella
alright! cocteau twins and bauhaus are reforming for this year's coachella festival in the us… should be some uk cocteau twins dates in the summer too. now if only recently rediscovered chimp towers playlist favourites japan would get it back together…
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31st Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Toy Basquiat
chimp north points out you can also get a jean-michel basquiat doll… and for fans of big-in-the-eighties japanese pop bands yes asia also has The Goodbye back catalogue, and some great j-pop band names (Smap, Mr Children, Glay, Dragon Ash, The Brilliant Green etc)
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basquiat
hello the goodbye
do as infinity
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31st Jan 2005 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Daft Action Men
Daft Punk, which make the club got crazy during the late 90s, appears in 12 inch figure! Size of about 300mm. With special plating back pack made of injection. loaded with RAH301 (improved version).
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30th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
shopping tip in from dr chimp:
"With 14 February looming large, why not treat your loved one to some love beads made by Janet Planet, ex-wife of Van Morrison?"
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30th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
A Scanner Darkly
good thing on the new richard linklater film
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28th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Willy and Mara
Willy Mason's got mara carlyle supporting on some of his UK dates.
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28th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Where The Humans Eat
Willy Mason is currently topping the chimp playlist with his excellent 'Where the Humans Eat' album. Not sure what the fashion police think of this guy, but for me he's certainly more cool than fool.
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27th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Gallo does ATP
Or more importantly, Gallo come to Camber Sands
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27th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Crawl
ep III intro up if you can't wait to see the words "dooku, palpatine and general grievous" in a sentence together…
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This will be the yellow scroll
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27th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Hush Your Beak
chimp-endorsed Mara Carlyle is back for another
HUSH YOUR BEAK
£6/5 conc, 8.30 pm, Monday 31st January, downstairs @ The Highgate
53-79 Highgate Rd NW5
5mins from Kentish Town tube
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26th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Negotiator
(dir. F. Gary Gray)
When a rogue Police negotiator (Sam Jackson) goes off the rails to prove he is being set up, the Police call in another top negotiator (Kevin Spacey) to negotiate with the negotiator.
Not bad action/drama. About as tricky as it was to write the synopsis, but still somehow managing to be predictable.
25th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Read more 2 star reviewsTV Go Home
enjoyed the pinot noir-fest sideways, but the new c4 chris morris/tv go home show nathan barley gets a big fat zero from chimp towers…
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25th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Brick
noir high school thriller getting good sundance reviews… no trailer yet, but sounds intriguing
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24th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Fletch
Fletch is on tonight, itv1 11pm, according to his imdb trivia, he used to be the drummer in "a bad jazz band" called The Leather Canary. That band became Steely Dan.
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18th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Tiny URL
Hey Mr. Sprawling URL, I think you need to get some tinyurl.com action.
17th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Dude's Robe
the dude's dressing gown could be yours for only $1999
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17th Jan 2005 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Chimp Towers
Busy weekend at chimp towers, clearing a data backlog. Watched a couple more episodes of HBO’s excellent The Wire, then The Bourne Supremacy, The Others, Confidence, The Good Thief and most of Eternal Sunshine (again). Also recently watched the Dogtown & Z-Boys doc, and DV-shark-horror flick Open Water. Reviews soon(ish). Maybe.
17th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Pray For Me
chimp75's favourite skater Jason Jessee is finally getting the Dogtown movie biography treatment...
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16th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
FALL on FOUR
caught the upcoming bbc four profile of long-standing chimp 71 heroes the fall, some cool footage in there: playing with michael clark and a giant hamburger, splitting up one version of the band on stage, running through all the 40-odd members, recording their last peel session etc etc...
well worth catching - The Fall: The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E Smith, 10pm, bbc four, friday
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16th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Mini Mac
ah, they really know how to make a nice white box
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11th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
complete and utter independence
some dude is already camping out for epIII…
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10th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Get Wired
The new chimpomatic tv favourite the wire… starts on wednesday, on fx in the uk. another hbo winner. dvd box set out in the states if you're not sky'd up
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8th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
SW3
i know we shouldn't even think about getting excited but still
ah looks like darth lucas has closed this down…
sith hits the fans (link now broken - sorry!)
7th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
Mapping the Underground
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Some alternative Tube maps
South London back on top
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5th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Keep
(dir. Michael Mann)
Possibly the dumbest film to be shown in the Chimp Towers screening room. Nazi fog, Ian McKellan with a floating American accent even though he's supposed to be some Romanian mystic dude, lots of glowing eyes, and Tangerine Dream testing out their new-fangled synths all over the soundtrack. Almost worth watching to the end to see how stupid it gets.
4th Jan 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Best Of 2004
in the spirit of the year of the chimp drawing to a close, here's the first annual instalment of the chimpomatic best albums of the year poll, an extensively researched, highly scientific endeavour…
Chimpomatic's Albums Of 2004
Black Sabbath: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
as a tribute to ozzy's recent bravery
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
one of those albums you can come back to year after year and still hear something new; this year, it's the production and lyrics that's doing it
The Cure: The Cure
Had almost given up on these guys. Produced by the guy that produces Korn etc… (sketchy data - this might not be an official chart show fact)
UPDATE: Fact verified. He also produced At The Drive In.
TV On The Radio: Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
didn't quite live up to the black cocteau twins hype, but still cool to hear someone doing something new
Dani Siciliano: Likes…
insider trading maybe, but this is just awesome
Mara Carlyle: The Lovely
ditto.
GBV: Human Amusements At Hourly Rates
the best of the best ofs since decade. sorts out the patchiness.
Led Zeppelin: Houses Of The Holy
some of the best getting ready to go out rock ever
My Morning Jacket: It Still Moves
thanks to ian c for making us persevere with this one…
Cat Stevens: Mona Bone Jakon
one of those albums you come back to and realise it's even better than you remember.
Bob Dylan: Desire
with some live bob sightings fitted in this year thanks to dr b, this has been a constant in 2004. just edging out love and theft; sugar baby's got to be one of the best things he's ever done... (ie, it makes it into the dylan alltime top 100)
Tindersticks: Donkeys 92-97
anyone that does a good Pavement cover is alright in our book
Hall & Oates: The Very Best Of
great drum machines, surprising to find how many are etched in your brain
John Martyn: Solid Air
one of those classics you must buy that we finally got round to buying.
28th Dec 2004 - Add Comment - Tweet
Bush Pod
> >From recent 'People' magazine:
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>"Do you own an iPOD?"
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>President Bush: "I do. I use it mainly for when I go out & ride my
>mountain bike. I crank it up. Van Morrison & Linda Gail Lewis are on
>there (You Win Again). It's a great album, by the way".
thanks to dr chimp for pointing out that he picks the one album that's *so* bad that it's the only Van album to be deleted
22nd Dec 2004 - Add Comment - Tweet
sin city
link up for a sin city trailer; robert rodriguez's adaptation of the super noir frank miller graphic novel series - mrs prawn saw a good chunk in LA recently, said it was v cool
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Very hard-boiled trailer
Very hard-boiled posters
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21st Dec 2004 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Don
more from the "we'll believe it when we see it" file: imdb's got a listing for a version of don de lillo's white noise (not to be confused with the other film that's nicked the name)
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20th Dec 2004 - Add Comment - Tweet