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Mercury 2010
another list of stuff:
Dizzee Rascal – Tongue N' Cheek (4/1)
The xx – xx (4/1)
Paul Weller – Wake Up the Nation (6/1)
Corinne Bailey Rae – The Sea (6/1)
Mumford and Sons – Sigh No More (6/1)
Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can (6/1)
Foals – Total Life Forever (8/1)
Wild Beasts – Two Dancers (8/1)
Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions (8/1)
Villagers – Becoming a Jackal (10/1)
Kit Downes Trio – Golden (10/1)
I Am Kloot – Sky at Night (10/1)
21st Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Taliban Chimp
According to various news sources, the Taliban have been 'training' monkeys to defend Afghanistan against the Infidel invaders.
Via New York Times
"No invader has ever conquered Afghanistan, and now we know why. The monkeys will not allow it."
20th Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
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The reality distortion field is strong with this one
Bonkers video from Taiwan documenting Steve Jobs' descent to the Dark Side. It's in Chinese, with Chinese subtitles ....but I'm guessing a dubbed version would make even less sense.
19th Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Town
Looking forward to the Don Draper vs Ben Affleck crime drama The Town, directed by Affleck himself.
16th Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Major Minority Report News
Trials have begun in Tokyo of digital billboards that use facial recognition to target specific adverts at passers-by.... Wonder what I'm in need of buying?
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16th Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Pre-conception
In an increasingly common move, there's a free INCEPTION prequel comic online - which adds some non-essential context to the events in the excellent movie (review here). Head here to read/watch/download.
Via AICN
15th Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP Harvey Pekar
RIP underground comics legend Harvey Pekar 1939-2010
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13th Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
I Highly Recommend
like this idea: "A site where musicians recommend new music to new listeners. As simple as that.." Steve "Sonic Youth" Shelley, Elf Power, Tennis, Everything Everything up so far
6th Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Coral - 1000 Years
The Coral rocking the desert/astronaut look in their new video
5th Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Never Ask a Graphic Designer To Help If You've Lost Your Cat
just in case you've missed this latest online cats meme, here's I Am Not A Big Fan Of Cats
5th Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Let Me In
Trailer up for Let Me In, the US remake of Swedish-Indie-Vampire-Hit Let The Right One In. It's directed by the guy that made Cloverfield - and looks pretty good, though this early review over at AICN might suggest otherwise...
2nd Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Big Boi For Dummies
Big Boi from Outkast is back in action this month, with new album "Sir Lucious Left Foot ...The Son Of Chico Dusty" ready to pick up a grammy for best album title if nothing else.
As a refresher, Big Boi has worked with DJ X-Rated and DJ Esco to compile a mix-tape of previous work - which you can download for free right now over at bigboi.com
2nd Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
How Lego Is Built
Tedious news from Aint-It-cool about the development of a possible Lego movie, but worth noting for highlighting this awesome video of how Lego is made. And how fast Lego is made.
2nd Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Diss Is It
"I don't like your jerk-off name, I don't like your jerk-off face, I don't like your jerk-off behaviour ....and I don't like you, jerk-off."
Hardly an editing masterpiece, but pretty sure I've seen at least 98 of the movies featuring the 100 best insults of all time.
Via Defamer
1st Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Not Band of Horses
Bizarre cover, even more bizare (NSFW) video. Cee-lo does Band of Horses.
1st Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Lost: The New Man In Charge
more details on the bonus materials coming on the Lost S6 boxset - 11 and a half mins of Hurley and Ben running the island after Jack. Dharma snacks for all!
1st Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Matador at 21 = GBV Reunion
Matador Records are celebrating their 21st birthday in style - with a 3 day blow out at The Palms in Las Vegas. Highlights include a Guided By Voices reunion ("The classic '93-'96 line up"), Superchunk, Spoon, Chavez and Kurt Vile.
I'll be honeymooning in LA at the time, so will see if I can trick Mrs CSF into attending.
Update: The tour is expanded, and GBV will be playing in LA. Too tempting.
30th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Sour
It's won some best video awards and had 2M+ hits on YouTube. Check out the Gondry-esque maniacal organisation of SOUR '日々ã®éŸ³è‰² (Hibi no neiro)'.
Via Sound Theory
29th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Radiohead Secret Glastonbury Show
Thom and Johnny G showed up for an acoustic(ish) set at this year's Glastonbury - great run of Weird Fishes / Pyramid Song / Karma Police etc - and Vampire Weekend's Rostam filmed some of it from his stage view. Like the McEnroe headband
(via Pitchfork)
29th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Mr. Fusion
OK, it's not quite on a par with Doc Brown's banana skin eating Mr. Fusion, but Gucci web-developer-turned-physicist Mark Suppes has built his own fusion reactor in a workshop in Brooklyn.
Via BBC
29th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Big Picture: Korean War
It's 60 years since the war started in Korea. The Big Picture has a round up.
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24th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Black Mountain - Old Fangs
Black Mountain's psyco-delic promo for Old Fangs is not all together surprising. Nice rims.
23rd Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Roots feat. Jim James
Promo up the The Roots re-imagining of Monster of Folk's Dear God. Jim James goes to the big city.
23rd Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Mad Men 4
Poster out for Mad Men Season 4, which premieres July 25th in the US. Probably not until 2011 on the BBC....
23rd Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Green Hornet
Michel Gondry + Seth Rogen = The Green Hornet. What coud possible go wrong? See for yourself here.
Via AICN
22nd Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
The American
Loving the poster for the new George Clooney/Anton Corbijn movie The American. Check out the first trailer here if you haven't done so already...
22nd Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Like: The Social Network
Not sure what to make of The Social Network. Seems like a strange premise for a movie - but there must be something to it for David Fincher to be attracted.
Take a look: www.thesocialnetwork-movie.com
Via AICN
22nd Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trainspotting
Check out this amazing real-time map of London tube trains. It takes a while to load, however, when it does the inner geek does a little dance.
21st Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Geography of LOST
Nice framed prints available from Image Kind, mapping the geography of the Lost island. Not sure you could find your way home with it, but it might look nice on the wall of your geek den.
Via Uncrate
21st Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Chimpomatic Vuvuzela
have you been wondering during this world cup what your favourite chimp/space/rock/tech site would look like if it was powered by vuvuzelas? wonder no more!
21st Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Flake
It might not sell a lot of chocolate, but it caught my attention. Sure, Cadbury's new ad from agency Fallon is a total re-make of the film from Alexander McQueen's A/W 2006 catwalk show, which projected a Kate Moss version of the film in front of the audience - but it's made by the same director (Baillie Walsh), so it gets a pass.
18th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Solitary Man
Trailer up for Michael Douglas' once-a-decade come back movie - Solitary Man. With added Danny DeVito.
18th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Paint The Town Lavender
Fairly epic ad up from Dulux, who've kindly painted your neighbourhood a puke inducing shade.
17th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
More Robots: Real Steel
new robot boxing film with Hugh Jackman - Real Steel
17th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Spike Jonze: I'm Here
We missed the boat on this, but Spike Jonze has had a new short online since March. I'm Herecan be viewed in it's entirety over at the Absolutly-branded website: www.imheremovie.com
It's a love story, with robots. Trailer up top.
16th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill
one of the mellower numbers on the new Gorillaz album; nice to see Lou Reed underwater in a submarine
16th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Somewhere
The making-of featured in Girls of the Playboy Mansion months ago (apparently. I wouldn't know), but now there's a trailer for Somewhere - Sofia Coppola's follow-up to the mis-firing Marie Antoniette, and racist-but-thoroughly-entertaining Lost In Translation. In HD on Youtube and over at Apple.
Hanging out in hotels makes things look nice.
Via The Guardian
15th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Muji Village!
coming to Japan: the chance to take micro-living one step further at Muji Village
15th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
More Mountain Wilderness
More album and tour info from Black Mountain...
Wilderness Heart will be released by Jagjaguwar on September 13th. Tracklist for the 10 track album will consist of:
1. The Hair Song
2. Old Fangs (download it here)
3. Radiant Hearts
4. Rollercoaster
5. Let Spirits Ride
6. Buried By The Blues
7. The Way To Gone
8. Wilderness Heart
9. The Space Of Your Mind
10. Sadie
The band are playing two low-key shows at The Lexington in July, followed by some festivals and now another London show at Shepherd's Bush in October.
JULY
11th - Kinross - T in the Park Festival
13th - London - Lexington - SOLD OUT
14th - London - Lexington - SOLD OUT
16th - Southwold - Latitude Festiva
SEPTEMBER
4th - Oxford - Academy
5th - Birmingham - Hare & Hounds
8th - Brighton - Concorde
10th - Isle of Wight - Bestival
11th - Larmer Tree Gardens, Dorset - End Of The Road Festival
12th - Leeds - TJs Woodhouse Club
14th - Glasgow - Oran Mor
15th - Manchester - Academy 3
16th - Nottingham |Rescue Rooms
OCTOBER
7th - London - Shepherds Bush Empire
Support will come from the mighty Ladyhawk for the Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester and Nottingham shows. Tickets for the headline shows are a very reasonable £11, except for a still reasonable £14 in London. Tickets available here.
15th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Freedom From Porn: The Movie
There seems to be quite an Apple backlash brewing recently, as Apple overtake Microsoft's spot at the top in more ways than one. While the closed eco-system of the iPhone/Pad/Pod certainly has its advantages, it's also a similar situation to that which led to Microsoft's dominating share of the browser wars - which were followed by years of anti-trust investigation and Internet Explorer's current position as bastard child of the evolving internet.
Steve Jobs' position on porn has been made quite clear, and some people don't like it.
14th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Eat My Gold!
Our old pal Prof. Poliakof (see here for his periodic table of videos) is back in action, this time disputing the claimed solid-gold quality of the FIFA World Cup. FIFA claim the cup is solid gold and weighs 6.175 kg, but by the professor's calculations it would weigh at least 70kg if it was actually 'solid' gold.
Via BBC
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14th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Free-zer
It's a last ditch attempt, but soccer nut Rivers Cuomo of Weezer has recorded the USA's World Cup Anthem. Free on iTunes in the USA. 59p here. Bah!
12th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
LOOFER!
Attention slackers! All six episodes of the excellent Luther are on BBC iPlayer for a limited time. Download now and get watching. Stringer Bell's best performance since The Wire (Season 3).
12th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Gooooooooooooooal!
if you're after an all-singing, all-dancing megatron world cup chart thing, check this Spanish website from Marca.com. The Guardian's Twitter match replays are pretty funny too
12th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Shanghai
New 1930s-set drama w John Cusack, Gong Li, Chow Yun Fat.
11th Jun 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Venison
The Strokes played a secret gig at Dingwalls last night under the pseudonym of 'Venison', as they warm up for The Isle of Wight Festival. It sold out in minutes. NME have the details, including what they were wearing, because that matters apparently. Photos here.
11th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet