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Love: Pearl Jam's Black after a day of T Mobile music, like falling into a pool after hours of blistering sun. Bliss.
19th Nov 2010
Read on TwitterHate: I seem to be surrounded by chirpy, smug bullshit music that should be confined to the attic of T-Mobile or Apple ads. Driving me crazy
19th Nov 2010
Read on TwitterTrailer park: Cowboys & Aliens, Green Lantern
couple of new trailers up at Apple: yeehaw UFO tale Cowboys & Aliens with Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford; and Green Lantern - aliens give Ryan Reynolds a magic ring;
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Love: Just finished DBC Pierre's Lights Out In Wonderland. An epic and profoundly twisted tale of debauchery, highly recommended reading.
18th Nov 2010
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Love: New single from Japandroids. Heavenward Grand Prix., includes cover of PJ Harvey's Shame. This series of singles just gets better.
17th Nov 2010
Read on TwitterLove: Why's lyric "I feel like a loop of the last eight frames of film as a slow motion Lee Harvey Oswald gets shot in the gut and killed"
17th Nov 2010
Read on TwitterThe Beatles on iTunes
Bore me again. The Beatles are finally on iTunes, and as usual it's in their own rip-off style. £10.99 for each album, £17.99 (!) for the double disc greatest hits albums and the white album.
The Rolling Stones meanwhile are happy to stick to the standard prices that everyone else uses. You can even get Beggars Banquet for £4.99 or Hot Rocks for £8.99...
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Muji Apps
With smart phones and iPads starting to replace old-school hardware like the notebook, Muji must have started to question the future of their cute little business. Luckily, they decided to digitalise their offerings and now have a range of iPad Apps out.
Muji Notebook
Muji Calendar
Muji To Go
Muji Apparel App
Muji Notebook could be fun, but at $4 I don't really need to find out. Calendar doesn't suggest it will work any better than Apple's own calendar, but Muji To Go sounds like fun ... and it might just help me to wear the right clothes for the weather. A problem I have never quite conquered.
15th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Paranormal Activity
The most profitable movie of all time. Creepy, but ultimately quite boring horror.
14th Nov 2010
Read more 3 star reviewsThe Ugly Truth
Romcom by numbers with Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl.
14th Nov 2010
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Trailer Park: Battle Los Angeles
Only the use of autotune seems to differentiate the trailer for Battle Los Angeles from Independence Day, but it might just be enough.
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Love: If There Is Something by Roxy Music, this is a perfect song. End of...
12th Nov 2010
Read on TwitterIrma Vep
Intriguing but underdeveloped 90's arthouse, with Maggie Cheung bringing method to her cat burglar role.
12th Nov 2010
Read more 2.5 star reviewsLove: @NoAgeLA in session on Zane Lowe show. Listen now on iPlayer.
11th Nov 2010
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Ad Nauseum: Call of Duty Black Ops
BC and I spent a good amount of time shooting stuff with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and I doubt this update will be any easier to resist. Clever ad too.
All-digital trailer below.
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Love: The new London Sessions by LCD Soundsystem available with iTunes. Great live version of Get Innocuous!
10th Nov 2010
Read on TwitterJuat watched: My Blueberry NIghts. Beautifully shot clone of Chungking Express, but WKW's English debut can't hide dodgy accents. 3 stars
9th Nov 2010
Read on TwitterLove: Pure Violence by Abe Vagoda. Like a lost Cure belter this is a stand out moment on a great album.
9th Nov 2010
Read on TwitterHate: Mumford & Sons. Listening to this album is like having your TV broke on a particularly rubbish episode of Jools Holland. Irritating.
9th Nov 2010
Read on TwitterIn keeping with the current climate of unrest I feel I need to start a semi frequent Love / Hate tweet slot. kind of a 'whats up whats down
9th Nov 2010
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Break it down...
Ever wondered who that was ranting about parking tickets on DJ Shadow's Stem/Long Stem? Turns out it was Murray Roman (not Elliot Gould, surprisingly). A question I finally answered thanks to www.whosampled.com - a database of beats and pieces listing all types of loops and lifts.
"Traffic offences! Bah! Parking tickets!"
9th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince
A presumed adherence to the book makes for a long, slow film.
8th Nov 2010
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Ad Nauseum: Prawns
The land of advertising is a dangerous business. Post-meerkat, a high-concept ad campaign is likely to fall flat on it's face, but drafting in Sgt Elias AKA Willem Dafoe is one way to seal the deal.
Newsflash chimps: Prawns.
8th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
RT @simeonfarrar: Check the Observer mag's Lust List to see arguably our finest creation. Introducing \#KateMouse http://yfrog.com/7e5xnwj
7th Nov 2010
Read on TwitterThe Hangover
Old School meets Weekend At Bernies, thin, but with some fine comedy moments.
6th Nov 2010
Read more 3.5 star reviewsAway We Go
Slight and under-developed road trip dramedy from Sam Mendes.
6th Nov 2010
Read more 2.5 star reviewsRT @TheFieldOffice: The new Vogue \#iPad app is great. Fashion player adds loads of bonus video to the issue's photo stories. \#VogueiPad
5th Nov 2010
Read on TwitterDigging the new @AbeVigoda album 'Crush'. Definitely sounds like a break-out record: http://bit.ly/daeCFP
5th Nov 2010
Read on TwitterBBC One HD is now live ...and its showing me The Apprentices doing fashion. I'm LOLing in HD.
3rd Nov 2010
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Finding the Telepathic Cinema of Manchuria
Great short from David Blair the director of WAX: Or The Discovery Of Television Among The Bees, which still stands as one of the craziest, most original films I've ever seen
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Promo Promo: Neil Young - Angry World
Neil Young's playing with his delay pedal here
2nd Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Been on a photo shoot for 4 days. I can't take much more Nouvelle-Vague-does-New-Order.
2nd Nov 2010
Read on TwitterAlmost really enjoying Thorne on Sky1. Great photography and ambition, but bad country music and uncertain direction letting it down.
1st Nov 2010
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