Charm of the Highway Strip FTW! ritch:
It's quite good, not as good as Get Lost or 69 though I've only given it a few listens. Seems like it'll grow on me.Quoting Horbgorbler (view post)
X-Mas present:
Purchase:
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And everybody wants to be special here
They call your name out loud and clear
Here comes a regular
Call out your name
Here comes a regular
Am I the only one here today?
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
"Listen man, it might be hard to understand, but
Don't mourn the dead,
Celebrate the life they gave"
- Kashmir "Seraphina"
I decided that I'd finally give BaS a thorough listen. I hope to be rewarded aurally for this decision...
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
[+] closer to next rating / [-] closer to previous rating
- Dark (S3) ✦✦✦½ [-]
- Fall (Mann, 2022) ✦✦✦½ [-]
- Ms. Marvel (S1) ✦½ [+]
- Dark (S2) ✦✦✦✦
- Moon Knight (S1) ✦✦½ [-]
- Get Carter (Hodges, 1971) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- Prey (Trachtenberg, 2022) ✦✦✦ [-]
- Black Bird (S1) ✦✦✦✦
- Better Call Saul (S6) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- Halo (S1) ✦✦✦ [-]
- Slow Horses (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- H4Z4RD (Govaerts, 2022/BE) ✦✦½ [-]
- Gangs of London (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- We Own This City (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- Thor: Love and Thunder (Waititi, 2022) ✦✦ [+]
Okay, the first disk of this two-CD release is pretty meh - middling prog-trance, that overly relies on the genre's cliches. A couple of songs are pretty good, but for the most part, we've heard everything on this CD done before and a lot better from the likes of Paul Oakenfold (who's not that great himself, IMO) & Hybrid (who set a pretty high standard, to the detriment of artists such as these), among others.
As for the second CD (all remixes), I haven't listened to it yet, and I'm not in any particular hurry to, either.
This CD, on the other-hand, was love at first listen. I listened to it three-times through on the first try. This album will definitely be added to my "Best Albums of 2007 That I Bought In 2008" list.
I can't get the refrain "Chemicals! Chemicals Chemica-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-hals!" outa my head. And furthermore, I don't want to.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
Only $12.00, which I consider to be somewhat cheap for a CD. I actually bought it for track 9, Jigsaw Falling Into Place. I saw the video for it on VH1 a couple of times and loved it.
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And everybody wants to be special here
They call your name out loud and clear
Here comes a regular
Call out your name
Here comes a regular
Am I the only one here today?
Two ultra-rare vinyls. Set me back $65, but I've vanted these since they were released about 8 years ago.
Klart Dér - Elektriske Fyrfadslys album.
Klart Dér - Born 2 Rock 12" EP.
"Listen man, it might be hard to understand, but
Don't mourn the dead,
Celebrate the life they gave"
- Kashmir "Seraphina"
Thought I'd do a haul from Amazon...
Nina Nastasia - You Follow Me
Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss
Sonic Youth - Sister
Seaworthy - The Ride
Marissa Nadler - Song III: Bird on the Water
I'm Not a Gun - Our Lives on Wednesdays
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
Heretic Pride
vinyl of course
In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo, 2021) - 6
Introduction (Hong Sang-soo, 2021) - 6
True Mothers (Naomi Kawase, 2020) - 8
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy - (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021) - 7
Wife of a Spy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2020) - 7
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion, 2021) - 9
Don't Look Up - (Adam McKay, 2021) - 4
The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski, 2021) - 4.5
Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven, 2021) - 7
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I am pretty happy about the Things Fall Apart cover, a woman brought in a used copy with that cover, I think I remember reading that it is the most rare of the covers.
Albums I've bought in 2008:
And on Monday I'll be buying this one:
they were 2 for $3, so I indulged myself..
Arrebato (Zulueta - '80) 89
Elegia (Huszarik - '65) 95
Szinbad (Huszarik - '71) 77
Temptation of St. Tony (Ounpuu - '09) 80
Marguriete of the Night (Autant-Lara - '55)62
Kadin Hamlet (Erksan - '77) 52
Passion of a Darkly Noon (Ridley - '94) 79
Endangered Species (Rudolph - '82) 65
Made in Heaven (Rudolph -'87) 20
High Hopes (Leigh - '88) 74
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