Reading

feeds@yuku.com (chrome3D) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:48:15 PST

I have been reading some Haruki Murakami books lately. Kafka On The Shore and Wild Sheep Chase. Some short strories too. He has his own surreal style. Quite japanese stuff, I guess, but in a way that I can somehow understand. Got to get some more from him soon.

THE CHURCH should play DARK SOULS

feeds@yuku.com (Boriah) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:23:29 PST

Best videogame ever. MASTERPIECE.

i write like

feeds@yuku.com (fandorin) — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:46:16 PST

Check this out...

iwl.me

I checked some Church lyrics. Unguarded Moment is Stephen King, UTMW is James Joyce. SK's latest blog was JK Rowling and my last HW post was Dan Fucking Brown.

The committee to keep music evil forum

feeds@yuku.com (apples) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:06:31 PST

It was at this forum that I was reminded of The Church and just how great a band they are.

http://keepmusicevil.freeforums.org/

Frank Frazetta dead at 82

feeds@yuku.com (Severian) — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:19:42 PST

Very sad news. One of my biggest idols as a teenager obsessed with fantasy, science fiction and horror art. I remember spending countless hours trying to copy the sword wielding barbarians, unbelievably hot women, and frighteningly REAL monsters that he brought to life on hundreds of magazine and paperback book covers.

Joey

New Cult Classics

feeds@yuku.com (thetawave) — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:47:36 PST

I just finished watching Men Who Stare At Goats for the second time in a week.

I think it's brilliant and prompts me to consider it a cult classic. I felt the same about Pineapple Express. With that in mind, name your five contemporary Cult Classic Films (Last Decade). In addition to the aforementioned, may I suggest...

The Life Acquatic with Steve Zissou, directed by Wes Anderson (or anything else by Wes Anderson)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, screenplay by post-post-post modern badass Charlie Kaufman

Children of Men, directed by by the only serious threat to the throne of Francis Ford Coppola, Alfonso Cuaron.

Those are my faves for the last decade.

Oh, and Pineapple Express is really good too. Its up there with Friday.

And while not from the last decade, To Live and Die in LA is best damn cop movie of any...

This is really really weird

feeds@yuku.com (fandorin) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:21:21 PST

Film 2010

feeds@yuku.com (fandorin) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:03:13 PST

Swedish film - Lat den rätte komma in / Let the right one in. Probably one of the best films I've seen recently...

New revolutionary guitar-playing technique

feeds@yuku.com (timetunnel) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:53:49 PST

Hendrix has been reborn...

Two Gentlemen of LEBOWSKI

feeds@yuku.com (thetawave) — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:50:42 PST

ATTENTION LEBOWSKI FANS... http://runleiarun.com/lebowski/ This is going viral. Who'd of thought that the long-awaited sequel to The Big Lebowski would the The Big Lebowski a la The Bard of Avon? "The Knave abideth..."

Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, Spain, may 27-29 2010

feeds@yuku.com (erzkine) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:27:31 PST

I've had friends bragging how great the yearly Primavera festival in Barcelona is for some years now: no mud-camping but a city festival with nearby hotels, quality music acts both veteran and new but all in the forefront, great location in the city of Barcelona near the beach + a great audience. So I've bought my festival pass and I'm set to go for the 1st time.

Here's the website with this years line-up, among which a large number of 'best albums of 09' acts are listed. I've never been to a festival with so many fave artists: The New Pornographers, The Fall, Wire, Pavement, Hope Sandoval ++ Hope to meet more Church fans there + need to assistance trying to convince the organisers to book The Church as well.

Reading 2010

feeds@yuku.com (chrome3D) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:21:35 PST

New year new reading. Bring on 2010!

Andrew Davidson: The Gargoyle
This image doesn´t do justice to this book as it looks devilishly handsome in real life. A random selection from me. A bit hard to go through the opening chapters as it is very "skin deep". Strange and weirdo and I´m not sure if I can finish it.

Best vids of the 80´s!

feeds@yuku.com (Boriah) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:38:57 PST

Some guys have made a compilation of the best music videos from the 80´s. Kilbo and his fellas are included with -of course- "Under the milky way".

Check the fuck out if you dare, and go back to the glorious 80´s. You´ll find very very interesting videos long time forgotten in your rotten brains.

http://www.80smusicvids.com/index.php?vid=Asia_-_Heat_Of_The_Moment&a=a

Nobel prize for literature...for Herta Müller

feeds@yuku.com (fandorin) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:11:41 PST

I'm very very happy to learn Herta Müller is a Nobel prize laureate now. I have no idea if her oeuvre has been translated at all.
She's a great great woman; once i had a cuppa coffee with her. I love her books. Her big theme is how a subject transforms in a dictatorship. Her language is simple, full of weird imagery and immaculate.

She really really really deserved that...

Pollyanna Indie Music Podcast

feeds@yuku.com (puccifish) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:16:13 PST

POLLYANNA COWGIRL RECORDS PODCAST

SHOW #45

October 1, 2009

Song 01: THE DEAD SNARES - "Strike Up the Band"

District 9

feeds@yuku.com (Altres) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:42:04 PST

So many reasons to enjoy this for any sci-fi fan.

1. Didn't treat audience as idiots and used it's full on political aspects to full effect
2. Mothership not hovering over New York
3. "Prawns" were great, especially Christopher and his son
4. Beautiful analogy to South Africa 20 years ago
5. Brilliant analogy to Germany 60 years ago
6. Almost believable
7. Hugely pulp in delivery in spite of the multi strata storyline
8. Nigerians took offense, which can't be a bad thing
9. The main guy was excellent, sort of like David Brent being left in charge of interspecies relations
10. The brilliant reflections from many, many classics. I spotted: Alien Nation, Starship Troopers, Predator, Cannibal Holocaust, This Island Earth, Cloverfield, St Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, the Fly (80's version), Alien, Aliens, They Live and all of Jacksons earlier stuff like Bad Taste etc.

Downside:...

The Church feature in Photographic Exhibition

feeds@yuku.com (kumback) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:45:22 PST

The Raw Gallery in Melbourne, Australia is currently showing an Exhibition titled 'SOLID ROCK: A VISUAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN ROCK MUSIC'
Which features an iconic image of The Church shot in Sydney in 1985 by legendary music photographer Wendy McDougall. You can view the images in the
exhibition here: http://therawgallery.com/exhibitions/
All the images are for sale as limited edition fine art prints.

RIP - Fabchannel

feeds@yuku.com (Remindlessness) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:32:12 PST

http://www.fabchannel.com/

I really enjoyed many shows from this site. Kinda sad for the state of the music industry these days...

My art website

feeds@yuku.com (another earth) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:42:01 PST

It occurred to me that I never posted the link to my art website here. Anyway, this is basically an online gallery of my work, a place where people can view my work. At the moment, I don't sell anything (I couldn't bear to part with many of them), although that may change at some point in the future. I thought it worth mentioning also that I have Steve Kilbey and The Church listed in my "Special thanks" section for their continued musical artistic inspiration - I also recently added the photo of me & SK from the Buffalo show on 7/7/09. I'm primarily a wildlife artist, specializing in birds of prey, which inspire me the most, and my paintings are done (for the most part) from my own photos. So feel free to check it out. http://www.freewebs.com/jlartworks/

I also have an account with deviantArt, an online art community. However, most of the other people there are anywhere from...

Grandiose / Other General Arts & Web Sites