12.30.09
Groove Tomb Playlist: December 30th, 2009
Jim Carroll- People Who Died The Cramps- Garbageman The Ronettes- Baby, I Love You Vic Mizzy- The Adams Family Theme The Stooges- No Fun The Seeds- Can’t Seem to Make You Mine Blue Cheer- Summertime Blues The KAisers- What You Gonna Say? The Black LIps- Vini Vidi Vici Channel 3- I Got a Gun Ultravox- Rockwork Vacant Lot- Leaving Here Death- You’re a Prisoner Winelord- Shakin’ The Shirks- D.C. is Doomed The 5,6,7,8s- Bomb the Twist The Zero Boys- Drive In The Buzzcocks- Boredom The Minutemen- One Big Lounge Scene The Boys- Sick on You The New York Dolls- Pills The Modds- Leave My House The Pretty Things- Baron Saturday Shocking Blue- Send Me a POstcard The Damned- New Rose The Dictators- Baby, Let’s Twist The Ramones- Rockaway Beach The Younger Lovers- Danny T.S.O.L.- Red Shadows Digital Leather- Fool’s Heart Mechanism Pere Ubu- Final Solution The Four Tops- Are You Man Enough? Blondie- Hanging on the Telephone The Cramps- The Way I Walk Black Flag- Fix Me The Stooges- Search and Destroy Bobby McFadden- The Mummy Crime- Hotwire My HEart The Groove Tomb- Garage. Punk. Horror. Other. Tuesday Nights 12AM-2AM 91.3FM KXCI Tucson, Arizona.
I have recently begun contributing some reviews to The Loft’s blog spot. I’m hoping to use the opportunity to explore more Mondo Mondays. Mondo Monday is every Monday at 8:00 at the Loft. Low budget madness for $2. This week’s film is the Ate de Jong movie Highway to Hell (1991). Full review: Highway to Hell I have enjoyed writing movies reviews for the Tucson Citizen website this year as well. Here is a link to my 2009 wrap up. Top 10 of 2009 All issues of Cramhole have been restocked at Toxic Ranch Records recently. A great record store right here in Tucson.
Groove TOmb Playlist: December 23rd 2009 The Kaisers- Shake Me The Dictators- Stay With Me Sonny Terry- Whoopin’ the Blues Channel 3- You Make Me Feel Cheap Geza X- Isotope Soap X-Terminators- Microwave Radiation The Spits- Rip Up the Streets The Dead Boys- i Won’t Look BAck
The La De Das- Little Girl The Modds- Leave My House The Rip Offs- Dolemite The Ramones- I Just Wanna Have Something to Do Link Wray- El Toro The Quests- The Tempted Slaughter and the Dogs- U.F.O.
Channel 3- i Got a Gun The Soothsayers- Black or Blue Albert Elias- King Kong Devo- Mechanical Man Anton LaVey- Satan Takes A Holiday Ronnie Ray’s Playboys- The Vulture
The Cheifs- Liberty The Mob- Dr. Butcher The Buzzcocks- I Don’t Know What to Do With My LIfe The Alleycats- Give Me A Little Pain Siouxsie and the Banshees- Love in a Void The Seeds- Wind Blows The MOnks- Monktime Nobunny- Tina Goes to Work The JAM- Billy Hunt
The Testors- Together Big Joe Turner- Shake, Rattle, and Roll
Lone Ranger- Barnabas Collins Junior Byles- Curly Locks The Electric Prunes- I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers- Do You Love Me? The Sex Pistols- Substitute The Soft Boys- I Wanna Destroy You The Only ONes- Another Girl, Another Planet Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- From Her to Eternity
The Groove Tomb- Garage. Punk. Horror. Other. Tuesday Nights 12AM-2AM 91.3FM KXCI Tucson, Arizona.
I am really excited to be posting some reviews on The Loft website. The Loft and Casa Video are two of my favorite places in Tucson. We are really lucky to have these resources. Take a look if you get a chance.http://theloftcinema.blogspot.com/
The Christmas season always brings about reflections on childhood fascinations. When a friend forwarded me a link to a seventy-minute rant against George Lucas’ Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, I chuckled because I am among those who feel that Lucas has ruined a significant part of my childhood with The Phantom Menace and by digitally adding so many superfluous layers to the original Star Wars trilogy. I went to the link expecting some sort of extended, misguided fan rant. But the video really expounds on the nature of storytelling through a close reading of the movie. The film plays for comedy, particularly as the narrator acts the part (at least I hope it’s acting) of a dangerous psychopath who is off his meds. While he pretends (again, at least I hope) to mispronounce words and misinterpret filmmaking concepts, the argument and exploration of the failings of the movie are really intelligent and well thought out. Besides just picking apart the movie, the narrator really gets into why the movie fails. If you are into Star Wars, the film is entertaining. But the film, essay, rant, whatever you want to call it is astoundingly organized and cogent. Anyone can turn on a camera and complain, but this piece breaks new ground in and gives a “new hope” (ha-ha) to the arena of quality Internet journalism. If you can set aside some computer time over the holiday, I recommend this to anyone interested in the art of filmmaking. The review is posted on a pretty good movie website too. I found some good stuff there.
Cocksparrer- Chip on My Shoulder
Johnny Thunders & the HEartbreakers- Can’t Keep My Eyes on You Chuck Berry- O Rangutang The Cynics- No REason The BEach Boys- Wendy The Starjets- I Love You Japan Milk n’ Cookies- Good Friends
The Sunsets- I Want Love The Electric Prunes- Dr. Do Good The Cadillacs- Buzz Buzz Buzz ? and the Mysterians- Empty HEart Pogs- Pog’s Theme Unnatural Axe- Media Blitz The Plugz- Mindless Contentment
The Wild ONes- Bowie Man The Bosstones- Mope-itty-Moope The Setting Son- Soulmate The Tuesday Blues- Have You Ever Loved Somebody? The Four Fifths- She’ll Hurt You in the End Ron Thompson- Switchblade The Stereos- I Really LOve You
The Shirks- Dangerous Girl Death- Rock and Roll Victim The Damned- New ROse The Kids- Rock OVer Belgium Riff Raff- I Wanna Be a Cosmonaut The Rip Offs- Fed Up The Bell Rays- Hole in the World Mika Miko- Tighty Liberace The Cramps- The Way I Walk
ThE Rolling Stones- Down Home Girl The Woggles- Johnny COme Lately The Maytals- 54-46 That’s My Number Desmond Dekker- A It Mek
Wreckless Eric- Whole Wide World The Pretty Things- Balloon Burning The New York Dolls- Pills The Velvet UNderground- Venus in Furs The Strangeloves- I Want Candy
The Groove Tomb- Garage. Punk. Horror. Other. Tuesday Nights 12AM-2AM 91.3FM KXCI Tucson, Arizona.
There are a lot of arguments in praise of and against Lars von Trier’s latest film Antichrist, the story of a young couple known only as He (Willem Dafoe) and She (Charlotte Gainsbourg) who lose their child to an accident while they are in the midst of coitus. The guilt of this scenario throws She into a deep depression that He, as a therapist, feels he can guide her through. Early on, they decide to travel to a cabin in the woods that the two regularly vacationed in with their son. They call the cabin Eden. The film unfolds in chapters; the first chapter moves at a pace comparable to von Trier’s earlier Dogme style films and the violence and intensity escalate gradually. Von Trier does a good job of lulling the audience into a false sense of security in the beginning. As the intensity escalates, two of the main arguments against the validity of the film come into play. The violence is extreme and the implications of the two characters’ relationship have been interpreted as steeped in misogyny. I have to acknowledge respect to those viewpoints, however, for what it’s worth, my reading was a little more straightforward. As far as the violence is concerned, von Trier has committed some grotesque images to film. It is valid to say that this could be irresponsible filmmaking and it is reasonable to be turned off to the extreme violence of the picture, but the violence in my opinion comes off as exploratory in the arena of the limits of evil. This exploration is relevant to the development of the characters and to the gradual escalation of mayhem from the calm beginnings of the story. The question of if or not it is totally necessary could be argued, but I think the violence is part of a complicated story, whereas a movie like Hostel (2005) expounds on violence in a story that doesn’t have enough legs to carry it past perhaps a really twisted Twilight Zone episode. Antichrist is a complicated unraveling, and the violence supports this dynamic. With regards to the storyline, I respect the idea that it could be considered to be misogynistic, but from the point of view of entering into the movie strictly as a fan of horror movies, I found the give and take between the characters to be reasonable. I went into this movie cold and the sexual politics did not occur to me until after I had read more about the film. That is not to say that the argument is not valid, but my reading was a simpler version of the concept of reversing the roles in The Shining (1980). Not just in the semantics of a similar story of a couple trapped together struggling with insanity, but in the tone of the character development. She goes berserk in a timeline similar to Jack Nicolson’s character and He becomes a victim much in a similar pace as Shelly Duval. There is also the strong suggestion that Eden is something of a catalyst for the couple’s degrading behavior in the same way that The Overlook Hotel compelled Jack to be less of a dull boy. And this is where the movie is strongest for me. All other things aside, von Trier creates a green hell out of Eden. The habitat around the cabin is an ugly place carved out of nature and the presence of a rustic workshop is a good indication that things are not going to end well. If or not Eden is Hell on Earth or projecting the appearance of evil as seen through the regressive state of mind of the characters, the sinister setting stands out. I found the violence tolerable and themes of sexual politics did not come across to me as a stated agenda in my opinion. The film came off to me as more of a temper tantrum than that a socio-political statement and a temper tantrum can be amusing depending on how close you are to it. A really enjoyable film going experience for me is when I find myself considering a movie for days afterwards. Here, for better or worse, Antichrist succeeds. -Billups Allen
The Gut Reactions- Bored
The Dictators- Baby, Let’s Twist The Modds- Leave My House The Lurkers- Be My Prisoner Stiff LIttle Fingers- Barbed Wire Love The Fairies- Get Yourself Home
The DAmned- Anything The Heartbreakers- Pirate Love The Wee Four- Weird The Moods- Rum Drunk The Five of Us- Need Me Like I Need You The Younger Lovers- Danny The ADverts- Bored Teenagers
Os Titas- TEma Para Titas The BAts- Got a Girl The EYes- Eniwetok Gas Huffer- Rotten Egg The UNdertones- Jump Boys TRex- Telegram Sam
Lou Reed- Vicious Budgie- Crash Course in Brain Surgery Sir Lord Baltimore- MAster HEartache The RAmones- Glad to See You Go Devo- Through Being Cool Wire- Three Girl Rhumba The Avengers- No MArtyr
The Rip Offs- Dolemite The Dills- Red Rockers Buzzcocks- Boredom Justin Hinds- Carry Go Bring Home Max Romeo- Stealing in the Name of Jah The UK Subs- Stranglehold
John Lee Hooker- Boogie Chullin’ Q65- Cry in the Night The Esquires- Sadie’s Ways The MAtadors- Get Down from the Tree Bo Diddley- Whoa Mule Geno Washington- Allison Please Jackie Brenston- Rocket 88
The Groove Tomb- Garage. Punk. Horror. Other. Tuesday Nights 12AM-2AM 91.3FM KXCI Tucson, Arizona.
Razorcake #53 has an interview i did with Nobunny. Take a look if you get a chance, I am very excited.
People are so weird sometimes. I went by the post office Saturday. I knew they weren’t gonna be open, but I figured the machine would be on. It was, and I was psyched to see that there were only two people in line in front of me. However I was bummed when the guy in front of me started weighing his letters. He literally weighed every one of his standard envelopes. I was in full view of them, none looked to have had more than one or two pages enclosed. Next Page » |
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