mute the horn

cont. re: a scanner darkly;

its animated, but a strange kind of animation where its kind of based on actual movements and characters, and then kind of animated after...its based on a philip k. dick novel, but a good philip k. dick novel rather than do androids dream of electric sheep or supertoys last all summer long, where the films kind of saved dodgy, boring sci-fi technology dystopia stories. that's a little harsh, but what i'm saying is that the story is a lot more original and key to this story, while still being based wholly in the conspiracy/future dystopia thing.

actually, i can't remember what i was saying. i wrote that quite a few days ago, and now i don't care so much about it all. also, there was this step up to pynchon-like paranoia when i also heard amon tobin's cat people on the advert for the chrlotte chrch show, and so i have no idea if it was actually in the film, or just on that advert and...fuck. anyway, here it is, just that song. i've spent too long trying to find out if it was in the film, so the mix might come later.

amon tobin - cat people

also! i saw broken social scene in oxford last night, who were plagued with sound problems, and i also went to watership down - the actual place, and the pub too!

also! sorry to all the michael zapruder fans who were linked here. i only posted one song, with not much of a review or anything, so i am not really sure why he linked from his news page. but: go, frolic, enjoy the other stuff. as a special treat for you, here is something else that is very, very good:

jesse sparhawk - light cycle/tetrahedra

as far as i know, jesse isn't related to alan (sparhawk), but this song has been pretty addictive. it's on the second installment of the imaginational anthem (series?) cd, and it's kind of a perfectly modern progression of john fahey. that's a pretty big claim for some people to digest (and to those people i say: don't worry about it, i don't know as much as you about j.f.), but he just seems to revel in the guitar-picking playfullness that fahey loved so much, without trying to just mimic something undescribable that most contenders try out. i can't remember if i've ordered the cd yet or not.

i blame dubrovnik and oxford for my lack of recent home taping. but i can feel mediator #3 coming along soon, my ears are burning with ideas. or tinitus.




it's probably tinitus.