Music Review :: Amiina :: 'Kurr'

excerpt from my review forthcoming in the Sydney Morning Herald

Let's imagine the world as fairytale, and Iceland the home to a delicate music box. Inside, Bjork bellows her avant operetta, Mum chant their childish rhymes and Sigur Ros cover people with their soft …

book club : the road by cormac mccarthy

have I written about my book club? an excuse for my good friends and I to get together, it's often a struggle to find a book all of us are willing to read. i was hesitant on this one. it was an oprah winfrey book club book. but 'the road' by Cormac McCarthy could quie …

Monopoly : The Movie?

So it's come out that Ridley Scott is going to turn Monopoly into a feature length film.

Unless he makes something as compelling as the greed induced flick 'Wall Street' I can't imagine a story about buying utilities and winning beauty pageants that …

Killer of Sheep :: Movie Review

Films today are so complex - whether in plot twists or amazing graphics, that seeing a film like Killer of Sheep really pokes at your mind and gets you thinking. Shot in 1977, the film really is nothing more than a look at life in poor, black, Los Angeles. Kids have …

Wiley :: Playtime Is Over :: Review

There's none of the commercial hooks you can hear in Dizzee Rascal's more polished version of the genre. Instead it's the shout outs to his hometown postcode in 'Bow E3', or the more sentimental lyrics about his daughter in 'Baby Girl', the slowed distorted bass and …

wooden robots from japan

yes it was on boing boing - but these are too cool not to mention don't you think?

Deadwood Series 3

The beauty of buying a TV series on DVD, is the ultimate indulgence of watching 6 episodes in one day. Like a Shakespeean Tragedy in post-Revolutionary America, Deadwood maintains itself as the best series on TV ever.

Opti Mash Prime

Hasbro continues to challenge the old guard of toy makers by once again putting out something as cool as a Kubrik or other Kid Robot vinyl character.

Opti Mash Prime is the latest in Hasbro's geek-themed Spuds - previoulsy the realm for Star Wars with Spud Trooper, …

best band since arcade fire?

It takes a lot to get me to like guitar music... this is an extract from my review that will run in the herald....

"For those who have been enthralled by the orchestral melodies of Arcade Fire, the dense arrangements of Radiohead or the vocal beauty of Jeff Buckley …

Nine Inch Nails

Packaging is great, gloss digi pack, very black. Piss take sticker on the pack replacing RIAA Anti-Piracy warning with US Bureau of Morality Warning. Thermal disc. Put in player black and remove for an interesting surprise. Music is noisy, with guitars processed to a …