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There was a convention in my town a few weeks ago for records and stuff. This is what I bought: CD: Miles Davis - Dark Magus Vinyl: John Cale - Music for a New Society Elvis Costello - My Aim is True Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy) Philip Glass - Dancepieces The Lounge Lizards - s/t Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food

Talking Heads - Lifetime Piling Up

It's actually a painting by René Magritte (who also did the painting I'm using as an avatar) called The Treachery of Images, dated 1928-1929.

I'd be interested in joining this as well.

Since my last post I have purchased the following DVDs: Before Sunset Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Les Dames du Bois de Boulonge Dick Tracy The Golem The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Memories The Piano Sexy Beast Starchaser - the Legend of Orin Trilogy - the Weeping Meadow Ulysses' Gaze Les Vampires

I've had a beard for the last couple of years and don't much intend on shaving it off in the foreseeable future.

CD: Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica PJ Harvey - Is This Desire? Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures The Stooges - s/t Vinyl: The Velvet Underground - Loaded

Stuff I've bought over the last month or so: A Fistful of Dollars A Wong Kar-Wai boxset featuring Chungking Express, Fallen Angels and In the Mood for Love Last Year at Marienbad Uproar in Heaven (VHS) Sympathy for Mr Vengeance Memories of Murder Infernal Affairs Spartan I'll Sleep When I'm Dead Bad Santa Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Coffee and Cigarettes Millennium Mambo A Jean-Luc Godard boxset featuring Pierrot le fou, Made in USA and First Name Carmen

Yesterday's purchases, all on vinyl: Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God

Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

King Crimson - Red I also almost bought Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica, but I didn't have enough money on me to buy both and the store was closing in fifteen minutes, so I went with the Crimson album as that was cheaper. Hopefully I'll have the time to stop by the store tomorrow and pick up the Beefheart album.

La Belle noiseuse 1960?

Yesterdays purchases, all on vinyl: David Bowie - Heroes The Lounge Lizards - Live in Berlin vol 2 Tangerine Dream - Ricochet

More Anna Karina.

Hmm, you may be right.

You take that back! And Bergman made a bunch of comedies early in his career, in fact I believe he made his breakthrough with them in the early 1950s, and some are even quite funny, but he did angst and gloom better, so he went with that instead later on.

Neu Cluster

Can - Live 1971-1977

Tom Waits - Closing Time Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson

The Lady from Shanghai. 1953?

It opened about two weeks ago in Sweden, so I went and saw it then. Lots of fun, though by no means flawless. What I found most interesting was the way it treated the genre, I believe Frank Miller has stated that he feels film noir is less a genre than a state of mind, which I'd actually be inclined to agree with. It felt like every minute detail of every shot was rigorously designed to enhance the doom-laden fatalism inherent in most film noir, almost rendering the more stock-like situations into near abstracts. Well cast too, Mickey Rourke and Clive Owen in particular (Owen was born to play noir antiheroes). As for the negatives, I agree with spiny norman that the film felt overextended, and besides that, something just felt off. Despite all the work to capture the essentials of the mood of film noir, it felt too... I don't know... laboured? In any event, it failed to capture the genuine sadness and danger in films like You Only Live Once, Kiss Me Deadly or the first couple of episodes from the first season of 24 for that matter. Again, a lot of fun, but I felt somewhat disappointed as I felt the film could have been so much more.

This Man Must Die 1938?

Somebody already picked The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, so to change it up I'm going with Tokyo Drifter. 1957?

La Règle du jeu 1951?