January 2004 Archives
32 posts
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent by Ric Hordinski (Review)
There’s much that I do like about this album, but it’s in the subtler, more restrained moments.Feedback to the Future: A Compilation of Eleven Shoegazing Songs From 1990-1992 by Various Artists (Review)
This comp, though far from comprehensive, focuses on a small slice of time from shoegazing’s heyday.Until He Finds Us by Timonium (Review)
On Until He Finds Us, Timonium don’t re-write the Book of Slowcore so much as edit it subtly.Cause = Time by Broken Social Scene (Review)
This single divorces the two sides of Broken Social Scene’s music and explores each in greater detail.Azumi by Ryûhei Kitamura (Review)
Azumi was a huge disappointment, almost a betrayal of sorts, because I know Kitamura is better than this.Ong-Bak by Prachya Pinkaew (Review)
If you thought these sorts of mind-blowing acrobatics could exist only in the Matrix, then “Ong-Bak” is bound to be an awe-inspiring eye-opener.M by Fritz Lang (Review)
The messages and ideas that M conveys will never grow old as long as darkness exists in man’s heart.The Tin Drum by Volker Schlöndorff (Review)
A disturbing movie because we expect to see innocence and childhood, but instead find corruption and sin.Das Boot by Wolfgang Petersen (Review)
Das Boot is a story of humanity struggling to retain dignity and honor while facing the horrors of war.The Happiest Days of Our Lives (The Complete Joan of Arc Tapes) by My Favorite (Review)
I’m glad I’m not the only one who wrote such doomed poetry in study hall, and it warms my heart to finally hear it put to such exquisite music.