July 2006 Archives
The Face of Web Hosting
Is there some sort of unspoken agreement among the world’s hosting providers that states that their websites must look like total ass?
How about a little Midnight Madness?
Sæglopur EP by Sigur Rós (Review)
Compared to previous EPs like Svefn-G-Englar and Ný Batterí, Sæglopur’s b-sides are of a much subtler, more delicate bent.
Truck Turner by Jonathan Kaplan (Review)
The movie is so over-the-top, so full of itself, that it’s really hard to be offended by its more backwards views and scenes.
Finally, Some Solid Sci-Fi(?)
Bored with the Internet
Water by Deepa Mehta (Review)
Like the best “message” films, Water does not preach or cram its agenda down one’s throat.
Shapes and Sizes by Shapes And Sizes (Review)
There’s something infectious, toe-tapping, and even joyous about the album as a whole.
History Will Never Hold Me by The Hourly Radio (Review)
There are moments where the band transcends any potential limitations of said genre, and prove such knee-jerk reactions wrong.
Avalon Sutra by Harold Budd (Review)
These songs are fragile, tender, ephemeral things… and they are best experienced and celebrated as such.
mewithoutYou’s Brother, Sister
Tarnation’s Return
Tarnation is/was one of those bands that, like so many other great bands, never received any significant amount of exposure.
Making a case against Sufjan?
Has Sufjan worked himself into a rut, musically-speaking?
A Chain of Short Memories About Their Distance
All Lost by Monster Movie (Review)
A blend of lush, euphoric pop music with lyrics full of existential despair, romantic failure, and wistfulness.
The Secret Rivals by James Nam, See-Yuen Ng (Review)
The movie became less a piece of entertainment, and more a tattered, browning, fading document from an alternate kung fu universe.
Slowdive Miscellania
Millimetrik
Sæglópur
The Drift by Scott Walker (Review)
You must either acquiesce to Scott Walker’s latest or just throw the whole thing away and move onto something safer.
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