"based on a true story"

Y'know, going through Sight & Sound's extended critics' faves of 2009 and given the amazing critical praise it had (despite little distribution), I'm surprised to see how few people lost their shit over Love Exposure. Because, um, look at it.

I need a spare four hours to experience this for myself.

damn

the 23rd psalm

Lost, Season 2, Ep. 10, "The 23rd Psalm".

"Yemi, I understand that you live in a world where righteousness and evil seem very far apart, but that is not the real world."

-Eko.

motorcycles, rock n roll and no lyrics

I love this shit. So should you.

not in portland

Lost, Season 3, Ep. 6, "Not in Portland".

"It won't hurt you to give me three minutes, will it -- knowing I have only 27 left?"

-Ben.

i want to spend time with you.

New Maya Arulpragasam. Album out this year. Colour me interested.

M.I.A. - There's Space For All Dat I See
(via Sound Verite)

My girl and I had our first date at an M.I.A. show. I always find that really cool.

reeeeeal life shit

So I haven't been keeping up much with This Week's Kerrang recently. To be honest, I wanted to make a few posts here and there - I wanted to share this with the world come Christmas time - but as always, apathy really got to me. I've been off at university working on the show, my dissertation, family stuff, money problems and, at the sake of seeming petulant, it sucks when nobody wants to read your blog no matter what. Really, I've just needed time to chill and watch some movies, hang out with my girlfriend and not think about FLFD/TWK. As a matter of fact, I don't even know what's going to happen with FLFD over the next six months - a lot of things I had planned have had to shift recently. "Life is what happens when..."

But I've been reading some awesome blogs - shout out to VINYL IS HEAVY, who've inspired me to write more about the films I see. There will be another podcast soon, maybe some of the Foot Village/Gallows stuff that I recorded for the show but we'll have to see. This is more of a freewheeling thing now, and whatever I want is going up on this. Which is fun!

I know this barely matters being the internet and all but I like doing this enough to write a bit of a fuss over it. I didn't listen to enough albums in '09 to make a list, but have my favourite song of last year just because it's great.

Jeans Wilder - Tough Guys

HNY.xx