well i have just found out my link to download that mix does not work
and now i cannot get it to upload correctly
so if any one knows a good upload host let me know
otherwise please feel free to message me on aim (strbrrydeluxe) or here
and i will send it to you some how
Monday, January 26, 2009
Sunday, January 25, 2009
ain't no sweat on your brow neither
off to a bad start, and i have decided to not put so much pressure on getting to 300 but rather to make good, full reviews. I have been watching the wire in between being really busy doing other silly stuff. I think i am going to also try to add a monthly mix disc, this post containing the first.
Jules and Jim
Writers Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) are close friends who fall in love with the same woman, the unpredictable Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), amid the turbulence of World War I Paris. What results is a decades-long love triangle that both tests and strengthens the bond between the two men. One of director François Truffaut's best-loved films, Jules and Jim is adapted from the French novel by Henri-Pierre Roché.
This movie is life changing. It's got this uncomfortable but beautiful relationship between friends and lovers, always accepting of each other. I want to meet a Catherine........................
10/10
The Wire season 3 (5 disc)
The business may be drugs, but it's still work for the family that rules the trade in the city of Baltimore. And tracking them down is all in a day's work for the cops tasked with nabbing the family members one by one. In this third season of the riveting crime series, local politics ratchet up the pressure as candidates run on the narcotics issue and make it the center of the election season. Stars Dominic West, John Doman and Sonja Sohn.
probably my favorite season so far, a bit more straight forward and not quite as many characters as season 2 (with both the dock workers and the gangsters and the greeks). Plenty of Omar and Bow tie who are easily some of the best characters ever written for television.
8/10
12/300
and as promised here is a mix, it is zipped so if you need to unzip and don't have the utility just go download 7zip. There is a track list inclosed but mostly it's slow songs about girls. Highlights include but are not limited to Animal Collective, Nick Cave, Cohen, Tom Waits, Blur......etc.
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=c83955ba638d2fab91b20cc0d07ba4d2d68107a9528e6170
if any one is into this let me know, if i get a good response i will definitly keep doing them
Jules and Jim
Writers Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) are close friends who fall in love with the same woman, the unpredictable Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), amid the turbulence of World War I Paris. What results is a decades-long love triangle that both tests and strengthens the bond between the two men. One of director François Truffaut's best-loved films, Jules and Jim is adapted from the French novel by Henri-Pierre Roché.
This movie is life changing. It's got this uncomfortable but beautiful relationship between friends and lovers, always accepting of each other. I want to meet a Catherine........................
10/10
The Wire season 3 (5 disc)
The business may be drugs, but it's still work for the family that rules the trade in the city of Baltimore. And tracking them down is all in a day's work for the cops tasked with nabbing the family members one by one. In this third season of the riveting crime series, local politics ratchet up the pressure as candidates run on the narcotics issue and make it the center of the election season. Stars Dominic West, John Doman and Sonja Sohn.
probably my favorite season so far, a bit more straight forward and not quite as many characters as season 2 (with both the dock workers and the gangsters and the greeks). Plenty of Omar and Bow tie who are easily some of the best characters ever written for television.
8/10
12/300
and as promised here is a mix, it is zipped so if you need to unzip and don't have the utility just go download 7zip. There is a track list inclosed but mostly it's slow songs about girls. Highlights include but are not limited to Animal Collective, Nick Cave, Cohen, Tom Waits, Blur......etc.
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=c83955ba638d2fab91b20cc0d07ba4d2d68107a9528e6170
if any one is into this let me know, if i get a good response i will definitly keep doing them
Thursday, January 8, 2009
This uproarious animated series from the former executive producers and head writers of "The Simpsons" follows a tight-knit group of slackers who work dead-end jobs in the hipper-than-thou neighborhood of Mission Hill. The debut season introduces protagonist Andy French, a 24-year-old waterbed salesman (and wanna-be cartoonist) whose world is disrupted when his geeky teenage brother becomes his roomie, along with a slobbery pooch named Stogie.
it's like simpsons, but with cake as the theme song, and some really awesome pretentious jokes about Italian cinema and college. I really love the animation style and voice acting, this and Home Movies are probably my fave adult swim/animation things......
7/10
Monday, January 5, 2009
It's the new year, and I have decided to try this mess once again. As you can see i have refreshed the look of the blog, and am returning to full reviews of movies with pictures and all the fun stuff you love. I am once again shooting for 300 movies but will probably not concern myself with a book number this time around due to a supreme lack of reading last year. If, however, finish a book i will review it. Any suggestions for the web page or movies for me to watch are appreciated.
The Wrestler
Mickey Rourke (in a Golden Globe-nominated role) stars as retired professional wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson, who returns to the ring and tries to work his way up the circuit for a final shot at defeating his longtime rival. Along the way, he tries to reconnect with his daughter, Stephanie (Evan Rachel Wood), while exploring a relationship with a stripper named Cassidy (Marisa Tomei, also nominated for a Golden Globe).
"Mickey Rourke is back" or whatever they are saying about this. A great movie that i probably can never watch again. Mickey Rourke is so great as a weird washed up roid riddled old creep, and in typical Aronofsky style, Rourke's heavy story of loss and failure never quite gets happy. I cannot really claim that i can relate, but some how it made me feel like i could.
8/10
The Conformist
When the government orders him to kill a political refugee, Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintignant) agrees -- even though his target is his college mentor. Hence, he is "the Conformist," a man who will do anything to belong. Bernardo Bertolucci directs this thought-provoking drama set in 1930s fascist Italy, a visually complex character study with production design by Nedo Azzini and camera work by Vittorio Storaro.
I rented this movie because a friend of mine who is super into pretentious fashion bullshit saw an article about a designer who used textures and sets pasted from this movie in his latest ads. That being said, there are some incredible attired babes in this movie, as well as great set design. I had to read a bit about the fascist part of the story, but really even knowing nothing about fascist itally this movie has this weird homosexual tension as well as a weird love triangle that keep it interesting.
6/10
The Fall
Set in the 1920s, director Tarsem Singh's visually lush drama stars Lee Pace as paralyzed movie stuntman Roy Walker, who bonds with an imaginative 5-year-old named Alexandria (Catinca Untaru) as they convalesce together in a Los Angeles infirmary. To coax the girl into procuring the cache of morphine he wants from the hospital pharmacy, the suicidal Roy regales Alexandria with an elaborate fantasy about larger-than-life heroes.
Another movie with some incredible costume design. Every character in the fantasy world looked like an asian david bowie space pirate, and it is great. The little girl in this movie probably has one of my favorite child performances ever (behind 400 blows and Let the Right One In) she has this really natural and kind of awkward conversation cadence, full of interruptions and repeated words. Sort of a modern (and better) "Never Ending Story".
9/10
Thin Blue Line
Errol Morris's gripping investigation into the murder of a Dallas police officer was responsible for freeing the man originally -- and erroneously -- charged with and convicted of the crime. Through archival footage, interviews and stylized reenactments, Morris skillfully makes a case for the innocence of a man who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Widely acclaimed, this breakthrough documentary captured numerous awards.
Sort of dry and uninteresting cinematically but with very interesting subject matter, and interesting, very "Texas" characters. I think more exciting then the movie it's self is the fact that the movie was pretty much what got the "wrong man" out of jail.
7/10
4/300 movies watched
The Wrestler
Mickey Rourke (in a Golden Globe-nominated role) stars as retired professional wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson, who returns to the ring and tries to work his way up the circuit for a final shot at defeating his longtime rival. Along the way, he tries to reconnect with his daughter, Stephanie (Evan Rachel Wood), while exploring a relationship with a stripper named Cassidy (Marisa Tomei, also nominated for a Golden Globe).
"Mickey Rourke is back" or whatever they are saying about this. A great movie that i probably can never watch again. Mickey Rourke is so great as a weird washed up roid riddled old creep, and in typical Aronofsky style, Rourke's heavy story of loss and failure never quite gets happy. I cannot really claim that i can relate, but some how it made me feel like i could.
8/10
The Conformist
When the government orders him to kill a political refugee, Marcello (Jean-Louis Trintignant) agrees -- even though his target is his college mentor. Hence, he is "the Conformist," a man who will do anything to belong. Bernardo Bertolucci directs this thought-provoking drama set in 1930s fascist Italy, a visually complex character study with production design by Nedo Azzini and camera work by Vittorio Storaro.
I rented this movie because a friend of mine who is super into pretentious fashion bullshit saw an article about a designer who used textures and sets pasted from this movie in his latest ads. That being said, there are some incredible attired babes in this movie, as well as great set design. I had to read a bit about the fascist part of the story, but really even knowing nothing about fascist itally this movie has this weird homosexual tension as well as a weird love triangle that keep it interesting.
6/10
The Fall
Set in the 1920s, director Tarsem Singh's visually lush drama stars Lee Pace as paralyzed movie stuntman Roy Walker, who bonds with an imaginative 5-year-old named Alexandria (Catinca Untaru) as they convalesce together in a Los Angeles infirmary. To coax the girl into procuring the cache of morphine he wants from the hospital pharmacy, the suicidal Roy regales Alexandria with an elaborate fantasy about larger-than-life heroes.
Another movie with some incredible costume design. Every character in the fantasy world looked like an asian david bowie space pirate, and it is great. The little girl in this movie probably has one of my favorite child performances ever (behind 400 blows and Let the Right One In) she has this really natural and kind of awkward conversation cadence, full of interruptions and repeated words. Sort of a modern (and better) "Never Ending Story".
9/10
Thin Blue Line
Errol Morris's gripping investigation into the murder of a Dallas police officer was responsible for freeing the man originally -- and erroneously -- charged with and convicted of the crime. Through archival footage, interviews and stylized reenactments, Morris skillfully makes a case for the innocence of a man who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Widely acclaimed, this breakthrough documentary captured numerous awards.
Sort of dry and uninteresting cinematically but with very interesting subject matter, and interesting, very "Texas" characters. I think more exciting then the movie it's self is the fact that the movie was pretty much what got the "wrong man" out of jail.
7/10
4/300 movies watched
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