Sunday, August 29, 2010
Not that I'm Bitter or Anything vol. 5
consider me on the Janelle Monae bandwagon. the ArchAndroid puts the last decade and 1/2 of pop music in its place, saving us from the Titney Spearses and the Ladyboi Gagas that have turned music into the kind of idiot parade whose rape of taste and intellect borders on pornographic snuff. I think what i like most about her is the fact that while she takes from a dizzying array of sources both conceptually and musically (Michael Jackson, Fritz Lang, Klaus Nomi, James Brown, Stereolab, Outkast, Bowie), it's all done in such a tasteful, artful fashion that it becomes its own entity; paying respect to the past and taking the past to new and exciting places, never becoming overwhelmed by its influences. In a perfect world "Tightrope" would've been the song of the summer heard in Best Buys 'round the country and Katy Perry's execrable borefest "Cahl-Eh-Four-Nya Guhrls" would've wallowed in dank obscurity, wading in a puddle of piss like the tattered sundress of a missing child.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Fuck YOUR Life vol. 11
this is the Plasmatics on tv in 1981;
this is Lady Gaga trying to be the Plasmatics in 1981 in 2010.... and failing fucking hard.
also it's hilarious how the celeb-obsessed masturbation packs of the "blogosphere" are so eager to nail their action figures to the cross that they'll blow a minor flub up out of proportion in hopes that the hissing mincing masses of the e-...tabloid hive-mind's subconscious sewer will ready to arms and pounce on their false idols at once in a scatological-of-the-mind gorgy that would make Herman Nitsch turn away in revulsion.
These fucking idiots should be offended by Lady Gaga's bold lack of creativity and tasteless theft of artists who were truly confrontational and cathartic, whose visual and aural representations of themselves served to enhance each other, the mind that bore them, and the people who simultaneously witness and experience the work. That's something you can't find in Gaga's artistically/intellectually crippled odes to telephones and cock.
this is Lady Gaga trying to be the Plasmatics in 1981 in 2010.... and failing fucking hard.
also it's hilarious how the celeb-obsessed masturbation packs of the "blogosphere" are so eager to nail their action figures to the cross that they'll blow a minor flub up out of proportion in hopes that the hissing mincing masses of the e-...tabloid hive-mind's subconscious sewer will ready to arms and pounce on their false idols at once in a scatological-of-the-mind gorgy that would make Herman Nitsch turn away in revulsion.
These fucking idiots should be offended by Lady Gaga's bold lack of creativity and tasteless theft of artists who were truly confrontational and cathartic, whose visual and aural representations of themselves served to enhance each other, the mind that bore them, and the people who simultaneously witness and experience the work. That's something you can't find in Gaga's artistically/intellectually crippled odes to telephones and cock.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
We are the Sprocket Holes vol. 159
TIFF 2010: Extreme Kink In Midnight Madness Selection RED NIGHTS
by Todd Brown, August 19, 2010 3:00 PM
[Updated with an updated trailer.]
It seems that every year there is at least one film that hits the TIFF Midnight Madness program seemingly out of nowhere. Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud's Franco Hong Kong co-production Red Nights is one of those films. Here's how programmer Colin Geddes describes it:
It seems that every year there is at least one film that hits the TIFF Midnight Madness program seemingly out of nowhere. Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud's Franco Hong Kong co-production Red Nights is one of those films. Here's how programmer Colin Geddes describes it:
Got your attention? The trailer will.A pulpy, fetishistic thriller, Red Nights marks the startling directorial debut of Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud, best known as the screenwriting team behind Hong Kong director Johnnie To's thriller Running Out of Time. Red Nights also boasts the long-overdue return of Hong Kong starlet Carrie Ng, famous for her sexy and deadly presence in such films as Naked Killer and Sex and Zen. Here she revels in her role as the jade-clawed Dragon Lady, equal parts seductress and psycho-sexual killer.
A box containing a white jade seal rumoured to have belonged to China's first Emperor falls into the hands of Catherine (Frédérique Bel), a mistress who takes the valuable artifact to Hong Kong in the hopes of selling it. In Hong Kong, Carrie (Carrie Ng), a wealthy patron of the arts, mounts a production of The Jade Emperor - the tale of the first Emperor's executioner, who used a deadly poison to paralyze his victims while simultaneously enhancing their sensations. Carrie is single-mindedly obsessed with finding this ancient poison. When it becomes apparent that the white jade seal contains a vial of the elixir, Catherine finds herself caught in Carrie's sadistic web, where bliss and pain are blurred into a twisted, forbidden ecstasy.
Fuck YOUR Life vol. 10
I hate you, I hate you, and I don't even know you and I hate your guts. I hope all the bad things in life happen to you, and nobody else, but you. And as I stand here sippin' the soda that I'm sure somebody spit in, I just wanna say yall can kiss my ass you rotten motha-fuckas.
amen, Silky.
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 45
KFC’s new ‘Skinwich’
say hello to your lower intestine as it leaks in a black trail from betwix your swollen rear-globes, down the swollen shanks to congeal into a puddle of abdominal puss that eats away at your feet.i'm convinced that their next sandwich is just going to be 2 giant cyanide capsules covered in knee scabs.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
We are the Sprocket Holes vol. 158
micro-reviews;
LONG KHONG 2 a.k.a. ART OF THE DEVIL 3 - needles holding open your eyes/voodoo abortion :
AOTD 2 was one of the grisliest, most deliciously unpleasant films to come from the continent of Asia. AOTD 3 makes it look like Romona and Beezus. Perverse, misanthropic, and sadistic beyond most realms of possibility.
EX-DRUMMER - 8.5/10:
If a Jesus Lizard album was turned into a slasher movie, it would be EX-DRUMMER. Fun, violent, experimental, occasionally surreal, often pornographic... everything good punk rock should be.
TONY- 8/10:
An unemployed social retard collects action films on VHS and murders some dudes. The film drops you right into the middle of the characters bleak existence, offering little in the way of a past or a future. its all in this moment. very interesting character study. put it alongside Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Angst, and other minimalist meditations on brutality and isolation.
SMASH CUT - 8/10
Fun and bloody homage to Hershel Gordon Lewis, the original "splatter" director. The only thing that the film needed was to look more like a HGL film in terms of cinematography. it nailed everything else from the performances to the FX to the way actors are framed in the shots, but the look of the film was a touch too contemporary. still it looked like everyone was having a ball with this, and its nice to see David Hess in something watchable again.
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO - 5/10:
Really not seeing what is so mindblowing about this. sure it has its rough moments involving rape and Nazis and goth kids and etc, but when you take away that stuff its no different than any movie Ashely Judd did in the 90s. It's a foreign film for people who don't watch foreign films so they can act like their hot shit because they watched something with subtitles. boring, unoriginal, and kind of a dick about it.
THE WAYWARD CLOUD - boingoingoingoing/oingoingoingoing
Insanely sexy and sexually insane... and mind-fuck with an emphasis on the "Fuck". who wants some watermelon?
LONG KHONG 2 a.k.a. ART OF THE DEVIL 3 - needles holding open your eyes/voodoo abortion :
AOTD 2 was one of the grisliest, most deliciously unpleasant films to come from the continent of Asia. AOTD 3 makes it look like Romona and Beezus. Perverse, misanthropic, and sadistic beyond most realms of possibility.
EX-DRUMMER - 8.5/10:
If a Jesus Lizard album was turned into a slasher movie, it would be EX-DRUMMER. Fun, violent, experimental, occasionally surreal, often pornographic... everything good punk rock should be.
TONY- 8/10:
An unemployed social retard collects action films on VHS and murders some dudes. The film drops you right into the middle of the characters bleak existence, offering little in the way of a past or a future. its all in this moment. very interesting character study. put it alongside Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Angst, and other minimalist meditations on brutality and isolation.
SMASH CUT - 8/10
Fun and bloody homage to Hershel Gordon Lewis, the original "splatter" director. The only thing that the film needed was to look more like a HGL film in terms of cinematography. it nailed everything else from the performances to the FX to the way actors are framed in the shots, but the look of the film was a touch too contemporary. still it looked like everyone was having a ball with this, and its nice to see David Hess in something watchable again.
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO - 5/10:
Really not seeing what is so mindblowing about this. sure it has its rough moments involving rape and Nazis and goth kids and etc, but when you take away that stuff its no different than any movie Ashely Judd did in the 90s. It's a foreign film for people who don't watch foreign films so they can act like their hot shit because they watched something with subtitles. boring, unoriginal, and kind of a dick about it.
THE WAYWARD CLOUD - boingoingoingoing/oingoingoingoing
Insanely sexy and sexually insane... and mind-fuck with an emphasis on the "Fuck". who wants some watermelon?
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Not that I'm Bitter or anything vol. 4
people who quote song lyrics in their Facebook statuses are banal incubuses. You're not deep and your everyday "struggles" involving not fitting into a pair of pants or running out of caramel coffee creamer are not being reflected in the words of whatever 90s one-hit wonder you think is poetic. You're just a tasteless miserable identity-lacking drama queen and no one is impressed that you remember the words to fucking Soul Asylum song. listen to SWANS and get the gun, faggot.
Monday, August 9, 2010
We are the Sprocket Holes vol. 157
Kim Ji-Woon's I SAW THE DEVIL Banned From Public Theaters In Korea.
So, just how hard edged is Kim Ji-Woon's upcoming revenge thriller I Saw The Devil? Hard enough that producers have been planning to release it with an 18+ rating - the highest rating given to films approved for public release in Korea. The rating they've been given - and given twice, now - however is one known as 'Limited Screening', a highly restrictive rating that only allows the film to be screened in special theaters that only show adult films. Currently no such theaters exist, meaning the film has effectively been banned.
Originally submitted for ratings review a month ago, the film has undergone re-editing since first being hit by the rating but to no avail. The rating stood a second submission and distributors have now called off scheduled press screenings while they try to address the ratings board concerns and get a rating on the film that will allow them to actually release it. The official concern? Scenes that "severely damage the dignity of human values."
One of the most hyped films of the year thanks to its pairing of actors Lee Byung-hyun (A Bittersweet Life, The Good The Bad And The Weird, GI Joe) and Choi Min-Sik (Oldboy) with the director of A Tale Of Two Sisters, this sort of thing will only liken heighten the anticipation for the film around the world - it premieres as part of the Toronto International Film Festival in September - but could be a huge blow to its domestic success unless they can get things sorted quickly.
Originally submitted for ratings review a month ago, the film has undergone re-editing since first being hit by the rating but to no avail. The rating stood a second submission and distributors have now called off scheduled press screenings while they try to address the ratings board concerns and get a rating on the film that will allow them to actually release it. The official concern? Scenes that "severely damage the dignity of human values."
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, but were unable to catch him. One day, Joo-yeon, daughter of a retired police chief becomes his prey and is found dead in a horrific state.Her fiance Dae-hoon, a top secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take bloody vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself to get this monstrous and inhumane killer.
One of the most hyped films of the year thanks to its pairing of actors Lee Byung-hyun (A Bittersweet Life, The Good The Bad And The Weird, GI Joe) and Choi Min-Sik (Oldboy) with the director of A Tale Of Two Sisters, this sort of thing will only liken heighten the anticipation for the film around the world - it premieres as part of the Toronto International Film Festival in September - but could be a huge blow to its domestic success unless they can get things sorted quickly.
Monday, August 2, 2010
We are the Sprocket Holes vol. 156
Contorversial Kiwi horror flick 'Wound' bleeds like a mother...
[I didn't ask for this one to be added to the catch up pile (Mitch, I'm pointing at you) but on a whim I gave it a go and endured. More on this controversial supernatural horror film that screened at FanTasia after the synopsis off the official site]
WOUND is a Supernatural Horror Film that explores the dark worlds of mental illness, incest, revenge and death. We follow Tanya as she searches for the mother she has never met - a mother (Susan) who gave her up for dead after being abused by her own father who remains stuck in her present life. Tanya returns from the dead to confront and possess Susan with all her deepest fears and desires, sending Susan into a state of madness and gore filled
retribution. WOUND explores and confronts the dark, distorted supernatural world that lurks within us all. A young woman, alone, attempts to fight the demons that begin to haunt her days and nights - in a series of brutal confrontations with the enemies of the past who want to possess and kill her. But, they are all members of her own family ... of her own self. A dark, disturbing look into a haunted woman's mind. This is one terrible dream you will never wake up from.
official site
Sunday, August 1, 2010
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