Month: January 2012
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God Bless America
Ooh I want to see this film by Bobcat Goldthwait (yes that guy from Police Academy!), a kind of Falling Down dark comedy where a man gets driven to murder by reality television after finding out he has a brain tumour…looks like a delicious revenge fantasy in the style of Natural Born Killers crossed with…
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RC 215: KLF Part 2 – Dead Sheep
Second part of the KLF story (part one is here) where we meet Bill Drummond strumming techno on a acoustic guitar, Jimmy Cauty goes into Space 1985, dogs rowing boats, abandon all art now, The fake (?) FoLKies, What Time Is 9/11 , remote scottish island rituals, german lounge punks, Royal Fail, David Starkey Ragga…
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The bigger the bull
Somehow despite growing up around english folk and jazz I’ve never heard of Jake Thackray…apparently Wild Beasts, Arctic Monkeys and Jarvis Cocker are fans, and I can hear why. And like a lot of the 1970’s and 1950’s acerbic songs, from Paddy Roberts to Tom Lehrer to this you can hear a dark serious undercurrent…