Dull Morning

this morning King's land road was closed a bit before st leonard's hospital, a big portion of it,a truck ran over a cyclist, i just saw the bike, what was quite disturbing was the number of firemen there for one cyclist, about 20.

so i walked til aldgate and it was a nice walk, listening to bob dylan's first record. i still couldn't help myself thinking about this cyclist and about the fact police and firemen to protect us to see blood, the harshness of a dismembered body, the horror.

great records soon

looking forward to listen to the new records from the kills and Wild Beasts

actually listening to 

The Teenagers - Reality Check

out in march but already available to download on amazon us

2004

top 25

The Knife - Deep Cuts (9/10)

Radio Dept. - Lesser Matter (9.5/10)

Lilys - Precollection (10/10)

Jens Lekman - When I said I wanted to be your dog (9/10)

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs (10/10)

Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans (9/10)

Grizzly Bear - Horn of Plenty (9/10)

The Thrills - Let's Bottle Suburbia (9/10)

The Go Team - Thunder lightning Strike (8.5/10)

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Tepid Peppermint Wonderland, A Retrospective (10/10)

Destroyer - Her Blues (9/10)

The Magnetic Fields - i (9/10)

Brian Wilson - Smile (8/10)

Air - Walkie Talkie (8.5/10)

The Libertines - st (8/10)

The Czars - Goodbye (8/10)

Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Lights (8.5/10)

Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days (8/10)

The Dears - No Cities Left (8/10)

Phoenix - Alphabetical (8/10)
Stars - Set Yourself On Fire (9/10) 

Elliott Smith - from a basement up a hill (8/10)

Morrissey - You are the quarry (8.5/10)

Daniel Darc - Crevecoeur (9/10)

Franz Ferdinand - st (8/10)

and 20 more really good records

The Shins - Chutes too Narrow (7/10)
Kerenn Ann - Nolita (7/10)

Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt (7/10)

Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat (7/10)

Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic (7/10)

Interpol - Antics (7/10)

TV on The Radio - Desperate Youth Blood Thirsty Babes (7.5/10)

Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the hands (7/10)

Feist - Let it Die (8/10)

Bjork - Medulla (7.5/10)

Jane Weaver - Like an aspen leaf (7.5/10)

Helena - Née Dans La Nature (7/10)

Riton - homies and homos (7.5/10)

I Love You But I've Chosen Dakness - ep (8/10)

Kings of Convenience - Riot in an Empy Street (8/10)

Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters (7.5/10)

Joanna Newsom - The Milk Eye Mender (7/10)

and the rest

The Concretes - The Concretes

Junior Boys - Last Exit

Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse

CINEMA 2007 and Todd Haynes' fiasco

I saw very few films from 2007 but I loved

Paranoid Park - Gus Van Sant

Death Proof - Quentin Tarantino

Into the Wild - Sean Penn

Planet Terror - Roberto Rodriguez

Don't Touch the Axe - Jacques Rivette

Zodiac - David Fincher
Les Chansons D'amour - Christophe Honoré

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone - Tsai Ming Liang
Superbad - Greg Mottola
No Country for Old Men - Coen Brothers
California Dreaming - Cristian Nemescu
Ratatouille - Brad Bird
Half Nelson - Ryan Fleck
This is England - Shane Meadow

Knocked Up - Judd Apatow

Hallam Foe - David Mackenzie

Superbad - Gregg Mottola

and I was disappointed by CONTROL (beautiful images but so empty and boring, what do we learn from Joy Divison? Nothing. Sam Riley is great but can't do the Ian Curtis dance. Ian Curtis looked scary on stage, Sam Riley is laughable. And Samantha Morton, a great great actress gives her worse performance (which is still better than 90 per cent of Occidental actresses on the circuit at the moment)

and especially by I'M NOT THERE, I adore Todd Haynes but what a big pile of crap! There's amazing performances by Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Christian Bale and Heath Ledger but that couldn't save the film from being so awful. The project was a good idea but in the end too pretentious and incredibly stupid. Nothing really works and Bob Dylan is clearly not there. It just feels like "paraphrase" of Martin Scorcese's fantastic documentary on Dylan. The worse in I'M NOT THERE are the Richard Gere's part (the scene and his terrible performance) and Sam Neil is once more unwatchable.

MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS by Wong Kar Wai was alright but nowhere as good as in his previous films (note: Jude Law is always a bad cast for the good guy, he should only play what he is in real life: an asshole)

and a lot of old amazing films

Two-Lane Black Tops by Monte Hellman

Alice in the Cities and The American Friend from Wim Wenders

Au Hasard Balthazard and L'Argent from Robert Bresson

Robert Aldrich's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Kiss Me Deadly and The Killing Of Sister George.

Cinema

I've seen very few recent films last year, though I saw tons of old films.

The films I liked the most in 2007 were:

PARANOID PARK by Gus Van Sant

DEATH PROOF by Quentin Tarantino

PLANET TERROR by Roberto Rodriguez

SOUTHLAND TALES by Richard Kelly

HALF NELSON

INTO THE WILD by SEAN PENN

MR LONELY by Harmony Korine

I DON'T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE by Tsai Ming Liang

NE TOUCHEZ PAS A LA HACHE by Jacques Rivette

ZODIAC by David Fincher

I liked those but I was also a bit disappointed by them

THE DARJEELING LIMITED by Wes Andersen

MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS

OLD JOY

CONTROL

And I still haven't seen but would love to see the following pictures:

WEIRDSVILLE by Alan Moyle

EASTERN PROMISES by David Cronemberg

THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD by

THE BOSS OF IT ALL by Lars Von Trier

RESCUE DAWN by Werner Herzog

SILENT NIGHT

I REALLY DISLIKED i'm not there from Todd Haynes, shame because I really enjoyed his previous films

oh yeah and Fuck Paul Haggis!

My favorite records of 2007

First 10

The Shins - Wincing the Night Away

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Justice - +

Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, are you the Destroyer?

Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position

Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala

Panda Bear - Person Pitch

Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

Lcd Soundsystem - The Sound of Silver

Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release

Last Ten

Thee, Stranded Horse -  Churning Stride

The Horrors - Strange House

Dungen - Tio Bitar

Ed Banger Vol 2

The Chemical Brothers - We Are The Night

The Coral - Roots and Echoes

Feist - The Reminder

The Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future

Holy Fuck - LP

The Black Kids - Wizzards of Ahhhs