This past weekend marked my return to the Hanger Bar on East 3rd street. I brought my favorite tracks from the UK excursion, as well as a newfound love for the “What Band Do You Think YOU’RE In” game. Amazingly enough, one can play the game while shooting pool at HB. So it goes when a Friday night party attracts disgruntled locals (aka, starving musicians of the E.Vill.) and the women who love to grind em.
So here we are, a lil guide to my favorite singles of the moment:
1. “The Beginning of the Twist” – The Futureheads. Kudos to these guys for getting this single to number 20 on the UK charts without a shred of advertising money. The guys are iconic of the new business model, finding success on the merit …
It's easy to hate The Horrors'with their corny-ass goth posing and Bud Cort haircuts'but Strange House is an undeniably good record. The ghosts of drum & bass are hidden in the runaway propulsion of these songs: almost as if Aphex Twin's Come to Daddy was remade by a bunch of dandy rock guys with a Farfisa organ. Perhaps that's why Chris Cunningham came out of retirement to direct the video for 'Sheena Is a Parasite'the sound was already perfectly suited to his Aphex imagery. But 'Sheena' and the video ...
Forgive a personal side note here: Both Romanek and Walker are two of the genuinely good people in Hollywood. Not only do they each have individually creative voices – Romanek dark and tragically beautiful, Walker dark and, well, hopeless – but I can speak from experience that they are down to earth talents who genuinely love film. Another reason to get all giddy about this project is that it's being produced by Universal's Mary Parent, another uniquely caring cineast who I know will shepherd …
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