5 posts tagged “movie”
The new Darkel album is due out the 18th of September, 2006. Darkel is Jean-Benoît Dunckel, one half of the French space-rock/electronica duo Air. For this project, JB sheds his Air band mate Nicolas Godin and strikes out on his own with Laurent Griffon on guitars and bass and Earl Harvin picking up the drumsticks for a couple of the album's songs. Check out the Darkel myspace site for more tunes from the new album.
Air's 2004 release Talkie Walkie [shown below] is a fabulous record and the new offering from one half of the duo looks to be interesting and similar on some songs to the Air sound and a departure from the norm on other cuts such as At the End of the Sky, available for preview via the official Darkel site and with the spunky TV Destroy which is a bit more rockin' and rollin' than drum machine programmin' style of music Air fans have become accustomed to.
The Air myspace.com site has a blog news blurb about the Charlotte Gainsbourg album that the duo contributed to as well as the release info for the new Darkel album scheduled for this month. The blurb also mentions that the finishing touches are being applied to songs for the next Air album scheduled currently for release in the Winter of 2007. Michel Gondry's new movie "The Science of Sleep" that Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in is also mentioned in the blurb along with a link to the movie soundtrack's myspace page.
I can't wait for the new Air album but the Darkel release will quench the thirst for now. The complete MP3 of the song At the End of the Sky and a video for it are available at the myspace.com Darkel site.
A friend of mine and I were talking about the band that featured Terry and Dale Bozio and friends, and he mentioned that the album title was an anagram and sure enough, the wikipedia.org entry for them confirms the useless trivia fact that Missing Persons' first full length album title is indeed an anagram. I guess Terry Bozio played with Frank Zappa on a few albums and then formed Missing Persons with his then wife Dale. Warren Cuccurullo, Patrick O'Hearn and Chuck Wild finish out the fabulous five members.
A couple of youtube searches later and I'm watching the "Give" video that my friend mentioned with the Missing Link guitar [apparently it's made out of chain link but I can't tell from the youtube vid] and the custom built drum computer played by Terry Bozio. Youtube is amazing.
Too bad the reunion never bore fruit but I guess Dale still tours under the name Missing Persons and the guitarist for this band also played with Duran Duran on the Notorious album back in the day. Wow. I feel old.
Here's a few of my favorites by them...
Destination Unknown:
Mental Hopscotch:
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I love this video from youtube that highlights subtle hints in the dialogue between Star Wars characters in selected scenes that there just might be some homosexual undertones brewing between some of them; especially from the two seemingly asexual droids we all know as C3P0 and R2D2. Combine that with the Oscar nominated Ang Lee film Brokeback Mountain and some clever editing and you've got Star Wars: The Empire Brokeback!:
The Japanese are absolutely off the hook with robot technology. One of these days, they're just gonna blast off of the planet and leave us all behind to sort out the big issues like global warming, thermonuclear war, Allah vs. Jesus, gay marriage vs. family values or whatever perdicament we find ourselves in.
Videos like this one make me think that these little robots are just the beginning and human scale bots are just around the corner. Honda already has the Asimo robot which can run at a pretty good clip in a straight line or circles like a human all by itself with no one controlling it. My hope is that these human sized robots won't be used in armed conflicts against people someday, although it's extremely likely that they will be used as replacements for human casualties. Someday, we might all end up as slaves to the robots and the Matrix might not seem all that implausible. Which pill would you take? I would take the Red pill myself.
Here's the wrestling robot vid:
Here's the Honda Asimo running video [long]:
Why anyone would want to subject themselves to such an unpredictable and powerful force of nature is beyond me but I guess I would be considered a wuss by today's standards what with the motocross crazy heads, snowmobile jumpers, skateboarders, BMX bike pool riders and any other kind of extreme sport people do today. This wave is unbelievably large. The digitized sound of the wave crashing after being encoded into MP3 format is kind of eerie as well. I guess that comes from high frequency aliasing of the audio signal. That's geek speak tho.
Here's the vid:
