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FIELD NOTES
Beginning with an opening reception on January 8th, Gallery 1988:LA will be mounting a group art show, "UNDER THE INFLUENCE," an officially sanctioned art tribute to the Beastie Boys.
The show, which will be running through January 29th, is "an all-original collection of works inspired by the mus... [more]
[12.17.2008]
The show, which will be running through January 29th, is "an all-original collection of works inspired by the mus... [more]
[12.17.2008]
MP3 Downloads
| Juno "The French Letter (live)" mp3 (DeSoto) |
Oso "Last Warning (live)" mp3 (TEAM AV) |
| Immortal Technique feat. Diabolic and Ras Kass "The Payback" mp3 (Viper) |
The Long Lost "Woebegone (Flying Lotus remix)" mp3 (Ninja Tune) |
| Basic Vocab "Come Get With It" mp3 (self-released) |
Max Justus "Change Your Pants" mp3 (Record Machine) |
| Deleted Scenes "Get Your Shit Together For the Holidays" mp3 (What Delicate) |
Friendly Foes "My Body (Is A Strange Place To Live)" mp3 (Gangplank) |
LA CINEMA FILM + REVIEW
CINEMA
» Synecdoche, New York - Revered screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, taking on the role of director, propels the meta-film concept to ever-spiraling extremes. The result? A film so complex that you can basically say anything you want about it, as long as it's convoluted.[12.15.2008 by Susan Howson]
CINEMA
» Let The Right One In - With a pending North American remake scheduled for 2009, much to the objections of its original director, this beautifully rendered Swedish picture is a truly great film worth letting into your cinematic queue, that just happens to have a vampire at its heart.[11.17.2008 by Jon Burke]
CINEMA
» Wu - The Story of the Wu-Tang Clan, director Gerald K. Barclay's inside-the-circle look at one of the most influential music collectives of all time, will premiere on BET network tonight and be released on DVD next week.[11.13.2008 by Jonah Flicker]
CINEMA
» The Cottage - What makes Paul Andrew Williams' latest film such a great horror experience is the characters involved in its ridiculous scenario, as well as the much-hyped director's ploy, ala Speilberg, to wait an outrageous amount of time before revealing the shark or, in this case, The Farmer. The buildup works.[11.12.2008 by Jon Burke]
CINEMA
» Hell Ride - The quality of director and co-star Larry Bishop's film, screened at last year's Sundance Festival and given a limited theatrical release in August before being released to DVD by Dimension Extreme last week, is just a slim step above straight-to-video.[11.05.2008 by Jonah Flicker]
CINEMA
» Kiss of the Spider Woman - Director Hector Babenco's dialogue and emotion-heavy 1985 independent classic, released on DVD this week, is anchored by an Oscar-winning performance from William Hurt that is both touching and intelligent.[10.24.2008 by Jonah Flicker]
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» Thanks to everyone for making 2008, the 10th year of LAS (in some form), a great one. We're easing into 2009 by taking a break. For your daily news blurb needs, check The Morning News, where you can keep your holiday buzz going with "The Ghosts of Christmas Just Past" and their Annual 2008 year-end print collection. For more 2009 readings, Eikongraphia still dishes daily iconography, and Urban Cartography is "visualizing geodata and other information" to explain the world in charts and graphs. Plus, if we didn't already mention it, Fuck You, Penguin looks like another new daily-ish new site for images of things that can make a person question the meaning of life. It sort of combines the heartache of lolcats and the absurdity of Scraps. [01.05.2009 03:00 am]
» While we'll be making some irregular updates as per usual, there's still the 2008 Year-End Music Report to contend with, and the BSNYC Year-End Bike Porn Extravaganza. NOT RELATED: Free music is bountiful at the moment, including two EPs of "12, thirty-second songs" from Canadian The Acorn and a couple of
free carols from Eugene McGuiness and the Domino label, who also put together a holiday word search. [01.05.2009 02:00 am]
» Peabody Award-winning radio program This American Life recently spent a day at a mall in Tennessee, including some time in the security control booth. On crowds and how they are dealt with. NOT RELATED: The demographic inversion of the American city, and Architecture in Berlin. AND: Icon magazine on why design needs a recession, and 12 Good Gadgets for Hard Times. [01.05.2009 01:00 am]
---» While we'll be making some irregular updates as per usual, there's still the 2008 Year-End Music Report to contend with, and the BSNYC Year-End Bike Porn Extravaganza. NOT RELATED: Free music is bountiful at the moment, including two EPs of "12, thirty-second songs" from Canadian The Acorn and a couple of
free carols from Eugene McGuiness and the Domino label, who also put together a holiday word search. [01.05.2009 02:00 am]
» Peabody Award-winning radio program This American Life recently spent a day at a mall in Tennessee, including some time in the security control booth. On crowds and how they are dealt with. NOT RELATED: The demographic inversion of the American city, and Architecture in Berlin. AND: Icon magazine on why design needs a recession, and 12 Good Gadgets for Hard Times. [01.05.2009 01:00 am]
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MUSIC
» 2008 Year-End Music Report [composite] - Although 2007 wasn't all that bad, in general the past few years in music have been characterized by a few far-and-away bangers and a bunch of lackluster albums. 2008 changed all that, and as per our usual December tradition the LAS staff has tallied a collective Best Of list.[12.19.2008 by The LAS Staff]
MUSIC
» 2008 Year-End Music Report [individual A-M] - Through a simple mathamatical system of reverse scoring (#1 is worth 10 points, #10 worth 1 point), the year-end top ten picks of 22 current and former LAS staff writers were combined to produce a composite top 20. These are the individual lists, writers A-M.[12.19.2008 by The LAS Staff]
MUSIC
» 2008 Year-End Music Report [individual N-Z] - Yeah, yeah, you get the picture. Individual picks for the best releases of 2008, writers N-Z.[12.19.2008 by The LAS Staff]
BOUND + PRINT REVIEW
The Given Day - As with most of his work, Dennis Lehane's new novel is set in and around Boston. A literary gift that keeps on giving, The Given Day weaves together historical fact and finely wrought characters into a touching, heart-tugging tale of remarkable power. [11.10.2008 by Cory Tendering]
Havana Nocturne - In his heavily-researched, thoroughly-sourced book, true-crime novelist and television screenwriter T.J. English delivers a nitty-gritty account of how the most raucous and notorious social and criminal circles overlapped for a decade in Cuba, and how it all came tumbling down. [11.04.2008 by Eric J Herboth]
Reading the OED - By setting out to digest the entirety of the Oxford English Dictionary - a book so massive that it took 6243 pounds of ink to print its 350-million characters - and then write a book about it, word junkie Ammon Shea did us all a favor. [10.14.2008 by Eric J Herboth]
33 1/3: 20 Jazz Funk Greats - In the 54th installment of Continuum's 33-1/3 series, Matmos member Drew Daniel examines Throbbing Gristle's seminal 1979 album. Detailed and personal, the book that is a small masterpiece in itself, jam-packed with memories, interviews and dissection of songs. [09.18.2008 by Daniel Svanberg]
33 1/3: Gentlemen - While not diving into the excesses or tawdry anecdotes the way Nikki Sixx would, Gendron slightly titillates while using the kind-of sordid stories as a context to describe the duress and emotional fragility from which the Afghan Whigs' album sprung. [09.11.2008 by Kevin Alfoldy]
Alcohol Can Be A Gas! - Less than 2-percent of corn grown in the United States is fed to human beings, and David Blume's book on the potential of ethanol drives home the fact that fuel and food aren't in competition and, in fact, should be complimentary industries. [09.09.2008 by Eric J Herboth]
Havana Nocturne - In his heavily-researched, thoroughly-sourced book, true-crime novelist and television screenwriter T.J. English delivers a nitty-gritty account of how the most raucous and notorious social and criminal circles overlapped for a decade in Cuba, and how it all came tumbling down. [11.04.2008 by Eric J Herboth]
Reading the OED - By setting out to digest the entirety of the Oxford English Dictionary - a book so massive that it took 6243 pounds of ink to print its 350-million characters - and then write a book about it, word junkie Ammon Shea did us all a favor. [10.14.2008 by Eric J Herboth]
33 1/3: 20 Jazz Funk Greats - In the 54th installment of Continuum's 33-1/3 series, Matmos member Drew Daniel examines Throbbing Gristle's seminal 1979 album. Detailed and personal, the book that is a small masterpiece in itself, jam-packed with memories, interviews and dissection of songs. [09.18.2008 by Daniel Svanberg]
33 1/3: Gentlemen - While not diving into the excesses or tawdry anecdotes the way Nikki Sixx would, Gendron slightly titillates while using the kind-of sordid stories as a context to describe the duress and emotional fragility from which the Afghan Whigs' album sprung. [09.11.2008 by Kevin Alfoldy]
Alcohol Can Be A Gas! - Less than 2-percent of corn grown in the United States is fed to human beings, and David Blume's book on the potential of ethanol drives home the fact that fuel and food aren't in competition and, in fact, should be complimentary industries. [09.09.2008 by Eric J Herboth]
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"One Month Off" video
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"Bright Tomorrow" video
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