The Jesus and Mary Chain - 'Darklands'

The title track from the album 'Darklands' by The Jesus and Mary Chain, 1987.
Still one of my favourite summer albums, despite the fact that all of the lyrics are about rain.

Michael Haneke

The Essential Michael Haneke
Der Siebente Kontinent (1989)
Benny's Video (1992)
71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (1994)
Das Schloβ (1997)
Funny Games (1997)
Code inconnu (2000)
La Pianiste (2001)
Le Temps du loup (2003)
Caché (2005)
Funny Games U.S. (2007)
Artificial Eye, 2009

Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethic of the Image
by Catherine Wheatley
Berghahn Books, 2009


The Essential Michael Haneke is a ten-disc DVD box set featuring all of Michael Haneke's films from 1989-2007 (including his adaptation of Das Schloβ by Kafka which was originally filmed for television but was then released cinemtically against Haneke's wishes). As with most Artificial Eye releases, the set is immaculately designed and presented, and features excellent interviews with the director about most of the films. Unfortunately, the box set was not released in time to incorporate Das weiße Band, my favourite film from last year.

Catherine Wheatley's The Ethic of the Image considers Haneke's work in light of the traditions of counter-cinema and the idea of cinematic 'un-pleasure', and also in the context of Kantian ethics.

Manhunter (1986)

Lysistrata

'Lysistrata' by Aristophanes
Tuesday 02/03 - Saturday 06/03
The People's Theatre, Newcastle Upon Tyne

I am playing Kinesias.

Cluster: Live

Coming soon:
AV Festival 2010 presents Cluster and :Zoviet*France live in concert
7.30 p.m. on 10/03/2010
Sunderland Aquatic Centre
Tickets £5

http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/10/highlights/big-water-cluster

Digestion

Some albums I have been listening to recently:

Miles Davis: The Blue Haze
Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescaleet: The Breadwinner
Stephan Mathieu: Radioland*
Sunn O))): Monoliths & Dimensions
Vangelis: Earth

Some films I have seen in the last couple of months:

Code Inconnu
Five Easy Pieces
Kontroll
The Last Detail*
The Road

I also enjoyed reading 'Magnificent Desolation'* by Buzz Aldrin recently.

* = pictured

'I Fear Santa'

My new single, 'I Fear Santa', is now available for free download.

For full details, please visit www.7thSun.co.uk/

Compilation - 'Needless Alley'

A compilation of some of the music I have been listening to this year - some new, some old. Enjoy!

01. Harmonia & Eno '76 - Welcome
02. New Order - Your Silent Face (Session)
03. Russian Circles - Hexed All
04. Kelpe - Eye Candy Bath
05. Nine Inch Nails - Lights In The Sky (Live)
06. Have A Nice Life - Deep, Deep
07. Goblin - Suspiria
08. Kraftwerk - Radioactivity
09. Grouper - Little Gray Cat
10. Svarte Greiner - Last Night.

Download.

Sleeping Beauty

Showing until this Sunday, 20th December.

Mogwai - 'Burning'

Mogwai Live Film "Burning" Teaser from Nathanaël Le Scouarnec on Vimeo.