UPCOMING SHOWS:

UPCOMING SHOWS:

Sat. April 30
KONONO N°1 FEAT. BATUDA
(Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing)

Sun. May 1
HELL
(The Pit's, Kortrijk)

Thu. May 5
Awesome Tapes From Africa dj set
(Treehou5e Open Air, Ghent)

Fri. May 6
Invisible Hands / Neil Michael Hagerty & The Howling Hex / DSR Lines
(Vooruit, Ghent)

Sat. May 7
CRITES
(De Ruimte, Ghent)

Tue. May 10
SEX CRIME + THE ARROGANTS
(De Pit's, Kortrijk)

Thu. May 12
QUANTIC
(DOK, Ghent)

Fri. May 13
ARCHIE & THE BUNKERS
(Het Bos, Antwerp)

Sun. May 15
THRONEFEST (Taake, Inquisition, Mgla, Batushka, Inferno, Dysangellium, Wiegedood & The Commitee)
(Kubox, Kuurne)

Thu. May 26
PAUL COLLINS BEAT
(Den Trap, Kortrijk)

Fri. May 27
BEAK>
(Trix, Antwerp)

Wed. June 1
TY SEGALL & THE MUGGERS
(Botanique, Brussels)

Wed. June 8
UNCANNY VALLEY: THE LOS ANGELES FREE MUSIC SOCIETY AND THEIR LEGACY (WOLF EYES, etc.)
(Vooruit, Ghent)

Wed. June 22
FÖLLAKZOID
(Het Bos, Antwerp)






Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)



Timothy Treadwell spent 13 summers living among wild bears in the Alaskan wilderness until one of his beloved grizzlies got tired of the stalking and decided to devour him at his campsite in Katmai National Park in the fall of 2003. In telling this story, Werner Herzog relies considerably on Treadwell's own video footage and it soon becomes apparent that Treadwell was an incredible irritating nutcase, a manic-depressive ex-alcoholic whose pseudo-ecological nonsense and selfishness were in big contrast to the desolate and raw beauty of the undisturbed wilderness. Treadwell was no biologist but a ridiculous charlatan who claimed himself the saviour of the grizzly bears in a nature reserve (!). By exposing the animals to human contact, he did them more harm than good while his egomaniacal rants against the park authorities, poachers and other visitors to his remote hideaway are proof of his insane behaviour. He wanted to become one with the bears (in which he definitely succeeded!) but never even considered asking himself if the wild animals appreciated his presence. Herzog's documentary tends to voyeurism and sensation but it suits the subject of a bear-obsessed paranoid loser perfectly. Totally embarrassing!

Sunday, March 19, 2006

Cinema Novo Festival 2006

***** The Forsaken Land - Vimukthi Jayasundara (Sri Lanka 2005)



**** El - Luis Bunuel (Mexico 1953)
**** El Angel exterminador - Luis Bunuel (Mexico 1962)
**** Grain in Ear - Zhang Lu (China 2005)
**** Asshak : Tales from the Sahara - Ulrike Koch (Germany 2004)
**** La nina santa - Lucrecia Martel (Argentina-Spain-Italy 2004)
**** Los muertos - Lisandro Alonso (Argentina-France-The Netherlands-Switzerland 2004)
**** Bright Future - Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan 2002)

***1/2 Café Lumière - Hou Hsiao-hsien (Japan 2004)
***1/2 Three Times - Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Taiwan 2005)
***1/2 Be With Me - Eric Khoo (Singapore 2005)
***1/2 Los olvidados - Luis Bunuel (Mexico 1950)

*** Free Zone - Amos Gitaï (Israel-Belgium-France 2005)
*** Nordeste - Juan Solanas (Argentina-France 2005)
*** Sa-kwa - Kang Yi-kwan (South-Korea 2005)
*** SPL - Wilson Yip (Hong Kong-China 2005)
*** Election - Johnnie To (Hong Kong-China 2005)
*** Crying Fist - Ryoo Seung-wan (South-Korea 2005)
*** El imperio de la fortuna - Arturo Ripstein (Mexico 1985)
*** Macunaïma - Joaquim Pedro de Andrade (Brasil 1969)
*** Simon del desierto - Luis Bunuel (Mexico 1965)
*** Les artistes du théâtre brûlé - Rithy Panh (Cambodia 2005)
*** Noticias Lejanas - Ricardo Benet (Mexico 2005)
*** Bashing - Masahiro Kobayashi (Japan 2005)
*** Mongolian Ping Pong - Hao Ning (China 2005)
*** Paradise Now - Hany Abu-Assad (Palestina-The Netherlands 2005)
*** The Cave of the Yellow Dog - Byambasuren Davaa (Mongolia-Germany 2005)
*** The Wayward Cloud - Tsai Ming-Liang (Taiwan-France 2005)

**1/2 Play - Alicia Scherson (Chili-Argentina-France 2005)
**1/2 Shanghai Dreams - Wang Xiaoshuai (China 2005)

** El aura - Fabien Bielinsky (Argentina 2005)
** The Sunflowers - Wang Baomin (China 2005)
** La sagrada familia - Sebastien Campos (Chili 2005)
** The President's Last Bang - Im Sang-soo (South-Korea 2005)
** Mur - Simone Bitton (Israel-France 2004)
** Vital - Shinya Tsukamoto (Japan 2004)
** The Syrian Bride - Eran Riklis (Israel 2004)

* Takeshis' - Takeshi Kitano (Japan 2005)
* Attente - Rashid Masharawi (Palestina-France 2005)
* Le temps révolu - Minh Hô Quang (Vietnam-France 2005)
* The Taste of Tea - Katsuhito Ishii (Japan 2004)

0 Water - Deepa Mehta (India 2005)
0 Un oso rojo - Israel Adrian Caetano (Argentina-Spain-France 2002)

Friday, March 03, 2006

Agitated - ELECTRIC EELS



Agitated by: Morton, McMahon, Marotta

I feel so agitated, so agitated,
Run through a washing machine, agitated.
So agitated, so convoluted
I hate it, I hate it, I'd just like to shoot it.

It's five a.m. and I'm crawling the walls
Waiting for imaginary telephone calls.

You know what I think, I think the whole world stinks.
I don't need no shrink, I just hate it.

Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead,
Just like my cousin Fred.


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