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  1. Assault On Precinct 13 - The Big Steal - Good Time

     

    watched all three over the weekend. Assault is one of the less interesting Carpenter films i've watched, but good enough. everything up to the actual assault on the precinct had me hooked but i kinda zoned out after that. The Big Steal had a nice twist at the end, though it was a pretty unremarkable film noir. Good Time was a very, very good time. really tense. the OPN soundtrack is fantastic.

  2. the new Portal album blew me the fuck away today. i've listened to them before but haven't been too enthralled, but this is fucking amazing! tried to find the LP online but it seems to be sold out or out of stock everywhere (in UK)

     

    but even that didn't hit me like Full Of Hell did. i've came across the name before but never paid attention. they've just signed to Relapse so i gave Trumpeting Ecstasy a spin and it's one of the most vicious records i've ever heard. i feel like a dummy for missing out on it for so long. the vocal style and range is intense, the drummer is insane and some filthy noise electronic fuckery pops up all over the album. it's mixed and mastered perfectly—maybe Kurt Ballou's best work??

     

  3. recent reads:

     

    Nip the buds, shoot the kids (Oe)

    Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut)

    Americana (DeLillo)

    Imperial Bedrooms (BEE)

    A Clockwork Orange (Burgess)

     

    worst to best:

     

    Imperial Bedrooms - Americana - Cat's Cradle - Nip the buds - A Clockwork Orange

     

    Imperial Bedrooms was really... not great. he's so hit and miss.

     

    Americana was wrote well but the 3 parts are so incredibly different tonally it really doesn't mesh. it was at least 150 pages too long, too.

     

    Cat's Cradle is too inoffensive and bland to be great, though it was good enough.

     

    Nip the buds was good, though the writing is repetitive and somewhat childish. it is narrated by a child, so I'm not sure how intensional this is. if intensional it works well. he was young as fuck when he wrote it, so i'm not sure.

     

    A Clockwork Orange is fantastic. going to rewatch the film later.

  4. i have the KP3 which is pretty good for audio fuckery. there are much nicer effects out there if you want it mainly for the delays and more standard FX though having so much in one unit is really handy. almost all the effects are tempo synced which is useful. other than the fact it's ugly as hell i'm not sure what the differences are between the KP2 and KP3. does it do sampling?

  5. i've had a few false starts recently. got about 20(?) pages into Neuromancer but dropped it (not in the mood for it). tried to push through The Rachel Papers (Martin Amis) but it's not doing much for me. stopped reading around 90 pages in. i loved Money but i haven't much enjoyed the other stuff i've read of his. starting to think his early work just isn't very good. i'll try another of his newer works next time.

     

    i did make it through Amnesia Moon (Jonathan Lethem) which was pretty good but nothing mind blowing. it got more interesting as it went on. PKD worship.

     

    i also finished The Road which was really good. not as good as anything else of McCarthy's i've read, but it had some really nice moments. i was expecting it to read a little more like a mainstream novel with more 'story' so it was a nice surprise. it could be summed up as 300 pages of 2 people being cold but he somehow makes it an interesting read despite the repetition. i watched the film after as well which was a pretty good and faithful adaptation.

     

    also read a few Lovecraft short stories after buying a couple of cheap collections.

     

    currently reading The Road to Wigan Pier for a change of pace because i don't read much non-fiction and i'm also about to begin Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe. it's something i've wanted to read for a long time so hopefully it holds up to expectation.

  6. Hey I like the chords and melodies in this one.

    Great sounds in general, how do you like the Blofeld?

    i love it. it has tons of character but at the same time has huge range. a lot of people see it as a cold or metallic sounding synth (which it definitely can be if you want it to), but it does thick and warm really well if you use it right. if you enjoy programming and making patches it has amazing depth.

     

    all synths in this one except the bass are Blofeld.

     

    thanks for the comments, i appreciate it.

  7. been on a bit of an Orwell kick recently

     

    recently read:

     

    Animal Farm - good

    Down and Out in Paris and London - great

    Success (Martin Amis) - not great

     

    now reading:

     

    Burmese Days

     

    read a little of The Waves (Virginia Woolf) as well but the soliloquy style she uses in it isn't something i really enjoy

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