[Is marijuana use an unspoken rule for posting on WATMM?]

favourite strains in the last 12months:

 

Sage - perfection 11/10 for taste, high & potency

 

Chemdawg - like a high-tannin red Bordeaux....& all the Grateful Dead back-story is no hindrance

 

Blue Cheese - cabbage brain dribble inducing mega-flowers, its so fuckin niiiice, reeks, oh go on jus a lil bit more,,,,,,

 

LSD - def the clearest effect i've had on green to the point that i could get pretty wrecked on it and an ex couldnt tell i'd just vaped, where do i sign?

 

Critical Mass - hmmmmm, huuuuge buds, but you get bored of it quickly & it seems one of the weaker strains in comparison to its profile

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check Europa, an outstanding film & my favourite LVT,,,,,,

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yeah dune is amazing

 

picked up david lynch's "catching the big fish." patton oswalt recommended it as a primer to transcendental meditation on the "you made it weird" podcast. of course it's awesome.

 

cheers for the heads-up on this, ta

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its not as if paying for prized collections of films because you accessed them originally online has any significance

 

ultimate learning resource, w/out it i'd have never seen any Tarkovsky, Kusturica or Kobayashi. I own nearly all their films now.

 

#givetake

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actually standard cinema move is to smuggle in a diet coke & a twix

 

does that satisfy you, idiot?

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nah i farm mate, its been around since the Neolithic

 

farming & robbing culture

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White of the Eye (Donald Cammell)......

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094320/

 

excellent slice of psycho-sexual weirdness about a sound engineer who might have a problem or 2. Love/hate the editing....its got cajones

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torrrenting screeners...

 

 

 

 

if you plan on watching stuff on your pc they do the job sufficiently b4 any b-ray releases get out.....for higher-def special fx-laden stuff less so

 

and FUCK dropping £10 on cinema entry PLUS drinks/munch (another tenner) when i've paid through the nose for records/cd's/dvd's down thru the years

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fuckin right, BT Infinity doing its job.....and thanks to torrents i've seen films that would never have crossed my radar otherwise

 

adding to that, the freakyflicks forum is an outstanding source for obscure, quality filems & criterion re-releases

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American Sniper - THE most 1-sided account of war i've ever seen, shame on you Clint

 

Inherent Vice - 9/10......& i was stoned thru most of it for added chutzpah. Anderson's best film by quite some margin. Did i already write that?

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i think you alluded to yourself there mate

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i liked Whiplash, but the story begged the question - wouldnt 99.99% of people just knock that sweaty bald cunt the fuck out?

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You and the night. 8/10

Tom at the farm. 7/10

Bob Le flambeur. 8/10

Leon Morin priest. 10/10

 

Have you seen Le Cercle Rouge or The Army of Shadows? Granted Melville's a bit more crash-bang-wallop, but Le Cercle Rouge is one of the best French films of all time.

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watmm will keep the fire for zaphod

 

:loggins:

 

Edit:

 

Has anyone actually seen Inherent Vice yet? Was playing a month or so ago in LA, but I was required to exhaust my semi annual theatrical quota (of one) on Interstellar.

 

I am complicit.

 

Watched Inherent Vice last night. Really liked it (torrent crew), but it could do with an edit down to 2hrs-ish. Some great literary characters are done full cinematic justice.....partcularly the scenes with Sportello & Bigfoot....J Phoenix could've gone OTT with Sportello, but imho he fuckin nails it. I thought The Master & There WIll Be Blood were sooooo fuckin over-rated, but this is a much much better piece of work. If Anderson did Pychon's Vineland,,,,,,now that'd be rrrrrockin.

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and i only argue this because the book is in my own top-3.

 

this is sacrilegious material and while i can accept it took some balls and love of the story to even want to try adapting it....i'm sorry but the end result is some stoner joke slap-stick-fest.

 

Just imagine if David Lynch had made it......or consider what Ridley Scott did w/Blade Runner which was adapted ffrom 1 of PKD's weaker books,

see what i'm getting at?

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The film is a perversion of the book. It doesnt even come close to capturing the absolute sadness of the story, the desparate paranoia and the betrayals that lead to Arctor's fall. Neither does it get at the cosmic irony at the very heart of the film, or relate to the casualty list that PKD included in the book. So theres no context, no depth and PKD must've turned in his grave. RDJ's character is a case in point. Instead of being the complete c*nt the book describes, he lampoons this wise-arse quick-talking stereotype. And how can you justify Keanu in the lead.....WTF???????? This wasnt the Matrix, where the special fx underpin the story. Its an absolute disgrace of a film.

 

Shame on any1 for liking this "adaptation" ;)

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Classics? Blue Velvet, Solyaris & Stalker (Tarkovsky NOT Clooney), The Ascent (1977), Come And See, Salo/120 Days of Sodom (not easy viewing), Don't Look Now, Death In Venice, You The Living/Du Levande, anything by Werner Herzog, the last 15mins of Fellini's Juliet Of The Spirits for its hallucinatory visions, anything by Peter Greenaway & anything by David Lynch

would you be kind enough to suggest some movies by him, i only saw his recent one Goltzius and the Pelican Company...

all your other recommendations are favorites of mine (specially Roy Andersson, btw excited about his new one A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence) so i guess anything you suggest will be cool! thanks.

 

 

 

 

first & foremost - The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover.....Michael Dumbledore Gambon at his psychotic best & Helen Mirren slutting 7 jutting up the gaff. Add The Draughtsman's Contract, Prospero's Books & Nightwatching.....all superb especially if u like Kubrick's period piece Barry Lyndon.

 

You might like Import/Export by a director called Ulrich Seidl, he did another slab of strangeness called Hundstage/Dog Days which is proper. Not on the funny scale like Roy A's work, but immersive brilliant story-telling nonetheless.

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Austin Osman Spare/The Occult Life of London's Legendary Artist - Phil Baker & Alan Moore........proper! not too many of his illustrations, but the complete break-down of his techniques and their provenance

 

The Magical Universe of WIlliam Burrough - Steven Levi.......bit like the above, very well researched & teases out the roots of Burroughs's's's obsession w/Control.

 

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy .....3rd reading and its like a whole other universe unto itself. My favourite book, ever.

 

Would recommend The Man In The High Castle by Philip K Dick, along w/A Scanner Darkly (ignore the film), VALIS & The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch if you havent read already. Makes Arthur C Clarke (sp?) & every other sci-fi boffin look like a kid playing with its own shit (imho).

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check Calvary if you like that, its funnier, darker and the finale is mint.....much more like a play with a proper cast of degenerates

 

recent viewing - Birdman = 10/10.....raucous, anxiety-ridden, hallucinatory & funny as fuck when it needs to be

 

Whiplash - just watch it......& appropriate for music lovers generally

 

Classics? Blue Velvet, Solyaris & Stalker (Tarkovsky NOT Clooney), The Ascent (1977), Come And See, Salo/120 Days of Sodom (not easy viewing), Don't Look Now, Death In Venice, You The Living/Du Levande, anything by Werner Herzog, the last 15mins of Fellini's Juliet Of The Spirits for its hallucinatory visions, anything by Peter Greenaway & anything by David Lynch

[JAZZ - THE THREAD]

i gotta thank my old man for the heads up on some of these.....
(some are more fusion pieces)


Modern Jazz Quartet - Milt Meets Sid

Charlie Parker - What Is This Thing Called Love

Weather Report - Black Market title track

Hermeto Pascoal - Maturi

Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods

Thelonius Monk - Brilliant Corners

Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs

Sun Ra - take your pick

Donald Byrd - Blackjack

if it hasnt been linked yet the Jazz On A Summer's Day doc/film is superb, Anita O'Day in full effect, although the 2nd half is bluesier.

[the Coil thread]

^^^^^^^^^

cheers for that.

 

Private collectors buying up certain items is one thing, but you'd think somewhere like the British Library could do a lot with archiving some of this material. Such a talented group/act and i spent a fair wack on picking up their releases down thru the years. A quick aside - whatever your views on TPS selling bits, his Leporre Extrusion is in the very best tradition of Coil releases.