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Geeky Songs
Considering that geeks are the driving force behind technological and scientific advancement, and such avid consumers of sci-fi and fantasy TV shows, movies, computer games, novels, comics and all their associated merchandise, it is difficult to fathom the reasons why geeks and their areas of interest are so under-represented in the music industry.
Where are all the geeky songs about science, computing, gaming and sci-fi?
Well, the good news is that they do exist, and that there are even artists making a whole career out of geeky songs!
Here is a small selection of some of the best and geekiest geeky songs we know.
Geeky Songs About Science
While there are plenty of well-known artists that might mention science in a song or two, it is often in a very ungeeky way. Thankfully there are a few seriously scientific geeky artists out there who aren't afraid to express their scientific knowledge in song. Here are some of our favourite geeky songs based on science.
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants are such a band. For in excess of 30 years, TMBG have been a prolific surreal alternative band with a fondness for science. In 1994 they released Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas), an uptempo and verbatim cover of a 1959 song from a Tom Glazer album, Space Songs, which described in basic terms the science of the sun (at least as far as was known at the time the lyrics had been written).
Due to advancements in scientific knowledge the lyrics became obsolete, so in 2009 on their fourteenth studio album (and fourth "children's album") Here Comes Science, TMBG included the song again, but this time followed it with a new song on the same topic, entitled Why Does The Sun Really Shine?
Johnathan Coulton
Johnathan Coulton is a geeky singer-songwriter who releases all of his geeky songs under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license rather than being signed to a label, allowing anyone to use it in their own noncommercial works. This approach has spawned numerous unofficial music videos for his songs that have gone viral on YouTube.
At the start of his career he spent some time as an opening act for They Might Be Giants live shows, and was famously involved in a dispute with American TV show Glee.
The story goes… In the Glee show, there was a cover version of the Sir Mix-a-Lot song Baby Got Back, but using a melody and adlib lyrics that Coulton had written himself for his own cover years before, without any acknowledgement to Coulton or permission to use his rewritten parts of the song for commercial use.
After receiving an insulting response from the show's lawyers, Coulton rereleased his own version of the song, renamed Baby Got Back (In The Style Of Glee), which he described as being "a cover of Glee's cover of my cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot's song, which is to say it's EXACTLY THE SAME as my original version" and vowed to donate a certain amount of the proceeds to two Glee-related charities.
Here's JoCo performing one of his geeky songs, That Spells DNA…
A Capella Science
A Capella Science is is the brainchild of Tim Blais, a physics masters degree graduate who creates science-based geeky songs using only sounds that he makes with his mouth – all drums and other "instruments" that you hear are all just his voice (albeit overdubbed).
With a wealth of science-based geeky songs to choose from, it's hard to pick only one for a list like this, but everyone likes Bohemian Rhapsody, right? What about Bohemian Gravity?
Monty Python
Obviously Monty Python need no introduction, having graced our screens since the 1960's with their original, revolutionary, and oft-since-copied brand of surrealist comedy that forged the careers of members John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and the late Graham Chapman.
Python caused a bit of a stir with their 1979 movie Life Of Brian, the story of a Jewish man born on the same day as Jesus in the building next door, who is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah. The movie was banned in a number of countries including Ireland for eight years and Norway for a year, and also by many town councils in the UK. Some of those UK bans extended into the 21st century, such as in Torbay in Devon, where the ban was only lifted in 2008.
This is Galaxy Song, performed by Eric Idle, one of Python's more geeky songs, which first appeared in their 1983 movie, The Meaning Of Life…
Geeky Songs About Gaming
Gamers, like science geeks, have every right to feel aggrieved at the music industry for the distinct shortage of gaming-related geeky songs available in the mainstream. Thankfully the Nerdcore Rap genre has its fair share of representatives of this topic, and a few of the bigger MMO games have such large and dedicated communities that music about their favourite games have become subgenres in their own right.
Andrew Volpe
Andrew Volpe is the vocalist/guitarist in alternative rock band Ludo. In 2012 under his own name he penned this geeky song for gamers, Gaming Ain't No Game, expressing the passion that many of us have for this so frequently misunderstood pasttime…
MC Frontalot
No geeky songs list would be complete without some MC Frontalot, the Godfather of the Nerdcore Rap scene, and his practically inimitable style of highly punctuated geeky rap.
With six studio albums to his name and lyrics covering geeky topics from retro gaming to TV and movie references, computing, science, role-playing, philosophy and the zombie apocalypse, Front has been at the fore of the geeky music scene since the release of his debut album Nerdcore Rising in 2005.
It Is Pitch Dark is a satirical and philosophical song with heavy references to the Zork text-adventure game series from the earliest days of home computing. Watch out for the cameo by legendary game designer Steve Maretzky…
MMO Fan Music: EVE Online
EVE Online in a space-based MMO created by Icelandic software company CCP. The game is infamous in MMO circles for its steep learning curve, providing a level of difficulty that separates the geek from the chaff to cement a dedicated global nerd-heavy fanbase.
Such are the levels of commitment from the playerbase, an entire underground genre of geeky songs has arisen, created by EVE players purely for EVE players.
I could fill an entire article like this one with just EVE-referencing parody cover versions of famous songs, let alone original songs by fans and CCP staff alike. such is the wealth of EVE-related music available on the internet.
Cearul is one of the artists at the forefront of the EVE-fan-written geeky songs scene, having created a number of professional quality parody cover versions of famous songs set in the EVE game-world of New Eden.
Like many aspects of the game itself, the ingame references in the lyrics are almost certain to fly over the heads of anyone that isn't a hardened EVE player, but even non-players will be able to appreciate the time and effort that have gone into creating geeky songs about this most geeky of online multiplayer games…
Geeky Songs About Computers And Programming
Computers have rarely been seen as sexy topics for songwriters, except for perhaps in a few key moments in the history of the industry. Still, one or two artists have written some pretty geeky songs about the internet and even about coding, like these…
Jesus Jones
Jesus Jones were an indie/alternative band that were most famous in the late 80's and early 90's, who weren't afraid to utilise the latest music technology into their rock-guitar-laden sound. One of their earliest hits was the geek anthem Info Freako, a musical manifesto of the singer's endless desire for more knowledge.
The following song, Zeroes And Ones from their third album Perverse (1993) is one of their more geeky songs, and is a statement of wide-eyed wonder at the birth of the internet and a prophetic vision of how computers were about to change the world forever…
Dale Chase
Dale Chase arrived on the geeky music scene in 2010 with his eclectic album Limit Break, and is known for his in-depth coding-related lyrics and geeky songs that cover a number of geeky topics from TV show Breaking Bad to online content management system WordPress.
Here are a few of Chase's geeky songs for programmers…
Star Wars
I could hardly write an article about geeky songs without at least giving a mention to Star Wars. There have been so many geeky songs written about the Holy Trilogy (and those other three movies that we try not to talk about) that the list of songs that reference the Star Wars universe that can be found on one particular Star Wars wiki site is longer than this whole article, and that list doesn't even mention the wonderful grunge track Chewbacca (What A Wookiee) by Supernova…
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Last but not least, the legend that is "Weird Al" Yankovic. With 14 albums to his name, Weird Al has been prolific in his three decade career of covering famous songs but changing the lyrics either in parody of the original song or to make reference to some hilarity-inducing aspect of modern times.
Occasionally, Weird Al has written some pretty geeky songs, none more so than in the exceptional The Saga Begins, a play-by-play retelling of the story of The Phantom Menace from the point of view of Obi Wan Kenobi…
I hope you enjoyed this article about geeky songs. Follow us on our Facebook page and our Twitter page, and let us know what your favourite geeky songs are!
Stay geeky!


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A moving picture is worth 1000 words a second. Those who share themselves with the public through the Internet using video accelerate their exposure to the minds of strangers.
JenniCam was a pioneer of webcams - opening her bedroom to anyone with a web browser. Jennifer Johnson, née Ringley explored the medium and personal transparency, reaching great heights of fame and exposure, before removing herself entirely from the web a few years later.
Bravo to the Reply All podcast for doing the legwork and tracking her down for a useful glimpse into One person's path through explicit personal sharing online: Reply All: "Jennicam" December 17, 2014.
I'm sifting through some of these sorts of recollections myself for my 21 years of links.net documentary. Jennifer Johnson here wasn't ready to take on any role or responsibility for rampant public intimacy using technology but she does end the interview with an effecting testament to the social and personal costs for her therein.
Spoiler: she attributes some of her downshifted sharing to aging processes, in a portion of this interview that caused me to nod in recognition.


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One of the few ways these women can improve their lives and the lives of their families is by learning a craft, but carpet-making -- Afghanistan's most famous craft -- can require a large loom, and middlemen can keep most of the profits. In contrast, small-scale embroidery has less of a start-up cost, can travel easily with the women, and passes more of the profits through directly to the artisan herself. Through earning an income of her own, a woman can provide education for her children, afford food and medicine, and help establish her family's future.
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Michael Cohen's Morning Buzz: Tim Howard, Jermaine Jones huge keys to U.S. victory
The ball flew in from the foot of Graham Zusi toward the head of Geoff Cameron, who leaped into the air to meet it, his perfectly styled hair flying in the wake of a vicious head whip.
But Cameron missed, and the ball continued its screaming flight toward what turned out to be greatness.
Behind Cameron stood John Brooks, an unlikely hero after coming onto the field at halftime to replace the ailing Matt Besler. The ball met Brooks' head, then the ground, then the back of the net as it bounced beyond the Ghanaian goalkeeper and into United States soccer lore (video here, courtesy ESPN).
Brooks' header in the 86th minute proved to be the winner, sending the United States into a showdown with Portugal three points and a world of confidence richer on the heels of a 2-1 victory. It was a game of seesawing emotions, waves of defending and one broken nose. So here are my three thoughts to sum it all up:
Jermaine Jones proves doubters wrong
If before kickoff on Monday you had asked an American soccer fan to assess their level of trust in the U.S. midfielders, there's a very good chance Michael Bradley would have been named most reliable. There's an equally good chance Jermaine Jones would have been listed as the player most fans would like to see replaced.
Jones, a German-born holding midfielder, is known as somewhat of a walking yellow card. He plays with raw emotion and bundles off effort, some of which result in overzealous challenges and the fouls they expectedly produce.
But Jones was brilliant against Ghana, arguably the best man on the pitch for the Americans. He operated as something of a hybrid between a wide midfielder and a central midfielder, roaming his half of the pitch with the vision of a hawk, and all game long the Ghanaians failed to solve him. He has cemented his spot as a mainstay in the U.S. midfield.
Tim Howard still world class
What I will remember most about Tim Howard's performance is not the diving save on a shot by Asamoah Gyan or the numerous crosses he plucked out of the air. Instead, I will remember the slow-motion replay of Howard offering instructions to John Brooks, the central defender who had taken the field minutes earlier to replace Matt Besler.
A tricky ball had been put into the box by Ghana, and Brooks had a tough time clearing it away. It created a half chance for the opposition that ultimately was stymied.
But there was Howard, ever the teacher and leader at age 35, explaining to Brooks both verbally and with his hands the proper positioning for that type of defensive sequence. It is that leadership and poise — in addition to top-flight goalkeeping — that makes Howard, who lives in Memphis during the offseason, a vital presence in the American side. He recognized the situation and the need to soothe a player making his World Cup debut, and with a touch of veteran poise he defused the situation.
Bradley's form a concern
Perhaps American soccer fans were spoiled during the three exhibition matches that served as a send-off series for the U.S. men's national team. Perhaps those three brilliant, elite, cunning, savvy performances by Michael Bradley were a bit above the norm.
Because just a week later in Brazil, on the biggest stage and in the most important role of his career, Bradley simply stunk.
For 90 minutes the beauty and innovation of the previous few weeks were replaced with off-target passes and a lack of composure. Bradley seemed unable to hold the ball and incapable of organizing the American attack, which are his two main roles as the central attacking player in the U.S. midfield. It was shocking, and it was concerning.
Complicating the situation is the loss of Jozy Altidore, who injured his hamstring and is in doubt for the next game against Portugal. The trio of Altidore, Bradley and Clint Dempsey had begun to coalesce and produce the clever interplay of a side in rhythm, an attack to be feared rather than just acknowledged.
Now, with Altidore possibly sidelined, Bradley must raise his game even further to aid a young striker like Aron Johannsson or an inexperienced one like Chris Wondolowski. He and Dempsey -- who oh by the way played most of the game after suffering a broken nose -- must be world class moving forward, and Bradley must improve from Monday's lackluster showing.
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Multicultural Aesthetics in Facial Plastic Surgery, An Issue of Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America
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The increasing multicultural population in the US and the world is reflected in the patient population that most Facial Plastic Surgeons are seeing in their practice environments. Facial plastic surgery procedures and aesthetic goals had been based predominantly on European Caucasian models of anatomy and cultural influences/ Currently, a wide variety of racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds are included in most facial plastic surgery practice experiences. A recognition and sensitivity to those differences and influences should be part of a modern facial plastic surgeon's skill set. With an understanding of the tremendous clinical relevance of multicultural aesthetics, this issue of Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics addresses Anatomy, Aesthetic goals, Patient evaluation, and Surgical techniques according to various ethnic, racial, and cultural needs. Some of the topics presented are Considerations in non-Caucasian facelift procedures; Scar variations by skin type; Laser and face peel procedures in non-Caucasians; Rhinoplasty in the Mestizo nose; Rhinoplasty in the African-American nose; Rhinoplasty in the Asian nose; Facial aesthetic surgical goals in patients of different cultures; and Concepts of beauty in a multicultural world.
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Death Angel
Formed: 1982
From: San Francisco, CA, United States
Last Known Status: Active
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Below is our complete Death Angel news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
Note: We began associating news directly with bands in late 2003. Therefore, earlier band news may not be listed on this page.
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Bloodstock Open Air Live Stream Available
The 2013 installment of the Bloodstock Open Air, scheduled to begin on Thursday August 8th and continue through Sunday, August 11th, will be broadcast live from Derbyshire, U.K. via the live stream at Daily Motion, or by simply bookmarking this page and coming back to watch the entire feed in the player right here:
Live Stream - Bloodstock Festival 2013 by BloodstockFestival
The schedule for bands to be streamed live has not yet been finalized, however, headliners Slayer, Lamb of God, Anthrax are scheduled to be part of the action. The festival will also feature appearances from: King Diamond, Accept, Voivod, Municipal Waste, Firewind, Dark Funeral, Ex Deo, Death Angel, Avantasia, Sabaton, Gojira, Katakylsm, Hell, 3 Inches Of Blood, Beholder, Stormbringer, Devildriver, Exodus, Amorphis, Fozzy, Whitechapel and Gama Bomb to name a few. For more information, head over to this location. More...
Tiamat And More Added To Eindhoven Bill
This years edition of the the Eindhoven Metal Meeting will take place from December 12th - 14th, 2013.
The festival's organizers have now checked in with the following announcement about adding more bands to the bill:
"Tiamat, Elvenking featuring Martin Walkyier's Skyclad, Brutal Truth, In Solitude, The Rotted, Centurian, entrapment and Sound Storm have been added to our bill!
"Get your tickets through our official website here." More...
Bloodstock Adds More Bands To Festival Lineup
The organizers of the Bloodstock festival have checked in with the following announcement about confirming more bands for this year's edition:
"Here at Bloodstock HQ we are excited to announce a whole batch of new additions for all three stages. There's only seven weeks left to the most metal weekend of the year!! Have you got your tickets yet?!
"Opening Friday's main stage, and fresh off the back of the release of 'IV', their first album in ten years, are British post metallers, Earthzone 9. The band are stoked to find their way to Catton Park's hallowed ground, commenting 'Earthtone 9 have never played Bloodstock, so we could not be more excited! It's one of our only gigs this year, so we are truly going to make the most of it. There may well be some drinking!' You can pick up a free download of their single, 'Horizon's End' at this location.
"On Sunday's Sophie Lancaster stage, Sacred Mother Tongue get added. Having received huge plaudits for their second album, 'Out of the Darkness', and live shows, the Northampton based band are building quite the name for themselves. Check out the video for 'A Light Will Shine', here. More...
Carcass Confirmed For 70,000 Tons Of Metal
The organizers of the 70,000 Tons of Metal Cruise have checked in with the following announcement about confirming Carcass for the lineup:
"Only Your Dead And Lifeless Carcass Will Return! Please welcome Carcass with their new line-up with Jeff Walker on vocals and bass, Bill Steer on lead guitar, Daniel Wilding on drums and Ben Ash on guitar on board 70,000 Tons of Metal, the World's Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise!
"Just imagine: In January 2014, 40 Heavy Metal bands and 2,000 fans from all over the World will go to the Caribbean to take over the luxury cruise ship Majesty of the Seas for 5 days and 4 nights.
"Book your cabin now at this location and be part of Heavy Metal History made in the Caribbean once again on 70,000 Tons of Metal!"
The first 14 out of 40 bands have been announced: More...
First Bands Announced For 70,000 Tons Of Metal
Public sales for the upcoming 70,000 Tons of Metal 2014 will start Monday April 8th at 5PM EST. Are you ready for Round 4 of The World's Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise?
As this will be the last time the cruise will be sailing on the "Majesty of the Seas," the organizers have a very special treat for all you sailors: everyone that becomes a ticketed and paid passenger before July 27th, 2013 will be able to vote where they are going to steer that old lady.
The first 7 out of 40 bands on board have already been announced:
Dark Tranquillity
Death Angel
Symphony X
The festival will sail Monday, January 27, 2014 on the Royal Caribbean "Majesty of the Seas" from Miami, FL and will not return to the real world until Friday, January 31, 2014.
Ticket prices start at US $666 plus US $319 taxes and fees per person and include all on-board entertainment, non-alcoholic and non-carbonated beverages, all meals at the dining rooms, most on-board restaurants and even 24h room service! More info is available at this location.
Death Angel Preparing To Enter The Studio
Legendary Bay Area thrash metallers Death Angel will enter AudioHammer Studios next month to begin recording the follow-up to their 2010 release, "Relentless Retribution." Guitarist Rob Cavestany recently checked in to give the following update:
"After nearly 3 years of nonstop touring for Relentless Retribution, we are about to enter the studio to record our seventh album! We are playing the final show of the Relentless Retribution Tour on March 31st in Holland, fly home for a few days of final pre-production rehearsals in Oakland, then begin tracking in Florida on April 8th.
"Relentless turned out the way we wanted so we we're taking it to the next level with the same team. The new album will be done at AudioHammer Studios with Jason Suecof and I producing. We had a blast doing the last record there and now we know each other better and how well we work together... plus the album cover art is being done by Brent Elliot White who did Relentless Retribution. Let's just say we have a good feeling about this one.
"It was our idea all along to go directly into the studio following the end of this tour, without taking time off. We always take a break after an album's touring cycle ends. You basically have to after spending so much time on the road, traveling and performing constantly. But not this time! This tour is the longest one we've ever done and that live energy is in our new songs! The glory and the heartache, it's all there. More...
Ten More Bands Confirmed For Bloodstock 2013
The organisers of Britain's, Bloodstock Open Air festival have announced a further ten bands for this year's edition of the event, including Bay Area thrash metal legends Exodus and Death Angel, as well as 3 Inches Of Blood, Scar Symmetry, Dying Fetus, Xerath, Bloodbound, Vanderbuyst, Scarab and The Prophecy. The event will take place at Catton Park from August 8 - 11th and will be headlined by Slayer, King Diamond and Lamb of God.
King Diamond (Headliner)
Lamb Of God (Headliner)
Slayer (Headliner)
3 Inches Of Blood
Dark Funeral
Death Angel
Dying Fetus
Ex Deo
Municipal Waste
The Prophecy
Scar Symmetry
Death Angel Track Metals Up Carls Jr. Commercial
The Carls Jr. fast food chain has a new commercial for a jalapeno turkey burger featuring music from an unexpected source: long running U.S. thrash act Death Angel.
Check out the commercial below, which includes a 30 second clip from the 10+ minute track "The Ultra-Violence." The song is the title track off the 1987 album of the same name. You can also hear the full track after the jump.
Peavey Posts New "Louder Education" Video
Metal Injection & Peavey presents Louder Education, a new collaborative show starring Testament shredder Alex Skolnick, Sound Of Urchin's Chris "Tomato" Harfenist, and the students of T.H.O.R. (Tomato's House of Rock).
Each week on the series, a new special guest is invited to Tomato's House of Rock, to discuss their journey in the music business, provide educational tips for the growing artists, and round off the show with a kick-ass jam with the kids.
On this edition, the gang takes a road trip to the Best Buy Theater in New York City to visit with Testament's Chuck Billy & Gene Hoglan, Anthrax's Rob Caggiano, and Death Angel's Rob Cavestany. All the bands discussed music discovery when they were growing up, compared to now, playing music, favorite albums and more. It all culminates with a jam of Testament's "Souls of Black" with Alex Skolnick and the T.H.O.R. Kids.
Watch this second episode over at Metal Injection or in the player below. In the next few weeks, the show will feature guest appearances from:
- Jose Mangin of SiriusXM Liquid Metal, MTV's Headbangers Ball
- John Gallagher of Dying Fetus
- Oderus Urungus of GWAR More...
Wretched Announces New Tour Dates
Wretched is preparing for a new set of fall tours supporting some of metal's most ferocious bands. Beginning October 7th, Wretched hits the road with thrash metal legends Death Angel on a run throughout the south and west coast. The band will then join Six Feet Under and Cattle Decapitation on The Autumn Apocalypse Tour starting November 2nd in Richmond. See a full listing of tour dates below.
Vocalist Adam Cody comments, "I am more than honored to be a part of two back to back tours with legendary bands. Chris Barnes is a death metal vocalist that has inspired me since I knew what death metal was. Cattle Decapitation is a band I never expected to be on tour with; I've always admired the creativity they bring to the grindier side of the metal world."
Wretched is touring in support of third studio album "Son Of Perdition," released earlier this year. Cody adds, "Expect to see an entirely new set list with songs we've never played live before!" More...
Anthrax, Testament Add Third Leg Of Tour Dates
Fans in Canada and select cities in the northern part of the U.S. will finally have a chance to see what reviewers have called "The Best Metal Tour of the Year," when co-headliners Anthrax and Testament, joined by Death Angel, kick off a late-summer trek on September 14. Starting in Portland, OR, the bands will work their way north, cross into Canada, and play all of the major Canadian cities before wrapping up in Montclair, NJ on October 5. Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 1.
This run will be the third leg of the Anthrax/Testament/Death Angel hat-trick; the three bands packed five weeks worth of venues coast-to-coast last Fall, marking the first time Anthrax and Testament had shared a stage in more than a decade; again, earlier this year, the line-up played another dozen dates to headbangers in cities from Las Vegas to New York.
According to Anthrax's guitarist Scott Ian, "We played to sold-out shows, raging crowds and EPIC war dances, and we can't wait to do it again, especially for our Canadian fans who have been waiting a long to time 'worship music' with us."
"There have been very few three band bills in which the acts are so compatible and the shows so consistent that a second leg of the tour is a 'no-brainer'," said Testament's lead guitarist Alex Skolnick. "But in the case of Anthrax, Testament and Death Angel, that's been the case. Things have gone so well, in fact, that it's made sense to add a third leg with this exact same line up. All three bands are excited to take this show into new territory with a trek across Canada, and a few spots in the US we missed last time around. And this time, Testament will be armed with a brand new album with music that we're eager to share with everyone. Hope to see you out there!"
"We've been tight with the guys in Testament for a long, long time, and had a great time touring with them before," added Anthrax's drummer Charlie Benante. "And all of us in Anthrax are big Death Angel fans, so this is going to be a monster of a great time, for us and for the fans."
Said Testament's frontman Chuck Billy, "It's good to see that metal is alive in 2012 and the fans want a third leg of the Anthrax, Testament, Death Angel tour. Don't fucking miss it! Metal Forever!"
With more dates to be confirmed, the upcoming Anthrax/Testament/Death Angel tour dates are as follows:
September 14 Ace of Spades, Sacramento, CA
September 15 Roseland Theatre, Portland, OR
September 16 Toyota Arena, Kennewick, WA
September 17 Knitting Factory, Spokane, WA
September 20 Vogue Theatre, Vancouver, BC
September 21 MacEwan Hall Ballroom, Calgary, AL
September 22 Events Center, Edmonton, AL
September 24 The Odeon, Saskatoon, SK
September 25 Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg, MB
September 29 Danforth Hall, Toronto, ON
September 30 Capitole du Quebec, Quebec City, QC
October 2 Metropolis, Montreal, QC
October 3 State Theatre, Portland, ME
October 5 Wellmont Theatre, Montclair, NJ
Sepultura Is Still Sepultura
"That's not the pass for tonight," muttered the venue staffer checking IDs, wearing a dismissive expression suspiciously resembling a dildo. "I don't know what to tell you."
I'd just conducted interviews – coming soon – with guitarists Andreas Kisser (of Sepultura) and Moyses Kolesne (of Krisiun) backstage at Higher Ground in South Burlington, Vermont. With no additional press to handle, Sepultura's tour manager had scrapped the planned guest list, handing me instead a photo/access pass from a prior show. As this straightforward story was received with borderline indifference and a blasé shrug, I was pulled aside to allow lucky ticketholders entry. There I stood waiting under the gatekeepers' stone cold gazes, like a failed freeloader – the lowest form of tool at a concert. More...
ArmyOfOneTV Posts Death Angel Interview
Death Angel's Ted Aguilar talked to ArmyOfOneTV on April 26th at Bogie's in Albany, NY. On this video Ted Aguilar discusses the writing process of its new material and the problem crossing the border from Canada to the States when they were coming back from Montreal. Death Angel is currently supporting on Sepultura's North American Kairos Tour .
Krisiun Gearing Up For North American Tour
Brazilian death metallers Krisiun will be returning to North America next week for a tour featuring the legendary Brazilian/American thrashers Sepultura, bay area thrash titans Death Angel, and new breed of thrashers Havok.
In regards to this upcoming trek, Krisiun vocalist/bassist Alex Camargo comments: "Hey everyone!!! We in Krisiun would like to invite all you diehard metal brothers to come on out and support our upcoming shows around the USA and Canada. We are gonna share the stage with our fellow countrymen, the almighty Sepultura, for the first time, plus fucking Death Angel and Havok. We guarantee you this combination of bands will unleash hell every night. See you guys out there!!!"
The complete list of tour dates is below, so check to see when Krisiun will be coming to a city near you. More...
Limp Bizkit To Headline Graspop 2012
American nu metal veterans Limp Bizkit have been confirmed as the final headliner for this year's edition of Belgiums largest heavy metal festival, Graspop Metal Meeting. Also newly confirmed for the festival are Behemoth, Black Label Society, Godsmack, Slash and All Shall Perish, while the organisers have also announced that Young Guns and Lagwagon have pulled out of the event. Graspop Metal Meeting will take place in Dessel, Belgium from June 22nd - 24th and will feature the following lineup, with more to be announced shortly:
Ozzy Osbourne and friends (Headliner)
Limp Bizkit (Headliner)
Guns N Roses (Headliner)
Adrenaline Mob
All Shall Perish
Amon Amarth
August Burns Red
Black Label Society
Black Spiders
Black Veil Brides
Cancer Bats
Cannibal Corpse
Children Of Bodom
Comeback Kid
Death Angel
Dimmu Borgir
H20 More...
Anthrax and Testament Tear Up Baltimore
Anthrax, Testament, and Death Angel recently wrapped up their second leg of U.S. tour dates earlier this month. Baltimore was the second to last stop, on February 7th, and after missing the first leg of the tour in Silver Spring, Maryland, a show at Ram's Head Live was one I couldn't pass up. Despite having stopped in Silver Spring not too long ago, Ram's Head Live was packed pretty close to capacity, if not sold out.
The crowd was noticably older - mostly in their upper thirties and fourties - and for once I didn't feel like the old guy at a metal show. That is, until I saw those who made the show a family affair and brought their teenagers or younger kids. It seemed a little surreal, but bringing my teenage sons is something I could see myself doing in the not too distant future.
When I arrived, Death Angel was already well into their set, despite it being five minutes before they were supposed to take the stage. Having missed the opportunity to photograph the band, I grabbed a beer and enjoyed experiencing their brand of old school thrash. While Death Angel has been around since the 80's thrash scene, I didn't grow up listening to them like the "big 4," so this was my first time seeing the band live. More...
Nine More Bands Confirmed For Graspop 2012
The organisers of Belgiums largest heavy metal festival, Graspop Metal Meeting, have confirmed a further nine names for this years edition of the event, including French death metal outfit Gojira, English doom metal veterans My Dying Bride and American hard rock legends Twisted Sister, as well as I Killed The Prom Queen, Cancer Bats, Lagwagon, While She Sleeps, Black Spiders and Kobra And The Lotus. Graspop Metal Meeting will take place in Dessel, Belgium from June 22nd - 24th and will feature the following lineup, with more to be announced shortly: More...
Sepultura Announces US Tour With Death Angel
Brazilian act Sepultura announced that it will tour North America with Death Angel, Krisiun and Havok beginning this April. Dates and venues have not yet been announced. Sepultura is touring in support of its latest LP "Kairos," which was released in June 2011 (see Metal Underground's review here).
Guns N Roses Confirmed For Graspop 2012
The organisers of Belgium's largest heavy metal festival, Graspop Metal Meeting, have announced that American rock legends Guns N Roses will be wrapping the festival up this year, as they will be headlining the event on Sunday 24th. The organisers have also announced that As I Lay Dying has had to pull out of the festival after cancelling their European tour, but also confirmed that Cannibal Corpse, Machine Head, Gotthard, Adrenaline Mob, Sebastian Bach, Black Veil Brides and The Treatment will perform at the festival. Graspop Metal Meeting will take place in Dessel, Belgium from June 22nd - 24th and will feature the following lineup, with more to be announced shortly:
Black Sabbath (Headliner)
Guns N Roses (Headliner)
Adrenaline Mob
Amon Amarth
August Burns Red
Black Veil Brides
Cannibal Corpse
Children Of Bodom
Comeback Kid
Death Angel
Dimmu Borgir
Jon Oliva's Pain
Killswitch Engage
Kyuss Lives!
Lamb Of God
Machine Head
Paradise Lost
Sacred Reich
Sebastian Bach
Sick Of It All
Texas In July
The Spudmonsters
The Treatment
Winds Of Plague
Young Guns
Five More Names Confirmed For Graspop 2012
The organisers of Belgium's largest heavy metal festival, Graspop Metal Meeting, has announced a further five bands for this year's edition of the event. American thrash metal legends Megadeth will be performing, as will stoner rock kings Kyuss Lives!, death metal pioneers Possessed, English alternative rock outfit Young Guns and, making their fourth appearance at the festival, Jon Olivia's Pain. Graspop will take place in the town of Dessel from June 22nd-24th and now features the following lineup:
Black Sabbath (Headliner)
Amon Amarth
August Burns Red
Children Of Bodom
Comeback Kid
Death Angel
Dimmu Borgir
Jon Olivia's Pain
Killswitch Engage
Kyuss Lives!
Lamb Of God
Paradise Lost
Sacred Reich
Sick Of It All
The Spudmonsters
Winds Of Plague
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Announcements from the 5th Annual Linux Collaboration SummitApr 08, 2011
The Linux Foundation kicked off the 5th Annual Linux Collaboration Summit with four announcements: the formation of the new High Availability working group, the release of the Carrier Grade Linux 5.0 specification, Yocto Project Release 1.0 availability, and the 20th Anniversary Video Contest.more »
Project Harmony Launches TodayApr 07, 2011
"Project Harmony is like Creative Commons for contributor agreements. We've set out to capture the best practices of free and open source software contributions, across a diverse array of project cultures, communities, and values." said Allison Randal, a community participant in Project Harmony. "The public review process for the Alpha versions of the documents launches today, and runs through May 6th. After a year of hard work by the original ~100 drafting volunteers, we're really looking forward to broader participation in this public review."more »
GNOME 3.0 Hits Desktops TodayApr 06, 2011
"In the face of constant change, both in software technology itself and in people's attitudes toward it, long-term software projects need to reinvent themselves in order to stay relevant. I'm encouraged to see the GNOME community taking up this challenge, responding to the evolving needs of users and questioning the status quo," says Matt Zimmerman, Canonical CTO.more »
Plans for the First Qt Contributors' Summit ContinueApr 06, 2011
The first Qt Contributors' Summit is scheduled to be held at the ParkInn Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany on June 16-18, 2011.more »
LinuxFest Northwest 2011 Prepares Program That Promotes ParticipationMar 29, 2011
The organizers of LinuxFest Northwest 2011 (LFNW) are busy making arrangements for attendees to experience outstanding open source presentations, exhibits, and fun with something for everyone on April 30 and May 1 at the Bellingham (WA) Technical College.more »
Red Hat Welcomes New Board MembersMar 29, 2011
Red Hat today announced Sohaib Abbasi, chairman and SEO of Informatica Corporation will join its Board of Directors and Dr. Steve Albrecht, Professor of Accounting at the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University, will rejoin the Red Hat Board.more »
Event Report: SCaLE 9x Southern California Linux Expo 2011Mar 28, 2011
Now in its ninth year, the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) continues to gain ground as its popularity grows throughout the open source community.more »
Top Five 2011 Linux.com Gurus AnnouncedMar 28, 2011
The Linux Foundation, today announced the Top Five 2011 Linux.com Linux Gurus, including the Ultimate Linux Guru.more »
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NoScript Flaw
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RIP SSLv3
The Internet community officially banishes the notoriously unsafe Secure Sockets Layer protocol.
Mate 1.1 Arrives
Popular desktop environment continues the Gnome 2 legacy – with new support for the Gnome 3 toolkit.
US Government Requires HTTPS
The Obama White House has issued a memorandum telling all US government agencies they must use HTTPS for all websites and web communication.
Mozilla Signs Firefox Add-Ons
New program will dial up security for the Firefox browser.
Fedora 22 Arrives
Red Hat's community distro embraces the cloud.
Code.org and College Board Team Reach Out for Talented High School Coders
New partnership will bring more and better CS training to US schools
A Peek Inside TeslaCrypt Ransomware
Criminals offer online help over Tor network
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Sahoma Lanes Bowling CenterRead MoreAs a kid, Micky Bolin roamed Sahoma Lanes, lending a helping hand to his grandfather, who opened the bowling alley in 1960. Over the years, the business switched hands from his grandfather to his father, with Micky taking over as manager in 2005. Today, the alley's 24 lanes still foster a fun, competitive atmosphere but with the added bonus of automatic scoring and a fully loaded video-game area that would've caused accusations of time travel or Russian-spy connections on opening day. The center buzzes with energy during Saturday night cosmic bowling, when what Micky calls the "mom-approved" tunes and current music videos are emblazoned across 10-foot screens. Nearby, patrons clamor for a chance to net mammoth catches before humanely releasing them back into the motherboard of the Big Bass Pro arcade game or refuel with pizza and burgers at the snack bar. The bowling center hosts a roster of leagues, but the Colorama League stands out from the rest with more than $3,400 worth of cash prizes, which can fund future games or cover the cost of a bowling ball crushed during a fit of frustration. Yet staff members prefer Thursday-night leagues, when they lace up bowling shoes and join players in the lanes.1499 N 9th StSapulpa, OK US
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Jenks Dance AcademyRead MoreJenks Dance Academy is hip-hop and ballet, it's tumbling and it's jazz...but it's never quiet. That's the common denominator in this otherwise versatile dance school. Regardless of genre, all classes are active, engaging, and led by professional dance instructors keen on keeping things quick-footed and interactive. Jenks welcomes boys and girls as young as 12 months old for classes and camps that incorporate fitness, creativity, and self-discipline. So whether your daughter's enrolled in the princess camp?a ballerina-focused dance camp with props such as wands and tiaras?or your kid's strutting their stuff with swagger in the superstars/hip-hop class, they'll be honing their flexibility and coordination, building physical strength, and building the self-confidence necessary to drop jaws in the dance recital or produce aisle. Jenks's studio is staffed with professional instructors. It's also equipped with modern enhancements in place to facilitate structure, dexterity, and safety. For instance, there are one-way observational windows, raised wood floors that prevent injuries or kids tiring out, and a separate kids' play room. The center also features a boutique with shoes and apparel.9416 S Elwood Ave.Jenks, OK US
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UK: Chapel Down Winery rails at EU 'wine' label ban 28 May 2012
The CEO of Chapel Down Winery has attacked a decision by the European Commission to ban the UK wine producer from using the word 'wine' on labels for a product it has made using grapes from Argentina.
EU: EU Committee backs wine reform changes 23 November 2007
A committee of the European Parliament has come down firmly in favour of drastic changes to the European Commission's plans for reforming the EU's wine sector.
BELGIUM: European Parliament accused of bowing to drinks trade 6 September 2007
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EU: Ministers give Commission wine proposals rough ride 17 July 2007
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King Kong (John Guillermin, 1976). How strange that Peter Jackson's version should be the most childish and innocent of the three Kongs. His is a world of oversized cartoon monsters. The 1930s original still has its crude nightmare-ish quality. The unfairly slammed second version is all bright 70s American excess: oil money and greed, the newly built World Trade Center as the obvious summit and an almost constantly ecstatic Jessica Lange as the prey. It's superbly lurid, unpretentiously directed and never not entertaining.
second sight (film diary)
June 26, 2015
June 23, 2015
Moustache as weapon, symbol
Marshland (Alberto Rodriguez, 2014). Not a True Detective imitator, but made in parallel, stripped of occult complexity and carrying instead some dour weight about the years after Franco, but never quite as interested as you hope it might be in the actual details of its sordid crimes.
June 13, 2015
New meat
An American Werewolf in London (John Landis, 1981). The Howling (Joe Dante, 1981). Cat People (Paul Schrader, 1982). Altered States (Ken Russell, 1980). A short-lived but intense cultural moment if you were 13 or 14 until – this is a guess but also entirely plausible – the John Landis-directed clip for Michael Jackson's "Thriller" ruined it. Slasher movies, with little of the comedy and sexual vulnerability of metamorphosis horrors, were no real substitute.
June 8, 2015
Shake appeal
Watching San Andreas as a quake survivor, online here.
June 4, 2015
For a few years he thought he was God and a number of people agreed him
The Source Family (Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulos, 2012). The fascinating story of Father Yod and the 1970s hippie health food cult that took care to document every move. A dream subject for any archivist, but what about the apostates?
June 1, 2015
How to be a reporter
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940). There was a social media uproar when I recently posted a list of the 10 "best" journalism films that did not include His Girl Friday. In my defence: the list was drawn up with journalism students in mind, so I thought it should lean towards the dramatisation of important historical moments and big stories as potential learning experiences (the major exception was the berserk but prescient satire of Network) rather than fun comedies and dramas that happen to be about the world of newspaper reporting. But while I still would not have it in my top 10, I can see why His Girl Friday has so many fans. This smart rewrite of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's The Front Page as a romantic comedy has the fastest dialogue in the west, its implausible-but-who-cares? comic action is spread across several hours as two real-world deadlines approach – a remarriage and an execution – and in Cary Grant's editor Walter Burns and Rosalind Russell's reporter Hildy Johnson, there is a timeless vision of how journalists still like to see themselves and their profession: flawed, disreputable, fascinating, never bored or boring, untrustworthy but ultimately on the side of good. Probably useful for students, all that.
May 31, 2015
Red light
Hardcore (Paul Schrader, 1979). Paul Schrader memorably described The Exorcist as God and Satan fighting over the body of a girl. Obvious Searchers parallels aside, that's Hardcore too – but in Schrader's account, the girl (Ilah Davis) barely has a word to say about it, as though Schrader is unintentionally reproducing the misogynist worlds on screen. George C Scott is the John Wayne-esque Calvinist father from the midwest descending into the 70s porn and peep show underworlds of Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, looking for his vanished daughter, about whom we learn nothing, although Season Hubley has some energy and conviction as prostitute Niki – even if she is written largely as a continuation of Taxi Driver's Iris. Further evidence that Schrader always talked a better movie than he wrote, and wrote a better movie than he directed.
May 30, 2015
Dull west
Slow West (John Maclean, 2015). Barely qualifying as a footnote in the history of the revisionist western, debut film-maker John Maclean's small and almost proudly unoriginal Scotland-to-America fable (filmed in Scotland and New Zealand) is really notable for one strange thing: it must take a special kind of skill to make even Michael Fassbender uninteresting. Deep into the third act, we realise who this film should have been about all along: not thin, pale, lovesick Jay (Kodi Smit-McPhee) but smart, independent Rose, played by New Zealander Caren Pistorius.
May 29, 2015
Leaving Planet Earth and trying to get home
"These are the seasons of emotion / And like the winds they rise and fall / This is the wonder of devotion / I see the torch we all must hold."
Led Zeppelin, "The Rain Song".
"Finally, I would like to say that, if one absolutely needs to compare me to someone, it should be Dovzhenko. He was the first director for whom the problem of atmosphere was particularly important, and he loved his native land passionately. I share his love for my land, which is why I feel him very close to me. I'll add: he made his films as if they were vegetable gardens, as if they were gardens. He would water them himself, he would make everything grow with his own hands … His love of the land and of the people made his characters grow, as it were, from the earth itself. They were organic, complete. I would very much like to resemble him in this respect. If I didn't succeed, I would feel mortified."
Andrei Tarkovsky, interviewed by Michel Ciment, Luda Schnitzer and Jean Schnitzer, in Positif, 1969.
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972). The Song Remains the Same (Joe Massot and Peter Clifton, 1976). Outward and inner travel, a fear of going into space and of what memory will produce during the long stretches alone. A desire to be back home, on Earth, near grass and water and children. Space travel and reluctance to travel.
May 20, 2015
Desert stormed
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015). A pagan city built on slavery (Vehicular Valhalla, Temple of Vroom), Jawas on motorbikes and a motorcycle matriarchy, spiky cars that ate Paris (homage to Peter Weir), slave wives who could be in beer or burger commercials, armies that travel with their own heavy-metal guitarist and grotesque old Australian men still running the world, or what's left of it. After a gap of more than 30 years, George Miller locates the very same exciting, funny and lurid Mad Max sensibility, just bigger, louder, faster, wilder – in every sense, better. Max (now Tom Hardy, more sidelined in his own story than he ever was before) is still nearly mute and the entire thing is told almost without dialogue, such is the elemental nature of it (part-western, part-sci fi). The desert is brighter and wider. If anything, Miller's original scenario has become even more topical and plausible since the 1980s: these are myths of the near to immediate salvage-punk future. Ridiculously great, either way. Who would want to bother with the heavily-CGI'd and intellectually vacant Marvel blockbusters after catching a whiff of this?
May 18, 2015
Top 10 films about journalism
Last year one of the country's leading journalism educators asked me to compile a top 10 of the best films about journalism. It didn't run – long story – so here it is. One little update since late 2014: George Clooney's Hack Attack movie might be a contender in the future, if they can get around the problem of not upsetting Rupert …
Until someone makes a movie out of Dirty Politics (working title: The Rawshark Redemption), this list will have to stand as one possible selection of the 10 best films about journalism. Is it noteworthy that the majority of these dramas are based on fact, and only a couple could be said to be entirely fictional? Yet there are no documentaries in the line-up. Also, every journalism film has a moral to impart, or maybe just conveys a depressing reality about the business.
All the President's Men (Alan J Pakula, 1976). This list is alphabetical but even if it were not, this would probably still be at the top. The 1970s was the heyday of the disenchanted paranoia thriller – Pakula also gave us Klute and The Parallax View – and All the President's Men is all about what Woodward (Robert Redford) and Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) do in the shadows. Nixon is the monster. Journalism gets results.
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000). Seventies debauchery has never looked as squeaky clean as it does in Crowe's fictionalised account of his life as a cub reporter for Rolling Stone magazine. The band he is tracking is a blend of Led Zeppelin and the Eagles, the groupies have hearts of gold and the drugs aren't killing anyone yet. But will the kid get his cover story? Actual rock journalism legend Lester Bangs (who later died of an overdose) is impersonated by the brilliant Philip Seymour Hoffman (who later died of an overdose). Journalism can ruin your life.
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941). This is partly an epic in-joke at the expense of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, himself a tyrannical and charismatic ink-stained giant from the golden age of newspapers. In this account as well as in real life, he provided the war. Journalism is an egomaniacal pursuit. One egomaniac recognised another.
La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960). This classic gave us the paparazzi, both as a word and as an idea. Marcello Mastroianni is the handsome, jaded reporter in Rome as the 1950s give way to the 1960s. His beat is celebrity (Anita Ekberg at the airport and splashing in the fountain) and superstition (the kids with their Madonna sighting). We learn that journalism is a job for cynics, hedonists and depressives. See also: Antonioni's The Passenger, which you forget is sort of about journalism until you remember its other title, Professione: Reporter.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam, 1998). The drugs do work. Do people still want to be Hunter S Thompson? Both a drug-addled genius and a libertarian blowhard, Thompson is played by Johnny Depp, who does the voice and the walk as a kind of Gonzo cartoon. Gilliam doesn't stint on the hallucinations and even manages to get some end-of-the-counterculture poignancy into this long weekend bender. Journalism can ruin your life but never really feels like work. For best results, watch with The Rum Diary (2011), in which a younger, straighter Hunter S Thompson, again played by Depp, is working on a chaotic newspaper in Puerto Rico. It's like a square prequel.
The Insider (Michael Mann, 1999). Al Pacino should be in more films about journalism. He plays real-life investigative reporter Lowell Bergman in a dramatisation of how 60 Minutes persuaded a whistle-blower to tell all about big tobacco. That whistle-blower is played by Russell Crowe in what is still the best acting of his film career. Like Pakula in the 70s, Mann turns shadow-chasing editorial legwork into the stuff of a gripping paranoid thriller. Journalism gets results and can even change the world.
The Killing Fields (Roland Joffe, 1984). An important film for what it told us about the horrors of the Khmer Rouge and so on, but there is also a glamour and seductiveness about its sweat-soaked images of foreign correspondents, played here by Sam Waterston, John Malkovich (almost never better) and Julian Sands. See also: Salvador, The Quiet American and The Year of Living Dangerously. Journalism takes you (dangerous) places.
Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976). One of the great media catchphrases – "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!" – came out of this hysterical 70s satire of the TV business, which seemed ridiculously prescient simply by imagining the worst. What would happen if a news anchor suddenly flipped out and told the truth? See also: Broadcast News. Journalism? It's just a branch of entertainment.
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander McKendrick, 1957). There is a vicious and amoral gossip columnist (Burt Lancaster) and there is the shameless lackey and gossip peddler who hangs off him (Tony Curtis). Some stories never get old and there are few depictions of the news machine that are less virtuous than this black comedy. It's overdone but it also has a horrible exactness. Journalism can be a filthy business.
Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007). Two San Francisco newspaper men become obsessed with finding the Zodiac Killer, long after he stops being a story. One is an alcoholic crime reporter (Robert Downey Jr) and the other is an earnest cartoonist (Jake Gyllenhaal). The film is itself obsessive; Fincher is hung up on detail and relates to their doggedness. Journalism is sometimes about failure.
May 17, 2015
May 16, 2015
And it was all fire
Excalibur (John Boorman, 1981). Like dreaming something dark, confusing and violent and struggling to make sense of it later. Nicol Williamson's charismatic Merlin is initially your guide through it – all the shouting, fire and hacking off of limbs – before he is treacherously sidelined by a girlish (only 35) Helen Mirren as Morgana. Everything here is collapsing and doomed even as it starts; some of the images feel very deep, primal, raw and original. You can't stop thinking that somewhere in here too is the outline or maybe the corpse of Boorman's abandoned Lord of the Rings: what kind of film would that have been?
May 10, 2015
Not sane
The Water Diviner (Russell Crowe, 2014). This post-Gallipoli reconciliation fantasy would make sense only if Crowe's Joshua Cooper was not meant to be sane. But I don't think the Crowe directorial style, whatever that is, allows for that kind of ambiguity.
May 8, 2015
A brief history of the future
Mad Max (George Miller, 1979). Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (George Miller, 1981). Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (George Miller and George Ogilvie, 1985).Will Mad Max: Fury Road – the year's other much-anticipated sci-fi reboot – be a futuristic story actually set in the past? George Miller's cheap, brutal original appeared in 1979 and was set "a few years from now". Which was when? The 1980s or, at most, the 90s? On depopulated roads outside Melbourne, leather-clad road cops driving Ford Falcons battled Droog-ish motorcycle gangs, but nothing about the action or locations actually suggested a futuristic setting. Max Rockatansky seems initially to be the meekest rather than the maddest of the cops and for most of the running time, future star Mel Gibson is the youngest and most innocent-looking grown-up on screen (Joanne Samuel, who plays Max's wife, was just a year younger but a more experienced actor). The domestic scenes are mostly excruciating and the Ocker humour is not integrated as seamlessly into the Roger Corman-ish action as it would be in Miller's second and best Mad Max film, but the absurd and daring car scenes were already the selling point and Miller demonstrated that he immediately a rare knack for the choreography of action (before dabbling in cinema, he trained as a doctor which reportedly gave him an insight into how car crash victims look). The creation of Max as a western-style avenging hero late in the second half is also the creation of Mel Gibson as movie star, mirrored perhaps by the creation of George Miller, versatile director. Audaciously, it was a debut film that presented itself as a prequel.
Over time, the films became more cluttered and the back story was extended. The bikers in the relatively minimal first movie were just rough sketches of the bikers in the much more ambitious and sophisticated second, which pushed Max deeper into the desert. A newsreel prologue and voice-over sets out the legend, a long story to do with wars and oil shortages, but when are we? The famous black V8 Interceptor is now dusty and beaten-up, Gibson's leather outfit is in tatters and there seem to be no other cops left anywhere. Gibson looks more than two years older, but still he barely speaks. In Gibson's acting, speech has usually revealed an underlying vulnerability or insecurity, or is Max's near muteness in this film really a symptom of his lasting trauma? But then, what does he need to say? Either way, the film is effective enough, and elemental enough, to communicate almost without dialogue.
In the first two films, Gibson takes a serious beating and stoically goes on, much like the bloodied, enduring heroes of Braveheart and The Passion of the Christ, which Gibson would eventually direct. People have speculated about a mad masochism. In a neo-western about lawlessness and a threatened, civilised community in the wilderness (made up largely of the plummier-voiced Australian actors), the warriors have Mohawks and the storytelling reveals obvious debts to Ford, Kurosawa and Lucas. All is petrol, speed and fire and the final truck chase is still one of action cinema's greatest achievements. The good news is that the visual language Miller established in Mad Max 2 is the one adopted in Mad Max: Fury Road, if the trailers are anything to go by. And Tom Hardy's rebooted or renewed Max is the same character, which puts the new story within the same span of time rather than moving ahead a generation, as Star Wars has. So, when are we up to now, with Fury Road? The 2000s?
I know that seems literal, and that Miller was always more concerned, as the series went on, with creating future legends rather than parallel or possible histories. The story grew bigger still and the scale grander in the third, less fondly remembered Mad Max. With its stunt casting (Tina Turner as matriarch of Bartertown, located even deeper in the desert) Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome risks being remembered as one of those 80s rock star fantasy movies, alongside Labyrinth, Dune and, if we can stretch the 80s into the early 90s, Freejack. Not the best company. The now carless Gibson has become Max of Arabia, driving camels and wearing Bedouin robes (black ones, naturally). Bartertown looks like the setting of Duran Duran's pretentious Wild Boys clip. Gibson's hair is longer, as though he is warming up for Braveheart; the tone is generally softer and less violent, and the story of a tribe of lost children seems to draw heavily from Russell Hoban's classic Riddley Walker while looking ahead to Spielberg's much less classic Hook. The man with almost no name has now become nearly messianic, spoken of in stories and myths (is this film the straighter, Ocker El Topo?). While Mad Max 2 still feels timeless, you suspect that topicality has dated the third film: rather than oil shortages, Beyond Thunderdome has a very specific mid-80s mood of nuclear fear, which does give us a spooky sense of a ruined, hazy Sydney lit by fires.
Did any other action trilogy ever drift so far from its initial premise? So maybe it does need a correction or adjustment, back to Max 2.0. Along those lines, some Beyond Thunderdome dialogue leaps out. Aunty Entity (Tina Turner): "What did you do before this?" Max (Mel Gibson): "I was a cop, a driver." How long ago all that seemed by 1985.
May 4, 2015
Strange birds
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