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By Adam Buxton of Adam and Joe. The Adam & Joe XFM Podcast is essential listening.
This Is Not Art is on in Newcastle this weekend. It’s my favourite Australian festival – if you’ve never been, you should check it out. I’ll be doing a couple of talks and a couple of performances. Bettered by the borrower – copyrights and music composition Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project Famous Cannabis Users Google Idol THE MARRIAGE OF CADMUS AND HARMONY FOR CHILDS The Mercury Theatre on the Air sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! (awesome software!) SONY admits that CD/44.1PCM is inferior Video Downloader xTal – free mp3 DJ VSTi plugin Global Cemetary Online with Sad News Update Possible and Impossible Aporias Resounding the Cinematic – Resonance, Proximity and the Acousmatic in the Apparatus s0metim3s has given us her favourites of 2005. I wasn’t going to do this, but since I’m waiting for South Africa to be bowled out before I head out for the rest of the day… Favourites of 2005 I’ve restricted this to things that were published/screened or events that happened in 2005. Albums 50 Foot Wave – Golden Ocean It was mainly pop/rock for me this year – I even bought a guitar (which I still can’t play)! The sort of experimental music that I’d usually obsess over, this year I’d generally listen to once or twice before moving on. See Utility Fog for all the postfolkrocktronica that I should’ve been listening to. Blogs Too many – see the blog roll. It has been a privilege to have participated in the blog phenomenon and to have met so many amazing people. Extra love to those who have commented at, or linked to this humble blog. Films Charlie and the Chocolate Factory I didn’t go to the cinema nearly enough this year. Games Dragonshard Live Music Ben Byrne & Clayton Thomas @ Disorientation I also played live more often this year than any other. Highlights included a solo performance at the National Gallery of Australia for Liquid Architecture 6, Canberra; a technically disastrous but well-received set with WUAL for Liquid Architecture 6, Melbourne; better WUAL performances at Disorientation and Electrofringe; duo performances with Rik Rue (at if you like improvised music…), John Jacobs (at e)scapes) and Ben Byrne (twice, at the NOW now, and a VJ performance at Science Fiction); a solo performance at The Night Air Audiotheque; a solo performance and a Time Being DJ performance at Disorientation; performances with the Splinter Orchestra at Liquid Architecture 6, Sydney and Science Fiction. TV Arrested Development Thank goodness for broadband. What’s In / What’s Out What’s out: CDs What’s in: TEH INTERNETS!
I watched all six 30-minute eps of this show the other day. It’s a brilliant dissection of contemporary British politics’ obsession with spin (one of the main characters is clearly based on Alistair Campbell). It’s basically Yes Minister meets The Office, and was devised and directed by Armando Iannucci, the comedy genius who was Chris Morris’ main collaborator in the early ’90s. Chris Langham is perfect as the hapless Minister for Home Affairs. Langham is perhaps best known for playing (the voice of) Roy Mallard in the classic mockumentary series People Like Us. Apparently he also used to be a writer on The Muppet Show! And now I discover that Langham has recently been arrested over child porn. Oh dear… What is it with the prurience of British celebrity culture? Anyway – check out The Thick of It if you can – you’ll probably have to download it as it’s not on DVD yet, and like most good recent British TV comedy we’ll be lucky if it screens on Australian TV any time soon. |
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