I’ve been listening to Drones frontman Gareth Liddiard’s Strange Tourist for a couple of weeks but I don’t think I really appreciated it until I happened to be listening to it in the recovery room after a recent operation on my knee. When I came to in the post-op room the pain was excruciating, but the docs […]
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Daily Proposition: Connect the rock dots
I was a bit dubious when I first looked at Rock Connexions, concerned that it was a bit of a gimmicky, lightweight coffee-table tome. But those concerns proved, largely, unfounded.
Daily Proposition: Hang out in the Treme
Treme is a 10-part HBO series that dramatises the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina’s effect on the people of New Orleans. It is so good that it bears repeated viewing.
Daily Proposition: Meet the pill-popping, two-timing nurse
The DVD of the first season of US cable show Nurse Jackie is a fascinating tale of a woman working a shit job in the shit conditions of the US public health system while maintaining some semblance of a normal life with her family.
Daily Proposition: Discover the killer music app
In the new days, music charts were compiled by counting the number of units sold through online outlets such as iTunes. And then along came We Are Hunted.
Daily Proposition: Read a love story between father and son
Gilead came to me under false pretences. A review called it southern gothic and it ain’t southern gothic. What it is is a beautifully written story in the form of a dying man’s letter to his young son.
Daily Proposition: Take a trip with Weeds
Weeds is a family show in the sense that heroin is a headache tablet. But it’s a great bit of TV viewing, with a sixth season due to air in August.
Daily Proposition: Stay inside with guitar heroes
I pretty much dare anyone who likes guitars and/or guitar-based rock and blues to not like music documentary It Might Get Loud. Tim Dunlop watches.
Daily Proposition: Watch an HBO flop that’s gnarly, dude
John From Cincinnati is that rare thing: an HBO flop. It went to air in the US in late 2007 and lasted for only a single, ten-episode season. But don’t let that put you off.
Daily Proposition: American Splendor, 3rd greatest movie ever
American Splendor is the third greatest movie ever made. Forget I said that. I don’t want to build up expectations too high.
Music copyrights and wrongs: money hits the right note, doesn’t it?
Would Colin Hay, or Men at Work, accept “unconscious referencing” as an excuse if someone had indeed used part of one of his songs and claimed it as their own?
Daily Proposition: Get Lost. No, really.
Series six of the television mega-drama Lost is due in Australia soon. If you want a truly engaging bit of mindless commercial television then get thee to a DVD store and rent or buy it. It’s a hoot.
Daily Proposition: Rock out with great music and fat bastards
Seven Ages of Rock, currently showing on ABC TV, doesn’t just wallow in the glory days of the 1960s. There’s some genuinely wonderful footage — and it’s not too wanky or self-important either.
Twenty favourites for 2009: Part Two (songs edition)
From Australian Idol whiz kid Lisa Mitchell, to a “choral/chant/funeral/wedding piece” by Serbian composer Goran Bregović, Tim Dunlop gives his top twenty songs of the year.
The top 10 albums of 2009
Although my policy is to not get too bogged down in bagging the stuff I don’t like, instead expending the energy on music I do like, there have been one or two albums that I’ve completely hated and Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear is at the top of that list.
Hey Victorian government, leave Britney alone!
A Britney Spears concert is presumably a mass of gyrating, fireworks and lip-syncing. But the Victorian government wants concert goers to be made aware when music isn’t technically ‘live’. Do we really need to be protected?
Vale Les Paul, symbol maker of rock
Les Paul, one of the seminal figures of rock n roll history, has died at age 94.
Dead Wednesday on Friday: Michael Jackson RIP
According to The LA Times, Michael Jackson has died. Well, what choice did he have? Asks Tim Dunlop.
