hour of the wolf (Ingmar Bergman, 1968).
"The Hour of the Wolf is the hour between night and dawn. It is the hour when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most real. It is the hour when the sleepless are haunted by their deepest fear, when ghosts and demons are most powerful. The Hour of the Wolf is also the hour when most children are born."Ingmar Bergman takes the fear of disintegrating sanity into its most blatant territory with 1968's Hour of the Wolf: his only true foray into gothic horror, which --despite being on my "Top 10" list for

flesh and blood.
much hype ;)Eva Herzigova, Helena Christensen and Claudia Schifferi-D, Winter 2009

hate the world, it's so romantic.
for anyone who missed it, BBC4 aired a pretty decent doc about the rise of British synthpop this month.. timely, considering the charts have gone synth crazy again -- it's up on YouTube right now (part 1 below) so grab it before the 'beeb' decide to blitz it with copyright complaints, and learn all about one of my favourite maligned genres!Synth Britannia."In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including the Human League, Daniel Miller and Cabaret Volatire were inspired by Kraftwerk and JG Ballard and dreamt of the sound of the future agai

my friend Goo has a real tattoo.
arguably an increasingly musically challenged embarassment for the past nine years (though.. perhaps i'm just no longer in the 'marketing age bracket') Reading was, not too long ago, an essential date in Britain’s rock ‘n’ roll calendar..1991Iggy Pop, Sonic Youth, James Carter, The Unstoppable Sex Machine, Dinosaur Jnr, NirvanaUnderground America rools! Nirvana appear fourth from the bottom on Friday’s bill. “Here was anti-rock god posturing at its most thrilling. Nirvana? This came pretty close,” said NME afterwards.

in which i remember watching Top of the Pops..
because it's easier to look backwards than forwards.