Sunday, August 30, 2009

DREADZONE AND THE TYRANNOSAURUS OF DISTANCE

Ah, how I wish I was over in England now, seeing Dreadzone live on their epic cross-country tour. I've never seen them in full band mode. The tyrannosaurus of distance is a grotesque thing...

The new Dreadzone album (due in 2010) should be a titanic affair. It's great to hear Dreadzone's king, Greg Roberts, has invited into his West London studio Tim (ex-Dreadzone/Subsonar) Bran, and Adam Wren, engineer for dynamic future-dub duo Leftfield, to sculpt the fresh offering.

It can only mean one thing: life turned to something celestial.

LJ, August 30 2009

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

PRIDE AND GLORY AND COCKROACHES

Last weekend, I watched Edward Norton's competent bent-NY-cops-meets-bent-heads drama Pride and Glory.

Accompanying the main picture was a behind the scenes doco, where an animal wrangler talked about working with cockroaches on the film. The man said it was important for the 'roaches to be "active and happy". I thought this was hysterical.

I can't imagine this bloke has too many mates. Or a wife. Maybe, I'm just being mean and needing to have a go at someone who is more nerdy than a birder like myself.

LJ, August 5 2009.