Katie Holmes/Ratatat/Jpod
Katie Holmes
Katie Holmes: Dawsons Creek geek magnet and missus to Christian Scientology pygmy Tom Cruise, with child in tow and numerous bad films under her tiny waisted belt it’s hard to find reason to like Miss Holmes these days. That would be the case, however she starred in the brilliant 'Pieces of April’ for which I applaud her. It’s an incredibly simple yet wonderfully constructed slice of suburban life and will always have fond memories for me as it’s where I first heard Magnetic Fields music. It’s hard to explain how good the film is, especially when it’s central premise is about cooking a turkey, but Katie shines in it and it’s also to be noted that it was the first time she was cast outside her homely (pun unintentional) persona.
Ratatat
Ratatat is a collaboration between lead guitarist Mike Stroud and bedroom producer Evan Mast, and the new album "Classics" is scheduled to hit stores on August 22nd In the run up to this they will be releasing a series of limited edition 12” singles as well which will no doubt become future must haves.
The music is instrumental and moves across like a creeping shadow of joy, stimulating yet calming without being mainstream. Like a car crash between Zero 7 and the warp label.
Get more music on their website here
MP3: Ratatat - Loud Pipes
Douglas Coupland - Jpod
Douglas Coupland, the man who gave us generation X, brings us a fusion of J-pop and the Ipod in this his follow up to novel to microserfs. The younger siblings of Generation X now work in an electronic arts sweatshop producing mindlessly trival computer games whilst soul searching amongst the jargonistic world created by their mircoserf pioneer forefathers. It portrays today’s Google culture, whereby shopping on Ebay and trawling the net for ever more meaningless titbits becomes the only form of escapism from the daily grind.
The plot itself is broken down into smaller bite size plots that are as tantalising incongruous as making a random Google search, the characters are cartoon like but absorbing in their hyper-banality, and this type of writing , this insight into the consumer culture we strive for but don’t really want is where Coupland excels.
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Katie Holmes: Dawsons Creek geek magnet and missus to Christian Scientology pygmy Tom Cruise, with child in tow and numerous bad films under her tiny waisted belt it’s hard to find reason to like Miss Holmes these days. That would be the case, however she starred in the brilliant 'Pieces of April’ for which I applaud her. It’s an incredibly simple yet wonderfully constructed slice of suburban life and will always have fond memories for me as it’s where I first heard Magnetic Fields music. It’s hard to explain how good the film is, especially when it’s central premise is about cooking a turkey, but Katie shines in it and it’s also to be noted that it was the first time she was cast outside her homely (pun unintentional) persona.
Ratatat
Ratatat is a collaboration between lead guitarist Mike Stroud and bedroom producer Evan Mast, and the new album "Classics" is scheduled to hit stores on August 22nd In the run up to this they will be releasing a series of limited edition 12” singles as well which will no doubt become future must haves.
The music is instrumental and moves across like a creeping shadow of joy, stimulating yet calming without being mainstream. Like a car crash between Zero 7 and the warp label.
Get more music on their website here
MP3: Ratatat - Loud Pipes
Douglas Coupland - Jpod
Douglas Coupland, the man who gave us generation X, brings us a fusion of J-pop and the Ipod in this his follow up to novel to microserfs. The younger siblings of Generation X now work in an electronic arts sweatshop producing mindlessly trival computer games whilst soul searching amongst the jargonistic world created by their mircoserf pioneer forefathers. It portrays today’s Google culture, whereby shopping on Ebay and trawling the net for ever more meaningless titbits becomes the only form of escapism from the daily grind.
The plot itself is broken down into smaller bite size plots that are as tantalising incongruous as making a random Google search, the characters are cartoon like but absorbing in their hyper-banality, and this type of writing , this insight into the consumer culture we strive for but don’t really want is where Coupland excels.
(Read Unread Reading)
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