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February 2010
The Archives
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02.21.10The Company of WolvesSometimes a book nips at your heels until you take notice. I first spotted Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes in the magical establishment that is Raven Books in Blackrock a few months ago, picked it up, was intrigued by the title, read the back cover blurb and put it down again. A couple of weeks later I happened across it again in an Enniscorthy thrift shop, figured somebody up there was trying to tell me something, bought it and brought it home. Estes's book, first published in 1992, is a study of female psychology through the ...
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02.17.10Piss ‘n’ vinegarFinished reading Just Kids, Patti Smith's memoir of her life with Robert Mapplethorpe in gutter fabulous early 70s New York. Here's a flashback to 'Piss Factory'. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/y6aUbrZYjYE" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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02.17.10Tindersticks RekindledFalling Down A Mountain Tindersticks 4AD The second coming of the Tindersticks reformation is upon us (following 2008's The Hungry Saw), and the band don't sugar it for the hummers and hawers. The opening title tune may be one of their darkest but also most intoxicating moments, a dirty noir improvisation featuring trumpeter Terry Edwards at his most jazz devilish, recorded in a couple of takes with a little help from collaborator David Kitt, plus a driving pulse courtesy of new skinsman Earl Havin. Over six minutes the collective explore the sonic what-if of Bitches Brew located in Paris instead of New York, ...
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02.16.10For the Love of PeteThe act of writing might be described as a benign way of turning a neurosis into a vocation – and for the lucky few who can keep their overheads below their advances, a living. "Between you and me, writing is all I ever think about," says Oregon-based novelist and Richmond Fontaine frontman Willy Vlautin. "I started writing as a crutch when I was a kid, 13 or 14, mostly fantasy stories, and then when I was about 20 I started writing pretty seriously. It evens out my head when I write. I'm nicer to be around 'cos I can get all ...
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02.12.10Hell on earth and Alberta CrossWe interviewed Petter from Alberta Cross yesterday. Listening to their first full length album Broken Side of Time a lot. Big-sounding, elemental, intense stuff. Check 'em out. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/5dDlERem3-c" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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02.09.10And the number of the beast…... is 2666. Missed this on publication: Jonathan Lethem makes a case for the canonisation of the late Roberto Bolaño. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/books/review/Lethem-t.html?pagewanted=all
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02.07.10There Will (Always) Be BloodThe Judge's 'War Is God' monologue from McCarthy's Blood Meridian, rendered in the look-upon-my-works-ye-mighty-and-weep tones of Mr Richard Poe, one-time Star Trek actor and Vietnam veteran. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/TIQynsWpBpQ" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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02.07.10What is the soul of a man?Looking forward to Nick Kent's memoir Apathy For the Devil. Here's a quote from Karl Whitney's interview at 3am magazine. "Keith Richards, Jerry Lee Lewis, Iggy Pop: big tough men. Let’s see how tough they really are. What is a real tough man: is it someone who goes out and can drink and drug more than anyone else, but who doesn’t really look after their own children? Or is it someone like Neil Young, who has two children — one in particular — who suffers chronically from cerebral palsy. And he has devoted his life to making his son the centre ...
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02.06.10Merry Clayton’s ApocalypseLadies and gentlemen, the amazing Merry Clayton reprising her role in the Rolling Stones' 'Gimme Shelter' in 1970. That's some funky apocalypse. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/XCyTqnizcvI" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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02.04.10TV EyeTh' View from t'other night. On the slab: Clint Eastwood's Invictus; Margaret Corkery's Eamon; Brian Dillon's Tormented Hope; and The Girl Who Forgot to Sing Badly at The Ark. http://www.rte.ie/tv/theview/archive/20100202.html