This Winki'sThis Winki'sPedram Mobedi's personal music, movies, book reviews as well as his favorite lists Articles
Top 10 Audioslave Songs
2008-04-06 16:50:00 Audioslave might be gone but supergroup's legacy remains untouched. I hope they get back together someday.10 Man Or Animal09 Broken City08 Jewel of the Summertime07 Set It Off06 What You Are05 Doesn't Remind Me04 Show Me How To Live03 One And the Same02 Be Yoursef01 Like A Stone More About: Songs , Audioslave
Andrew Bird - Soldier On [EP]
2008-04-06 16:40:00 The outtakes, demos, alternate mixes from his European tour together with a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Oh Sister” are what Andrew Bird ’s Soldier On EP is about. The professional whistler has proven his acoustic abilities once more and any Andrew Bird fan is aware of his sophisticated mind. Even when it comes to a simple acoustic tune like “The Water Jet Cilice”, he cannot avoid himself in shifting a three minute song vocally all around. That’s where his songwriting becomes signature. The man refuses to write a simple song. I prefer this EP to his earlier 2007 work Armchair Apocrypha for its tunefulness. EPs are great places to put all your junks in and sell it to poor fans and Bird is well aware of that and that’s why we see a remix of “Plasticities” and an early version of “Heretics” both dug out from Armchair. And if you skip these two such-a-bores and don’t feel like wasting your time on an instrumental so-what like “Sectionate City”, Soldier On is a 5 pi...
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
2008-04-06 07:41:00 They are signed to Columbia Records but their sound is as indie as it gets. MGMT (read it Management) brings you a eclectic soulful mixture of electro-pop with tastes of many previous pioneers that you’ve heard like The Flaming Lips, David Bowie, and Muse among many others. Ben Goldwasser and Andrew Van Wyngarden invite you to a pleasant psychedelic journey of pop tunes driving you to various paths with different tastes. Among the 10 works on Oracular Spectacular , there’s a song for everyone and every taste. Starts off with the first singe “Time to Pretend” on a huge melodic landscape consisted of layered electronic vibes and narcotic lyrics such as “I'm Feelin rough I'm Feelin raw I'm in the prime of my life. Let’s make some music make some money find some models for wives. I’ll move to Paris, shoot some heroin and fuck with the stars. You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars.” I still don’t know which one is the correct album art for this album,...
Panic At the Disco - Pretty Odd
2008-04-05 06:42:00 Now that emo is no more, emo bands are desperately reaching out their hands towards some other names only to survive. My Chemical Romance suddenly receives a divine inspiration from God to play the new millennium Queen as The Killers are out of the blue Springsteen with tastes of Bono. Panic At the Disco (no more exclamation marks after the word “Panic” you see) seemed to be the left-outs. So here they come seeking even bigger names than Queen or Springsteen. Panic At the Disco ladies and gentlemen, represent a new millennium version of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (WTF). I was really not that interested in commenting on this album, but as I was walking around Bangkok airport’s duty free shop I picked up this issue of NME (March 2008) with Panic At the Disco on the front page going: “Emo is dead. We’ve grown up. Hopefully our fans have, too.” But the words behind the title are not really as they're shown. The proper title should have been something like:”Em... More About: Panic At The Disco , Pretty
TehranAvenue Music Festival 86
2008-04-04 08:50:00 This event takes place annually and it’s been around for a couple of years now. People from all over Iran come to take part here in 4 different genres of Classic, Fusion, Hip-Hop and Rock. I didn’t give the first three categories a try but I listened to all 39 songs in the Rock category. By the miraculous emerge of indie music all around the world bands and artists have found a chance to expose themselves to the public ear, the face of music has changed in a precious way as the recording companies vanish into thin air. There are people around here in Iran having high hopes on Persian rock (which is not even a genre indeed) but by having a quick glimpse over the participants, one can definitely lose his/her hope over this. I was so embarrassed to hear the bands here and I totally lost my hope. I can only “wish” for a better future in the next century perhaps. Looks like my fellow Persian musicians have a long road to walk to reach the starting gate. Only three songs included... More About: Music , Festival , Music Festival
"The Stranger" by Albert Camus
2008-03-22 15:51:00 I tried Jean Paul Sartre’s Nausea (read my review about this book), and I thought: “I better go for Albert Camus ’ The Stranger now.” An existential novel everyone should try. The Stranger is too popular for me to go through the details, I think everyone reading books (or ones who have read like more than 50 novels in their lives so far have read The Stranger). I don’t know what went wrong between Camus and Sartre and it doesn’t really matter. Meursault’s existentialist way of thinking causes him lose every aspect of his life that matters to others. Love towards opposite sex and towards his deceased mother, humanity, the laws, marriage etc. At this point, he no longer cares what is going to happen to him. He doesn’t care whether the law will execute him or leave him the way he was, he even prefers to die and see people attend his execution day and show him their hatred. Metaphorically, Algeria can be another planet and Camus is the stranger here. People are all strang...
Trippin' With My 2 Favorite Allies
2008-03-21 23:32:00 Dudes! I’m not gonna be around for like next couple of days. I’m actually off to Thailand with two of my fellow droogies. So I decided to burn a whole MP3 disk for the trip and I tried to pick what fits among so many things and I have put diverse tastes in my 100 song collection. I first wanted to call this collection “Shangri-La Redemption” but my friend Mehrdad changed my mind and we decided to call it “Trippin’ With My Two Favorite Allies ” based on the song “Road Trippin’ by Red Hot Chili Peppers. So here’s the tracklisting to this disk just in case you wanted me to give it to you for your travelling abroad. I’m so excited, this is the first time I’m getting out of the country and I’m gonna have loads of fun in Bangkok and Pattaya. The tracklisting does not have any order and should be shuffled in order to make sense, so here are the 100 song names in no particular order.TRACKLISTING: ...
R.E.M - Accelerate: A Superserious Flashback To 80s Upbeat Past
2008-03-21 10:27:00 Michael Stipe and his fellows went back to the studio for another rock ‘n roll record, the R.E.M way. I never stopped listening to their 2004’s Away From the Sun all the way up to here, a smooth relaxing pop rock album by one of the best rock bands around. Accelerate flashbacks to R.E.M’s early 80s material such as Green, Life’s Rich Pageant, Document and others. A loud up-beat experience R.E.M tried once more in the 90s with Monster. Accelerate talks politics in a very punk fashion, Michael Stipe’s voice is getting a bit edgy for such a loud experience. “Supernatural Superserious” is another no.1 shaker from the genre R.E.M helped develop in the 90s. But personally, I could not relate to any other tune here on this short 11-tracks 35-minutes black and white album. Maybe “Man-sized Wreath” comes as a close second favorite. Now, I’m not blaming R.E.M for what they have done and it can be another forward experience by going backwards in sound. R.E.M experienced man... More About: Flashback , Past
Happy Norouz 1387
2008-03-19 23:28:00 Only some 7 hours is left for the Persian year 1386 to come to an end. Norouz Eve (Iranian's ancient new year's eve) is on the way.It is the best feeling an Iranian can ever have at a moment! I know the coming year is going to have better moments for me, so I'm glad! I'm still proud of my country's history. I'm proud to be an Iranian!Happy Norouz To Everyone!
Song Surgery: "Where Is My Mind?" by Pixies
2008-03-16 20:01:00 On this second entry of song surgery I like to go a bit deeper on Pixies ’ “Where Is My Mind ?” a song that despite the simple idea behind it by Black Francis sounds too much psychedelic to pass it on easily. This song is included on the Pixies first LP Surfer Rosa in 1988 on track seven. Pixies never gained enough publicity to go mainstream but they have remained underground legends and have inspired many bands for having a revolutionary effect on 90s alternative and grunge scene (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, Foo Foghters, etc). The song was widely welcomed when it was heard in the ending scene of David Fincher’s Fight Club. Most people know this song only through that film.According to Black Francis (the lead singer of the band a.k.a Frank Black for his solo works) this song is about his scuba diving experience in the Caribbean, as he goes into further details on the second verse about it “I was swimmin' in the Caribbean” based on this alone the song is simply no... More About: Song , Surgery
Beach House - Devotion: Ghostly Romance
2008-03-16 17:31:00 The name of this duo could picture a band like Smash Mouth and Sugar Ray and The Fun Loving Criminals. Way Wrong! Victoria Legrand (vocal/organ) and Alex Scally (the rest) will bring you this ghostly love collection of dreamy lo-fi romantic songs, thus instead of Smash Mouth you’re invited to a funeral that nobody is actually grieving from loss, though the dead is now a ghost and lives among us! The organ on the opener “Wedding Bell” is quite descriptive. This is just what I had written about in my previous entry on the Raveonettes album, only if you exclude the sweet noise mentioned there. “Gila” surmounts the first two tracks by the outstanding guitar played exquisitely relaxing and “Turtle Island” is nothing less, only the guitar is again replaced with piano and the inevitable organs that stick all the tunes to its tights thread. The guitar will be added in a timely manner in the end. The vintage atmosphere on this album can be quite nostalgic when it brings out a b... More About: House , Beach , Romance , Devotion
Persepolis: Things Us Iranians Cannot Shout Out!
2008-03-16 16:57:00 What Marjane Satrapi has come up with on Persepolis is very daring. She has depicted some pictures and facts to the public that was never shown the way they shall be. This autobiographical animation film brings out scenes from the situation of Iran before and after the Islamic Revolution in a semi-documentary form. There are moments in this film that every Iranian knows for sure but is unable to scream it out: the total ignorance of some people about everything that was going on in that period, the tragic doom of people’s relatives with communist ideas and any liberal thoughts, police reactions, compelling women to wear their hijab although it was taken firmly in the early years, hardships the juvenile generation went through in order to have minimum fun by going to parties, listening to music, drinking anything alcoholic, closing up all the bars and discos and banning almost everything.After the Oscar nomination of Shohre Aghdashlou for her acting performance in The House Of Sand... More About: Things , Shout
The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust
2008-03-15 17:39:00 I think 2008’s indie ground has been started to fill with many things inspired by Jesus And Mary Chain. The Magnetic Fields decided to do a bit experimentalism in their new album Distortion. There’s the Raveonettes’ returning with a sweet noise, and there’s more ladies and gentlemen. There’s an intense amount of noise used on this album. The first track “Aly, Walk With Me” is like Mazzy Star collaborating with Sonic Youth with a guitar melody based on Eurothimics’ “Sweet Dreams” covered by Marilyn Manson. This album truly won’t do without a volume less than half-maximum. If the noise is heard through a low level of volume, the songs turn into average Bangles hits. Camera Obscura fans won’t find this album so far from their ear-caressing Let’s Get Out Of This Country (only with a more magnified sound). The chorus harmonies of Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo have elevated the nostalgic level of this noise-pop record. Sometimes you can really mistake this for ... More About: Lust , The Raveonettes
Top 10 Bush Songs
2008-03-15 16:31:00 I guess I like to have another moment with my high school favorites! Only reflects personal opinion!10. The People That We Love09. Superman08. Mouth07. The Chemicals Between Us06. Glycerine05. Greedy Fly04. Warm Machine03. Distant Voices02. Machinehead01. Swallowed More About: Bush , Songs
This Winki's 5 Star Albums: RAIN DOGS by TOM WAITS
2008-03-14 15:32:00 Better start the first item of This Winki’s 5 Star Albums with a classic one. In the synthesizer atmosphere of the mid-80s where hip-hop was young enough to rule the American nation and MTV was still trying to replace what people had in their mind as music by a visual version containing pink and blue lights and bad hair all over the video clips , Tom Waits started to produce and record his timeless trilogy of Swordfishtrombones (1983), Rain Dogs (1985) and Frank’s Wild Years (1987). Rain Dogs – the middle work – was least likely to become a success. But as far as it was Tom Waits’ music, it had nothing to do with anything contemporary. An artist with inspirations like Sinatra and Captain Beefheart could not be that eager to transform himself into anything else like many of his fellow musicians did in the '80s. That’s probably why Rain Dogs is MERELY recorded in the '80s but it can never have the characteristics and cultures of 80s music, and thank God for that. In fact...
Portishead - 3rd: Hey Guys! It's Been A Decade And A Year, Hi!
2008-03-12 20:58:00 It was around February 2005 when Geoff Barrow announced the process of 3rd’s writing in the Tsunami Benefit Concert in the band’s homeland, Bristol. Portishead (the band name is a town near Bristol, too) is known for their suicidal trip-hop which is amplified by the narrow deadly crying voice of Beth Gibbons that sounds like a wounded soldier’s dying lullaby all the way through. 3rd might have took some 30 months for the band to write and record but it has taken some eleven years for the hungry fans to hear something new from their beloved lazy heroes. The gap was too long to deny but it’s Portishead’s signature trip-hop that has remained untouched. Comparing to Dummy and the self-titled 1997 album, 3rd inherits a tremendous amount of sampled vibes as well as profound drumming and numb tunes. And at the same time, the album has some noble things to offer. Unlike the two previous efforts, 3rd takes a successful risk of trying some other similar sounds and wisely loses its l... More About: Guys , Year
Being There: Sellers Was Not "Only" the Best Comedian Of All Time
2008-03-12 05:54:00 There are separate degrees of isolation. Some isolated people do it deliberately. Some people are isolated because they are too innocent, therefore they are too misunderstood. The latter explains Peter Sellers in Being There: A movie which only “could” bring an Oscar for him. Chancy Gardener is genuinely no one but a man named Chance who happens to work as a gardener for a sick old man who dies and leaves him alone; therefore he has to leave the big house (he is only the gardener). Chance has never been allowed to leave the house so his life is his television. When he’s kicked out of the house everything he encounters reminds him of what he has seen on television: some make him laugh and some cause him wonder. Through a small accident he becomes acquainted with a veteran politician and his family. He feels like this is his new home somehow and almost resides her and his new family loves him too much. His simple quotes based on all he ever knows from TV and gardening becomes sp... More About: Comedian , Time
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
2008-03-11 11:44:00 Once upon a time, fans counted too much on their favorite bands' lyrics. Therefore there was Pink Floyd! And there was die-hard Tool fans who genuinely thought there is really something spectacular hidden between what Maynard James Keenan writes as lyrics and there was a time where bands screamed out their guts to billboard their message to people’s forehead. Take epic anthems like “We Will Rock You” and “Another Brick In the Wall”. Fortunately enough, times have changed. Many bands that only made people believe "we are fighting to shout out what we are saying and our battle fails to cease forever" have lost their identity thanks to emerge of indie music and therefore some public awareness. There’s really no need to scream your stupid guts out that much, except when really needed.I first came upon Mars Volta by “The Widow” (from 2003's Frances the Mute): Fantastic vocals by Cedric Bixler-Zavala. The Goliath spirit bought by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez was not only a bad o... More About: Mars Volta , The Mars Volta
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts: Hey, in a vacuum I can do whatever I want to do
2008-03-10 19:44:00 Trent Reznor has always surprised his fans. Either successfully or not, each Reznor experience has been achieved through a different approach. From 2007 on, he’s wearing experimental gloves by making a full concept album (Year Zero), collaboration with a hip-hop artist (Saul Williams) which gradually disappointed him and recently composing an instrumental 36-tracks album (Ghosts ) in 4 disks in an (almost) noble open-source fashion (after Radiohead’s In Rainbows was sold in a pay-as-you-will method in which you could even choose to pay “nothing”). Reznor has wisely realized that file sharing is “a revolutionary digital distribution method, and we believe in finding ways to utilize new technologies instead of fighting them.” He has also allowed free non-commercial distribution of Ghosts’ mixing. The torrent package comes bundled with extra materials like wallpapers, web graphics, a PDF file containing all album arts of the album and a separate photograph for every single... More About: Vacuum , Nine Inch Nails , Nails , Inch
Brooke Waggoner - Fresh Pair Of Eyes [EP]
2008-03-09 18:13:00 Brooke Waggoner steps on the stage in the age of 23 while she has started playing the piano at 4 and writing her first song at 10. This six track debut EP is a delicious selection of female vocalist’s best moments from the smooth hushing voice of Waggoner in a Cat Power style and her masterful hands in bringing you up and making you sit down again in a very Tori Amos-ish way. She has been even compared to Fiona Apple but first you have to disable Apple’s roughness to reach Waggoner. Fresh Pair Of Eyes begins with a great piano followed by violins and then she comes with “Hush if you must, if you must so you'll trust, In the power of your silence, the fear in compliance” which is not a great start for lyrics in my opinion but if you are patient enough the diverse shift on piano will warm you up! Now that’s what I call a stop-'n-go hit. “Wonder-Dummied” is the best track on this EP when the orchestra starts to play is just when you smile and the best is just yet to com... More About: Brooke
This Winki's Presents: 5 Star Albums
2008-03-09 17:23:00 G'Day everyone!Hope all you folks are doing pretty well. This is a new feature I decided to add to my blog. I have previously added the top 10 lists and the "Song Surgery". "This Winki's 5 Star Albums " is coming soon to the monitors near you! Here I will try to pick the best music albums I have heard and enjoyed so far (preferably in the last couple of years) . Of course the complete list would have some hundred items on it, but again (and according to the very routine that This Winki's is built upon) I will try to avoid the cliche. How? This is how: This is no place for Nirvana's Nevermind nor Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band nor Exile On Main Street, you know! I will try to pick my favorites based upon my own taste and most of them are categorized under the Indie Music shadow, because I believe indie music is just where true music lies these days now that the record companies are selling popcorns. So that's it, and keep in mind that the items that will appear here in th... More About: Presents
Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant [EP]
2008-03-09 09:40:00 Like many other new acts, Fleet Foxes by far has nothing but their MySpace page. That’s their cyber existence, of course. But musically, this Seattle based band’s debut EP with only a handful of tracks can easily sweep you off your feet. While keeping their stylish vocal figure in all 5 pieces, they hop upon different genres of early 70s classic rock and at each station, bring back memories of a band’s glory days in that wonderful era of art rock. The self titles first track might be short but gives you a general idea about what their sound is just about while it’s a tender reminiscent of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel’s vocal harmonies and then fades into a mandolin driven second part with humming in the background. The starting of “Drops in the River” reminded me of Simon & Garfunkel’s “I Am A Rock” but as Robin Pecknolds’ voice enters, it’s something like My Morning Jacket and this is the way the rest of the song keeps going. “English House” has a mo... More About: Giant
Deerhunter - Cryptograms
2008-03-08 16:21:00 This is probably where a critic’s vote takes the maximum distance from what a typical music listener would be pleased with. This Pitchfork’s favorite high rated record (8.9) is far from what you call melodic, rhythmic or groovy in its first half (what one might typically expect judging by its genre’s similarity with Panda Bear or El Guincho). Just like cassettes, Deerhunter’s sophomore Cryptograms has two sides, each representing a different artist in sound and music. The band enters a self-destruction period when it came to record the first half of this album. Although this very half took only a day to record, the day could not come to an end without breakdowns, but the second half is more melodic and less ambient and a bit more optimistic. The Billy Idol-ish punk rock used to construct the title track has its nihilistic moments but Deerhunter crosses that border by adding very hallucinating ambient tracks such as the “Intro”, “White Ink”, “Red Ink” and “Provi...
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
2008-03-07 08:36:00 You can almost hear anything on Vampire Weekend s self-titled after Mansard Roof EP (their debut), but in a mediocre level. It’s a weird fake feeling I get and I’m not sure if it’s right or not. But many melodies do not sound original to me e.g. the violin on “M79”. The band has mixed some pop-rock with afro-pop melodies; they (the afro-pops) keep themselves way apart from what Ezra Koenig is doing. He has a voice between The Shins’ James Mercer when he’s singing normally and Band Of Horses’ Ben Bridwell when he sings on a higher note but either way fails to escape from a teenager level and the lyrics barely climb up that ladder. It’s a bit too optimistic to compare Vampire Weekend with Peter Gabriel and Talking Heads, maybe they are too inexperienced for that. All I can point out from their self-titled is a guitarless Sublime in their self-titled (only listen to “A Punk” to figure out the resemblance). Sublime’s late Brad Nowell used to employ the same tricks...
The Fly: Futuristic Metamorphosis
2008-03-06 21:51:00 I first experienced David Cronenberg’s The Fly some ten years ago when I borrowed the VHS from a friend. I had no idea who David Cronenberg was, but I knew Jeff Goldblum from Jurassic Park and Independence Day. Now that I finally ordered the DVD and it took like months to arrive at my hand, I saw it’s a remake of a 1958 classic with the same title. The classic version according to IMDB had a successful box office but I just don’t know about Cronenberg’s. The thing that made me think more about it after watching it for the 10th time was the story’s similarity with Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis , Seth - the scientist - reminds every reader of that book of Gregor Samsa! Of course the story lines are just way different. Jeff Goldblum gives a magnificent performance as a scientist who succeeds at building a teleportation machine to teleport objects from one place to another. The problem is whether it also teleports a living being with flesh and blood, this is where the story beg... More About: Futuristic
Top 10 Darkest Albums Of the 90s
2008-03-05 16:01:00 Here’s another top 10 of mine on the darkest albums I’ve heard from the 90s. Some items are specifically dark in both lyrics and music but some step a bit further and turn literally suicidal. But all the albums mentioned below have one thing in common: they’re beautiful. So the title of this list could turn into the top 10 most beautiful yet darkest (and suicidal) albums of the 90s but that would make this short list a bit complicated. I should not mention once again that the following list reflects only my personal opinion, but I’m going to mention it every time, anyway.10. Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation: What can you truly expect from a band who has toured with Nirvana and Dinosaur Jr.? Sonic Youth’s guitar art (what time interpreted later as “sweet noise”) is far more distracted than you think you’ll be able to keep on doing what you were supposed to. Ellen Page was probably right on a scene in Juno (read my review) which she referred to Sonic Youth as nothing bu... More About: Albums
Blonde Redhead - 23
2008-03-04 17:56:00 Ever since I heard Deerhoof’s Friend Opportunity, my ears became allergic to Japanese front women. I really couldn’t stand the girl’s horrible English accent. And when this horrible accent came combined with a very sophisticated unpredictable music, the whole thing became too experimental. Well, fortunately this is not the case in Blonde Redhead . 23 is the first album I have heard from them but according to editors they have mellowed down a bit on their Sonic Youth-ish distortions. The front woman’s voice does not have the accent density of Deerhoof’s so don’t worry about that adding that there is actually a front man involved as well that sings out some tracks. The title track is a great starter with layered guitar and layered vocals and to a large extent gives out a general view of the whole 43 minute disk. 23 is the band’s 9th studio album and as a matter of fact has some key tracks that present the album better than others. The first half of the album is more upbea...
El Guincho - Alegranza: Welcome To Palmitos Park!
2008-03-04 12:04:00 If Panda Bear’s Person Pitch (read my review) took you to a childhood dream in your unconsciousness, El Guincho’s Alegranza! Invites you to a Spanish park in mid-20th-century era with Merry-Go-Rounds, Roller coasters, Circuses and many other rides, away from all those arcade sounds and digital psychedelica. Pablo Diaz-Reixa puts you on his favorite rides with too many loops and repetitive afrobeats combined with early rock ‘n roll. Ones you don’t want to miss. And if Panda Bear’s Person Pitch in the deep depths of its unconscious beauty is the reminiscent of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys in vocal harmonies, El Guincho’s Alegranza! Has its own sound – which is a little bit of everything while being none at the same time. The album is all sung in Spanish language in the format of tribal repeating verses and is strongly recommended for listeners of Panda Bear and Animal Collective. You are so likely to get vertigo but that would not turn into a headache if you just sit... More About: Park
The Dream-Work (A Brief Overview Of Sigmund Freud's "A General Introduction
2008-03-03 11:30:00 “The Interpretation Of Dream s” is just ANOTHER book by Sigmund Freud focused on dreams and where they come from. I haven’t read that one yet. The book I went to buy a couple of weeks ago was only the 15th volume of Freud’s “A General Introduction To Psychoanalysis” which again focuses on dreams. This could be exciting extracting the facts about our dreams from a man like Freud. Most of us have always a hungry ear for learning about the images we see in our dreams. I have read the Persian translation of this book by Farzam Parva. It was literally the first time in my life I came upon examining some dreams of mine. Formerly I posted an entry on this blog about one of my own dreams called The Dream Capture Machine. Now, the idea of Dream Capture Machine can be a bit hypothetic for now. I just thought of an imaginary machine that could save all the pictures we see in a dream and store it on a memory (lol). This is a dream itself but who knows? They are calculating hell’s ... More About: Work
The Big Lebowsky: Maybe Pulp Fiction Was Not Funny Enough
More articles from this author:2008-03-02 19:21:00 Once again comes another movie that I don’t mind admiring a lot, though I’m just a decade late. Coen brothers seem to know just how to make an easy-to-praise movie without intervening between the lines of concept and philosophy and non-linearity. Thanks to genius directors like Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez who presented and masterfully depicted entertaining cinematography to its fullest degree, Joel and Ethan Cohen are successfully extending this upstream curve while keeping their profile crystal clear of pretentiousness and exaggeration and they refuse to be just copy-cats, therefore they have their own cinema with pride: Oh Brother Where Art Though?, Fargo, The Big Lebowsky and No Country For Old Men seem to be enough for a defining style and a proof to originality.With a professional thick cast like Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro and guest appearances by Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea as well as Aimee Mann who... More About: Funny , Fiction , Pulp Fiction , Pulp 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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