JK!

I've finally had a chance to check out Julien-K after their debut release earlier this month (I just turned 20, give me a break). Hailing from California, Julien-K is made up of former members of bands I've never listened to and have just released Death to Analog, their 14-track debut (although I've heard some are double-disced! Oo fancy!) I've heard a fair amount about them so decided to check them out... Upon listening, the bands that spring to mind in relation to them are the likes of Fischerspooner and The Presets, as they're basically rocky electronica with a hint of trance. If you reach further afield you might drag in Shiny Toy Guns or maybe Neon Neon. Honestly, I think I might have liked them a couple of years ago, but for me this music is clawing at the past a little bit. There's the possibility of potential rather than obvious actual potential here, but hopefully they will develop and enter the now. Of course, there will be some people their music appeals to and here I'm imagining goths coming of the age where they want to actually go and enjoy themselves properly, dancing in equally dark rooms, wearing equally terrible clothes, but with more strobes and less material.
Watch the video to their debut single 'Kick the Bass' below, or click the link underneath that to see the EXPLICIT version! OOH. LA. LA.



Kick the Bass explicit video

-Tubs

P.S. I'd like to point I hadn't actually watched the video before I made my goth comment, and really - how spot-on was I?

Movies and mixes

Here's some stuff that is happening...

Bloc Party are going to release another remix album. Hooray! Now, I'm not a big Bloc Party fan to be honest - I leave loving them to Lazy - but I do quite like their remixes from time to time. Intimacy Remixed will feature the music-messing abilities of Armand Van Helden and Mogwai, to name but a couple, and is out May 11th.

In crossover news, Dengler of Interpol is releasing a film. It is called My Friends Told Me About You and is about the nature of celebrity. Who knows if it will be any good! The guy that directed Control is helping out in some way though and that film made me want to die a little bit (hohoho!) because it was so fucking boring. I didn't actually end up watching the whole thing, just like Ian Curtis didn't end up living his whole life! The film won't be released globally as yet, but some people like Interpol, right? Right? And they're still alive, which is more than I can say for the members of Joy Division. (Hint: One of them is dead.) Find more info here.

- Tubs

¡¡EY...PENDEJO!!

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So last night was film night for me and my housemates, and whereas usually I am treated to an array of fairly dismal food, followed by atrocities in cinema (let's just say that She's the Man was one of the better choices, ok?), this week it was my turn to get my own back. And what better way to celebrate than with a mexican fiesta? So I slaved away at a hot stove for...ooh...35 minutes, and prepared a feast of nachos (complete with salsa, guacemole, AND soured cream), enchiladas and fajitas. And the film? Of course, it had to be Once Upon a Time in Mexico.

Now if you've not seen Once Upon a Time in Mexico, you're in for a real treat. Although the film is technically the 3rd in the "Mexico Trilogy" by writer/director Robert Rodriguez (the first being 1992's El Mariachi and the 2nd being 1995's Desperado), this film stands on it's own as the best of the series, and can quite easily be watched without ever seeing the first two films.

The film stars Antonio Banderas as 'El Mariachi', who is hired by a CIA Agent (portrayed excellently by Johnny Depp) to kill General Marquez, the very person responsible for the death of El Mariachi's wife and daughter. Marquez himself has been hired by local drug lord Barillo (Willem Dafoe) to kill the President, allowing for a coup d' état.

This film is pretty much pure kickass. Great visual effects as well as an astounding cast allow this film to truely shine as one of Rodriguez's best films to date, and is well worth a watch, if not just for the scene where someone gets both kneecaps blown off. mmmmm...tasty :D

~Lazy