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Ik ben sugoi in English sprechen. Au revoir! Dutch, English. Took some French and German classes but forgot most of it.

The baby swans are here again. Born about 90 minutes ago! The fluffy things look utterly confused just following the big white ships around. There's 7 of them this year, 1 less than last year. So cute!

They have only been in The Netherlands 3 times as far as I know. Last time here they played ain't afraid to die and Reiketsu Nariseba though.

So if shoegaze is the sounds of vacuum cleaners and benicore is cuteness overload pop, does this MBV song make for 'benigaze'? Tutu-tutu tutu-tutu-tuuuu tutu-tutu tutu-tutu tu-tu...

If DIR EN GREY is dark chocolate and VAJRA is white chocolate, what would the Dir-ish band equivalent to milk chocolate be? Sadie? 12012? Trying to finish this equation, please help.

plug.dj looks like the best alternative to me. If you want to do something like this again, upload the videos on Youtube and play them on plug. Many already have a profile there, which is a plus, and people can favorite individual songs by grabbing them for their own playlists. And do shorter sessions! Hours and hours on end is simply too much. One full album in a session is plenty.

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One month between the "limited" release and the regular release is somewhat unusual. Hope it works out for them... I guess. http://www.last.fm/music/SHERBETS Jigs, you're talking to a ghost in here and...

David Lynch: Dear Twitter Friends, the rumors are not what they seem ..... It is !!! Happening again. #TwinPeaks returns on @SHO_Network "This damn fine cup of coffee from Mark and David tastes more delicious than ever," Showtime president David Nevins said in a statement Friday confirming the news. "Totally worth the extra brewing time and the cup is even bigger than we expected. David will direct the whole thing which will total more than the originally announced nine hours. Preproduction starts now!!” Source: the internet

So in the plug chat it has come up that many visual kei bands (from the 90's mainly) shot their PVs outside of Japan. In Italy, USA, Greece, etc. It might be difficult to fill an entire evening with this theme (but the regular dj's have already listed plenty of names, so I'm not sure!) it's a nice theme to do one day until we eventually run out of PVs. Also, the "visual kei" part may be taken loosely to make things a little easier. Proposing this theme for the one after hiphop.

Allow me to be boring and say ◀ PEEL SLOWLY AND SEE alright I'll add some more The Cardigans - Gran Turismo David Bowie - 'Ziggy Stardust' My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Lush - Split T. Rex - The Slider Kate Bush - The Dreaming Blondie - Eat to the Beat The Doors - Morrison Hotel Curve - Döppelganger Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

Whaaaaaat, I can't believe I never listened to this album before. Thanks a bunch.

Whoo, a topic to celebrate Siouxsie and Bauhaus. While I'm having the greatest difficulties labeling this specifically, I think this is dark wave with some new wave/synthpop influences. The project is called Linea Aspera and has already been abandoned in favor of a new one called Keluar (also worth listening to) but for now I prefer their first S/T album, which includes this really, really catchy song: Kokushoku Elegy. When I spun this in a room on plug.dj, the first reactions I received were "wow, Japanese Siouxsie" which I think is more or less accurate. While not all their songs are evenly matched, most are very much worth listening to. Very underground:

The only Kubrick directed movies left to watch for me are Barry Lyndon and that early-career movie I forgot the title. I may not praise him as much as others do (didn't like A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket much...) but I think it's great that watching a movie of his, it's often instantly recognizable as his product, and yet the movies are very different. Sci-fi, drama, comedy, heist, horror, many things. Except maybe Spartacus, that one was a little "standard", it could've been made with many directors. He's got that personal trademark that's hard to describe. Other people such as Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard and Woody Allen have it too... though that last name is probably the least diverse of the list. I recognize what you're saying about modern movies Nisimaldar but I think it's mainly that the unwritten rules of "mainstream" moviemaking have changed: the pace, the editing, the camera. Like today you can't make a big budget movie and insert several minutes of desert footage with basically nothing happening like in Lawrence of Arabia. That would bore most of the audience. The whole "the cameraman has no clue what's happening" style is a LOT more present these days too. Like when something in the corner of the screen happens (a car blows up for example), the camera suddenly changes its focus and swings to the blown up car, while in older movies they tend to build up tension and slowly move the camera to the car, making the audience wonder what's going to happen with the car and then BOOM. Of course in "non-mainstream" filmmaking there's a whole lot to explore still, both past and present, and they have a tendency to bend the unwritten rules of cinema more often creating more variety. I guess that's the main reason I don't get excited about most big budget movies anymore... like the new Jurassic World or Mad Max movies. I'll watch them eventually but I'm not eager to buy a ticket.

→ Insert dark joke about how that will never happen 'cause listening to too much visual kei causes infertility.

Why do all those "official" photo uploads that can't be changed even with an avalanche of downvotes always look like first-day-of-school photographs or boring family portraits? I'm looking at you, pages of Kate Bush and Whitesnake. God damn it last.fm. Nobody wants these dull -I take no chances- photography from amateurs. Also upvoted/upvoting all images posted on the last page.

Sad to say but you missed the party. These days Monochrome Heaven is on the verge of transforming into a K-Pop appreciation forum. J-Rock is so passé.

Apologies in advance but quite honestly I disagree with everything ^-^ leaf is not the most active, he's just the most present. He's like the kid in school who never misses a class and sits near the back of the classroom, occasionally saying a thing or two. Or in this special case, occasionally holding up a protest sign with a picture of Kamijo on it. But we love you anyway. Jigs and kitten and the pretzel and several others are actually more active. but who really cares

I read a lot about The Shining but to be honest none of the theories convinced me that there was more to it. It's a very good horror movie, but I don't think the supposed hidden messages are true. If you're interested in stuff like that, read up on Eyes Wide Shut! I thought that was a lot more interesting. Maybe I'm biased because it's my favorite Kubrick movie by a mile but... there are great theories on that one.

Is this a tribute to our dear @allisapp? My best wishes to you, I hope they don't stain your legacy.

In before limited-run special collector's ultimate edition on 2xLP+Remastered CD+Original CD+Bonus Tracks CD+Live CD+DVD+Blu-ray+Photo Book with colored vinyl and shiny metal case for $300, 5% off special price if member of fanclub. Yeah, probably just a re-release.

This just in: 'Arise in Stability' band name change to 'Arise Instability'

Humanoids are strange. Fun write-up, enjoyed the read. One curious thing is that Nico claims the song was perfectly suited for her, even implied that in a way it is about her. She said that in an interview from 1981(or so?) which can be heard on a "bonus track" on the Icon compilation of "rare" songs. She was completely drugged-up and falling into an abyss at that point though so not sure if there's any truth to that. Anyway I think enjoyment of Nico's music relies very heavily on your appreciation of her voice. Some (...most? ) hate it, some love it.

I know @Jigsaw9 will try to kill me for this: Nico's recording of 'Heroes' is better than David Bowie's.

Lost River (2014) Another clear case of "f^*# the reviews". This is a stunning, beautifully shot, dark, gloomy, tense, gripping, imaginative, memorable film by Ryan Gosling (yes the handsome actor turned director). It's Lynchian, Dario Argentonian, with a little bit of Refnism and Malickism... for lack of a better description. It's obvious he took a lot of inspiration from these (mostly) acclaimed filmmakers and some more, but is that reason enough to boo it at a film festival? Just because you recognize some visual styles? Or just because the plot is fantastical? If anything it should be applauded that an actor with (once upon a time) a huge mainstream appeal is not afraid to embrace what he likes most. He could've gone on to act in endless romantic comedies, the ladies would love him, but instead he takes on an ambitious project and he really shines here as a director. It's one of my favorite films of the decade so far. Can't possibly give it any more praise than this. It's a shame it got slaughtered by the publics and paid reviewers (calling most of them 'critics' is too much honor tbh) alike. The only flaw for me is the few shots with overly present lens flare, arrgh. It's not aesthetically pleasing and really all it does is remind the viewer that there's a camera. Why would you want to be reminded of the presence of a camera when you're so deep into the world a movie created? Puzzles me. Either way, it's not distracting enough to go on about it when there's so much bizarre beauty in this movie. Mikreh Isha (or A Woman's Case) (1970? or 1969?) So once upon a time there was an artist in Israel who made this film about the objectification of women while he seems to be struggling with the fact that he himself takes part in this just as much as the rest of the world. It's quite a poetic film but not something to dive into unless you're alright with plotless, seemingly random images thrown together in a dizzy black and white montage with background music by an Israelic psychedelic rock band of the era. The film bombed, in fact, the director's life bombed in the few decades after he made this. Quite an interesting read. Of course, it helps that the lead actress is REALLY, REALLY PRETTY. Interestingly the character she plays admits, in an interview in the movie, that she is aware that she's pretty. She has no difficulties getting into relationships but she has the greatest difficulties getting them to last for longer than... well, just very short. She wants to be seen as a human being, but the artists she gets involved with admire her beauty. She likes her beauty, tries not to become arrogant, but then again she wants to be taken seriously and not just be another run of the mill muse from yet another artsy lost soul kind of a man. Then there's a man who accompanies her in this movie who seems to be a representation of the director himself. Doesn't want to be yet another poor man who is attracted to beautiful women, but has trouble confronting the fact that his nature tries to deceive him into leading that life. Actually, in a way it's quite a nihilistic film. Why would you want to repress your basic human nature if in the end you just want to live a nice life. The intentions of this movie, apart from the above that I got out of it, are mostly vague. Maybe there are little intentions, maybe the filmmaker just wanted to create an experience that lingers in your mind for a while. I liked it. Rating: cult / 10