1. UK chart number ones each year on my birthday since 9th May 1993.
2. Songs that have a meaning to me.
3 My favourite songs by my favourite artists.
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
The death of uncool-ipod shuffle
1. The Drums - Forever and Ever Amen
2. Noah and the Whale - The Line
3. Cajun Dance Party - The Colourful Life
4. Paloma Faith - Sexy Chick (Radio 1 Live Lounge)
5. Rihanna - Take A Bow
6. MGMT - Kids
7. Hurts - Better Than Love
8. Bombay Bicycle Club - Many Ways
9. Crystal Castles - Baptism
10. Cage the Elephant - Sell Yourself
11. The xx - Basic Space
12. The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
13. Vampire Weekend - Cousins
2. Noah and the Whale - The Line
3. Cajun Dance Party - The Colourful Life
4. Paloma Faith - Sexy Chick (Radio 1 Live Lounge)
5. Rihanna - Take A Bow
6. MGMT - Kids
7. Hurts - Better Than Love
8. Bombay Bicycle Club - Many Ways
9. Crystal Castles - Baptism
10. Cage the Elephant - Sell Yourself
11. The xx - Basic Space
12. The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
13. Vampire Weekend - Cousins
The death of uncool
Brian Eno
Produced work with U2, Coldplay, Ultravox, David Bowie.
Theory
-There are just too many styles around, and they keep mutating too fast to assume that kind of dominance.
-Go into a record shop and look at the dividers used to separate music into different categories. There used to be about a dozen: rock, jazz, ethnic, and so on. Now there are almost as many dividers as there are records, and they keep proliferating.
-I had a hand in starting—ambient music—has split into a host of subcategories called things like “black ambient,” “ambient dub,” “ambient industrial,” “organic ambient” and 20 others last time I looked.
-We’re living in a stylistic tropics.
-The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
Produced work with U2, Coldplay, Ultravox, David Bowie.
Theory
-There are just too many styles around, and they keep mutating too fast to assume that kind of dominance.
-Go into a record shop and look at the dividers used to separate music into different categories. There used to be about a dozen: rock, jazz, ethnic, and so on. Now there are almost as many dividers as there are records, and they keep proliferating.
-I had a hand in starting—ambient music—has split into a host of subcategories called things like “black ambient,” “ambient dub,” “ambient industrial,” “organic ambient” and 20 others last time I looked.
-We’re living in a stylistic tropics.
-The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
Roxy Music
-Early Roxy Music (first three albums : Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure, Stranded)
-Unique sound that drew on many different influences: 50s rock n' roll, 30s style crooning, modern electronic music, sound manipulation and collage, classical instrumentation, sound effects and Pop Art.
-The group were styled by the fashion designer Anthony Price and lead singer Bryan Ferry.
-Each piece of work made a definite artistic statement.
-They were retro and futuristic at the same time.
-They were of their time and also before and after it.
-Unique sound that drew on many different influences: 50s rock n' roll, 30s style crooning, modern electronic music, sound manipulation and collage, classical instrumentation, sound effects and Pop Art.
-The group were styled by the fashion designer Anthony Price and lead singer Bryan Ferry.
-Each piece of work made a definite artistic statement.
-They were retro and futuristic at the same time.
-They were of their time and also before and after it.
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Jim Jarmusch's Golden Rules
Rule #1: There are no rules.
Rule #2: Don’t let the fuckers get ya.
Rule #3: The production is there to serve the film.
Rule #4: Filmmaking is a collaborative process.
Rule #5: Nothing is original.
Rule #2: Don’t let the fuckers get ya.
Rule #3: The production is there to serve the film.
Rule #4: Filmmaking is a collaborative process.
Rule #5: Nothing is original.
Monday, 21 March 2011
Postmodernism and Music
Dan Black- Symphonies
Dj Shadow - Organ Donnor
Daft punk- Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Participation
Daft Punk - Using a website called dothedaft.com we can recreate the song, making our own original copy.
Modification
Dj Shadow - Uses lots of bits of music and re arranges them in a new order which therefore is modification, his album endtroducing was the first of its kind made entirely of other music reordered.
Authenticity Disrupted
Dan Black - Makes it obvious that his song Symphonies is copied from various other songs, he also illustrates this in his video.
Originality
Dj Shadow - Organ Donnor
Daft punk- Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Participation
Daft Punk - Using a website called dothedaft.com we can recreate the song, making our own original copy.
Modification
Dj Shadow - Uses lots of bits of music and re arranges them in a new order which therefore is modification, his album endtroducing was the first of its kind made entirely of other music reordered.
Authenticity Disrupted
Dan Black - Makes it obvious that his song Symphonies is copied from various other songs, he also illustrates this in his video.
Originality
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
My (dreadful) essay for Mr Smith
Hit-Girl - Postmodern Heroine or "morally reprehensible"?
Hit-Girl, whilst not being your average child still shows characteristics of a young girl. On the other hand she has a darker slightly twisted side which seems totally inappropriate for anyone especially a tenderly aged girl.
Kick-Ass is a film that addresses what would happen if normal people tried to behave like superhero’s. The film, so unrealistic still shocks when it shows a twelve year old girl beating up fully grown men and calling them such derogatory terms such as ‘c**t’s’ the director draws attention to this though by making it so obvious. This which is socially unexceptable and completely unrealistic still causes such controversy during the film. If you think seriously about this context all the superhero’s associated in the film are morally reprehensible, just because Hit-Girl is younger this surely doesn’t matter.
The picture of her and her dad connotates nice thoughts about a farther and daughter relationship, however the image of her in a school girl outfit, pouting with a gun to hand connotates quite morally inappropriate thoughts as this image seems very provocative and inappropriate for you young girl to look like, what isn’t so recognised is how strong, powerful and fearless Hit-Girl is, especially being so young. Different again is the cartoon picture, this although realistically isn’t humorous in this context I find that it is. The caption below read "She was John Rambo crossed with Polly Pocket", the use of the blood and the stance she is pulling also add to the humor as they are so unrealistic like the film itself.
When you think of other superwomen like Batwoman and Catwoman, they are mostly seen looking provocative and not really doing a lot, this is completely different to Hit-Girls purpose and this makes her more acceptable and more like a heroine.
Possibly if this young girl had these characteristics and she was slightly older she wouldn’t be seen as so morally reprehensible by so many critics. To appreciate and accept the film it would seen you need to except Hit-Girl, her role and purpose first.
Hit-Girl, whilst not being your average child still shows characteristics of a young girl. On the other hand she has a darker slightly twisted side which seems totally inappropriate for anyone especially a tenderly aged girl.
Kick-Ass is a film that addresses what would happen if normal people tried to behave like superhero’s. The film, so unrealistic still shocks when it shows a twelve year old girl beating up fully grown men and calling them such derogatory terms such as ‘c**t’s’ the director draws attention to this though by making it so obvious. This which is socially unexceptable and completely unrealistic still causes such controversy during the film. If you think seriously about this context all the superhero’s associated in the film are morally reprehensible, just because Hit-Girl is younger this surely doesn’t matter.
The picture of her and her dad connotates nice thoughts about a farther and daughter relationship, however the image of her in a school girl outfit, pouting with a gun to hand connotates quite morally inappropriate thoughts as this image seems very provocative and inappropriate for you young girl to look like, what isn’t so recognised is how strong, powerful and fearless Hit-Girl is, especially being so young. Different again is the cartoon picture, this although realistically isn’t humorous in this context I find that it is. The caption below read "She was John Rambo crossed with Polly Pocket", the use of the blood and the stance she is pulling also add to the humor as they are so unrealistic like the film itself.
When you think of other superwomen like Batwoman and Catwoman, they are mostly seen looking provocative and not really doing a lot, this is completely different to Hit-Girls purpose and this makes her more acceptable and more like a heroine.
Possibly if this young girl had these characteristics and she was slightly older she wouldn’t be seen as so morally reprehensible by so many critics. To appreciate and accept the film it would seen you need to except Hit-Girl, her role and purpose first.
Female superheroes research
Female superheroes
A female superhero is sometimes called a superheroine.
Batwoman
-A fictional character and female counterpart to the superhero Batman, created by Bob Kane and Sheldon Moldoff.
-Originally named Kathy Kane, the character was introduced as a love interest for Batman.
-Although Batwoman made a number of appearances during the late 1950s and early 1960s, declining sales of both Batman and Detective Comics led to the editorial retirement of the character.
Supergirl
-She was created by writer Otto Binder and designed by artist Al Plastino in 1959.
--As Supergirl, the Kara Zor-El character plays a supporting role in various DC Comics publications, including Action Comics, Superman, and several other comic book series unrelated to Superman.
Spider-Woman
-Spider-Woman is the codename of several fictional characters in comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Batgirl
-Batgirl is the name of several fictional characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, frequently depicted as female counterparts to the superhero Batman.
Catwoman
-Catwoman is a fictional character associated with DC Comics' Batman franchise. Historically a supervillain, the character was created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane.
-The original and most widely known Catwoman, Selina Kyle, first appears in Batman #1 (Spring 1940) in which she is known as The Cat.
-She had a love/hate relationship with Batman.
-Since the 1990s, Catwoman has been featured in an eponymous series that cast her as an antihero rather than a supervillain.
-A popular figure, Catwoman has been featured in most media adaptations related to Batman.
-Halle Berry starred in a stand-alone Catwoman film in 2004, which was a box-office flop, although only loosely based on the Batman character.
A female superhero is sometimes called a superheroine.
Batwoman
-A fictional character and female counterpart to the superhero Batman, created by Bob Kane and Sheldon Moldoff.
-Originally named Kathy Kane, the character was introduced as a love interest for Batman.
-Although Batwoman made a number of appearances during the late 1950s and early 1960s, declining sales of both Batman and Detective Comics led to the editorial retirement of the character.
Supergirl
-She was created by writer Otto Binder and designed by artist Al Plastino in 1959.
--As Supergirl, the Kara Zor-El character plays a supporting role in various DC Comics publications, including Action Comics, Superman, and several other comic book series unrelated to Superman.
Spider-Woman
-Spider-Woman is the codename of several fictional characters in comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Batgirl
-Batgirl is the name of several fictional characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, frequently depicted as female counterparts to the superhero Batman.
Catwoman
-Catwoman is a fictional character associated with DC Comics' Batman franchise. Historically a supervillain, the character was created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane.
-The original and most widely known Catwoman, Selina Kyle, first appears in Batman #1 (Spring 1940) in which she is known as The Cat.
-She had a love/hate relationship with Batman.
-Since the 1990s, Catwoman has been featured in an eponymous series that cast her as an antihero rather than a supervillain.
-A popular figure, Catwoman has been featured in most media adaptations related to Batman.
-Halle Berry starred in a stand-alone Catwoman film in 2004, which was a box-office flop, although only loosely based on the Batman character.
Superhero research
“The centre is not the centre. The concept of a centered structure…is contradictorily coherent. And, as always, coherence in contradiction expresses the force of desire.” Jacques Derrida
A superhero is a type of stock character possessing "extraordinary or superhuman powers" and dedicated to protecting the public.
Batman
-Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger.
-Batman's secret identity is Bruce Wayne.
-Having witnessed the murder of his parents as a child, he swore revenge on crime.
- He trains himself both physically and intellectually and dons a bat-themed costume in order to fight crime.
- he lives in the fictional American Gotham City.
-Unlike most superheroes, he does not possess any superpowers.
Spider-man
- Spider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko.
-Spider-Man's creators gave him super strength and agility, the ability to cling to most surfaces, shoot spider-webs using devices of his own invention which he called "web-shooters", and react to danger quickly with his "spider-sense", enabling him to combat his foes.
- Spider-Man did not benefit from being the protégé of any adult mentors like Captain America and Batman, and thus had to learn for himself that "with great power there must also come great responsibility" — a line included in a text box in the final panel of the first Spider-Man story.
-The Spider-Man series broke ground by featuring Peter Parker, a teenage high school student to whose "self-obsessions with rejection, inadequacy, and loneliness" young readers could relate
-Marvel has featured Spider-Man in several comic book series, the first and longest-lasting of which is titled The Amazing Spider-Man.
-Spider-Man is one of the most popular and commercially successful superheroes.
Spiderman film
-Spider-Man is a 2002 American superhero film, the first in the Spider-Man film series based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man.
- It was directed by Sam Raimi and written by David Koepp and stars Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker.
-After being stuck in development hell for nearly 25 years, the film was released on May 3, 2002, by Columbia Pictures.
-Spider-Man was, for its time, the most successful film based on a comic book.
-The film's success has led to two sequels, Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3.
Marvel Comics superheroes
-The first was the one-shot Marvel Super-Heroes Special #1 (Oct. 1966), reprinting Daredevil #1 (April 1964) and The Avengers #2 (Nov. 1963).
-The first Marvel story was written by future editor-in-chief Stan Lee.
-The first ongoing series of this name began as Fantasy Masterpieces, initially a standard-sized, 12-cent anthology reprinting "pre-superhero Marvel" monster and sci-fi/fantasy stories.
-Fantasy Masterpieces ran 11 issues (Feb. 1966 - Oct. 1967) before being renamed Marvel Super-Heroes with #12 (Dec. 1967.
A superhero is a type of stock character possessing "extraordinary or superhuman powers" and dedicated to protecting the public.
Batman
-Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger.
-Batman's secret identity is Bruce Wayne.
-Having witnessed the murder of his parents as a child, he swore revenge on crime.
- He trains himself both physically and intellectually and dons a bat-themed costume in order to fight crime.
- he lives in the fictional American Gotham City.
-Unlike most superheroes, he does not possess any superpowers.
Spider-man
- Spider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko.
-Spider-Man's creators gave him super strength and agility, the ability to cling to most surfaces, shoot spider-webs using devices of his own invention which he called "web-shooters", and react to danger quickly with his "spider-sense", enabling him to combat his foes.
- Spider-Man did not benefit from being the protégé of any adult mentors like Captain America and Batman, and thus had to learn for himself that "with great power there must also come great responsibility" — a line included in a text box in the final panel of the first Spider-Man story.
-The Spider-Man series broke ground by featuring Peter Parker, a teenage high school student to whose "self-obsessions with rejection, inadequacy, and loneliness" young readers could relate
-Marvel has featured Spider-Man in several comic book series, the first and longest-lasting of which is titled The Amazing Spider-Man.
-Spider-Man is one of the most popular and commercially successful superheroes.
Spiderman film
-Spider-Man is a 2002 American superhero film, the first in the Spider-Man film series based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man.
- It was directed by Sam Raimi and written by David Koepp and stars Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker.
-After being stuck in development hell for nearly 25 years, the film was released on May 3, 2002, by Columbia Pictures.
-Spider-Man was, for its time, the most successful film based on a comic book.
-The film's success has led to two sequels, Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3.
Marvel Comics superheroes
-The first was the one-shot Marvel Super-Heroes Special #1 (Oct. 1966), reprinting Daredevil #1 (April 1964) and The Avengers #2 (Nov. 1963).
-The first Marvel story was written by future editor-in-chief Stan Lee.
-The first ongoing series of this name began as Fantasy Masterpieces, initially a standard-sized, 12-cent anthology reprinting "pre-superhero Marvel" monster and sci-fi/fantasy stories.
-Fantasy Masterpieces ran 11 issues (Feb. 1966 - Oct. 1967) before being renamed Marvel Super-Heroes with #12 (Dec. 1967.
Kick-Ass
Kick-Ass is a 2010 superhero/action-comedy film based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. The film was directed by Matthew Vaughn, who co-produced the film with actor Brad Pitt, and co-wrote the screenplay with Jane Goldman. The film's general release was on 26 March 2010 in the United Kingdom and on 16 April 2010 in the United States.
The film tells the story of an ordinary teenager, Dave, who sets out to become a real-life superhero, calling himself "Kick-Ass". Dave gets caught up in a bigger fight when he meets Big Daddy, a former cop who, in his quest to bring down the drug lord Frank D'Amico, has trained his 11-year-old daughter to be the ruthless vigilante Hit-Girl.
The film tells the story of an ordinary teenager, Dave, who sets out to become a real-life superhero, calling himself "Kick-Ass". Dave gets caught up in a bigger fight when he meets Big Daddy, a former cop who, in his quest to bring down the drug lord Frank D'Amico, has trained his 11-year-old daughter to be the ruthless vigilante Hit-Girl.
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