Hollywood is so DIY.

I'm very chuffed about this contact, and pending review:

Hello there

I'm writing a feature on Lost In The Grooves for The Times in London and would dearly like to make contact with Kim Cooper and/or David Smay. I love the book...

Nice, David! Does the book have UK distribution?

Nice, David! Does the book have UK distribution?

That'd be useful, don't you think?

I'm not sure. Then again, I can't imagine why we'd be sending it to the British press if we didn't. Probably Amazon UK at the very least.

Guh. What a harrowing quote:

‘… [O]ut of the corner of my eye I saw him. He was kneeling in the kitchen. I was relieved – glad he was still there ‘Now what are you up to?’ I took a step towards him, about to speak. His head was bowed, his hands resting on the washing machine. I stared at him, he was so still. Then the rope – I hadn’t noticed the rope. The rope from the clothes rack was around his neck. I ran through to the sitting room and picked up the telephone. No, supposing I was wrong – another false alarm. I ran back to the kitchen and looked at his face – a long string of saliva hung from his mouth. Yes, he really had done it…’ - Deborah Curtis, Touching From a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division, 133

But so interesting...

It was clear, in the best interviews the band ever gave - to Jon Savage, a decade and a half after Curtis’s death - that they had no idea what they were doing, and no desire to learn. Of Curtis’ disturbing-compelling hyper-charged stage trance spasms and of his disturbing-compelling catatonic downer words, they said nothing and asked nothing, for fear of destroying the magic. They were unwitting necromancers who had stumbled on a formula for channelling voices, apprentices without a sorcerer.

They saw themselves as mindless golems animated by Curtis’ vision(s). (Thus, when he died, they said that they felt they had lost their eyes…) As Mark put it in his piece on the early Eps in The Wire (over a decade ago!): ‘though the first bullying shards of Joy Division music are punk in sound, they don't clarify. This more than anything will become their signature - everything about them will be seized on, floridly discussed, and stay unexplained. Physical to a fault, the music exhibits all the the signs of the cerebral and none of its content - invention pours out of these dullard-geniuses, so stripped of hidden agendas that hidden agendas is all that many remark upon.’

From this piece :"Mark K-Punk Fisher on Joy Division, about masculinity and its melancholia..."

A cheerier (less Schopenhauer) thought here:

"Twenty years ago, people formed punk-rock bands because they wanted to create art. Now, often a rock'n'roll band is our generation's version of a bowling team: four like-minded individuals get together once a week to rehearse - that is, to bowl - and every six weeks or so they'll do a gig - like a tournament - and once a year they'll do merch, like making bowling shirts. It's a way for those four guys to get together and have a few beers, almost like a social thing. They're not willing to give up their day jobs, get in a van and go tour the country."

From Zoilus site

Originally got this from [link]

I've only listened to the final track so far but it is absolutely superb. This KMN has done an amazing job and this is a wonderful addition to the orchestral tracks on the Once More With Feeling CD. Well worth the download time. 96.6MB

Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Score Remixes (4xRMX-70min) - by KMN

ABOUT
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this album includes 4 remixes of score music from the tv-show "buffy the vampire slayer". It´s not the standard score pieces, it´s remixes of a whole collections of score sounds.

I´m kinda obsessed with score music from tv-shows & movies, but since I don´t have the time and patience listening to hours and dozens of cd´s containing score music, I´m creating remixes that include the best and most rememberable sounds.

hope you enjoy.
KMN

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TRACKLIST
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01 Christophe Beck - Buffy Season 2-5 (KMN Score Remix) 25:10 min

02 Robert Duncan & Douglas Romayne Stevens - Buffy Season 7 (KMN Score Remix) 16:12 min

03 Christophe Beck & Robert Duncan - Buffy Season 2-7 (KMN Score Remix) 20:45 min

04 BONUS: Christophe Beck & Robert Duncan - The Battles (KMN Score Remix) 7:55 min

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album, remixes & cover brought to you by KMN.

for more tv-show & movie soundtracks (score & non-score) as well as movie score remixes, go to [link]  

KMN

Fun videos I've ganked this morning:

Ball and Chain - XTC
Going Underground - The Jam
Sing Your Life - Morrissey
Makes No Sense At All / Love Is All Around - Husker Du
Cloudbursting - Kate Bush

Plus a bunch of gothy stuff for the Jilli tape. Having never paid attention to Sisters of Mercy or The Mission (UK) before, I have to say they're kind of like hair metal bands. And Gene Loves Jezebel is like a parody of a rock band. Like, if you were doing a Dirty Harry movie and you wanted a generic rock band made of actors so they'd be kind of scuzzy and effeminate and egotistical? You'd want Gene Loves Jezebel.

Cloudbusting - Kate Bush

One of my favourite videos ever. Always symbolic to me of that early golden age of the MTV/Much video era.

Having never paid attention to Sisters of Mercy or The Mission (UK) before, I have to say they're kind of like hair metal bands.

Yes, yes they are. Other goths get really really angry when I point this out. I have, however, played Queensryche's Rage for Order cd for unsuspecting goths, and they almost always think that they're listening to some goth rock band they've never heard of.