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March 08, 2006
King Boduin
So it was about a year ago (more, actually) that I put up an entry about Portishead recording their third studio album. Apparently the project is progressing- but very, very slowly. The band have made the leap into myspace though (Portishead have said that this is their official spot, not just someone's joke, etc.), and are using the page to issue very intermittent updates about LP 3. My heart jumped a bit when I saw that they had some audio up- not complete songs, but what sounds like backing tracks (very bare-bones) that Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley have been working on. I'm hoping at this point just for the album to come out this year- that's not too much to ask, right?
Jace/DJ Rupture has an extremely well thought-out and well-written entry about "Crash"s win on Oscar night, re: the 'characters' and what it would actually mean to make a movie that dealt, realistically, with racism (I especially like what Jace says about Polanski's "Chinatown", the fact that Polanski deals with the place itself by making it unreadable, like it's a lacuna in the text of the movie).
Posted by Kevin at March 8, 2006 11:01 AM
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right after seeing Crash i thought it was a piece of garbage (for some of the same reasons he talks about). best picture my ass. hollywood is a joke.
Posted by: Andrew at March 10, 2006 09:55 AM
Yeah, when I saw it, I thought it worked well as just another 'coincidences are dramatic' kind of movie, but that it definitely didn't live up to the ideas that Paul Haggis had for it, being an intense look at racism, etc.
Posted by: Kevin at March 12, 2006 10:03 AM