DA LYNCH MOB. PT1:TWIN PEAKS

christ, been a while. Time to get back on the blogging bike! To anyone unfamiliar with david lynch, he's a very strange man who creates very strange films that are always just unbelievably good. His debut, eraserhead, released in 1977, got a huge cult following and even saw the guillemots perform the soundtrack to the film live while it shone out above them on a huge screen at Latitude (i stupidly wasn't there).

Anyway, Lynches most famous output into the world of viewing is probably twin peaks: he early 90s television series that was so, so ahead of its time.

Set in the innocent and exempt-from-modern-times town of twin peaks (no shit), twin peaks follows the investigation made by Special agent Dale Cooper (Total sick guy) of Teenage high school queen Laura palmers murder. Safe to say its not straightforward, theres always about a million really interesting sub-plots, every character is brilliant and has an influence upon everything, and it runs so much deeper than just a 'television drama'.

Twin peaks ran for 2 series', 22 episodes in all, with a film-length pilot episode. It starts off relatively simple: just a body wrapped in plastic washed up on a lake of a lumberjack town. After that, it spins madly out of control and plunges deeper and deeper into the realms of things such as the evil in people(KILLER BOB), American-indian spirituality (the owls), the corruption of innocent people met with evil (can't say gives it away) and about a hundred other genuinely profound and intersting themes which you wouldn't get in say, the hills.

The best thing about twin peaks is how differently it can be interpreted. Lynch has expertly made the series so that the supernatural events, people and places can either be taken literally, or as metaphors for greater things such as evil, purity, and afterlife or limbo (i.e killer BOB, laura, and the red room), and still remain as brilliant viewing either way.

Also, audrey horne is a total babe.

To anyone unfamiliar with this viewing gold, get familiar with it. now.

SURFS UP.

Surf Music rules. It makes me wanna move to california and spend my life smoking weed on the beach round big fires with sun-bleached hair and listening to surf. I've spent the past few days basically dreaming about this and these have been the soundtrack to my daydreams- check on em.

FLUFFY LUMBERS.

Fluffy lumbers is a guy from ridgewood, new jersey (don't really know how that works out because he sings a lot about the beach) who makes really happy, garagey, sort of lo-fi music which is always amazing and really nice without sounding too corny. He's signed to wierd hug and released a four track ep not too long ago entitled 'the police cruisers ep', its one of the best things i've heard in 2009 and i've played it to absolute death. Its full of well-placed oo's and ahh's and simple yet trippy synth shit. i can see his name popping up a lot in the near future so oltyt.

Fluffy Lumbers- Cruisers

WASHED OUT

Washed out are, in the words of pulp fiction 'fucking trippy.' If synthesizers and drum machines got high and hung out on beaches They'd sound like this. Its unbelievably relaxing and calming yet at the same time really interesting and the sound just completely immerses you-. The guys called Ernest Greene, from South carolina. He makes the majority of his stuff from his bedroom and his influences lie in Photographers and places rather than say, the beach boys (no disrespect to the beach boys). Evidently, he also pumps a lotta 'erb, he's making quite a presence on the sort of "lo-fi/no-fi" scene so watch out.

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Washed Out – New Theory - SOOOOOO GOOOOOOD SUMMER COME BACK PLEASE.

WAVVES

I've blogged about wavves before but a mere 1 post just doesn't do it justice. As afore mentioned, the one-piece from san diego makes suuuch happy, lively surfy punk music with about 10,000 layers of distortion and reverb that just creates an incredible atmosphere whenever you play it. Its like nothing else ever yet the ideas and noises behind it are (usually) simple. He also creates weird tracks of just odd noises piled on top of each other, calls the majority of his songs "_____ GOTHS' or " _____DEMON" and all his lyrics are just about getting high and drunk and not bothering with that whole do-well-at-stuff lark, which is always nice. wavves4life.

(TOURING IN UK IN NOVEMBER GETONUPONDATSHIT)

Wavves - Beach Demon

Wavves - Cool Jumper

Wavves - Weed Demon

His first album, Wavves, is free to download eeaaa Wavves (2008) and His second album, wavvves (three v's if like me you didn't notice until you realised wavves with 2 vs the album existed and they didnt line up in your itunes) and he has another record coming out soon. SCORE.

LIKE, OMG!

Right, this is so so good. Easily one of the best films i've seen in 2009,

American teen is like every single trashy american high school film,

except omgzz, real! Its a sort of "fly-on-the-wall" documentary and its made

to look all real, except theres no way that much drama can happen in real life.

Aside from being admittedly horribly fake, you get so ridiculously into it

and forget that you don't actually know the people. Its just an amazing series

of scandals and tear-jerking moments and youthful hijinks, like american

pie meets big brother except not really really shit. If you think i'm being

sarcastic i'm actually not. I was really gutted when it finished (EVEN THOUGH

THEY ALL GOT INTO THIER COLLEGES AND COLIN GOT HIS

SCHOLARSHIP, REEEEEESULT!) and i'd probably wet myself if there was

another coming out. get it now somehow, torrents or sumtink. so fucking good.

SWINE FLU IS SHIT.

swine flu blows. You just lie around for a few days being ridiculously shit waiting to not be ridiculously shit. I didn't even believe in it until it happened to me, assuming it was just media hype over a few blocked noses but nope. actual swine flu. The only good thing thats come out of it ever is that my mate thought it was an std that mexicans passed on from sexing up pigs, the clown. Anyway, today i ventured out the house for the first time in 4 days, to a world of roads and cars and people and shops that due to spending 5 days in a muddy field and getting direct buses, trains and lifts home, i hadn't entered in 9 days. i was shit. i kept fucking up crossing roads to the point in which i'd nearly die and get sworn at, and i'd even forgotten where everything in the shops i've spent 16 years with was. My simple nip to the co-op for a frozen pizza (i had cravings) turned into a horrible 40 minute round trip to booths broken by coughing fits and me totally overjudging the temperature and venturing out in 4 layers and an actual scarf and sweating everywhere. i felt like such a square. Swine flu: Symptons include shivering fits, coughing like a 200000000-a-day and being really shit at everything except staying in bed. get the fuck right out swiney.

LOSING MY FESTIVAL VIRGINITY.

Leeds 09 was just insane. I expected a lot of people being drunk in a lot of fields, but from horror stories about security and general past run-ins with tha' po, i thought it would be a lot more (attempt-ably) controlled. WROOONG. Fourteen year old girls with glittery faces were passing out all over the place, and majority of the 'security' consisted of like-minded idiots who were just volunteering for a free ticket, and thus were usually as drunk or if not more than everyone else. On one occasion i even witnessed one who was supposed to be guarding the supermarket and checking for shoplifters actively encourage theft of alcohol so he could be all like 'gizzza swiig' outside. just ridiculous. I also outdid myself in terms of partying hard 09. i was expecting to have a ripe old 4 or 5 hour sleep every night, before getting up, sauntering to the showers, watching some kickass mooysik, then getting para at night before curling up in my soggy sleeping bag and going through the whole ordeal again. It transpired that i was getting drunk at half 11 in the morning, remaining off my (horrendous after 4 days of no hygiene) teenage face throughout the day and on until the night, where i'd then go gallivanting all around the campsites being a nuisance with my crewdemz and getting into all sorts of shenanigans (including one fond memory of me and a ridiculously hot geordie girl pushing people around in a pram we'd stolen at 6 in the morning. (o shit i just realised we actually stole a pram, soz baba!)), before staggering back to my campsite at sunrise, blazed/ smashed out my unclean head, and wrapping myself up in soggy nylon for an hour or two. In fact my sleeping pattern went 3 hours on the first night, then 2 hours, then 1 hour, then none on the last night (HARDKORE09). Speaking of the last night, it was just insane. After a good 4 or 5 hours of building bonfires out of abandoned tents, gazebos, sleeping bags, picnic tables, and a whole lot of aerosols (soz environment, hello explosionz) i sauntered over to another campsite to try and fine some of my homies (the guy i was originally with pussied out and went to my bed at a mere 3 0 clock, i say my bed because we smashed his tent up and burnt his sleeping bag), when i stumbled upon a few people with sledges on a massive muddy hill. Naturally, i joined in, and it soon erupted into a massive phenomenon, resulting in about 200 people drunkenly falling/sledging/wrestling each other down the muddy everest. It was insane and left me covered in blood, mud, and far too many bruises to count.
Other highlights include the black lips stage invasion (me and jared, bezzies fo lyf), MSTRKRFT who were just unbelievable, dananananakroyd, who were new to me but really enjoyable, prodigy who were predictably insane, convincing a totally wasted guy to piss onto a tent and then crush it (which he did in an amazing flying-karate-chop-manner, as opposed to the simple forward roll we asked of him, the horrors, who unbeknown to me have taken a whole new direction for the better (AND some of them weren't wearing black,) a surprise chase and status dj set in a big dance tent sometime in the early hours of the saturday morning, and of course, the legend of poo girl.

THEOPHILUSOPHY.

This fella isn't getting enough attention. Why is it that the hip hop crown is given to auto-tuning idiots like flo rida and kanye west (to be fair touch the sky was pretty sick), when fresh new talent like Theophilus that really stands out just goes by unnoticed?

Theophilus is a fresh-faced rapper from Brookyln who teams up with machine drum (amazing producer, check him out) to make sick electro/ hip hop music thats just so, so much better than any of the hip hop that plagues the charts these days. With influences a bit uncouth for his genre, i.e the smiths, Ramones, Kraftwerk and Micheal jackson, he's managed to not fall into the horrible "bluntz and broadz" stereotype and go about making hip hop with a sort of "fuck-you-guns-and-nasty-stuff-i'm-just-gonna-make-nice-hip-hop-that-makes-people-happy-because-thats-the-way-it-should-be" vibe. A bit like De la soul. except with way more synths.

Heres one of his mixtapes, geddonit.

Theophilus London - This Charming Mixtape

(Also check out JAM!, another one he did which is equally fucking amazing.

S. DARKO, YOU SUCK.

Donnie Darko was good. Donnie Darko was one of those films that stay with you for ages, really make you think about stuff, and have a lot more to them under the surface. And as with all good films, they are totally non continuable and to even attempt such a travesty will result in a complete and utter incomprehensible mess.

As is the case with s. darko.

Donnie darko fucked with your head a lot, but in the end it all made sense to some extent and you could follow it all nicely and it was all nicely wrapped up and basically good. S. Darko is literally just a 2 hour completely ridiculous headfuck where nothing makes sense, there's 3 entirely different plots depending on which stupid destiny you choose to follow (thanks to time travel) and ultimately, they all end in ridiculous scenarios and death. Not only that, they literally took the end of Donnie and crudely rewrote it to handily wrap everything up, except it doesn't because it in now way fits in with S. darko, where nothing happens for a reason, theres like a million characters, and they're all equally shit. Its not like Donnie where when he lets himself die all the bad stuff that would've happened if he hadn't had died never happens, it still all happens except nothings done about it. Nothing is even resolved. Its pathetic. Its taken every aspect of donnie and made it shit. Even a Paedophiles house is burned down except the Paedo is just fine. stay well away from it, unless you want to spend the next 24 hours trying to sort your brain out and lamenting over the poor kid who ends up just as locked in the cave as he is at the start (don't care that i just spoiled it).