From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V6 #269 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Saturday, December 30 2006 Volume 06 : Number 269 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Dan Sallitt On Film 2006 [zoom@muppetlabs.com] [loud-fans] a good omen [CertronC90@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:38:06 -0800 (PST) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: [loud-fans] Dan Sallitt On Film 2006 Dan Sallitt asked me to pass this along. Andy - I am still waiting to hear from Dennis, so maybe I'll ask you to post this on loud-fans for me. - Dan ========== On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, zoom@muppetlabs.com wrote: > Dan Sallitt, wherefore art thou? I'm sorry I've been so gone - I can't post to the list from the email address I've been using. If you're reading this, Dennis, could you add this address to the member list? sallittnospam@panix.com (remove "nospam") I wish I could post a good best-music list for the year, but I've been a little musically inactive - I'm trying to rectify that. Paula Carino recently introduced me to the Long Winters, who are definitely impressive - - I'm not sure yet that the album feels consistent to me, but I sure love a few of the songs. WHAT IF IT WORKS? wound up being another favorite, though I had a slow time getting into it. My favorite track is still Scott's bonus track. In my NYC circles, Rebecca Turner put out a really good country-pop record called LAND OF MY BABY - if Carino and Sharples were here, they might back me up. There are links to mp3s at www.rebeccaturner.net. As for Andy's movie list, here are comments on the few that I've seen: > 5. "The Wild Blue Yonder" (Werner Herzog) This movie is pretty weird. Can't say I really enjoyed it. I guess it was kind of a joke on Herzog's part to make up a wacky story to tie together all the documentary footage he wanted to show us, but the joke seemed a little strained to me. > 7. "Sa-kwa" (Kang Yi-kwan) I like this film too. It complicates every emotional issue with interesting cross-currents. > 9. "Three Times" (Hou Hsiao-hsien) Hou is pretty cool, but this held together less well for me than I wanted it to. The last section especially was hard for me to assimilate. > 11. "The Death Of Mr. Lazarescu" (Cristi Puiu) > > While surely the least enjoyable film on my list I dunno, this is pretty entertaining for a three-hour Romanian film about terminal illness. I think this is a masterpiece, the best film I've seen in a few years. > 13. "Wassup Rockers" (Larry Clark) Larry Clark is my idea of a great director - he loves his characters so much that he can show the worst things about them without damaging his sympathy. This is one of his less successful films to my mind, but it's still good. Don't know about that odd turn toward B-movie comedy in the middle section. ============ Here's my list of favorite films that premiered somewhere in the world in 2006: 1. RAIN DOGS (Ho Yuhang, Malaysia) 2. WOMAN ON THE BEACH (Hong Sang-Soo, South Korea) 3. VANAJA (Rajnesh Domalpalli, India/USA) 4. SLUMMING (Michael Glawogger, Austria) 5. FLANDRES (Bruno Dumont, France) 6. FAMILY TIES (Kim Tae-Yong, South Korea) 7. STEPHANIE DALEY (Hilary Brougher, USA) 8. AS THE SHADOW (Marina Spada, Italy) 9. SUMMER '04 (Stefan Krohmer, Germany) 10. QUINCEANERA (Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, USA) 11. DRAMA/MEX (Gerardo Naranjo, Mexico) 12. FLANNEL PAJAMAS (Jeff Lipsky, USA) 13. SUELY IN THE SKY (Karim Ainouz, Brazil) 14. HAMACA PARAGUAYA (Paz Encina, Paraguay) And here's a list of favorite films that had at least a one-week theatrical premiere in Manhattan in 2006: 1. THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU (Cristi Puiu, Romania) 2. THE FORSAKEN LAND (Vimukthi Jayasundara, Sri Lanka/France) 3. THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (Lech Majewski, UK/Italy/Poland) 4. THE CHILD (Dardennes Bros., Belgium/France) 5. CINEMA, ASPIRIN AND VULTURES (Marcelo Gomes, Brazil) 6. BRICK (Rian Johnson, USA) 7. POLICE BEAT (Robinson Devor, USA) 8. WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN (Hong Sang-Soo, South Korea) 9. QUINCEANERA (Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, USA) 10. BACKSTAGE (Emmanuelle Bercot, France) 11. FRATRICIDE (Yilmaz Arslan, Germany) 12. THE NIGHT OF TRUTH (Fanta Regina Nacro, Burkina Faso/France) 13. FLANNEL PAJAMAS (Jeff Lipsky, USA) 14. THE MAGIC GLOVES (Martin Rejtman, Argentina) 15. GUERNSEY (Nanouk Leopold, Belgium/Netherlands) 16. WASSUP ROCKERS (Larry Clark, USA) - - Dan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:44:36 EST From: CertronC90@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] a good omen Last night at the station, I noticed a staff member's office had, pinned to a corkboard on the wall, a signed lp album cover of Don Dixon's MOST OF THE GIRLS LIKE TO DANCE BUT ONLY SOME OF THE BOYS LIKE TO. Neat huh? I took this as a good omen. I mentioned this on air and talked about his new record on 125 (doing my best to turn people on to 125 and get them some business). I played the new LF record in my first set "(Kind Of) In Love." I forgot to click on a little box while entering the playlist in the computer and so my first set isn't showing on the station website. In order, I played The Partridge Family's "My Christmas Card To You" (my fave Christmas song--yeah, it's cheese, but it's really good cheese), Then I played Andrew (Sandoval), then The Loud Family and Anton Barbeau and then The Judybats and then The Hyphens. Right off, I wanted to play everyone I promised I'd play, as that's when the biggest audience is, right at the beginning of the overnight show, and I mentioned where they could get the records and/or hear the artists. WNCW sure has come a long way since I started there nine years ago. We used to have a mixing board with a bad analog meter and one of the two turntables didn't work, an 8-track style CART machine and cassette decks, as well as two CD players, one of which was temperamental and sometimes didn't play when it didn't feel like it. We also had to write out everything we played on a paper log. It's all digital and computerized now. When Joe (Kendrick--ARC coordinator) asked me if I needed some blanks to record my show, I thought he meant cassettes! I went to the station with a blank cassette. Since my last show, the tape decks have vanished. Oh, btw, when I walked in the station with my orange PET milk crate full of CDs, the DJ on duty (the paid one) was playing "Tangled Up In Blue" from BLOOD ON THE TRACKS. In my mind, I was screaming like Charlie Brown. - --Mark "This is our story It's a short one but it's a hard harsh read Between the lines a little aching need We're a strange arrangement No strings And the music we make is serpentine And bittersweet In my youth, you know I loved you like gangbusters and now I watch you fall Twisting turning growing small" (The Judybats) ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V6 #269 *******************************