It’s still been too hot to do anything remotely energetic, so the aircon in the local cinemas has been a quite an attraction and a safe haven from the very un British searing heat.
I hated the first 15 minutes of BULLET TRAIN and then relaxed into it and rather enjoyed its daft energy. I also have a massive mancrush on Brad Pitt.
I loved its scale but struggled to see the point of NOPE until my gorgeous cinema companion gave me her hot take on it.
It was there right in front of me, but I didn’t notice – and maybe that proves its point. I don’t want to spoil it for anyone who hasn’t seen it, but take a special interest in the Hollywood horse scene near the beginning, and it’s all laid out for you*
*Horse picture is a clue
Also saw manly classic High Noon for the first time – it’s amazing how times have changed – and also how very little they have changed at all.
In a Playboy interview, John Wayne called High Noon “the most un-American thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life,” He also hated Midnight Cowboy and Easy Rider – there is no better recommendation than that : )
This week I’ve been obsessed with Country Boy from It serve you right to suffer by John Lee Hooker. It’s quite hard to track down because there are a million other tracks called Country Boy, some of them by John Lee Hooker himself. But what a voice ! – this is heartbreaking, eerie, trance blues and clearly a blueprint for Nick Cave and his oeuvre.
DRIFT002 is moving along nicely – lots of new sounds and a complex but simple 3 way tremolo system for building ecstatic undulating filigree.
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Speak soon
Pendle & Percy
Swooning human and small dog with a ball
