"I'm Never as Tired as When I'm Waking Up" - LCD Soundsystem
"Dragonfly" - My Brightest Diamond
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"When You're Good to Mama" - Chicago Soundtrack
"Fondu au noir" - Couer de Pirate
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"Ice Dogs" - Man Man
"Verbal (Prefuse 73 Dipped Escalade mix)" - Amon Tobin
HOUR TWO
"Red Light Love" - Those Darlins
"Charlie Darwin" - The Low Anthem
"Again & Again" - Annie & the Beekeepers
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"Guilt Trips Sink Ships" - Shout Out Out Out Out
"Ritalin Future Sounds" - Josh Martinez
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"Undercover Martyn" (Passion Pit Remix) - Two Door Cinema Club
"Alice" & "Lost" - Pogo
"No Viniste" - Carla Morrison
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"Boombox" - Lonely Island
"Milkshake" - Holy Fuck
"Spin" (Russ Chimes Big House Remix) - Cassette Kids
HOUR THREE
"Give Your Mama One Smile" - Little Miss Higgins
"Talk" - Woodhands
"You're Almost There" (DJ Rexford Remix) - You Say Party! We Say Die!
"You're Almost There" - You Say Party! We Say Die!
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"Charlotte or Otis" - Jenny Omnichord
"Alex Chilton" - The Replacements
"Albatross" - Besnard Lakes
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"Devils Loose" - AA Bondy
"Take Off Your Sunglasses" - Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
"Cha-ching" - Lady Sovereign
"The Mall & Misery" - Broken Bells
"The Wine Song" - Carolyn Mark
"Get Up" - Green Tara
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STARHEAD'S MOVIE REVIEW:
So. Alice.
I did a dance audition tonight that had some great Alice imagery. I happened to wear a dress I'd died red. It was pale blue before. I had a grey ribbon in my hair and wondered about one of my favorite books -- Ballet shoes -- while I was preparing. In Ballet Shoes the eldest of three girls has to do an audition for Alice in Wonderland in London circa 1940. A hair ribbon was a requirement.
When I was 3 or 4 my folks took me to a production of Alice in Wonderland in the old Walker Theatre in Winnipeg. I remember there was a revolve, and I was blown away by the rabbit hole; I remember noticing that it was nylon stockings and 'there must be a hole in the stage!' Wow!.
Magic.
My mummer read to me the original and the sequel, and Bruno and Sylvia and other assorted less good things by the same author. I read some myself. I saw the Disney Cartoon & it was a super fave for years - until I became jaded and recognized how WRONG it was. Then I was confused for a long time over the discrepancies between the book and the attempts to play with the images and themes. By this I mean all the wonderful films and tshirts and assorted paraphenalia. I also mean folk like Allan, who were so committed to the style -- or was it the idea in general?
(pause)
'Alice' with Johnny Depp and Alan Rickman and Helena Bonham Carter, lovely whatsernuts the white queen...the delicious google eyed march hare and mock turtle of a fiance...'Alice' is pretty much crap.
My eyes well up.
Tim Burton and his team create a CGI cartoon, and don't even do us the courtesy of keeping important images within frame, so as to make best use of the 3D medium.
I loved that I 'got' the War of the Roses reference, but it is far more interesting and clear in 'Alice through the looking glass', with the battle of the unicorn and the lion.
If one is to hit the red and white roses so hard, one really must finish that story rather than push it onto the chessboard and amp it up with the Jabberwocky.
It was interesting to have that as a (kinda boring) overlay and metaphor, but when did our heroine become Joan of Arc, and why wasn't Anne Hathaway actually in the movie?
By that I mean she really was lovely, and I adored everything she was aiming for, but was she really intentionally unfinished? really? intentionally?
Depp was grand, as usual, making the most of the opportunity, but I find it generally boring to make too much of the mad hatter. He is a prime witness in the court case in Alice In Wonderland, but when does he (really?!) become worthy of being a love interest? I suppose, she meets him at a teaparty, does as the raven/writing desk riddle....and is human...but if Alice is going to go all Jeanne d'Arc, wouldn't it be lovely if she'd take a pawn as a military advisor? Having said that, it IS wonderland, so why not a flower? or the Cheshire Cat? Cat, which is his proper name, is rather more interesting in his advice, and how he pops in and out of the story.
Best things in the film?
The frame of the closing titles.
The repeated phrase
about the relationship between the 'best sort of people' and nutters loonies and madfolk.
And, of course
the source material.
Way to keep good source material alive, Disney, Tim Burton, and the rest of the gang.
Next time make it better.
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