Required reading

Further proof that Saul Bass' PHASE IV is the best movie ever, here.

THE S FROM HELL

THE S FROM HELL is a fantastic short I recently saw at the BAM Film Fest comprised of disturbed phone interviews with the childhood victims of a post-cartoons corporate logo. Right? Remember all those? "Sit, Ubu, sit! Good dog." Check out the fantastic website created for the movie with links to a variety of spooky brands and logos.

Let them eat brands

Interesting bit about some branding statistics. Also, interesting to consider some glasses cost between $100 and $200...much less $600 and above.

Lost Sounds and Soundtracks: THE DUELLISTS

How do you pull off an historical epic film in just over an hour and a half? Ridley Scott did so in his 1977 Cannes-honored The Duellists working from screenwriter Gerald Vaughan-Hughes' adaptation of a Joseph Conrad short that deftly dashes across 58 scenes spanning 6 discreet epochs inside 16 years, all within a 96 minute movie (not counting credits). Call it "The Mini-Epic."

Full article with five great stream-able tracks here!

Lost Sounds and Soundtracks: HEAT

The precisely hodge-podged sources for Michael Mann's musical cues—sometimes original compositions, sometimes culled from pre-existing pop, rock, industrial, and/or electronic groups—are as diverse as the dusty Los Angeles turfs he agilely vignettes in his consummate epic crime male-odrama Heat.

Check out the full article with tracks here.

Spacerock Score of the Day: Loop's John Peel Sessions-WOLF FLOW

Great music. Great palindrome. Linked here.

Iggy Pop, David Bowie, and THE IDIOT

Great blog about the recording of THE IDIOT here.