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Black Friday has never been a big deal for me. I refuse to leave the house, usually. I don't dig that scene, you know? If you do, though, you may be interested in some of the deals happening. I imagine if you're hardcore about it, you know all of this already, but just in case I figured I'd share some links. Cinematical has been making lists of the movies available, so that's where I'll point you to. WalmartBest BuyTargetK-Mart & SearsUnfortunately, I'm pretty sure these deals are all in-store only. I assume so, I should say. I haven't actually bothered to look. There's some good shit on there, no doubt, but... nothing that makes me want to try and brave the crowds, traffic and smells. Thankfully, though, Amazon has some deals going down, too. I highly recommend you keep your eyes on their Black Friday Deals page and check back daily, as there are a number of short-time deals to be had. I notice they're selling Sergei Bodrov's Mongol on Blu-ray , starring Tadanobu Asano, for $10. That's definitely tempting. By the way, did you hear that Tadanobu Asano is apparently going to be in the Thor movie? Anyway, here's the Blu-Ray deal page, which is worth looking over. Lot of potential X-Mas presents in there. I would also like to point you towards Black Friday Mp3 store deals because there's some good shit in there, too, and it's all over the map genre-wise. I was going to list out some of the highlights, but it would take too long. You're welcome. Tags: materialism
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My friends, I would like to take a minute and inform you that today's Deal Of The Day from Amazon is actually something worthwhile. For what I assume is today only, Amazon is selling It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Seasons 1-4 for only $44.99.  If you have never seen this show before, or you know someone who hasn't, then now is the perfect time to rectify the situation and bring meaning into your heretofore plain, boring life. It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia will add shine and bounce to your hair and your state of mind because it is very, very funny while at the same time being one of the most wrong shows I've seen. And I don't mean wrong as in incorrect, I mean it as in "that shit ain't right". Not for the easily offended, but if you or someone you know enjoys stuff like South Park, then you're on the right track. I'm pretty new to this show myself, having only been introduced to it this summer, and I was lucky enough to get season 3 & 4 for my birthday from The Lady a couple of weeks ago. Otherwise, I'd be all over this. Highly recommended. Tags: awesometown, dvd news, listen to me now, materialism
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I don't have much time, but I feel like sharing. * Terry Gilliam shares his 26 Golden Rules of movie making. If every director was more like he was... * I do love it when two things I love come together. Sonic Youth's top 12 favorite Criterion discs. I'm embarassed as shit to admit I've only seen one of them. So far. * Speaking Of Sonic Youth, here's a cool interview with Thurston Moore. * And speaking of interviews, here's one with Nick Frost in which he talks a bit about upcoming projects. it's short, but he's awesome. * The company responsible for the upcoming Confucius film starring Chow Yun Fat just released NINETEEN different posters for the movie, most with Chow Yun Fat's face on them, showing different emotions. It gets kind of funny after a while. * Jeffrey Wells, who writes Hollywood Elsewhere, recently had lunch with Kathryn Bigelow, director of the super awesome, hope it wins every award it's nominated for film The Hurt Locker. At the restauraunt, he asked random employees what they thought of the movie and none of them had even heard of it. :( * Author Cormac McCarthy talks about The Road and the film adaptation of it. * Do you want a Hausu t-shirt? I sure as fuck do. * And lastly, I fucking LOVE Jon Stewart. Tags: good readin', video
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For the first time ever, David Lapham, creator of the comic book Stray Bullets is selling original art. Jesus, if I had a few hundred bucks to blow right now... Stray Bullets, by the way, was/is an independently published black and white noir comic book that Lapham published, wrote and drew himself. He stopped publishing it (mid-storyline) in late 2005 because he wasn't making any money doing it and started having kids. Now, he mostly writes for Marvel and DC. Stray Bullets is probably one of my top 5 favorite comics of all time. If you've never read it, Lapham has the first 4 issues up on his website that you can read for free. I believe issue #4 is the one that got me hooked, but you should go ahead and read all of them. On the other hand, you might not want to get too terribly attached because the trade paperbacks for what has been released are all out of print and hard to find. The first two are on eBay all the time, but the rest? Only occasionally and they sometimes get pretty expensive. Still, though. I hold out hope that one day Lapham will either start Stray Bullets up on his own again, or maybe let someone else publish it. I just found out today that there's a Stray Bullets short story in the recently released Dark Horse Noir Anthology, so... who knows? You can read that story at the website, too, which makes me happy. I actually have a sticker on the rear window of my car of Amy Racecar, one of the SB characters. It's been there so long it's faded into this cool reverse negative-looking thing.  If you read these and enjoy them, I would definitely recommend some of Lapham's Marvel & DC stuff. Especially the recently cancelled Vertigo series, The Young Liars. You can get the first trade for $9.99 on Amazon and you should because it gets my vote for the best thing he's done outside of SB. I also recommend Silverfish , a standalone noir graphic novel for Vertigo and Batman: City of Crime , which I really enjoyed. Or the first volume of Terror, Inc. which isn't noir-ish, but is really funny. Either way, it looks like Lapham needs the money and I think he deserves all of it that can be thrown at him. ( Oh, and here's a picture of Lapham and I. )Tags: awesometown, comics, if i was rich, pictures
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This is a little late, as far as breaking news goes, but I've been busy and knowing you, you haven't been paying attention, anyway. So it'll be just like new! A movie that I am very much looking forward to is Kirot, which I previously mentioned back in May. I am looking forward to this movie because it stars Olga Kurylenko, from Quantum Of Solace, as a female who is getting revenge and killing people. As you know, that sentence presses almost all of my cinematic fetish buttons, leaving out only things like plot and cinematography. But it hits all the good ones, so that's ok. It might even still hit those lesser ones, but I won't know until I see it. Early reviews after it's premier at the Toronto Film Festival a little bit ago indicate those buttons will remain unpressed, but I'll reserve that judgement for myself. Anyway. We've got ourselves a trailer. And here are the posters.   All of which do nothing to lessen my desire to see this film. No word on a release date that I've heard just yet. Tags: cinematic fetish buttons, movie news
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Haven't done one of these in a while. Since April, actually. Geez. Slackin'. Anywhere, here's some things that I have been digging and that I recommend.  X-ForceThe current X-Force comic book has nothing to do with any previous incarnation of the title or team, aside from it being affiliated with the X-men. X-Force is now the X-Men's black-ops team, tasked by Cyclops to use lethal force in dealing with certain enemies of mutantkind. As if to emphasize this even firther, they dress in silver and black uniforms. The team consists of Wolverine (of course), Archangel, Domino, Warpath, Wolfsbane, X-23 and Elixir. When I first heard about this title, I wasn't really all that excited about it, although I liked the idea of X-Men finally deciding enough was enough and killing some people. Then I found out that Clayton Crain was doing the artwork, so I decided I'd give it a shot. The first issue came out in 2008, written by Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost. And I liked it. And I've continued to buy it, even after cutting down on my monthly purchases substantially, I've hung on to this book. It's fun, it's violent and it's given me a whole new appreciation for the character of Domino who I had previously thought to be relatively lame. Now I think she's badass and awesome and cool. Supposedly, there's going to be a new mini-series about her and Wolverine by Kyle and Yost with art by Gabriele Dell'Otto, who is even more awesome than Clayton Crain. Can't wait. Similarly, this was my first introduction to the character of X-23, who is literally a younger, female version of Wolverine. Unoriginal, yes, but you know how I dig the women who have bad attitudes and like to kill people thing. There are currently two trade paperbacks available, with the 3rd set to come out early next year, as well as a crossover with Cable trade. If you still enjoy X-Men comics, then I do recommend checking it out. Also, I can't help it, but for some reason I really, really, really like that cover image posted there. If you want to see a very large version of it, click here. Volume 1 on Amazon - $10.87  By The Throat by Ben FrostThis is kind of cheating because this album hasn't actually been released yet, but I downloaded it the other day and I have been listening to it almost non-stop for the last two days. It's incredible. I first came across Ben Frost after reading a review of his previous album, Theory Of Machines, on a blog and seeing that he named a track "We Love You Michael Gira" and also sampled a Michael Gira song. So I downloaded the album and liked it quite a bit. Then, the other day, I see he's got a new one that's leaked onto the internet. So I decide to download it and see if it's as good as the previous one and it turns out to be about 592 times better. We're talking possible Album Of The Year here. It's just that freaking awesome. The disc comes out on November 10th. That is the day I will own it. Pre-order the CD from Amazon  HausuHausu (or House) is a 1977 Japanese horror/comedy directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi and it is one of the craziest movies ever made. It's kind of like Evil Dead 2 if it had been directed by Takashi Miike in the 70's. I recently saw it on the big screen in Hollywood and had a fucking fantastic time. Janus Films, the company that own the distribution rights, is currently touring the film in the US and if it's coming anywhere near you, you MUST go and see it. I guarantee you will enjoy it if you like things that are funny and/or awesome. Failing that, bootlegs are available. I don't believe there is an official release of this anywhere just yet. Janus Films' DVD releasing arm is Criterion and I'm hoping and praying that we might get a Criterion DVD release of this sometime in the near future. That would be completely perfect.  No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthyI've finally started reading the book that the movie was based on and, hoo boy, is it awesome. It's so awesome, it's as good as the movie. Maybe even better. Actually, they're about the same. When the Coen Brothers adapted it, they didn't seem to make a whole hell of a lot of changes. Some things are shorter and some were cut out, but otherwise everything is as it was. I do kind of wish I'd have read the novel before seeing the movie. I enjoyed the movie so much that it's almost interfering with my ability to notice how great the book is. For example, the scene in which Anton Chigurh, played by Javier Bardem in the film, is in the gas station and telling the counterman to pick which end of the coin he's about to toss comes up. The scene is incredibly well written and intense and I almost didn't notice it because I was playing the movie in my head while I was reading it and the scene in the movie was well done and intense. Does that make sense? Hopefully. I think this is the 5th or 6th Cormac McCarthy book I'll have read and of them all, I think this is the one I'd recommend most. It seems to be the most accessible and it might even be my favorite. Order the book from Amazon Tags: stuff i dig
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I finally got to see Paranormal Activity on Friday night. Went to an 11:30pm showing because the 10:30pm was sold out. As soon as I got home, I decided I needed to write about it.  You can read the review at 24FramesPerSecond. Short version? Loved it. Very, very creepy. I say this all the time, but I'm going to say it again just in case: If you can see this on the big screen, you should. The experience of a movie like this just isn't going to be the same when you watch it at home. It's playing in wide release and not just at midnight any longer. Here in SoCal, it's playing all over the place. Go see it. Tags: movie reviews
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The best thing about it is the weather. Summer is FINALLY ending. FINALLY. The heat has broken. I can go outside and not want to die. I can get in my car and still breathe. IT WAS ACTUALLY FOGGY THIS MORNING! It's a wonderful feeling. It kind of makes me want to move somewhere with a different climate where it's like this year round. I'm not sure a place like that really exists outside of my dreams, though. The absolute bliss I get from walking outside, seeing the sun and NOT immediately melting is somewhat muddied by the fact that after summer is the time of year when about 5 trillion movies come out that I want to see. This is a problem because, as I get older, I seem to have less and less time for going to the movies, especially ones that are only screening in Los Angeles, which is currently about 50 miles away from where I live. For some strange reason, I seem to have incurred a growing list of responsibilities and Things That Need To Be Done over the last couple of years. I'm not sure how or why this happened, but I think it was done without my consent. Also, hockey season just started and that's going to eat up approximately 40 nights of my life over the next 6 months or so. At least. So it's hard to make time for movies at this time. And that's bad because now is the time when all the good/cool movies are coming out. Of course. Part of that is award season. A bigger part is that for some reason, almost all of the film festivals that happen in or around LA just LOVE to happen all at the same goddamn time. I know. Whaaaah whaaaah, poor baby. Too many good movies to choose from. Whatever will you do? Shut up. You don't know what it's like. You could never truly understand the pain and the frustration. The heartbreak and the heartache. It's crushing. Deafening. Debilitating. All that stuff. ( Seriously, though. I may not get a good nights sleep for the rest of the year because I might be at the movies so much. )Tags: movie news, plans
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I would like to apologize for not having much in the way of content lately (let alone meaningful content), but I just have not had the time. And now, I link you to an interview with Jason Bateman and Kristen Bell about the upcoming film Couples Retreat because my mancrush on Jason Bateman grows steadily and daily and it's a relatively entertaining way to spend 3 minutes and 47 seconds. You also get to hear an update on the Arrested Development movie that sounds exactly the same as every other update you've ever read. I don't know if Couples Retreat is going to be any good, but I do plan to see it. At this point, I'm willing to pay money to see just about anything Jason Bateman does. I also used to really like Vince Vaughn movies, but I don't think I've seen a single film he's been in since Wedding Crashers. However, the movie was written by him and Jon Favreau and has a handful of other likable cast members, so I plan to give it a try. And look... just like that, I actually took the time to write something! Tags: good readin', movie news
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Making sure to post about this right now because if I put it aside and then forget about it, The Lady will wag her finger at me. It was announced back around April that Bruce Willis was in talks to star in a live action adaptation of the Warren Ellis/Cully Hamner comic book, Red.  Then, in July, it was reported that Morgan Freeman was in talks to co-star. And then that Robert Schwenke ( The Time Traveler's Wife) was going to direct it. That's cool, right? Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman in a movie based on something written by Warren Ellis? Sweet. I haven't read Red since it came out originally. It was a 3 issue mini-series for Image about a retired CIA agent "forced back into the game to gain revenge on the agency that trained him." I don't really remember much about it, to be honest, but I remember liking it. The reason I post about it now is that I just noticed a review of the film's script up on Scriptshadow. I don't read the whole reviews of scripts they post there, to help avoid spoilers, but I do enjoy reading the bottom line of the reviews and the bottom line for Red stood out to me. "Perhaps that’s what stayed with me so long after reading Red. It’s really a throwback to an earlier era/age/style of screenwriting. It has action, but it doesn’t call attention to itself like today’s product. The sequences moves at a nice clip, but it’s totally devoid of any look-at-me-as-I-cleverly-off-someone-with-a-bednob-or-a-broomstick-or-something-else-you’ve-never-seen-before. We’re totally invested in these characters and I found myself getting gleeful as they miraculously pull their mission impossible off.
Red is different because it’s so refreshingly underwritten. You won’t get a jolt or a rush or a headache after putting it down. There’s an old showbiz axiom that admonishes to “Always leave them wanting more.” The Brothers Hoeber have deftly pulled that off. When I closed the file, I was already looking forward to Frank’s next adventure."Awesome. There's a link there at Scriptshadow to download the script yourself if you want to read it. I have no desire to do so myself (spoilers), but it's there if you want it. If you'd like to check out the comic for yourself, there's a neat, affordable trade paperback available. Tags: comics, movie news
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I just saw it recently.  I would first like to mention how awesome it is that an indie-type movie released in July is still in theaters. It seems like that almost never happens any more, unless, maybe, there's a bunch of Oscar buzz. This one's still out there, though. Good thing, too, since I only just got to see it on Monday night. I thought it was great. What I actually came here to post, though, was the link to this interview that Movieline did with the screenwriters. If you've seen the movie, then you should probably go ahead and read it. It's good readin'. See, because the movie is based on a true story about one of the screenwriters and an ex girlfriend. This is made plain the first minute of the film, when the ex is named and then called a "bitch." The interview goes into this story some and sheds a little light on the thoughts and point of the film. If you haven't seen the movie, I do recommend it. It's very funny in (a lot of) places, despite not being a cheery movie in any way, shape or form. If it's still playing somewhere nearby, give it a look. Tags: good readin', movie news
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Saw a couple of things today that needed posting. The first was the trailer for the upcoming British film Harry Brown, which features the mighty return of the ass-kicking version of Michael Caine.  The film comes out in the UK in November. No word on a US release, as far as I know. I think that's really all there is to say about that one, but you can check out a recap of the film's premier in Toronto just recently, which includes more of Michael Caine being awesome. Second is a Thai action movie called Vanquisher, which hits theaters in Thailand in November.  You probably don't need me to tell you what I like about this movie so far. WiseKwai's plot summary: The star is Sophita Sribanchean, who plays Genja, a CIA agent who completes covert mission in southern Thailand but then has to fight off rival operatives from within the agency who've been ordered to "take her out at all costs." She survives and bides her time until two years later in Bangkok, she faces her old foes and a plot to detonate a bomb in the city.Yup. I think that says it all. Tags: cinematic fetish buttons, movie news
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Way behind with this. Apologies to those that care. I've got enough tracks stuffed into a playlist to make 6 of these right now, so I don't expect it'll be too long before the next one comes up. Mission StatementThese mixes are collections of tracks that come up on random in my iTunes that I like and want to share. There is no theme or reason behind any particular track list, excepting that I try to avoid tracks by well known artists. The idea here is to expose people to new music that they might not otherwise hear. I doubt anyone is going to like all of them, but I'm hoping you find something you like by a band that you're not familiar with. The tracks vary in genre and style on purpose. Ok? Alright. Click on the link below to be directed to Megaupload, where you can download a zip file of the mp3s. I was using Mediafire, but the 100MB limit makes it hard to get a good number of tracks in these, so I changed hosts. If this is a problem for anyone, comment and I'll see what I can do. ADGY MIX #31Tracklisting (in no particular order):Group Bombino - "Imuhar", from the album Guitars From Agadez, Vol. 2Ryuichi Sakamoto - "Hwit", from the album Out Of NoiseRaksha Mancham - "Fiddayyin", from the album GhazelsU.S. Girls - "Prove It All Night", from the album Introducing...Michael Galasso - "Scene II", from the album ScenesPopol Vuh - "On The Way", from the album Nosferatu (On The Way To A Little Way)Jarboe - "Anhedoniac", from the album AnhedoniacXela - "Linseed", from the album The Dead SeaClint Mansell - "We're Not Programs, Gerty, We're People", from the soundtrack for MoonScanner - "Vertical Line", from the album Lauwarm InstrumentalsFoetus - "Time Marches On", from the album LoveNadja - "Needle In The Hay", from the album When I See The Sun Always Shines On TVPyramids - "End Resolve", from the album PyramidsCapricorns - "Broken Coffin Of The Venerable King", from the album River, Bear Your BonesBen Frost - "Theory Of Machines", from the album Theory Of MachinesYoung Widows - "Easy Acting", from the album Split Series Vol. 4That's it for this one. All together, the playlist will fit on a CD-R if that's the route you choose. I try to keep all of them short enough to fit onto a CD-R, because that's the way I like to listen to things like this. Once again, I hope that those of you that download this find something new to listen to. If you like, many of the previous mixes are still available to download. You can view all the entries tagged as mixes and download them. Enjoy. Tags: mixes
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Got to try and do this fast. There's this new horror movie playing some film festivals right now called Paranormal Activity. I don't remember where I first heard about it, exactly, because I've been hearing about it from 5 million different places. If you're a horror film fan and you're on the internet, then chances are you've already heard about it or read one of the extremely glowing reviews by Fear Net, Dread Central, Film Threat, Bloody Disgusting, Ain't It Cool News or even Variety. Maybe you've seen the poster. Maybe you've even seen the trailer. If not, you should take a couple of minutes and do that now. I feel I need to mention this now because, as I just posted to 24FramesPerSecond, the film is going to get some midnight screenings in various cities on the 24th and 25th of this month. So now that you've seen the trailer, get your ass over to the official website, go to the Press tab and find out if it's playing near you. If you're unlucky and it's not, then click on the Demand It tab and do what you can to try and rectify the situation. I wish you luck. As it stands, this movie is in the top 3 of my "movies I want to see". Hopefully I can take advantage of the LA screening. Can't do any more for you than that, my friends. Tags: awesometown, listen to me now, movie news
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Read the incredibly sad news this weekend that composer Michael Galasso died at the age of 60, suffering from Hepatitis C. He's probably best known for the music he did for Wong Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love and Chungking Express. With ITMFL, in particular, Galasso was partially responsible for what is in my opinion one of the single greatest pieces of film and music together, especially within the context of the film: To the best of my knowledge, Galasso only released two albums on CD during his career. Only one of which, High Lines , I've ever been able to track down a physical copy of without paying an arm and a leg. The other, Scenes , I have mp3's of, but no CD. I don't know if any of his other work has ever made it on to CD, but he'd done a fair amount of it. Neither his official website, nor the official blog have been updated to mention his death, but if you're looking for more information on the man, those are good places to start. Tags: movie news, music news, weaksauce
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I was just google searching for info about some sort of release date or even plans to officially release a soundtrack for the upcoming John Hillcoat movie, The Road, which is being scored by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis.  Thus far, I haven't been able to find ANYTHING even mentioning a release for it. Therefore, I am operating under the assumption that there are no plans for one currently. Personally, I consider this to be a crime and an affront of the highest magnitude. The duo's previous score for The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford is truly amazing and it's beauty stands out in a film chock full of beautiful things. Even my dad mentioned being impressed by it while we were watching the film. The other score they did together for Hillcoat's The Proposition was also very good. And it's not like Nick fucking Cave doesn't already have an audience and/or legion of fans. Whatever, though. I don't know what sales figures were like for either of the scores previously mentioned. Maybe they weren't that hot. I doubt that, but I don't know. Anyway. While looking for info, I did come across this:  I think the words I saw on Google included "Nick Cave", "Warren Ellis", "White Lunar". And the link was at Amazon.com. Almost in that order. Immediately, my eyes widened and I muttered something to myself that sounded like "mmbublmguwah." Amazon says: 2009 two CD collection of soundtrack recordings. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have been playing together for more than 15 years, with The Bad Seeds, Grinderman and The Dirty Three. More recently, they've been collaborating on soundtracks for films such as The Proposition (2005) and The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2007) as well as Gisli orn Gardarsson's acrobatic theatrical productions of Woyzeck (2005) and Metamorphosis (2006). White Lunar is a selection of pieces taken from some of the motion pictures and documentaries for which Cave and Ellis have composed and recorded music. Includes music from the motion picture The Road based on the book by Cormac MacCarthy (No Country For Old Men) and starring Viggo Mortensen. 17 tracks. Mute Records.Ho shit! A little more research reveals that the first disc will have excerpts from the three major motion pictures and the second disc will include music from the pair's scores for two documentaries, Geoffrey Smith's The English Surgeon (which, in a very strange case of coincidence, I JUST READ ABOUT over at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) benchilada's blog) and Matthew Watson's The Girls Of Phnom Penh as well as other rarities. The official press release makes no mention of the music for the two theatrical productions mentioned in the Amazon description, but does give brief notes about some of the other music on the second disc. White Lunar is scheduled to be released on September 22nd. You can pre-order it from Amazon for only $15. You can bet your ass it'll be mine on that same day. In other Nick Cave news, I'm about halfway through his newest book, The Death Of Bunny Munroe at the moment, and I am enjoying it thoroughly.  The main character, Bunny Munroe, reminds me a lot of the main character from Irvine Welsh's Filth. Despite any descriptions of the characters made in either book, I kind of imagine them both looking like a sleazier version of Brian Fantana.  Bunny Munroe is a kind of oblivious, alcoholic womanizer salesman whose wife dies, leaving him alone with his son, who he has no idea how to take care of. The book is funny and gross and if I had to compare it to Nick Cave's music, I'd say it's very Grinderman. It probably also holds the literary record for the most references to "Avril Lavigne's vagina", which is a feat in and of itself, I think. I definitely recommend it, regardless of whether or not you're familiar with any of Cave's other work. It's $16.50 on Amazon and worth every penny. In addition, to the book, there is also an audiobook, with Nick reading the book and background music by Nick and Warren Ellis. I don't have this yet because I'm not entirely sure it's available to me easily. The book's official website seems to be geared more towards UK people, as everything in the shop is listed in British currency and all the links to buy are from Amazon UK. And the cover of the audiobook listed on Amazon UK has a sticker saying "Soundtrack by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis" and a cover with someone in a bunny suit on it. The U.S. release for the audiobook , though, has the same cover as the book and no sticker mentioning any kind of soundtrack at all. So I'm not entirely sure if they're the same thing or not. I would assume that they are, but I'm not going to drop $23 on it unless I'm sure. Especially considering the fact that Amazon has a listing for the UK version on their site, with the right cover, but only available through 3rd party sellers with the cheapest price being over $40. The two reviews on the Amazon page seem to indicate that it has the soundtrack, and I really can't imagine why they wouldn't, but... again, I want to be sure. I'll have to do some more research. And while I'm moaning about the official website being geared towards the UK, I was doubly insulted to notice that there is a signed, numbered, limited (to 500) slipcase edition of the book that you can order there UNLESS YOU LIVE IN THE US, CHINA OR INDIA. This edition also includes a DVD of Nick reading from the novel. AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!! !!!! There are still some copies left and I had considered asking one of my British friends here to help me out with this, but the price tag is too high, anyway. They did this thing where the price incremented by £10 for every 100 books that were sold, starting off at £80 and currently at £120. That comes out to about $200. So I think I'll pass. But I refuse to let that deter my righteous indignation. Anyway. As if that wasn't enough Bunny for the Nick Cave fans, there's even a goddamn iPhone app for it!  Yep. The app contains the full text, audiobook and videos of Nick reading from it. Here's the full list of features: * Text to audio sync of Nick reading the full audiobook — switch from one format to the other without losing your place * The audiobook uses a groundbreaking 3d audio spatial mix, specifically designed for listening on headphones, creating a fully immersive experience for the listener. * 11 videos of Nick reading from the novel, filmed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard * The audio features a soundtrack by Nick and Bad Seed Warren Ellis * Exclusive news feed for updates about Nick direct to your app * Beautiful typography optimised for the iPhone / iPod touch * Optional tilting of the device to automatically scroll the chapter at your speed * Change the font size and style of the text to suit you * Night mode * Add bookmarks * Email quotes to friends The app costs $25. And if all of that still isn't enough to sate the burning in your loins for more Bunny Munroe, you may be happy to hear that there has also been talk of a film adaptation by John Hillcoat and, according to that source, Hillcoat is talking to motherfucking Daniel Craig about it. It should be noted that the gist of that article is that Hillcoat wants Craig for a different movie, but it does says he "is talking to" Craig about it. That would be fucking AWESOME. Apparently, the idea for Bunny Munroe was originally a screenplay by Nick that he was talking to Ray Winstone about doing. Winstone would be a great choice, too, I think. And just for the hell of it, while I'm here, I would like to once again mention that Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe once commissioned a script for a Gladiator sequel from Nick Cave that is reviewed at length here and sounds fucking amazing and insane. So, yeah. There you go. Tags: books, movie news, music news
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for only $13.99.
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