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Now Sounds
Lone Lady "Nerve Up"
Think Talking Heads, think REM, think 1980s King Crimson revival line-up with driving, jangly guitars, but this is all Julie Campbell AKA Lone Lady with her unique, crystal clear voice - but careful, glass cuts.
Now Words
Alex Grey "Never Somewhere Else"
I like crime books, from the hardboiled classics down through Ross Macdonald's sublime Lew Archer series to Henning Mankell's Wallander books. Problem is, I just can't write crime - don't have the patience to do the research (and maybe don't have any ideas worthy of becoming a novel), and I'm also a really reluctant reader so I was glad to discover the first of Alex Gray's DCI Lorimer novels in which young women in Glasgow are being strangled by someone using a bicycle chain before being scalped! I was glad not because I'm into such gory crimes (which this book doesn't linger over). No, I was glad because I devoured this first novel about Lorimer and psychologist and profiler Dr. Solomon Brightman and look forward to catching up with the rest of their "adventures".
Now Images
Solomon Kane
From one Solomon to another. It's been a long time since I read the original Robert E. Howard (yes, that one, who created Conan and King Kull) short stories, and I didn't even know a film was coming out based on the character, until Forbidden Planet were plugging the merchandise, but the trailer looked good, and as for the film? Well, consider it a guilty pleasure, not ground-breaking in any way, but bleak in parts, with good special effects, and pushing the right buttons to create a solid foundation to build a franchise on. One for the boys with a fistful of popcorn, and a drink in the other fist, methinks. This year's "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans". |
