My top 3 Kubrick films changes so often but Dr Strangelove is always number one. I saw it on a black and white TV at 3am when I was a little kid sick with the flu and for the longest time didn’t realise it was a black and white film.
I haven’t seen Eyes Wide Shut in years but I loved it then and I’ve been meaning to rewatch it lately.
It’s not even from that ep. It sounds like both (that’s right, 2) of them are pretty recent. They’re not amazing, but I’ll take it over Mariah Carey and Michael Buble
I don’t know who is in charge of the Christmas playlist at work this year but it has at least one song by:
The XX
Bright Eyes
The Shins
Eleanor Friedberger
Blixa fucking Bargeld
St Etienne
Sufjan Stevens
Kylie Minogue
and Slade (which is a classic but I never hear it anymore)
That Snail Mail one hasn’t clicked for me yet, but I feel like I’m 6 months time it’ll be all I want to talk about. That’s what happened with Japanese Breakfast when it came out and now I really like it.
Seriously though, I really enjoyed Squid, Bachelor, Lightning Bug, Cassandra Jenkins, Low and black midi this year as well. I’m terrible at end of the year lists and half the stuff I end up loving from the year doesn’t click until the following year.
Man, what can you even say about this guy and his body of work? So much of the world me and my friends built around rock and roll as kids was a direct result of his photography and even to this day when I think of some of my heroes I’m usually thinking of a photo that he took. RIP to a legend.
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