July 2013 – Rocknerd

The Manual, Hollywood edition.

19 July, 201312 April, 2017 Film 0

There is a Manual for film that sets out precisely what is to happen as closely as The Manual did for pop music. But

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.

15 July, 20136 May, 2017 Film 0

Must be movie week at Rocknerd. So I was reminded of The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990), a thoroughly enjoyable piece of cheese starring

Nick Cave’s ridiculously over-the-top rejected script for Gladiator 2, for your reading pleasure.

12 July, 20136 May, 2017 Film 0

Russell Crowe wanted a followup to Gladiator. So, of course, he called Nick Cave. ‘Cos that’s obviously the first thing you do.

How the B-movie industry works these days.

12 July, 201326 January, 2017 Film 0

A look into Asylum, assembly-line producers of such instant classics as 2-Headed Shark Attack. This century, the market for B-movies is Netflix and the

Nostalgia’s another word for brain rot.

10 July, 201318 September, 2016 Rocknerd 0

I dug through archive.org again and dredged up some more prime Rocknerd. TISM, the crippled CD database (remember when music came on CDs? Hah!),

Dogs In Space by the Quietus.

9 July, 20139 May, 2018 Film 0

Someone outside Australia notices Dogs In Space, specifically Anthony Nield at the Quietus. And of course, you can get the soundtrack album for less

The bowl, the laserbat and how Schoenberg won the twentieth century.

5 July, 20134 September, 2016 Classical 3

The redoubtable Vi Hart produces a brilliant half-hour video on how Schoenberg‘s twelve-tone technique works, and a few examples that demonstrate just where half the background music of the twentieth century came from. Includes discourses on the nature of art, the nature of musical shapes and the reprehensibility of present copyright laws.

Reflections on Rowland S. Howard.

3 July, 20136 May, 2017 Post-Punk 0

Reflections on Rowland from Swamplandzine. I was one of those people going to every Rowland Howard gig I could in Melbourne in the late