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Top Cd's of 2005

5. LISA SHAW "CHERRY"
4. TOSCA "J.A.C."
3. HAROLD BUDD & ROBIN GUTHRIE "MYSTERIOUS SKIN" SOUNDTRACK
2. MADONNA "CONFESSIONS ON A DANCEFLOOR"
1. GOLDFRAPP "SUPERNATURE"

Holly 13

I ran! I ran!

Você...

This time next month I will be lounging around somewhere in Brazil. I get really anxious to travel when the snow starts to pile up. Comm Ave is frosty and Christmas-lit. I want sun and sea and caipirinhas!!

Renew! Renew!

I just got the soundtrack to LOGAN'S RUN (1976) What can be said for a movie that features Farrah Fawcett-Majors and contains the following dialog: "...and then you grabbed me and the machine blew up and I ran...I RAN!!" God I love it. Why isn't there a New You on every corner? And how did they know that everyone in the USA would be living in a mall in the future? Or that we'd be putting ourselves on 'the circuit'?

Groovy... and Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack is THE definitive 70's future freak-out.

"Identify Logan 5- this object is 'ANKH'"

Let's hope the remake doesn't totally suck.

This Mortal Coil

VH1 Classics' ALTERNATIVE show had the video for Song to the Siren on yesterday. How I love 4ad circa '80 to '89 yum...

New Cocteau Twins box set

After teasing us with a possible reunion and then dashing those hopes on the rocks like that song to the siren, Cocteau Twins release a huge box set of all their singles/EPs from 4AD and Fontana. Yum.

Shucking the Curve T Shirt and A Sudden Loss of Gravity on DVD!

BUY the original SHUCKING THE CURVE poster art on a cool high quality T-shirt and pick up the new release on DVD of A SUDDEN LOSS OF GRAVITY.

Have I told you how much I love you lately?

I am sure I mentioned Aya's Strange Flower cd at some point. It's one of my favorite albums of the past 5 years. Soft and smooth and groovy. I must be getting old. You can hear her here

A turkey for your Thanksgiving

Freefalling in the polls, will Asia polish Bush's dim sum

Schwarzenegger heads off to China and Bush goes to Asia- isn't this what failing popstars with little-to-no street cred do when they want a little love?

Blonde is the new macarena

At least according to scruffy dust bunny slash freaked-out gelfling, Michael Musto.

Madge-tronic's Voodoo Ray Lulu

The new Madonna album has leaked and it really kinda kicks my ass. Smart movie Esther, popping this dance-champagne early for the critical fan masses.

Highlights: "GET TOGETHER", "FUTURE LOVERS" and "FORBIDDEN LOVE"

Moz Mom

"It's not much of a surprise to discover that Morrissey had a close and complicated relationship with his mother. The formidable Mrs Dwyer (she reverted to her maiden name after a messy divorce from Morrissey's father) was a librarian who retired when her son found success in order to help manage his affairs. She introduced him to Oscar Wilde, sparking an infatuation that has lasted for decades. Morrissey stayed with her until his early twenties (he once revealingly remarked: "If you're still living with your parents at 19, you're considered some club-footed bespectacled monster of repressed sexuality – which is in every case absolutely true!")." -The Independent, UK

Radio.blog

I just added this to the site. Just some tunes I love as you surf. I'll be adding more songs later :-) It pops a new window and then you have to click a selection...

Miranda July

Pablo and I finally sat down and watched Me and You and Everyone We Know. I loved it. Miranda screened/performed a few times at CUFF and NYUFF when Todd and I did and she's a pretty amazing character and artist. Love her acting. She's been chatting with Todd at the IFC Center and Todd's not sure she knows it's him. He is so shy :-) (kinda borderline, shy/wild)

I reviewed her Nest of Tens for Insound when it screened at MIX a while back:

"For a little while I was unsure as to whether Miranda July was a filmmaker or a Cocteau Twins b-side. I am sure now. Nest of Tens is brilliant- in fact it is pretty much the cat's-ass. Mucho respect for this uncomfortable, articulate and poignant bit of video- shot, edited and directed to within an inch of its life with a sure hand and eye. "

Parker and Jason sitting in a tree...?!?!

Gawker has a little blurb on Parker in Australia, hinting her new partner is Jason Rail. Erroneous, of course, but how cool is Parker for sticking with her pals? They've been best buds since Frisk. (Pictured on the right, Jason, Alexis Arquette and Parker enjoy a break from Frisk on the Haight, 1994 - photo by me)<

Wilma destroys bangorfilms.com

Wilma knocked out bangorfilms.com's server and we are getting lame-o updates from Verio about it. Come on guys. Get a back up power supply that works...

brendavelez.com!

Started work on Brenda's website. That should be cool.
And I discovered that someone has registered TODDVEROW.COM!! so that should be interesting...

JT/Cooper

"Dennis Cooper says that when they finally met there was something about JT’s demeanor that wasn’t right. “The voice was too weak, among other things,” Cooper says. “And his/her vague, disinterested behavior was just incongruous considering that we were supposedly finally meeting after being close friends for so many years.”" Who is JT Leroy

Regardless of who JT really is, I am sure that this isn't the first time someone appeared disinterested, Dennis :-)

Captured!

Got tickets to South America. Almost finished with Pablo's apartment in Back Bay. Need many cocktails.

Plaster of Paris

"That's hot."

Goldfrapp galloping

"Lend me a whole
new world
All night Feel life
When is there ever sense
To love
This world...

Oh I love this feeling
Feels like forever
Oh I love this feeling
Feels like real Leather"

When in doubt, smile.

After a rather insane evening in the ER of Mass General with dad (who was basically airlifted out of the Sean McDonough Foundation Charity Auction at the Boston Harbor Hotel last night) I fully committed to my South American vacation. Dad's fine, (he had only fainted- possibly from being so close to all the sports celebs and mostly because he hadn't hydrated - we freaked out as only Dwyers can) my nerves are shot and I missed out on a great party. Oh well... we are getting him a canteen...

Mixed Media

I've added a link to some of my paintings/artwork. The first two are in a series of four landscapes I did in San Francisco right after FRISK. More soon...

Antony

I am going to see Antony on September 28th. I am so psyched!

"Even when a hurricane hits, the apple does not fall far from the tree".

Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor
John NicholsTue Sep 6, 1:08 PM ET
The Nation -- Finally, we have discovered the roots of George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism."

On the heels of the president's "What, me worry?" response to the death, destruction and dislocation that followed upon Hurricane Katrina comes the news of his mother's Labor Day visit with hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston.

Commenting on the facilities that have been set up for the evacuees -- cots crammed side-by-side in a huge stadium where the lights never go out and the sound of sobbing children never completely ceases -- former First Lady Barbara Bush concluded that the poor people of New Orleans had lucked out.

"Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them," Mrs. Bush told American Public Media's "Marketplace" program, before returning to her multi-million dollar Houston home.

On the tape of the interview, Mrs. Bush chuckles audibly as she observes just how great things are going for families that are separated from loved ones, people who have been forced to abandon their homes and the only community where they have ever lived, and parents who are explaining to children that their pets, their toys and in some cases their friends may be lost forever. Perhaps the former first lady was amusing herself with the notion that evacuees without bread could eat cake.

At the very least, she was expressing a measure of empathy commensurate with that evidenced by her son during his fly-ins for disaster-zone photo opportunities.
On Friday, when even Republican lawmakers were giving the federal government an "F" for its response to the crisis, President Bush heaped praise on embattled Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown. As thousands of victims of the hurricane continued to plead for food, water, shelter, medical care and a way out of the nightmare to which federal neglect had consigned them, Brown cheerily announced that "people are getting the help they need."

Barbara Bush's son put his arm around the addled FEMA functionary and declared, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

Like mother, like son.

Even when a hurricane hits, the apple does not fall far from the tree.

Pentagon: "Too much sympathy for the victims"; Bush poses for pics

Pentagon feels victimized

Bush poses for faked relief pics

After reading these, can you tell me what country we are living in????

Hurricane's eye becomes eye-opener

Will people finally wake up to the criminals in the White House? Is a major American city like New Orleans the price to pay?

Condie responds to New Orleans

I love pricey shoes too, but this woman is morally reprehensible...

Yucky "lady" gets boot

"Finally, we've decided that syndicated columnist Ann Coulter has worn out her welcome. Many readers find her shrill, bombastic and mean-spirited. And those are the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives." Arizona Daily Star

Almost time to start planning that winter escape...

Ladytron's new video

Shades of The Funny Little Woman (a favorite childhood book of mine) and Lord of the Rings... the song kicks ass...

Destroy Everything You Touch

My book can kick your book's ass...

Oh no you dinnit in 2004
Aaron Krack wrote some "bored" stuff about Verow's films in the past.
We were all pissed off by it back then but now, reading it while going through old press clippings for our BangorFilms archive- well- I dont know what we were bummed about. It's not like he's Genet or something ;-) We'll always be edgier than this kind of stuff. It's our lot in life... Now his novel has been out for a while- but the video game is hella bettah... hey- it's my blog and I can be bitchy... besides, maybe he'll sell a copy from you reading this. Or nail me for hotlinking his honky 4AD novel art...


no hard feelings Aaron :-)

from the auteur's intimate, Taster's Choice bio...

"Aaron Krach is a “creative personality” who lives on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. As an artist, he has exhibited photographs and installations from Seattle to Sao Paulo. In 2004, his first novel, Half-Life, was published. He is a senior editor at Cargo magazine. Born in Michigan, but raised in California, Krach can’t imagine living anywhere else but New York."

Maddox

http://automaddox.blogspot.com/

probably the best use of your office internet access today

Portman prepares for life change

http://www.gawker.com/news/natalie-portman/friday-fluff-natalie-portmans-new-do-122431.php

a-freakin'

ooooh I can publish on the run... the world shudders...

--

Mobile Email from a Cingular Wireless

Must. Write. More. Of. Novel.

motivation. please...

"like a dog to get you" : Goldfrapp's Supernature leaks to the 'net!

"...walk out into velvet, nothing more to say, you're my favorite moment- you're my saturday

cuz you're my number one..."

Frisk en francais

Coming soon to DVD

A SUDDEN LOSS OF GRAVITY and ONCE & FUTURE QUEEN


and... Bangor Films DVD box set!!!

Always a year or two behind Verow

The "indie" "film" world seems to be perpetually a year and a half behind Todd Verow. Anonymous was out last year and now we have this thing coming out

Bad Film Critics...

Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com > she's such a bad writer. how do these people get jobs?


Jean Tang of Salon.com > she was one of the wing-dings that defended the original Star Wars as character driven, yeah like the game of chess is character driven, you moron. read my letter/spanking to Salon here

Manohla Dargis of NY Times (can you believe it?) > still remember her from the Frisk wrap party where she all but mentally fellated Greg Araki. Aren't critics supposed to have some sort of subjective detachment?


more as I lift other rocks...

Whitney Houston: Mariner

"Take me out on a yacht blow up boat."

New Depeche Mode "Precious" leaks to the net

PRECIOUS

Summer 2005: Mix 2, part 1

"Poppy Gene Tierney" Etienne Daho
"Sun" D.H.T. & Edmee
"Love is a Number" White Rose Movement
"Move in my Direction" Bananarama
"Damage" Tiefschwarz & Tracey Thorn
"No Me Digas Nada" Malena

Dahomania

For some reason I have become obsessed with Etienne Daho. In particular, this weekend a Cape Cod, I jogged to my ipod repeating "Poppy Gene Tierney" about 7 times. I have Amazon delivering POP SATORI to me today...

"Militant starlet waif terrorists"

Usually Gawker is pretty boring, but this turn of a phrase was pretty great. Portman IS made of wood in front of a blue screen, but she is cute and charismatic.

Frisk en Francais

Frisk receives its dvd release in France... cover photo by yours truly

Sample the Supernature

Goldfrapp have clips of their entire new cd, Supernature, available on their website. Scour the web for the cut track, Beautiful, cuz it is truly excellent...

Summer 2005 : Mix 1

Heartbeat 3:05 Annie Anniemal
Be My World (Non So Perche) [Radio Edit] 3:45 Milky Be My World - EP
Best Days of Our Lives 4:03 Weekend Players Pursuit of Happiness
All Over You 5:40 Aquanote The Pearl
Music and Wine 7:10 Blue Six Beautiful Tomorrow
Aganju (Latin Project Remix) 6:06 Bebel Gilberto Bebel Gilberto Remixed - EP
Sean [EP Mix] 4:27 Aya Sean - EP
Ooh La La 2:56 Goldfrapp Supernature
Heidi Bruehl 4:44 Tosca featuring Samia Farah J.A.C.
Give It Back 4:23 Gaelle Transient
Love Movement(Ulrich Schnauss Mix) 4:57 Justin Robertson Presents Revtone REAL IBIZA Ⅶ
Departure Lounge 4:50 Dalminjo REAL IBIZA Ⅶ
Hi-Fi Love 6:13 Ganga REAL IBIZA Ⅶ
Rendez-vous à Vedra 3:42 Etienne Daho Corps et armes
Deixa 5:19 Cibelle Cibelle
Neil's Theme 2:14 Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie Mysterious Skin

"Oh no, oh no...

you've got all wrong, you think you're chocolate when you're chewing gum..."

Saint Etienne

New cd is out now. Air America is here.

No one really speaks Italian

I am drunkenly writing through the first 300 chapters of the new novel like some insane sibling of the Black Dahlia. You'll soon have a birth to clean up after... gather the towels :-)

Bruce dancing merrily

RealVideo

"I want laser."

Goldfrapp's Supernature is out August... way too long a wait

Pretending to be in Brazil

Not in this Boston weather at all, no sir...

Saudade

Oh this word, how did I not know it exists when I feel it everyday? ;-)

Sigh's Smell of Farewell

Got the new Robin Guthrie/Harold Budd soundtrack to Gregg Araki's new film. It's fantastic. It reminds me of a certain afternoon in 1995 when we were filming FRISK when I first met Araki and he couldn't stop laughing at my jokes. I was like, "wow, I am funny. " Ugh, living in San Francisco was a total weather scam... If we actually get a budget for the Boy I wanna have some sick tunes on the soundtrack- it would be fun to have a few of my faves on there.

Anyway- Mysterious Skin actually looks like it might be good. Who wouldnt thunk that?? I don't really like Gregg's movies, Living End I saw on a screener VHS that producer Andrea Sperling left in the condo we were all DESTROYING while filming Jon Moritsugu's Mod Fuck Explosion. It was pretty good. The rest are just crazy namedropping shoe-gazer ads.

Oh well... those were the daze.

Tosca's J.A.C. with Samia Farah out now

Itunes has the new Tosca cd exclusive pre-release! Yummmmm...

Mother's Day

don't forget.

"Cinema is dead."

Yet Godard finds no irony in the fact that he lives in Switzerland.
Someone send him some digital video tapes- at least he will stop wasting film stock.

Oh yeah...

Aleenta

Like I need encouragement

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): After rejecting proposals from many directors, Bob Dylan has finally authorized Oscar-nominated Todd Haynes to make a film about his life. Seven different actors will portray Dylan, including a black woman. "I am setting out to explode the idea that anybody can be depicted in a single self," Haynes told The Sunday Times. You already explode that idea every week of your life, Pisces, and you will be exploding it with even greater force and style in the coming days. I encourage you to be proud of your own riotous multiplicity. It's something to be celebrated, not to be shy about. Why not fantasize about the seven actors and actresses you'd choose to play you in the movie about your life?______________________________________________________

ok... 7 :
Justin Theroux, Joaquin Phoenix, CCH Pounder, Ewan Mcgregor, Asia Argento, Parker Posey and Orlando Bloom :-)

Tosca

J.A.C. - Tosca
Samia Farah sings on a track off the new Tosca cd, I can't wait- it's out end of May...

Inspiration

I started the screenplay adaptation for The Boy. I am really excited because the beginning was stumping me but now I figured out a really cool beginning scene - I think.

hey- get my book.

The Heart is Deceitful

Saw Asia Argento's new film at the Coolidge Corner as part of the "independent film festival of boston" It's based on JT Leroy's novel- it's a beautiful film. The acting - especially the kids- was amazing. GO see it if you can.