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New Thrice single “Only Us” announcing an interesting album with a lot of diversity!
It’s time for a little musical publication today to talk about Thrice, my favorite band. I think this information starts to be quite obvious 😉
(You can find the previous articles I made on Thrice albums at the end of the article)
Their new album “Palm” is set to be release the 14th of September (I already pre-ordered it 🙂 ). 10th album for Thrice, it’s amazing. Once again, I think they will surprised us!
The first single “The Grey”, release the 5 of June, was more or lease in the right continuity of the previous albums Beggars and Major/minor. We find the characteristics of the Thrice’s style with a grunge touch, no so brutal like their first album but catchy and quite powerful. It seems they have made an album more dynamic than the previous one that was, in my point of view, a bit too calm.
Your turn to listen 😉
The second single was released the 14th of August “Only Us”. Right from the first seconds I have to admit I was somewhat disconcerted. The song starts with synthesizer sounds a bit repetitive, inspired from the 80’s. We think immediately about the new wave style and mostly about the album The Alchemy Index Vol 2 Water. The voice of Dustin is still so impressive, powerful and soft in the same time. The singing comes rapidly, then it’s catches up by distant chorus and finally the guitars and the power of Thrice arrive after 45 seconds. It’s stays soft and calm until 2 minutes and then they release their all potential.
This track is a gem! I’m in love with this song and it’s particular sound.
Your turn to put an ear on that 😉
Even if Only Us is quite surprising during the first seconds, I really enjoyed the track. I think I have listened it almost each day since the release. I really fell on this song the influence of The Alchemy Index mixed with the rock/grunge style of Thrice from their last albums. A song very original, with new and old stuff inside, and after discovering The Grey, those two singles really exciting me about the new album!
Thrice managed to astonish us with each album, renewing their style but keeping their identity. The Grey and Only Us announcing an original album once again. Can’t wait for the 14th of September!
And you, what did you thought about those tracks?
Enjoy!
See you soon,
Desmond Andrew Green
Summary of previous articles about Thrice (French version only)
Identity Crisis et The Illusion of Safety
The Artist in the Ambulance
Vheissu
The Alchemy Index
Beggars
Major/minor
To Be Everywhere is to be Nowhere
R.I.P. Chris Cornell
Sad news today when I came back home from the work and learned that Chris Cornell died yesterday at the age of 52 years old 😦
Singer and rhythm guitarist of Soundgarden and Audioslave, he has been found dead in his hotel room in Detroit after performing.
It’s a really sad news, I even thought it was a bad joke. As a big Fan of Soundgarden, Audioslave and also his solo albums, it really hurts me to hear that. One of the last figure of Seattle’s grunge era left us. It’s a sad day.
R.I.P. Chris Cornell
Desmond A.G.
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What worth the new Korn’s single “Rotting In Vain”? Is the return of Head confirmed the resurrection of my boys?
Short musical note today about Korn!
Dustin Kensrue knows also in solo how to fill us with wonder through his third album!
Album : Carry The Fire (2015)
« Her », a modern melancholic and poetic love story
« Her », mysterious title, mysterious poster with only Joaquin Phoenix’s head, everything to catch my curiosity. Produce by Spike Jonze (the one who know this guy before this movie can raise one hand :D) and release in 2013, this movie get a grad really high on Rotten Tomatoes (8.5/10) and it is the same on almost every websites.
So let’s see the trailer to have a first taste of this movie.
The story take place in a close future. Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) is a solitary and introverted man working for an agency which write personnel words and letters for you family, friends and love, just like it was you holding the pen. Despite his amazing skills to draw with perfection strong feelings for others on paper, he is not capable to do the same for himself, for his life, so his life is sad, without love and only fool of regrets and melancholy. Moreover, due to the divorce demand coming from his child love Catherine (Rooney Mara), Theodore finally let him convince by buying an OS, an operating system, like an A.I. which is really trendy. It is elaborated to adapt and evolved itself according the owner, so in this way you can have someone to talk, breaking the loneliness, someone that can understand you perfectly. He decide that this OS will be a women and she names it(her)self as Samantha (Scarlett Johansson). Theodore is fascinated by Samantha’s skills to adapt and evolved along their endless discussions, in order to be in phase with him. They become more and closer. Samantha became the prefect incarnation of everything he was searching for in a partner, available, paying attention about what he say, about him, always available, curious, interested, sharring same tastes and desires. He will fall in love of her, and thanks to her He will evolved, learn to let go and move one about the past of his life and live back looking strait forward, looking at the future.
For me this movie is a magnificent beauty UFO. I heard a lot about this movie, only good things, but without any special details about the deep story of the movie. Now, after seeing it, I understand better why it was quite difficult to explain in details this movie.
First of all, the poster can be a little bit confusion because you see only the face of Joaquin, it is quite minimalist but you don’t have to be scary 😉 Because this movie really worth the shot. The cast is not too big so in this way you have only good actor with of course Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johanson, Rooney Mara but also Amy Adams, Olivia Wilde and Chris Pratt.
This movie speak about human relations. There is no action at all, no violence, nothing that you can find generally in a blockbuster, and it is really pleasant (I did not say that I do not like those movies, it is just it’s great when you have different types of movies, and with this one it change your movies habits). We are following the main character with attention, everything is calm, without a lot of music, and you just have to focus on the speech and the feeling of the Theodore. I have to admit that the rhythm is slow, but everything move sufficiently rapidly to not be bored. We discovered step by step the past of the character, his personals problems and the event that push him to buy this OS. The producer depict a believable world that could be our close future, sterilized, where human relations would be only behind a screen, cold and impersonal. Jonze managed to draw a poetic cyber-romance between Theodore and Samantha. OS are showed like a solution, an alternative to the human loneliness where they locked them up by themselves.
Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson are almost the only characters on the screen (more or less for Scarlett :p) and they carrying the all movie by themselves. Phoenix is astonishing during all the movie, with a highly sensitive interpretation. He fined his soul mate with Samantha, someone that can listen, laugh, share and take care of him. It is cute, adorable and touching. We are the witnesses of the love bounding Theodore and Samantha, and also the emancipation of Samantha. It is a 22nd century love story touching and we cannot resist.
To conclude about the movie “Her”, I think it is a kind of movie that you like or dislike without intermediate point of view, because it is a non-conventional movie compare to all the actual productions. But if you like love stories, and great actor performance, I can assure you that you will like this movie!
There is a philosophical dimension (with poetry) because Jonze push us to think about the actual relation between people in the society, the people we love, the people that we encounter during our life, and sometimes it is better to be honest with ourselves in order to move one and not being stuck in the past.
I think you understood my point of view, I loved this movie. I have been touched. Joaquin really surprised me with his sensibility. If you asked me to resume this movie with one sentence I will say quite simply « Close your eyes, press the play button and listen » 😉
« Her » deserve a big 18/20, this is a beautiful movie that you have to see!
Enjoy!
Desmond Andrew Green
Bow down before The Pale Emperor!
It’s been awhile seen I shared with you a « Weekly music video », but I am going to fix this mistake! 😉
So here is a small video clip for this week with nothing less than the comeback of Sir Marilyn Manson himself!
Yes, indeed he is back and for our great pleasure! With albums « The Golden Age of Grotesque » and « Eat me, drink me » relatively underwhelming with only few songs getting out of the batch, he managed to put his head out of the water with « The high end of low ». « Born villain » in 2012 marked clearly his resurrection to finally three years later lead to « The Pale Emperor », an album beyond reproach, without mistake and reminding me the great era of the trilogy « Antichrist superstar », « Mechanical animals » and « Holy wood ».
This new LP is rock, melancholic, sick, sad, in summary a pearl 😉 We don’t know where to look with all those amazing tracks like « Killing Strangers », « Depp six », « Third day of a seven day binge », « Worship my wreck » (one of my favorite 🙂 ) or even « Slaves only dreams to be king ».
Enjoy the excellent song « Deep six »! (Weird video clip don’t you think? 😉 )
Enjoy!
Desmond A. Green
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Everyone!
Thank you to following my blog and stay tuned, new articles are coming!
Desmond Andrew Green
« The Grand Budapest Hotel », I would book another room with pleasure!
Wes Anderson is a director that we can consider not well known in general until few years ago. He was more or less comparable to an “author movies”, an underground director and not in the front of the stage with some blockbuster or big budgets movies. I was quiet interesting to discover his universe even if this one seemed quite “special”, I mean that there is no average opinion, you like or you do not like. I hesitated, movies after movies, but when The Grand Budapest Hotel came up on the screen, I do not know but it inspired me, sending good vibes. So I leap the gap and I dive in the Anderson’s universe, and I really do not regret!
Let see the trailer.
The story start in the present time where we see a student girl coming close to a memorial of a writer, she is holding the Memories of this men in her arms, and we only see the name “The Author”. She starts to read the first chapter of this book, transporting us in 1985 in the office of “the Author” where he tell us the tale of one of his journey in 1968 in the Grand Budapest Hotel. This hotel is in a fictional republic named Zubrowka, situated in the Alps in Europe. The younger version of this author visiting this Grand Budapest Hotel which is the shadow of what it was in the past. At this time it doesn’t have his magnificence anymore, and the customers are rare. The Author meet the actual director of the Hotel, Zero Moustafa (F. Murray Abraham) with whom he share a diner where Zero tell him his story, how he became the director and why he do not want to sale the Hotel even if it not working well. This story start in 1932 thus we discovered the young Zero becoming the lobby boy of the Grand Budapest Hotel at this time mighty and beautiful, and the place is running by the devoted concierge Mr. Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes).
The movie start like this and I can’t tell you more because I will spoiled too much and break the magic.
I have to admit that after this first ten minutes a little bit disconcerting, I was afraid because I wanted to know more about this story but I dreaded that I had started a movie to messy and boring. Let me explain, I speak about a disconcerting movie regarding the strange beginning acting like a reflexion in a mirror, seeing this own reflexion …etc…etc… (The student reading a book, and the author speaking about himself younger…etc…). It was quite confusing for me but then we managed to catch the train and everything is finally understandable (If you are a fan of Wes Anderson maybe it will be easier for you). After that we can enjoy the wingspan of this movie, and it is wonderful, it is really magical.
There is numerous characters, with a real working back story and depict by an incredible cast, just few names, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willen Dafoe, Saoirse Ronan, Edward Norton, Léa Seydoux, Jeff Goldblum, Tony Revolori …. They are all very endearing, the lobby boy make us live a magical story, a fabled story, close to a Walt Disney movie, and the actor Tony Revolori is bluffing. However, the most impressing performance come from Ralph Fiennes as Mr. Gustave. We hate him the second he appeared on the screen, but then, we realized he has a heart, a big one underneath their concierge jacket, and moreover, his behavior is really funny and crazy. I really enjoyed that.
All those characters are gathered in this movie to get something theatrical, like a Vaudeville. Some background and camera views are sometimes like a puppet theater, or in pasteboard, and even sometimes some kinds of games of shadows. But you do not have to imagine that I described a low quality movie, it is really not the case, it is more like a wake up dream. We are dumbfounded, entertain, affected, shacked… I could going one like this for while regarding as I liked this movie.
This movie mixed easily comedy (I could say slapstick comedy) and drama. Sometimes we do not know if we have to cry or laugh, but it doesn’t matter, the purpose of a movie isn’t to instill feeling whatever they are? And it is totally successful! Wes Anderson tell us a story, or more precisely a tale, and he managed to take us so easily in his world that it is perturbing. I really recommend to see this movie because you will like it whatever your movies taste are. It is a movie for every taste without losing to provide his flavor. It is a really good job, and a big surprise that push me to see other Anderson’s movies. I give him an 18/20 well deserved.
See you soon!
Enjoy
D.A.G.
PS. Do not hesitate to let comments 😉
« Groundhog Day » A movie that we like to watch again and again and again !
I must confess something, it is hard to say, but, I am not really young :p So I grew up with 80’s movies and I know them quite well 😀
That is why I am going to speak about the movie « Groundhog Day » with the famous Bill Murray (the second movie I have seen with him when I was young, just after Ghostbuster’s), a movie that really left me good memories because I really laugh a lot. Let’s see the trailer.
I decided to watch this movie again few weeks ago (with my girlfriend because she never seen it) and I realized it aged properly because we laugh a lot together and she enjoyed this movie.
It was realized by Harold Ramis (yes! Doctor Egon Spengler from Ghostbuster’s 1 and 2) in 1993, it doesn’t make us any younger 🙂 )
We are following along this movie the story of Phil Connors (Bill Murray, outstanding like usual), announcer in a small TV station, with a huge ego and acting like a rude stupid guy with every people he meet, because he think he is a big TV star, but he is not. Like every years, he has to go to the small city Punxsutawney to covering the annual event of the Groundhog Day. He went to this city with his cameraman Larry (Chris Elliott) and his producer Rita (Andie MacDowell). However, weary to do this reportage every year, he made a sloppy report, hopping that he will be able to get back to Pittsburgh quickly. Unfortunately, a snowstorm, which he announce on the screen earlier to be in another region, hit the small city of Punxsutawney, forcing them to stay on more day.
This is where it all begin. After this night, Phil wake up and seems to have a filling of « déjà vu » and realize quickly that he is back to the Groundhog Day. This day goes like the last time and Phil seems to be the only one to realize that.
Totally lost at the beginning, Phil start to realize that it is not a nightmare but a good opportunity to do what he want, among craziest things. At this point, the film begin to be a repetition of the same day with a lot of gags each one most craziest than the others.
During this movie, le character of Phil is going to learn to listen other people, caring more about them than himself. He start the movie acting as a selfish guy, really mean, but step by step, he became someone really close to other people, saving them, helping them, or simply listening them, seeing that we can find pleasure to help others and seeing them happy.
He is going to realize that learning is something that allow to see the world in a different way, that nothing is acquired, we can learn every single day during all our life. And after all that, he will learn to love and will find the true one, a love that you cannot gain with money, or glory neither power.
This movie is a total success and reflects a style of movie that almost disappear nowadays. There is no dirty jokes, swearword or naked woman in it. I see this film like a fable, simple, honest. Harold Ramis tells us a good story, funny and full of feelings. It is with movie like this that you realize that sexes, violence or special effects are not really necessary to make people dreaming. Sincerity, honesty and creativity it is all that matter.
Moreover, you have to realize that the concept is simple, live the same day again and again, the principle of the time loop has been re-used after this movie a lot of time in other production in the theater or on TV (Edge of tomorrow recently, but also TV show like supernatural, stargate, and the list could be longer). In some sort of way, this 20 years old movie was a precursor about this concept 🙂
In summary, this movie is relatively philosophical and seduce a lot of people when it was release, gaining almost six time the investment which is really a lot for a movie of this period, and it stay cult and a reference since more than twenty years in the all world (i am still a big fan).
I really recommend this movie and give him a grade of 17/20, it is really a good quality and does not getting old and could fit to every generation.
This movie is like a reflexion about life, and the meaning of it.
Enjoy 😉
Desmond A. Green
PS. Do not hesitate to let comments, start discussions and say what you are thinking about this movie 😉
A Sad Picture Of A Red Sky 
Richards/Crane shows once again hard-rockers know how to make touching and beautiful songs!
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Album : Richards/Crane (2015)
For this year 2016 I decided to try (yes I said try) to start again to write English translations of my articles 🙂 It will be tough, but I will try to come up with some English article each two weeks! It will be good for me to practice my English writing like this, and in this way I will maybe expand my English speaker followers 😉
So, let’s start with some music! Aaaah music! One of my biggest passion and inspiration
Usually, If I throw myself in the writing process of a new musical article about a band or an album I will never stop to write :p That’s why I decided to try to write small musical articles according the same pattern. Anyway, I would like to be quickest, in the same time providing interesting information and of course with a good criticism, those are my goals 🙂
Let’s start with the first eponym album of the band Richards/Crane!
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