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All in One - Bebel Gilberto |
 Bossa chords, this time delivered by the piano, drive Gilberto’s version of her father’s “Bim Bom” which features Daniel Jobim, grandson of Antonio Carlos Jobim. The song is essentially an exercise in syllabic singing and playing, the angular piano, shuffling percussion and scat-like vocals providing a rhythm quite different from the electronic soundworld of “Sun Is Shining” |
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Paris is Burning – A Film by Jennie Livingston |
 The movie is riveting simply for the details it provides of the drag-ball subculture — the postmodern slang, the voguing duels (which, prior to Madonna's sugarcoated appropriation, were essentially gang fights turned into self-referential dance contests), the tensions between ridicule and reverence that render the balls themselves a kind of proletarian performance art. |
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Seventh Seal (Criterion Collection) – A Film by Ingmar Bergman |
 The Seventh Seal tells the story of a knight named Antonius Block (Max von Sydow) and his squire Jöns (Gunnar Bjönstrand), who have just returned from ten fruitless years in the Crusades to a Sweden in the throes of the black plague. There the knight is confronted by the specter of Death; and, in an image parodied from Woody Allen’s Love and Death to Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey to the lame Schwarzenegger action-comedy The Last Action Hero, the knight challenges Death to a game of chess. |
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 Set in a holiday camp in the south of England (Butlins Minehead or Pontins Camber Sands), ATP sells itself as the music fans' music festival; the premise being that bands and fans have as much of a hand in curating the line-up as the organisers themselves. This is all well and good if you're a fan of the latest fave rave on pitchfork.com, but not if your only interest is in seeing the smattering of genuinely exciting headliners, chief among them Portishead and the Stooges. |
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Comme Si de Rien N'Etait by Carla Bruni |
 14-track CD album - Carla Bruni has always had a certain poetry. The grace, style & beauty of this Italian-born, France-raised thirty-something is legendary; her intellect & vitality striking, even formidable. Now as the first lady of France, Carla Bruni is one of the most photographed women of the world but she doesn't want this to affect people's perception of her or her music. She wants the music to speak for itself and here it does. |
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