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Miami Vice I was looking forward for this one, but I left the cinema totally disappointed. I liked very much "Collateral", and I was expecting this film to confirm Mann as THE MAN when we talk about action films in this decade... visually, yes, this film is hunting and there are plenty of good...

justin timberlake I also think "FutureSex/LoveSounds" is a very good LP. I was surprised when I read JT's description of "Sexyback", though; that thing he said about this track being as if David Bowie and David Byrne were covering James Brown's "Sex machine". A Spanish magazine described this...

So, have you heard the new Joanna Newsom LP? What do you think about it? I have already read woebot's and simon silverdolar's comments on their blogs, and am myself wondering whether this is indeed a masterpiece or free(ak) folk gone prog in the worst sense.

Alan Sinfield and Jonathan Dollimore. They moulded cultural materialism out of Raymond Williams' work, putting an extra emphasis on dissident readings of Renaissance texts, and on how canonical texts are appropriated nowadays as a tool to validate concepts such as the English tradition or...

How relevant do you think cultural materialism is at the moment? Do you think there have been really important innovations on Sinfield & Dollimore's work since their work in the 80s? I hope I can clarify this and other questions that may come up with you.

and Kanye West. The question of 'importance' and 'canon making' is a very interesting one. I think nobody has mentioned yet the issue of people living in a country which 'traditionally' has been outside the scope of direct influence of English-speaking countries (I hate using the term...

Dizze Rascal (no doubts about this one) Animal Collective Devendra Banhart The Streets Wilco

Eclecticism can be a dangerous tool in the hands of the wrong people, because it can be used as a an alibi for hiding the absence of a personal discourse. This happens when a DJ embraces the 'everything is good' rule, in this case the creator loses the plot and abandones him/herself to a cynical...

I think that, in Hanabi, the suicide takes place because it's the logical end for the character if we think in terms of the almost stereotypical role he had been playing as a yakuza in the previous years. Perhaps he just needed to get read of too many things in his art and his life, and the...

Yes it was Marx, actually I believe that the problem with Marx theories was that he wasn't (or did not want to be) aware of his own personal contribution to a change in social, cultural and political structures. More recently, cultural materialism, a branch of Marxism, studies subversive...

I was totally overwhelmed when I first saw Hana Bi, I needed to watch it a lot of times again before I could make out which was my response towards the film... until I read that everything -the story, the paintings, the music- had been a consequence of Kitano's nearly mortal accident, which by...

Contrary to what we may think, individualism doesn't connect very well with capitalism. Think about it, when you become part of a capitalist society -and right now I don't think there's anywhere in the world where you can get out of it- your role will be to assume your function as one more piece...

the laughing... frog! Are you guys sure that the laughing gnome is a good number? Apart from the drug-infused final laughter of David the song sounds so unlike Bowie's future aspirations and ambitions! Besides, it powerfully reminds me of the crazy frog's tone...

My first post These are my favourite films: 1. 2001, a Space Odissey, Stanley Kubrick 2. Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola 3, Arrebato / Rapture, Iván Zulueta (THE Spanish cult filrm you shouldn't miss if you have the chane of seeing it) 4. Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock 5. Blade Runner...