I recently contributed some liner notes to the new Quiet Ones EP. The style is me having a go at the baroque musings found on vinyls from the 60s (Dylan's recordings are especially prone to this stuff); the result is probably overheated, but the record really does deserve high praise.
My latest reviews address that comic-book movie and that pirate movie; the latter allows me to revisit my long-cherished obsession with the giant squid:
If there’s one CGI beast I wouldn’t mind seeing more of, it’s the Kraken. Giant squid are scary. They live thousands of feet underwater, they have eyeballs the size of dinner plates, they inspired Lord Tennyson and H. P. Lovecraft, and they tried to kill Kirk Douglas. And when I was six years old, the Walt Disney World submarine ride I was on malfunctioned right about the time the giant squid attacked, and I spent a horrified five minutes among the fiberglass tentacles. So giant squid work for me. But this Kraken, while appealingly squishy and ooze-spewing, is too large to fit properly into shots, is filmed in the daytime (always a bad setting for sea monsters) and is generally another example of the distended special effects that are ruining the movies. So much for the giant squid, then.
But to reiterate: giant squid are really bleedin' scary.
UPDATE: They are less frightening when crocheted.
Posted by mesh at July 13, 2006 01:50 PM | TrackBackMmm, calamari.
Posted by: joe public at July 13, 2006 03:58 PMIf you haven't read Richard Ellis' book on giant squid, you should (since I share your obsession with the giant squid, my wife gave it to me as a gift one Christmas and it was much appreciated).
Posted by: rob at July 14, 2006 08:47 AM