Jimster

• Recent Finds

  Jimster

  8 months ago
  I didn't know Saul Bass did cover art, that's a candidate for waxidermy (I mean the act, not the place) right there.
  
  Turns out there are three more to collect:
  
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• Rap You're Liking

  Jimster

  8 months ago
  
  
  Sample is "Whatever It Is" - Heat (1980)

  

• Old movies you've only seen recently...

  Jimster

  8 months ago
  Got to see "Akira" in the cinema in Manchester when it first came out.  The satellite laser was stunning.  Japanese with subs, of course.  
  
  I was good friends with a guy … (more)on my course who was an expert in Japanese and Chinese cinema.  He had an incredible VHS collection (1990s) which he'd amassed through writing to people in Hong Kong and getting on underground mailing lists. 
  
  He was one of the smartest people I've ever met.  The computation course was boring for him; I read his code and it was a piss-take - it was like someone solving a Rubik cube in patterns that matched Wu-Tang verses, for fun.  He was a master of a videogame in one of the arcades; it was like a precursor to Candy Crush. I asked him how he'd got so good, he said he wrote a copy at home to train himself.
  
  He was the guy who had all the Chow Yun Fat and John Woo stuff that wasn't mainstream at the time outside of their domestic market.
  
  The Hong Kong students on our course used to trade copies with him and tipped him to a dodgy rental place in Chinatown (Manchester) who he tried to get membership from but they basically carried him physically off the premises and said "No white people".  
  
  Same place was exposed as a Triad laundering operation on TV a few years later when the (UK Chinese) Investigator was attacked with machetes and leapt out of a second floor window to escape these people.
  
  Life stranger than fiction!
  
  He was doing a lecture in Canada, got chatting to a TV newsreader in a queue, by the time he got to the front she paid for him and he moved in with her the day after.
  
  Later, my friend used to organise Chinese film festivals for the BFI in London before moving to Taiwan and I lost touch with him.  Stephen Cremin, take a bow. (less)

  

• Alternate Take (Aja-R)

  Jimster

  9 months ago
  

  

• Recent Finds

  Jimster

  9 months ago
  Stanley Clarke "Journey To Love" is possibly my fave of his.  Un-self-conscious prog/jazz fusion upper echelon stuff. 
  Nacash is strong!  Got some Bobby Womack dialogue vibes … (more)to it.  I dig.  Thanks for sharing. (less)