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Cool! I'm fucking around with it right now. First note for you is I was clicking black tabs and getting non-record-related businesses and points of interest. When I disabled different categories and r

Now that AI has lowered the bar, I've been teaching myself to write software. This is an early prototype, but essentially a native IOS app of all my Japan lists, segmented by category and overlayed on

In order to keep the Strut forum legacy alive and preserved,  I will be upgrading this community from an ancient version of Vanilla forums from 10 years ago to the latest version Xenforo.  All discuss

level devil said:And don't forget the trailer he made for the CD!

Unreleased studio material or alternate takes from Doing Their Own Thing (1970) and Funky Music Machine (1972) occasionally surface. For example, extended jams of "Funky Women" or "Southwick" have bee

the clash of wills between an alcoholic Shaw and fiery Dreyfuss.

Just watched this for starters, well made and genuinely moving. So glad to have caught Lee and the gang in the 90s, even though, for personal reasons,  I revisit those times with very mixed feelings t

b/w Finally saw and enjoyed Flow. But yeah as you guys were saying before, pretty slight thematically.

"Nobody Knows" was the first one of his I saw and yeah, I was blown away by how good it was and also totally shattered by it, with no interest in ever seeing it or anything like it again. His work sin

I wouldn't put his movies in the same category of social-realism as your dudes you mention, but Kore-eda Hirokazu is one of the best living directors in my view and has some great films along that lin

Hadn't heard of that....and then I looked it up and Too $hort is actually in it?!  Looks like fun.

Apparently Andy Bey died recently.  So grateful for his work, which is singular.  Glad I had a chance to see him live ~15 years ago and had been hoping for another chance ever since then.  :(

Real Madrid could've played us 10 more times and I don't think they'd have won a single match. Awful players, awful attitude. Bellingham has learned petulance well from Vini. Enjoyed beating them, but

I heard Tommy Turrentine's "Gunga Din" on the radio and just realized that Rico Rodriguez' "Africa", on Blue Note's only reggae LP, uses the melody.

Got sucked into a Jorge Ben rabbit hole for a bit, which happens from time to time, and stumbled onto this thread. The man's output is insane, and it's funny how I used to be all "I like his stuff up

And the LP's actually been reviewed here on Soulstrut!

Now that 13 years have passed from the last post I'm going to assume tensions have gone down and everyone's less touchy about the subject.  I still know nothing about DJ Sheep other than the "Japanese

Now that 13 years have passed from the last post I'm going to assume tensions have gone down and everyone's less touchy about the subject.  I still know nothing about DJ Sheep other than the "Japanese

Yes! Went into that game with low expectations due to the injuries to key players and Saka only just coming back from 3 months out (and he was rusty), but Real never turned up. And then the first free