{"id":3660,"date":"2016-07-09T21:54:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T19:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=3660"},"modified":"2016-07-09T21:54:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T19:54:13","slug":"mixed-media-saturday-9-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2016\/07\/09\/mixed-media-saturday-9-july-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Media, Saturday 9 July 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I watched The Fall<\/i><\/a> on my flight to Edinburgh this week. It’s a visually stunning film, and I wish I’d watched it on a bigger screen than my iPad Mini. It would have looked amazing on a big TV screen, and even better in the cinema.<\/p>\n

At the end of the documentary Daft Punk Unchained<\/i><\/a> on Netflix, I found myself slightly unsettled by the fact that Random Access Memories<\/i><\/a> is three years old. Not so much “huh, I would have guessed it was 2014, not 2013”, but more a case of “huh, 2013 seems like quite a long time ago now.”<\/p>\n

Season 1 of Ash vs Evil Dead<\/i><\/a> was fun, but although Bruce Campbell’s character Ash Williams is supposed to be coarse and self-centered, the show doesn’t always stay on the right side of ironic. Horror comedy is hard to pull off well. This mostly<\/em> succeeds. Not sure if I liked it enough to seek out season 2 when it arrives.<\/p>\n

Oh, and I’ve finally<\/em> got to the point in season 1 of Person of Interest<\/i><\/a> where it has pulled me in. I think it was in episode 15 (“Blue Code”) that I felt the characters \u2014 especially Detective Fusco \u2014 had reached a critical mass of back story and complexity, and I was starting to care about what happened to them next; and also about what happened to them before<\/em>. I’m one episode from the season finale now, and there’s a lot of mystery still left to uncover. I can see myself jumping straight into season 2 when I’m done.<\/p>\n

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I had a ticket to see Twin Atlantic<\/a> in the Kleine Zaal of Paradiso on Tuesday 28 June, but the band had to cancel the gig because of illness. I hadn’t even heard of them until last month when Scott tipped me off about them, and I noticed they were playing Amsterdam. Since then, I’ve been listening to their album Great Divide<\/i><\/a> a lot<\/em>, and I had been super excited seeing them in such an intimate venue. Unfortunately, they have rescheduled the gig for Tuesday 19th July, when I’ll be in Scotland. :sadpanda: At least I’ll be seeing Area 11 while I’m over there.<\/p>\n

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I loved their first album, All The Lights In The Sky<\/i><\/a>, so much that I feared the only was was down. Although there are some parts of Modern Synthesis<\/i> that haven’t grabbed me yet, there are four splendid rock songs that leaped out at me right from the start: “The Contract”, “Versus”, “Watchmaker”, and “Red Queen”.<\/p>\n

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Saga<\/i><\/a> continues to be magnificent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I watched The Fall on my flight to Edinburgh this week. It’s a visually stunning film, and I wish I’d watched it on a bigger screen than my iPad Mini. It would have looked amazing on a big TV screen, and even better in the cinema. At the end of the documentary Daft Punk Unchained … <\/p>\n

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