Films: Avatar/Legion

Well. These two films come out soon, and I'm not excited about either. A good way to start a post then. It's taken James Cameron a full four years of production to come out with 'The Wet Dream of JaJaBinks' (Avatar), developing a 3D epic that blurs the boundaries between real life and proposing marriage to the World of Warcraft girlfriend you've been hoping technology will materialise before you can no longer leave the chair. However, the sound editing in the trailer is pretty intense; a wall of noise with barely any diagetic sound... definitely worth watching.

Legion however, has no redeeming features. Many trailers don't breed anticipation for a single redeeming feature in the end product, but it's been a while since I've come across something this category of silly. The kind that actually makes you laugh and despair at the things talented people will do together. Paul Bettany used to carefully remove suits before torturing people, now he's being butchered like silly putty after making silly faces in studios. Silly.

Red Team Fight A Good Fight

Despite previous endeavour Cheenah being a London indie band at the height of the I'm-in-a-London-indie-band bandwagon, there was always something slightly different about them, not least their attitude to it. In other words they never took themselves too seriously, and they were actually pretty good.

So, Cheenah disband somewhat as a reaction to the scene, and head in a totally different direction with a slightly different line-up, as Red Team.

So as the scene seems to be featuring a larger turn-out of electronic based bands, Red Team's sound is umm more electronic and tightly programmed. Except again, they're comparitively very good. I managed to see their first gig at The Monarch in Camden, and it was pretty special; a mass of electronics and effects used carefully, and to great effect; a wall of sound in the best possible way. (Standout track is the somewhat ethereal Absinthe).

Think Foals, Battles, Holy Fuck, DJ Shadow, Death in Vegas and some friends playing soggy biscuit... Catch the biscuit live as soon as you can, no-one wants to be last.