1) The Wire: I got the complete Wire box set for Christmas which I've been constantly plowing my way through since. I'm now on series 3, it's all great stuff I highly recommend it! Looking forward to Tremé now, which is HBO's new series by the same guys!
2) Music - Where to begin..... so many great records have come out already this year, Brant Bjork's Gods and Godesses, Daughters' self-titled, Burzum's Belus, and plus tours... wow, I'm living in the Helsinki area and I've never known so many bands to hit these shores in succession, this month alone I'm going to see Kylesa and Brant Bjork, later in the year John Garcia playing the music of Kyuss (yes Kyuss!), Mark Lanegan and then Converge and maybe Megadeth playing Rust in Peace at the Tuska Festival!! Holy shit!
3) Movies - Man, how bad was Shutter Island?! Scorcese used to make good movies right? I know he admits himself this was b-movie trash but really? This is so shit I thought I was gonna cry, the plot made no attempt to hide itself and it's 'twist' was so obvious I had it nailed in the first 25 minutes. To say I'm disappointed is an understatement. Another thing is, if you want to see a Scorcese movie these days, it seems we're gonna have to put up with DiCaprio forever too! I've also seen this year Sherlock Holmes, also disappointing, Where The Wild Things Are, great, Avatar, Pocahontas in Space (so glad it lost out at the Oscars), Daybreakers, vampire nonsense, Invictus, in comparison to Gran Torino very dull, The Hurt Locker, good but no Generation Kill, Up in The Air, so-so and Sin Nombre, a great story of gangsters and immigrants in Central America! Iron Man 2 gets me excited though!
For more of my musical tastes check out my podcast at: http://theafterdinnerlounge.podomatic.com/
Cheers
James
