Nick Cave

Nick Cave shortlisted for 'Bad Sex' gong

Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

Nick Cave's second novel is nominated for the annual 'Bad Sex in Fiction' prize.

Loving Me Some Nick Cave

Intagliod Up in Blue (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

As so with that, I thought I'd take a final walk The tide of public opinion had started to abate The neighbours, bless them, had turned out to be all talk I could see their frightened faces peering at me through the gate I was looking for an end to this, for some kind of closure Time moved so rapidly, I had no hope of keeping track of it I thought of my friends who had died of exposure And I remembered...

Artist anonymous

New Statesman (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Nick Cave, soundtrack-maker

Exclusive: Title Track for 'The Road' Soundtrack

Cinematical (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Cinematical has just received the following title track for Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' original and haunting film score for The Road . It's simple and chilling -- just as any accompaniment to a post-apocalyptic world should be -- full of violin and piano tunes, some wind instruments and sound loops. The soundtrack is being released digitally today over at Amazon , with further digital retailers tomorrow...

The Road Review

Pajiba (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

In 2005, my cinematic senses were set ablaze by John Hillcoat's The Proposition (2005), a gritty Western written by Gothic rocker Nick Cave. Hillcoat's use of imagery and sound (particularly in the film's opening shoot out) was hauntingly poetic and...

in space and time

suzi9mm (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago

i need to find a way to block event invites from FB friends that are so distant to me, physically, that any events they might invite me to are not possible for me to go to. i hate getting event invites and then messages related to it, when its a comedy club on the other side of the world. not that i appreciate all the helsinki-based event invites either, but that is tolerable i suppose. the event called...

Oscar Short List for Animated Shorts

Screenhead (Free subscription) | yesterday

Academy Awards took a cleaver and shortened their Best Short Animation list from 37 to 10. My favorite is The Cat Piano, an eight-minute Aussie short narrated by Nick Cave. In Contention website introduced me to this short. It’s a real gem of a short, so I am sharing it with you. Here is the full list [...]

• Ten shorts to compete for Oscar nominations - Animated News
• The Academy (Shorts) Short-List - Cartoon Brew
• See the 6 articles on the same subject

Watch Now – “The Cat Piano” (2010 Oscar-Potential Animated Short)

Watch Us Explode! (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

Yesterday, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the list of 10 animated short films that will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards®. This is one of the ten, and the coolest looking one by far: By The People’s Republic of Animation. Narrated by Nick Cave. Directed by Eddie White [...]

• 10 Animated Shorts Advance For Oscars - Deadline Hollywood Daily
• 10 Animated Shorts Move Ahead in 2009 Oscar Race - ComingSoon.net
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

Musical Coolness and Lack Thereof QUESTIONS

Ramblin' with Roger (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

There was an interesting article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal about Tom Petty: Rock God Or Mere Mortal? "As Tom Petty prepares to release a career-spanning anthology next week, an attempt to determine where he falls in the music pantheon." The basic premise is that though he sold a lot of records, maybe because he was prolific with the pop hook, he just seems to lack the "cool"...

This weekend I’ll mostly be listening to… The Horrors

The Cedar Lounge Revolution (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

The Horrors? Why yes, let’s for a change look at something contemporary. I missed their first album, bar Sheena is A Parasite – guest stars and suchlike not withstanding, writing them off as a sort of one trick pony band, a bit like The Hives of yesteryear. That’s not entirely unreasonable, their carcrash sound of punk/garage/goth [...]

Lou Reed, Nick Cave

Eolake Stobblehouse blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

I think it's cool when an artist branches out. Like when Nick Cave became a novelist, or Lou Reed a photographer . It seems Nick uses the new Leica M9, which is a very impressive camera, a huge step up from the M9. Actually it seems to be beating the big full-frame cameras in image quality, something I did not see coming. And Cave's newest project is extremely "new media" indeed.

Bad Sex Awards

Emerging Writer (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

As in written about Bad Sex. I've personally written sex badly and written bad sex quote badly too. Here's the nominees for this year. Paul Theroux’s A Dead Hand (Hamish Hamilton) Philip Roth’s The Humbling (Jonathan Cape), Anthony Quinn’s The Rescue Man (Jonathan Cape), Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones (Chatto), Amos Oz’s Rhyming Life and Death (Chatto), Nick Cave’s...

U2, Nick Cave (But Not Anvil) Among Oscar Hopefuls

Stereogum (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

The little-documentary-that-could The Story Of Anvil , about the band that was like a "real life Spinal Tap" right down to having a drummer named Robb Reiner, stole everyone's heart this past year. Except for people whose hearts are made of stone. Or metal. Well if your heart was made of \m/ metal then it probably stole your heart, too. But if your heart is made of Oscar-material precious...

Shorties (Best Debut Novels of the Decade, David Rawlings, and more)

Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Paste lists the best debut novels of the decade. Paste interviews David Rawlings about his debut solo album, A Friend of a Friend. Paste: You cover some songs on this record—including a medley of “Method Acting” by Bright Eyes and...

Body memory

Ampersand Duck (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Sorry, haven't been very blogg Oops, remembered that I swore not to apologise anymore when life gets in the way of blogging. I've been on autopilot lately; operating 'normally' face to face with people, but feeling really flat and numb inside, the sort of caught-in-a-bubble mood that can be completely indulged by driving the car hard down the highway playing Vienna at ear-blistering volume while tears...