THE DAILY MOJO by Adam Daniel

After a pretty abominable Round 11, I’m hoping I can bounce back with the full round this weekend.
The big game for me is tonight’s Eels vs Broncos clash. Parra and Brisbane nearly always make their games a fierce battle, and I’m expecting tonight to be the same. I’m sticking with my heart and backing Parra, [...]

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Love the 80’s vibe of this VHS or Beta song - I’ve only just been introduced to these guys with their upcoming tour of Australia, and I think they fit a very nice groove somewhere in between The Killers and Franz Ferdinand.

The video itself is pretty unremarkable, save for some nice photography. I did [...]

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Today’s trailer is for ‘Choke’, an adaptation of a bleakly funny Chuck Palahniuk novel (Palahniuk also wrote ‘Fight Club’). Written and directed by Clark Gregg, it looks like it has retained the same dark and deadpan humour of Palahniuk’s writing. I remember when reading the novel that I thought some of the more outlandish and [...]

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Really dug this featured short film on Youtube - short, simple, but surprisingly affecting.

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Both the Western Conference and Eastern Conference Finals have been excellent, despite there not being any real nail-biters outside of today’s Western Conference Game 4. Here’s my thoughts on each series so far.
EASTERN CONFERENCE
I wrote my last blog following Boston’s Game 2 loss at home, and I was quite negative about Boston’s chances of stealing [...]

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Weezer squeeze the internet celebrity zit in their new single ‘Pork and Beans’ from the upcoming ‘Red Album’, due early June. Like most Weezer songs it contains a catchy if simple riff, combined with Rivers Cuomo’s distinctive yet slightly whiny vocals.
It does however suffer from that very unfortunate name, not to mention some pretty [...]

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As mentioned earlier, La and I recently caught two gigs in four days by one of our favourite Aussie bands Youth Group, who were unveiling tracks from their soon-to-be-released fourth album, ‘The Night Is Ours.’.
The first gig was at the Oxford Arts Factory on Friday 23rd May, supported by Wons Phreely and Cloud Control. [...]

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De Niro and Pacino are reunited in the upcoming ‘Righteous Kill’, directed by Jon Avnet. Check out the trailer:

Something looks very ‘paycheck’ about this project, and as much as I love to see a reunion of the duo who made ‘Heat’ so compelling as antagonists, expecting Jon Avnet to make a work at the standard [...]

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Dawn Landes has been getting quite a lot of airplay on Triple J, which is where I first heard this elegantly moody ballad. It’s very Cat Power / Sarah Kelly in a good way. The animation / live action clip is also intriguingly directed, a nice companion to the music.
I love her name too, [...]

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With the NBA Conference Finals kicking into gear, I’ve been in basketball heaven, with a game being played on ESPN on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday so far this week (and two more games over the weekend I think. About Bloody Time ESPN!!!).
Both series have been very entertaining so far. In the West, the Los Angeles [...]

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