THE DAILY MOJO by Adam Daniel

I’m still writing up a post on last weeks amazing week of live music, but today’s SotD is ‘Fitzcarraldo’ by The Frames, led by the magnificent Glen Hansard whose performance at the Sydney Opera House this week with his ‘The Swell Season’ partner Marketa Irglova was revelatory.

This song in particular was amazing live, filled [...]

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Running a bit behind here…. but the Nominations for the 81st Oscar were announced last week. You can find the full list HERE.
Here’s my early thoughts on the nominations - I’ll be posting a more detailed list of predictions / thoughts before the awards on February 23rd (Australia time). Still have only seen half of [...]

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This trailer has definitely got a bit of a ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ feel to it, but there’s a few laugh-out loud lines and I actually like the concept. I’ve been air drumming on car trips for the last ten years - I never knew you could make a career out of it. This is what have [...]

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Dead Letter Chorus: Magnolia Farm from shoottheplayer.com on Vimeo.
Courtesy of the brilliant ‘Shoot The Player’, our friends Dead Letter Chorus playing a lovely version of ‘Magnolia Farm’ on the Sydney Festival free pianos.
Check out some of the other great Sydney Festival acts captured by the excellent ‘Shoot The Player’ team on their page. [...]

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“Hopeless emptiness. Now you’ve said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.” - John Givings.
So says John Givings, a psychiatric outpatient mesmerisingly played by Michael Shannon in Sam Mendes’ searing adapatation of Richard Yates’ ‘Revolutionary Road’. He’s speaking to a young Connecticut couple, Frank and [...]

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From the very funny boys at ‘The Lonely Island’, the first single from their debut album ‘Incredibad’:

It feels a bit like they’ve jumped onto the coattails of Flight of the Conchords, but these guys have actually been doing stuff like this for years. I highly recommend checking out the shorts on their page, and the [...]

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Finally saw this excellent horror film from 2008 last week. ‘The Orphanage’, directed by first timer Juan Antonio Bayona and produced by Guillermo Del Toro, is the story of a family renovating a defunct orphanage in coastal Spain. Mother Laura wants to turn the orphanage into a home for disabled children. Her son Simon has [...]

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Here’s one from left field - Patrick Krief, formerly of The Dears, is now lead singer of his new band, Black Diamond Bay. Here’s a live performance of Krief’s song, ‘What We Wanted’.

It’s a great song and clip, and there’s a bunch of other tracks worth checking out on the Myspace page. Wishing him [...]

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A while back I posted the first ‘Great Rate’, some opinions on what is underrated, rated, and overated in the world of film, tv, music and trends by my buddies and I.
I thought it was a good time to look back on 2008 with a new ‘Great Rate’ for 2009. Our correspondents are Andy Daniel, [...]

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After an abysmal 1-3 last week, I was tempted to just pick the opposite of who I think will win the Conference Finals - but I get the feeling that kind of reverse jinx will just be re-reversed by the weirdness that has overtaken this entire season.
So, my picks are:
EAGLES over Cardinals
STEELERS over Ravens

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