Bartleboom

DeRank : 35,89
DeAge™ : 7610 days • Here since 9 august 2005
Jon Hassell Vernal Equinox
Voto:
"This would be absurd to imagine if they were to play the Gabriel...". I already told you: write less, write better.
A Place to Bury Strangers Transfixiation
Voto:
Good job talking about a deserving band (even if they probably never managed to reach the levels of their early releases again), but - for the love of god - remember to LEAVE A SPACE AFTER EVERY PUNCTUATION MARK. Kisses.
John Cale & Terry Riley The Church Of Anthrax
Voto:
In several passages, it seems copied and pasted from Google Translate. In others, it's a bit too nonsensical. You talk about interesting records, but you’re too convoluted in your concepts and imprecise in your expression. It's not a competition to see who can send the most reviews, especially if they are poorly written.
Verdena Endkadenz Vol. 2
Voto:
First of all, a very much deserved and sincere "welcome back." I might be mistaken, but I believe it’s been about 3-4 years since you last sent reviews. I’m really happy to be reading your work again, especially on much more varied genres and artists compared to the past. The review left me puzzled in some parts, but it’s 5 in the morning and who cares. Regarding the album, I join the chorus of those who prefer the first one. However, I think the overall amount of the project and the timing of the release played a significant role in this judgment. Basically: I had just properly processed the first volume when suddenly I find myself having to start over with another hour of "heavy" music. To be honest, the entire Emdkadenz project hasn’t fully convinced me. "Wow" had a balance and inspiration that I haven’t found this time: it had a simple, almost fairytale-like language, and overall more palatable atmospheres that allowed you to "enjoy" the album. You could listen to it from start to finish without getting tired. The two Endkadenz have a much more asphyxiating, obsessive approach. I found many sounds almost "repelling." And where the sounds don’t reach, the length or the arrangements take over. So much so that listening to an entire album ends up being almost physically tiring. By itself, this wouldn’t even be negative, especially if it’s the result of a conscious stylistic/compositional choice. The problem (for me) is my feeling that, at least in part, this "heaviness" is more a consequence (at least in some parts) of a lack of inspiration.
Palehound Dry Food
Voto:
What a cute little record. Listening to it on a Sunday morning, on the couch with a slice of cake and hot tea really makes an impression. How nice that you’re back. Very curious to read the next ones!
George Lucas Star Wars: Episodio I - La Minaccia Fantasma
Voto:
But then all this worldwide fixation for this stuff... Basically, Star Wars is to sci-fi what Vasco is to music. People who couldn’t care less about science fiction, yet are still willing to get a tattoo of the face of a floating green old man on their butt, who talks like a Pakistani selling roses. On YouTube, there are dozens of “reaction” videos to the first viewing of the trailers: aside from a family of what I believe are Mexicans (who I unfortunately fear have deleted the video because I can’t find it in my history) that are all hideous, all the same, and even the 47-year-old older brother with adolescent mustache, basically watching television like the monkeys in 2001 watched the black monolith, the rest I found people crying, people getting excited in their pants, people doing a 30-minute video review for a one-and-a-half-minute trailer... Guys, I’m old, boring, and a pain in the ass, but you really should be doing a lot, a lot more drugs.
George Lucas Star Wars: Episodio I - La Minaccia Fantasma
Voto:
Oh, I cyclically give it another shot, but this whole saga really gets on my nerves like two melons. I liked the original trilogy as a kid, because objectively the whole lightsaber story is an idea that, damn, lightsabers. Then I rewatched it all when the second trilogy came out and, frankly, it's not that the fourth to sixth are awesome and the first three are garbage. Aside from the black water heater with asthma (who remains one of the greatest villains of all time) and the giant stuffed animal that talks like Gasparri, I would have injected all the human protagonists and the two droids with Wolverine's regenerative factor just to be able to grind them continuously in the giant trash compactor of the spaceship for the entire duration of six films...
Chris Cornell Higher Truth
Voto:
I noticed your review currently on the homepage, I took a quick look at your page and... I realized that I had missed this one! Which, by the way, marked your return to these pages after such a long time. I read it with great pleasure, even though I've never been really crazy about Cornelio (he could have been the new Robert Plant with less "wanting to get laid" and more "wanting to do heroin," but then he put in too much throat, too much chicken, and at a certain point even he didn't know what to do with all that voice...) and yours is a comeback that's definitely worth doing a whole lot of helicoptering with the "pippo" in the shower. Bye bye.
Gabriel García Márquez Cent'anni di solitudine
Voto:
Great book. But the crap he pulled on Rossi in Sepang could have been spared...
James Ward Byrkit Coherence
Voto:
Great recommendation even if the review could have been put together better. I really liked Primer. Obviously, while I was watching it, my brain fried a bit, but fortunately, there are also a lot of sites that explain the various timelines with pictures for dummies like me...