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June 8, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Movies of My Life # 20: Lost Highway

David Lynch is very similar to Joni Mitchell for me – in one regard only. Whenever I’m listening to a Joni Mitchell album it feels like my favourite by her. The best one she made. It’s often like that with Lynch’s films. I could make a case for Blue Velvet – as so many do. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Barry Gifford, Bill Pullman, David Lynch, Lost Highway, Marilyn Manson, Movies of My Life # 20, Movies of My Life # 20: Lost Highway, Patricia Arquette, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Authors I Admire: # 16 Willy Vlautin

In 2012 I was on holiday in San Francisco and I stumbled upon a reading at the famous City Lights bookstore. Well, we were visiting the store, checking it out when I saw a flyer advertising the reading. We were back there later that week. Willy Vlautin was there as a friend of the main act, […]
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February 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Jimmy Jones

Jimmy Jones is a landscape gardener, constructor, designer etc.  He arrived in Sydney 17 years ago via Dunedin, Nelson, Motueka and well NZ in general. He’s never written about music or played in a band but has been surrounded by music, musicians, engineers, producers, writers et al since he was a teenager. His brother Damian […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Streetcar Named Desire, All About Eve, All About My Mother, Apocalypse Now, Australia, Barry Gifford, Bill & Ted, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Burden of Dreams, Cafe Meow, Carnivale, David Lynch, Eraserhead, Film, Film Review, Films, Fitzcarraldo, Five Albums I'm Loving Right Now, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Jimmy Jones, George Carlin, Heart of Darkness, Hearts of Darkness, Inland Empire, Jimmy Jones, Jodorowsky, John Waters, Kika, Klaus Kinski, Lost Highway, Mick Jagger, Movie Review, Movies, Mulholland Drive, Santa Sangre, Sante Sangre, Special Guest, Sydney, Werner Herzog, Wild at Heart ·

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August 5, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Barry Gifford: Imagining Paradise – New and Selected Poems

Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems Barry Gifford Seven Stories Press Barry Gifford has been cataloguing outside movements and creating enduring characters to tell underground tales for some 40+ years now, across 40+ titles; many know him first and foremost for his novels and stories – or certainly for the film versions (Wild at Heart, […]
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May 30, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Phosphorescent: Muchacho

Phosphorescent Muchacho Dead Oceans Under the name Phosphorescent, American singer/songwriter Matthew Houck has built a career – with six albums so far –  that sees him regularly receiving the hushed-tones and revered-raves that cult fans, completists and critics hurl at the likes of Richmond Fontaine’s Willy Vlautin, Sun Kil Moon/Red House Painters’ Mark Kozelek, American […]
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