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August 8, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Bring Concert Films Back To the Big Screen

Going to the movies these days – the return to cinema – is a little like going to a concert. Certain screenings anyway. Recenty, I was at The Roxy for one of their fun, retro screenings. This time it was Army of Darkness. And it was beautiful. Such a funny film, all those great one-liners. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Back To the Big Screen, Big Screen, Blog, Bring Concert Films Back To the Big Screen, Concert, Concert Films, Doco, Documentary, Music Films, Neil Young, Rock-Doc, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, Year of the Horse ·

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August 6, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

A Very Benign And In-Character Midlife Crisis: I’m Back Buying CDs

But it is only a very specific type and only at a set price. I won’t pay more than $5 for a CD.  (Well, sometimes rules are made to be broken). And I am basically only buying soundtrack albums, instrumental scores. Well, I’ve busted outside of the lines a few times, but it’s the same […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], A Very Benign And In-Character Midlife Crisis, A Very Benign And In-Character Midlife Crisis: I’m Back Buying CDs, Bargain, Blog, CDs, Compilation, I’m Back Buying CDs., Score, Second-Hand, Soundtrack, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, TradeMe ·

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August 2, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Remembering When The Ultimate Warrior Wrote Me A Christmas Card

I loved the Ultimate Warrior. And yet I can’t ever feel completely satisfied with that one sentence. It’s the love of guilty pleasure and therefore needs justification. It is like saying, hypothetically, “I love Kylie Minogue’s Greatest Hits” – or “I really like The Spice Girls Movie”. But just as it could be suggested that […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blog, Pro-Wrestling, Remembering When The Ultimate Warrior Wrote Me A Christmas Card, Sam, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, Ultimate Warrior, Warrior, Wrestling ·

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August 2, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

#NewFoundPoems

I found some old books on the shelf – very old books, 10c finds from Church fairs from years and years ago. I started scratching out certain words to make new poems. It was fun. Doing it on the fly. One take. If I scratched too far – or took out the wrong word – […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged #NewFoundPoems, Art, Blog, Found Poetry, Poems, Poetry, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, Writing ·

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August 1, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Isn’t Music The Best? Oh, And How Good Are Rhetorical Questions By The Way?

Hey there, and guess what? I found – on vinyl! – (I always hear that in the voice from Half Baked when they say, “on weed!”) the score to Twin Peaks. I consider this a holy grail, basically. I am so thrilled to have this. I didn’t have time to sit and listen to it […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], And How Good Are Rhetorical Questions By The Way?, Blog, Diary, Isn’t Music The Best?, Isn’t Music The Best? Oh, Music Journalism, Oh, Score, Soundtrack, Stranger Things, The Bodyguard, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, Twin Peaks, Vinyl, Writing ·

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July 28, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

What A Good Score! – #19: Hannah And Her Sisters by Various

These days it is both deeply uncool and hugely problematic to mention almost anything to do with Woody Allen. In my teens and through my early 20s I was such a fan of his work. I continue to be a fan of that work that I loved then – most of it, anyway. He’s made […]
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July 27, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Melbourne Record Stores

I went hog-wild in Melbourne record stores. My mate Ryan met me in Fitzroy at 10am, right when some of the record shops start opening. A few don’t open until 11, and we missed some of them as a result. I had eyes only for the soundtrack section – and I came away with 11 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blog, Essay, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Melbourne Music Stores, Melbourne Record Store, Melbourne Record Stores, Record, Record Store, Records, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, Vinyl, Writing ·

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July 26, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Some Commentary on Some of The New Poetry

I started writing poems when I was about 12 or 13. And I only stopped when I was about 30. That break, it’s hard to remember the full timing now, lasted maybe four or five years – and there was probably a poem or two in there now and then. But for the last decade […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blog, Blog On The Tracks, Commentary, e-book, Essay, Music, Newsletter, Off The Tracks, Poem, Poem: The Death of Music Journalism, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Some Commentary on Some of The New Poetry, Substack, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, Writing ·

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July 24, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

There’s Nothing Funny About Post-Rock And That’s Probably Why I Like It

I have no idea when I first heard about post-rock, or even heard it. But I feel like the band Tortoise was the obvious starting point for me. I’d always called them a jazz-rock band, but also knew that wasn’t quite right, so even if post-rock sounds a bit snooty, a bit academic, it was […]
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July 24, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

What Was The First Film You Watched As A Family?

My parents didn’t force movies on me. But we were always allowed to watch them – I have no idea how it started. But I’m all about the memories of movies as much as I am the actual movies. You’ll know that from reading any of the blogs and newsletters from across the years. So […]
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July 14, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

In Cold Blood vs. The Bonfire of The Vanities: Non-Fiction Novels and The New Journalism

Truman Capote released In Cold Blood in 1966; Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of The Vanities was published in 1987. Twenty-one years between them, the two books continue to have lasting effect as influential treatises regarding, what Wolfe confirmed by title in his 1973 text of the same name, as ‘The New Journalism’. These two books […]
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July 14, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

What A Good Score! – #18: Rush by Eric Clapton

Often I would watch the film then run out and by the soundtrack. This time, it was the reverse. I was waiting for the soundtrack album because – at the time – I was a massive Eric Clapton fan. I had collected up everything he’d done (on tape) and I had seen him live and […]
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