11 days before the election the president is suddenly facing a sex scandal after disappearing into his office with a teenage girl. A task force is set up, led by Robert de Niro, and it is decided the thing to do to get the sex scandal out of the headlines is go to war.
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Before Pakula made his well known All the Presidents Men, a film which centres directly on the Watergate debacle, he made The Parallax View, a film which expands the ‘private’ scenario of Klute into a wider social setting and which makes links between government, corporations and the assassinations of the 60s at the same time that it self-reflexively draws further attention to the power-wielding manipulations inherent in mainstream cinema.
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Review of the conspiracy fest “Virtual Government” by Alex Constantine, published in 1997 by Feral House. Though not uncritical, the book gets treated a bit too lenient… from 1998.
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One area of electronic dance music that doesn’t seem to be being explored is a more fucked up and experimental use of the slow-break. Force Inc.’s Electric Ladyland series is an exception and one of its frequent contributors, 4-E, has been plying this approach over a series of releases.
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Uniformity breeds content breeds conformity… What were the 80s? What was 80s music? When D’Arcangelo throw an acoustic psychogeographical spanner into the works everyone behaves like Pavlov’s dogs. I’m told that one side of their ep is “a joke” or “a waste of time”, that I should go for the noise side and ignore the other.
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‘Darkness can be panoramic and searing enough to provide sufficient space for emotions other than those that are socially-sanctioned and saccharine. Satisfaction is not exhilarating… the attainable is uninteresting: at the end of Taxi Driver what are we to make of Travis Bickle’s glance into the rear-view mirror?’
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A short book review of Mind Invaders – A Reader in Psychic Warfare, Cultural Sabotage and Semiotic Terrorism, an anthology edited by Stewart Home and published by Serpent’s Tail in 1997.
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All the record reviews from Datacide Two with many classic tunes by the likes of Mouse, Burning Lazy Persons, Brutal Chud, Widerstand, Ambush, Bloody Fist, S.O.D.O.M., Explore Toi and many more! Reviews by the border fox, Christoph Fringeli, Eun, Nomex, The Reverend and more.
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Trocchi – The Transversalist is a book review of A Life in Pieces – Reflections on Alexander Trocchi, a biography
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