Heima - Finally! 

Sigur Ros - Heima DVD
Sigur Ros - Heima DVD
My weekend was quite frankly perfect. I’m not going to go into particulars since this is a pop-culture blog and not a personal diary but I can say that amongst the many, many, many, many, many, many, many highlights was finally getting around to watching the Sigur Ros documentary - Heima. After having anticipating this film for so long, I can finally say that if you love amazing Icelandic imagery and the music of Sigur Ros, you will have died and gone to heaven. It truly is spectacular in every sense of the word. And as much as I would have liked to have seen this in the cinema, my conditions were even better. But even still, taking those out of the equation, it is still one of the best visual documentaries I have ever seen. It keeps the members of the band still pretty much a mystery so don’t expect a Sigur Ros biopic. But I prefer not knowing too much about the members themselves and rather let the music do the talking. I only made in through disk one which contains the film but disk two is loaded with just over 2 and half hours of live performances. Even the DVD design itself is brilliant. A must buy.

 
 
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Monday, November 19 2007
 
Music General
 

Heima Australian Premiere 

Heima
Ah well crap. Missed out on tickets to the premiere of the Sigur Rós new documentary film ‘Heima’. Tickets were $72 for a short acoustic set by the band followed by the film which is kinda pricey but would have been a pretty special experience never-the-less, especially at the amazing Forum theatre. The film has been getting a lot of praise too so hopefully it gets a theatrical run somewhere in Melbourne (if anyone knows, post a comment). But the DVD should be equally great too (especially a HD version) with a projector :) DVD is out on November 5th in 2 editions. Click here for Australian details and pricing.

Be sure to check out their relatively new photoblog too. Some stunning images in there. Of course the Heima trailer in HD looks great if you haven’t already downloaded it.

 
 
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Friday, October 19 2007
 
Music General
 

I’m Hiding Over Here 

[ THE FRONT: 'Fluoro Tan' gets some long deserved cover art treatment ]

Don’t hate me because I haven’t posted regularly, particularly over the past couple of months. Time, time, time. It’s such a precious commodity and I just haven’t had enough of it to sustain a high-quality blog of late. Feel free to browse Lyn Screens and Toxic Waste for some fucking good Australian movie-related blogging. These sites I visit on a daily basis, are two fellow Aussies who do the blog thing so much better than me, and update so much more often. They are geniuses and I thank them for steering the Australian film blog community in the right direction.

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Sunday, January 9 2005
 
Daily Life