http://trendaway.com ... where nothing is trendy but everything is cool. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:36:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Acné follows Rafa (Alejandro Tocar), a 13-year old Jewish boy living in Montevideo, Uruguay. We witness his first sexual encounter and then follow him as he roams around town with his friends, deals with issues at home and at school and, ultimately, seeks his first real kiss. First time feature film ... http://trendaway.com/2008/09/04/acne-2007-tiff08/ I'm seeing (at least) 25 movies this year at TIFF - the most so far for me! 10 of them I am seeing with friends, and the other 15 are with the new Daytime Lite Package. I'm pretty excited and very grateful that I was able to take six days ... http://trendaway.com/2008/08/28/tiff-is-almost-here/ Here are a few pics from tonight's Radiohead concert. I'll add a link to the full gallery later. http://trendaway.com/2008/08/16/radiohead-molson-amphitheatre-toronto-august-15-2008/ I noticed this a couple of months ago and I'm still pissed off about it. I thought of it again while listening to a /film podcast rant on overly revealing trailers. The trailer for Boy A (2008, John Crowley) is absolutely terrible! It gives the entire film away and that's ... http://trendaway.com/2008/08/15/boy-a-trailer-if-you-watch-the-trailer-you-might-as-well-skip-the-film/ I don't have much to say about The Happening except that it was really, really bad. Mark Whalberg's constant look of disbelief was maddening. Zoey Deschanel was as horrid as always. The premise was cool but it totally tanked from there. I wasn't expecting much but this is ridiuclous! It felt ... http://trendaway.com/2008/07/09/the-happening-2008/ Here's a track from UNKLE's upcoming album, End Titles...Stories for Film. It's a re-working of instrumental track "Chemistry" from their previous album, and now features Josh Homme of Queens Of The Stone Age on vocals. Chemical - UNKLE [ft. Josh Homme] Thanks to Pitchfork for the embed. http://trendaway.com/2008/07/02/new-unkle-track-from-upcoming-album/ I grew up reading C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles Of Naria and was, like everybody else, greatly looking forward to the "good" big-screen adaptations. I really enjoyed The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and had high hopes for Prince Caspian. Unfortunately, I was pretty disappointed with it. It was a huge ... http://trendaway.com/2008/05/26/the-chronicles-of-narnia-prince-caspian-2008/ The Signal is a pretty cool movie that I've been reading about for a few months. It's a horror/zombie movie and what's interesting is that it's split up into three parts, each written/directed by a different person. The zombies concept was kinda cool, but it's probably not entirely accurate to ... http://trendaway.com/2008/05/23/the-signal-2007/ I've been listening to some great new records lately. Here is some information about a few of them: Grand Archives - The Grand Archives (2008) (US) (myspace) Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (2008) (UK) (myspace) The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia (2008) (US) (myspace) Portishead - Third (2008) (UK) (myspace) The Envy Corps - The ... http://trendaway.com/2008/04/22/currently-listening-to/ Radiohead is having a contest to remix the song "Nude" from In Rainbows and are posting the top 10 remixes here. http://trendaway.com/2008/04/01/radiohead-remix-contest-for-nude/