My recent attempts at resurrecting a knackered old second-hand guitar pretty much failed after I realised I couldn’t fit the bridge and keep the thing in tune. It’s a shame to throw a musical instrument onto the woodpile (not literally in this case…yet) so I turned my attention to another half-broken thing I had lying around.
This is a 1989 Korean-made Squier Bullet that has much more sentimental value: I bought it second-hand at the age of sixteen with money from a part-time job. It’s the good old First Guitar that you can never bear to part with, no matter what happens to it. Despite various things going wrong on it I kept the thing regardless with the hope of making it playable again some day. And y’know what, I finally did.
I often wonder what’s going on with My Vitriol. After making such a splash with their debut album Finelines, followed by a two disc reissue and numerous tours and interviews, things have been very quiet on the releases front for a very long time. Recording albums isn’t something to be rushed but it’s been eight years or so, y’know? I’m hoping A Pyrrhic Victory is a sign of things to come and not the milestone for several more years of hiatus.
District 9
Heh, this was a type of alien visitation film I didn’t expect. Aside from the relatively modest budget, little-known director and no-name cast, it’s also one of the most unusual pieces of sci-fi I’ve seen in a while. It’s great to see familiar territory shaken up and given a new spin: it’s even better when the story takes on a lot of more terrestrial issues and throws personal drama into the mix. To me it does with aliens what Eve no Jikan does with robots.
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