Monthly Archives: September 2010
The Sleepless Film Festival Presents: Pirate Radio USA
Hello friends. This weekend I discovered an entertaining and eye-opening pirate radio documentary online – Priate Radio USA. Given the post-Clinton legalization of media monopolies, the subject of pirate radio has once again become a hot-button topic. Pirate radio broadcasters use homemade technologies to take over radio frequencies , broadcasting without licences, beyond the reach [...]
Forever in Blue Jeans
This just in… So it seems that it sometimes takes a number of arty types to explain something as fundamentally proletariat as humble, timeless blue jeans. I’d love to go off on this subject, but I couldn’t do a better job than The Vancouver Sun: Workaday staple and fashion favourite, blue jeans have conquered the [...]
Tyler Hicks' War on Terror on Film
Hola amigos y amigas. I recently wrote up a review of a photojournalism show at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. I wish I would’ve posted this over last weekend as it would’ve been a fine post for the anniversary of 9-11. All these photos are by Tyler Hicks. This review originally appeared in the Nashville Scene. [...]
Joy to the World
Good day, good readers. Last night I discovered a documentary about the band Joy Division on Hulu. In a recent post about the post-punk chronicle Totally Wired, I mentioned the films 24-Hour Party People and Control. Both movies cover the rise and fall of Joy Division and their troubled leader Ian Curtis. While both films [...]
The Sleepless Film Festival: Au Revoir, Claude Chabrol
Au revoir, Claude Chabrol. The influential French filmmaker died on Sunday (9/12) and we were sad to see one of the brighter lights of the New Wave go dark. He lived a long life – 80 years – and he leaves us with his beautiful images. If Jean-Luc Godard appeals to critics because of his [...]
After Party: Author Offers Up Second Take on Post-Punk
Hello Comrades, Our friends at Soft Skull sent this book to us while Insomnia was still transitioning to WordPress. This great read came out about 3 weeks ago, but it was such a blast we wanted to include it in our Sleepless Book Club write-ups. Simon Reynold’s acclaimed first volume of post-punk memory sifting – [...]
Sleepless Book Club Selection: H+G=4EVA
Hey Hey Hey! The good people at Microcosm Publishing have sent me a few interesting packages lately and now that the blog is nearly fully powered again – we’re still planning on dressing up the place – I’ve been sifting through the goodies and I found a few to share. The first is a book [...]
Otherwise
Otherwise Loneliness is an old friend who respects your privacy. He knows when to interrupt. A person alone is a limb on the water and a flash in the black. We have much to offer, but only to the desperate. Happy people rarely call, and we can always cling to ourselves. Solitude is solid, and [...]
The Sleepless Film Festival's Labor Day Special: The Wobblies
Good day, Comrades! Today we celebrate Labor Day in America with this screening of The Wobblies. This 1979 documentary tells the story of the Industrial Workers of the World through interviews with the people who were there during it’s American heyday. Here’s what the Fulvue Drive-In has to say about the film: “…they changed the [...]
