Missing 1st essays
I don't recall receiving 1st essays from the following students:
Matthew Johnston
Richard Meredith
Toby Patterson
Scott-John Pointing
Evan Setiawan
Anastasia Zahnow
If this is you, or if you know whether or not the student has dropped the course, please contact me at c.messenger@uq.edu.au
Matthew Johnston
Richard Meredith
Toby Patterson
Scott-John Pointing
Evan Setiawan
Anastasia Zahnow
If this is you, or if you know whether or not the student has dropped the course, please contact me at c.messenger@uq.edu.au
posted by Cory Messenger | 9:01 PM
8 Comments:
Cory I must recommend Metal: A Headbanger's Journey for the next time you teach Metal. It's fantastic, and Robert Walser is in it. Not to mention a pleasant dose of Norwegian black metal.
The only problem is that he can't decide between presenting it for an audience whose experience with metal is limited to reading a few magazine titles at a Newsagency or for fans of the music.
Heres a copy/pasted review from a forum.
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
A pretty thorough but often off the mark documentary on heavy metal by a metalhead named San Dunn.
I basically downloaded it because it had tonnes of interviews. Seems to me Dunn couldn't decide whether he was trying to give insight into the genre to a metal audience or justifying heavy metal to a non-metal audience. He was a bit of a wuss too, as while he was perfectly happy to do lighthearted interviews with some of the bigger names, whenever one of the Norweigans would start talking about Satanism, elitism, church burnings, semitic roots or anything serious like that he'd try to distance himself with some weak, apologetic remark like "the majority of metal fans, including myself, could never understand or defend these extreme actions".
Too mainstream, but worth it just for the 90 second Gaahl interview, and overall pretty enjoyable.
Good interviews:
Dio - Honest and intelligent, not to mention that twice he tears into Gene Simmons.
Kerry King - Made a surprising amount of sense, which is more than I can say for Tom.
Dee Snider - Talked mostly about censorship and cross-dressing, which was kind of interesting, but he came across as a decent guy.
Rob Zombie - I was expecting a doofus, but he was one of the more eloquent people in the film.
The Norweigans - Jørn Tunsberg, Ihashn, Gaahl and Ivar(I think) from Enslaved didn't mince words, and were the highlight for me.
Poor interviews:
Predictable, moronic shit from moronic bands - Lamb of God, Slipknot, Kittie and a whole bunch more that were completely forgettable.
Cannibal Corpse - Basically confirmed that their music is not to be taken seriously.
Necrobutcher - Drunken retard.
I really don't think it was exclusively aimed at metal fans... as someone not really into metal I found it somewhat insightful, and highly entertaining. It pretty much just gave an overview of the various aspects of metal culture. Obviously Dunn is going to defend his own personal perception of what metal means to him. And I concur that the Gaahl interview was gold, and Dio's digs at Simmons were champion. Necrobutcher was hilarious!
As for the "real" metal fans, what they'd get out of the movie is that they can try to be as critical as possible to show their immaculately snobby elitist tastes and thus prove themselves the wankiest, most superior metalhead.
So you can pay out everyone in it (except Thurston Moore and Andy Falkous probably) and thus prove yourself the wankiest, most superior indie hipster, hey Shan.
Thanks for the tip, Yen. Now here's a tip for everyone: The Devil and Daniel Johnston.
(www.sonyclassics.com/devilanddaniel/trailer.html)
Cory, can you please tell us when our assignments are ready again? Thanks.
Marks are due at UQ by the 24th of November. I'll make an official announcement about your essays by the end of the week (18th).
I keep getting emails from EMI in French, heh.
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