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My E nominee. I think this has a good chance of winning. "Excessive Mobility" - Munch

Doolittle

Should probably say Calculating Infinity, but:

#139 arrived in Norway and it's spectacular.

Lucked out too. Ben is awesome to do these giveaways.

Awesome news, have wanted to own this on vinyl for so long. A happy mew year to us all.

Preorder is up: Green: http://www.hardware-records.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1474 Black: http://www.hardware-records.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1473

Tour version of this and the split with My Fictions: http://thesaddestlandscape.bigcartel.com/product/the-saddest-landscape-tour-records

All the order numbers here and on the WW zuckerbook are even, I'm hoping this means roughly 1700-2100 constitutes the first 200 orders.

Brent is as solid as they come. You will all get your records, don't worry.

Huh. I would happily pay that, haha. Maybe it's cause you're part of the EU and Norway isn't. Though labels/distros like Throatruiner only charge €7 for a 2x12" to Norway...

Love the band, but €24 to ship a record from France to Norway is nuts.

#37 and also: #winning

Definitely the first press, you can tell by checking the matrix in the second picture. Nice score Connor, congrats.

The one they have in stock now is the remastered version. I think it sounds better, a bit "sharper" and more "beefy" (I leave to someone in possession of adequate parlance to elaborate). Matrix on the original and repress(es): Matrix on the remastered version: Interestingly (I'm using the term loosely of course) the old bar code is back. Below is the 1st press cover on the left, 2nd press in the middle, and the new pressing on the right:

Add me to the enthousiaste(s).

Awesome record, thanks for the heads up on the band version. Test press: http://www.bisaufsmesser.com/store/records/test-pressings/11827/lord-snow-solitude-lp-testpressing?c=48

Ten of the many things I love about The Birds: 1. It starts as a screwball comedy and slowly turns into a horror film, which kinda mirrors... 2. ... Melanie Daniels character development (from self-centered and protective superficiality to deep and dangerous authenticity; from "motherless" to "mother figure" and finally to "daughter in mother's arms"). 3. The caged birds in the beginning contrasted with the caged people in the latter half of the movie (particularly Melanie in the phone booth). 4. The lack of a musical score. Plenty of creepy bird sounds instead. 5. The fact that no explanations for the bird attacks are given, except in the wonderful Tides Restaurant scene in which a few characters voice some birdbrained theories. Also in that scene is... 6. ...The voyeurism/sadistic audience aspect: A woman looks directly into the camera and says something like "The birds didn't act like this before you came here! You're the cause of this! You're evil!" The shot is Melanie's POV, but it's pretty clear to me that the character is breaking the fourth wall here, asking why you, the viewer, find such enjoyment in watching these people suffer, why they have to endure these awful bird attacks just so you can be entertained. It's the same question Haneke posits in Funny Games: You like to watch people suffer, don't you? If you didn't, you'd turn the movie off. 7. Robert Burks' cinematography, e.g. the amazing overhead shot of Bodega Bay with seagulls descending. 8. The masterful daytime suspense scene outside the school as the crows gather behind Melanie while the children sing that seemingly never ending song. One of Hitchcock's greatest set-pieces. 9. Hitchcock's humor, e.g the lovebirds swaying in unison as Melanie speeds along the curvy road to Bodega Bay. 10. The unforgettable and perfectly fitting open ending.

Finished the Hitchcock marathon yesterday. My ranking of his movies (6.0 is the top rating, 1.0 the lowest): 6.0 - Vertigo (1958) 6.0 - Notorious (1946) 6.0 - Rear Window (1954) 6.0 - Psycho (1960) 6.0 - The 39 Steps (1935) 5.5 - Sabotage (1936) 5.5 - Marnie (1964) 5.5 - Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 5.5 - North by Northwest (1959) 5.5 - The Birds (1963) 5.5 - The Lady Vanishes (1938) 5.0 - Blackmail (sound) (1929) 5.0 - Blackmail (silent) (1929) 5.0 - The Lodger (1927) 5.0 - Strangers on a Train (1951) 5.0 - Rebecca (1940) 4.5 - The Wrong Man (1956) 4.5 - The Ring (1927) 4.5 - Foreign Correspondent (1940) 4.5 - Rope (1948) 4.5 - I Confess (1953) 4.5 - Frenzy (1972) 4.5 - Secret Agent (1936) 4.5 - The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) 4.5 - The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) 4.5 - Suspicion (1941) 4.5 - Lifeboat (1944) 4.5 - Murder! (1930) 4.0 - Stage Fright (1950) 4.0 - Under Capricorn (1949) 4.0 - Young and Innocent (1937) 4.0 - Dial M for Murder (1954) 4.0 - Family Plot (1976) 4.0 - To Catch a Thief (1955) 4.0 - The Trouble With Harry (1955) 4.0 - Waltzes From Vienna (1933) 4.0 - The Manxman (1929) 3.5 - Saboteur (1942) 3.5 - Downhill (1927) 3.5 - Topaz (1969) 3.5 - The Paradine Case (1947) 3.5 - Easy Virtue (1928) 3.5 - Torn Curtain (1966) 3.5 - Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) 3.5 - Rich and Strange (1931) 3.5 - Number Seventeen (1932) 3.0 - Spellbound (1945) 3.0 - Champagne (1928) 3.0 - The Pleasure Garden (1925) 3.0 - The Skin Game (1932) 3.0 - Jamaica Inn (1939) 3.0 - The Farmer's Wife (1928) 2.0 - Juno and the Paycock (1930)

Purple glistener:

Got mine yesterday, great stuff as always from this band.

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Well looky what I got today! I dare say Dan is the man.