<BR>i'm working on a full review to be posted on ink19.com at some point by december, but in the meantime, i'd just like to say i think it's a very good album. I don't see "Eureka" being redundant compared to "Bad Timing", and "Halfway to a Threeway" wasn't a full length anyway. "halfway" being the only album not named after a roeg film, i believe. "Insignificance" shows O'Rourke's lyric-writing skill at a high level, and his music taking a slightly more hard-edged direction. It's much less "rock" than I think was expected, and it's not a gigantic departure from the stuff on Drag City. If you're tired of misanthropic pop music that plays with idioms and expectations, than just wait for his solo release on mego or atavistic.
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<BR>from,
<BR>matt</FONT></HTML>
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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 03:12:28 -0600 (CST)
From: Whit Schonbein <whit@twinearth.wustl.edu>
Subject: Re: Review Request: Insignificance by Jim O'Rourke
keithmar@msn.com asks:
"Is it my imagination or all of those titles Nicholas Roeg films?"
'bad timing', 'eureka', and 'insignificance' are all roeg films. they are
in chronological order - 1980, 1983, 1985. the next one would be
'castaway' (1987), and the film prior to bad timing was 'the man who fell
to earth'.
'halfway to a threeway' could be a reference to the film 'Performance'
(1970), which roeg co-directed with Donald Cammell. apparently it
features a three way sex scene involving mick jagger (and others, of
course) - i've never seen it, so can't comment.
maybe it's simultaneously a reference to the roeg film, and to the fact
that 'eureka' (and 'halfway to a threeway') are from 1999, 2 years after
'bad timing', and 2 years prior to 'insignificance' - halfway to a trilogy
of discs based in some way or another on roeg films. [also, the film
'eureka' was 3 years after the film 'bad timing', and 3 years before
the film 'insignificance', for what it's worth].
so, on the basis of this pattern, i would expect that the current o'rourke
cd (which i have not heard) is similar to the other two, but the next one
