Archive for Robert Smith
The Cure: Alone
Posted in Books, pictures with tags gothic rock, new album, pop music, Robert Smith, Songs of a Lost World, The Cure on November 11, 2024 by xi'an
Spellbound
Posted in Kids with tags New Wave, punk rock, Robert Smith, Siouxie and The Banshees, The Cure on July 12, 2023 by xi'anReading in Le Monde the news that Siouxie had sung at the Eurockéennes de Belfort reminded of her first albums that I played endlessly. With The Banshees and a certain Robert Smith as an occasional guitarist… Highly innovative punk rock announcing the New Wave and mesmerising voice.
the sandman
Posted in Books, Kids with tags cereal collector, comics, dark fantasy, Lucifer, Neil Gaiman, Netflix, Robert Smith, The Cure, The Sandman, TV series, youtube on September 5, 2022 by xi'an“What is missing – regrettable for a story made of this material – is the strangeness and the anxiety that immediately distinguished The Sandman from all other comics.” , Le Monde
Although I never read any of The Sandman comic books, and could not finish Gaiman’s American Gods, I nonetheless watched (decidedly Netflixy!) Netflix’s rendering over the past week, which I found mostly pleasant if on the light (although dark) side. Except for a few gems like Morpheus’ stroll with Death in Richmond and Hammersmith. And the unbearably lengthy “24 hours” episode about an endless spiral into primal violence, induced by the psychopath John Dee and Morpheus’ ruby. The actors are mostly terrific, starting with Tom Sturridge playing Morpheus as a young Robert Smith! But also Vivienne Acheampong as Dream’s librarian or Stephen Fry as … Fiddler’s Green! As a aside, I found out that the (much lighter) Netflix’s series Lucifer is also inspired by the corresponding Sandman character.
Seventeen Seconds [40 years ago]
Posted in Books, Kids with tags A Forest, J.R. Tolkien, New Wave, Paris, Peter Jackson, Robert Smith, sculpture, The Cure, The Lord of the Rings on April 22, 2020 by xi'an
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