Obs,
I need to borrow your brains (except Sketch, since we share),
The new section I'm in charge of is going to have several standing features each week and one of the things I want to include is called "While You Were Sleeping"; highlighting a quality obscure movie or record that most people probably aren't aware of (ie, something they "slept" on).
We've got some local used DVD shop owners who can help with the film end, but I can't help but wonder what hidden gems you all can recommend - billy g, I'm looking your way.

Just send me some names and I'll do the rest. FYI, the section is aimed at readers in their 20s and early 30s.

Do me proud!

Does it have to be current (i.e. 2005 release)?

Nope. In fact, the dustier the better.
My first one will be Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf's "Big Shots", which came out in '03 and has had my car CD player on lock for a few weeks now.

Doleful Lions :: The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! 1999
Ass Ponys :: Lohio 2001

how obscure are were talking about here?

Films:
City of Lost Children (1995)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Baraka (1992)
Kwaidan (1964)

Music:

Do you want just run-of-the-mill indie stuff or do you want some seriously hard to find,even indie geeks don't know about, type shit.

Do you really want to open up the "underappreciated gems" pandora's box of Obner minds, especially with no set limit on suggestions?

I'll limit myself to five that would (probably) be easy to describe and embraceable by a general audience for now:

Teenage Fanclub - Songs For Northern Britain (or the greatest hits one from last year, if you're looking for something in print)

Aceyalone - A Book Of Human Language

Baby Huey - Living Legend

Them - The Story of Them (feat. Van Morrison)

The Dream Syndicate - Days Of Wine And Roses

It's a general-interest newspaper, so we shouldn't get too "what the...?" on them.
I think roughly half of Whiney's hip-hop collection could qualify, as an example. Or maybe throw out a lesser-known early-mid 90s Britpop band. A good funk record, some weird singer-songwriter stuff...
I guess it'll mostly end up being stuff we're all familiar with, but those who aren't flaming music geeks wouldn't know about.

Steve Poltz.

Also co-wrote and was the guy in the "You Were Meant For Me" video. I enjoy his songwriting, but he's a nutjob. I'm a big fan of The Rugburns, his former band, as well.

Cleaver's Ass Ponys would also fit fairly well, but I mentioned them up there.

Has Martina Topley-Bird become a non-sleeper, yet? 'cause that album should be huge.

I been listening to Rob Dougan's Furious Angels a lot, lately.

I don't think anyone but me and maybe three other people have picked up on Matt Elliott's The Mess We Made from 2003...

And I would think San Ilya would be popular hereabouts...

how 'bout mansun's first album, attack of the grey lanterns? is that obscure enough? or embrace's first album? (no, not that embrace, the other one, the british one)

the interpreters - back in the u.s.s.a.

Hefner The Fidelity Wars*

* = not that Mansun's debut isn't a good choice



Sixto Rodriguez Cold Fact
Even Johansen Quiet & Still

why don't you just include a copy of while you were sleeping magazine. cross out their names and write in your own like lakesha jackson did to my jean jacket in the 5th grade and you're golden.

the thing i love about that movie are the fistfulls of speed he's literally just throwing at his face throughout. Also, Bart from Blazing Saddles as the blind DJ who was sampled on Primal Scream's "Kowalski" from the album Vanishing Point. sigh.


I've been listening to that Rapider Than Horsepower album a lot lately.
& i was up until 7 this morning watching Repo Man and The Young Masters

It finally came out on dvd earlier this year, I think. I bought it even though I have it on vhs. I've also got a nice poster hanging on my wall. I want to watch it again sometime because after seeing Swimming Pool, I found out that Charlotte Rampling is the hitchhiker in Vanishing Point.

Do a write up on 'The Red Walls.' They haven't really made it yet, but will and you'll look like a genius for being on top of it. Plus, they're pretty unoffensive to old people and kids.

This should have been my answer. I love this album.

Would Lift to Experience - "Texas/Jerusalem Crossroads" count?

Emitt Rhodes - Emitt Rhodes
(or the compilation that includes this entire album: Daisy-Fresh From Hawthorne, CA)
It's a perfect pop album from 1970 --- HIGHLY reminiscent of Paul McCartney.

I've seen this theme popping up quite a lot lately. Trite, but necessary.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/0 ... index.html

Just saw Atom Egoyan's 'The Sweet Hereafter' again last week. Still a captivating piece of flimwork, albeit a dark, gloomy one. I wasn't in the States when this came out, but it seems to have slipped under most folks' noses. Well, at least my Carney friends'.

My go to album for questions like this is usually:

The Glands- S/T (Capricorn, 2000)

Athens band that came out during the Elephant 6 hey day around these parts. I think it actually got a review in Rolling Stone at the time but it fell through the cracks and I never understood how it didn't find a bigger audience than it did.

It's a great mix of late 90's indie rock, brit pop, and paisley underground type stuff. "Living was Easy" was a great single among others. Fans of the Beatles, Olivia Tremor Control, Flaming Lips, etc would find much to like.

Through out a "Funky 16 Corners" review
Reap heaps of critical applause, along with hightened reader influence/respect
Remember to thank Postmersh on the way out...

I'll give you one album




and one movie right now




"Time Of The Gypsies" isn't on DVD yet but it will be this Spring in France, so I'm sure a region 1 version will follow soon since all of Kustrica's films seem to slowing making thier way on to DVD.

that's a great album.