Your Body, Your Very SoulGray, Shades of..., PlushSafeRecordsPossibly the best band on the planet.-- Andy WarholFirst things first: Gray featured in Edo Bertoglio's documentaryDowntown 81, and included art-world superstar Jean-MichelBasquiat (1960-1988) and actor/director Vincent Gallo.Though the Other Music review mentions Gallo, he receives nocredit on this limited edition release, unless he was operatingunder a pseudonym. Michael Holman ("masking tape and steelball bearings"), Justin Thyme ("finessed tape loops"), and NickTaylor ("guitar with historical restraint") complete the line-up. As for Basquiat, he "played the guitar with a metal file."So,

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Ain'tThatSomeShit(Forget Don't EqualFuck)I like CeeLo, Ireally do,but I'm lessthan crazy about the radio-ready version of "Fuck You," nowretitled "Forget You." It seemed bold that the first single to mat-erialize from The Lady Killer would use "fuck" in the title and chor-us. Naturally, radio and TV weren't going to touch it, and you can'treally excise the expletive--there would be next-to-nothing left.So, I understand the impulse, but the words aren't interchange-able. They have different meanings, different syllables, and awholly different vibe. To "forget" means to put it out of yourmind, while "fuck," in this context, is angry rather than sexual.G

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SleighBeatsIt's beena fewmonthsnow since SleighBells re-leasedtheirdebut, Treats, and I'm still thinking about their use of that '80s drum sound. To their credit, it doesn't resemble a retro rehash. Rath-er, it's the beat, in isolation, that brings the neon era to mind.It isn't a drum machine or hip-hop beat, but it's so prominent and precise, it sounds quasi-synthetic; not plastic, but hardly organic.Sleigh Bells with a hyper-distorted version of their trademark beat.Here are a few of the acts that first put that beat into motion,though none sound like Sleigh Bells. Note that I was trying toavoid tracks that use obvious permutations of the Bo Diddley

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Movie ofthe Month: Part 22I recentlyreviewedthe follow-ing film forVideo Lib-rarian, andthought the results were worth sharing.THE OATH [***1/2](Laura Poitras, US, 2010, 90 mins.)I read a lot of DeLillo while I was in Yemen. The anti-hero and ter-rorism themes in his work were appropriate company. During ed-iting, I saw a retrospective of the Dardenne brothers at the FSLC,which reminded me to trust the intelligence of the audience.-- Laura Poitras to indieWIREIn 2006's Oscar-nominated documentary My Country, My Count-ry, director Laura Poitras spent time with a Sunni physician inBaghdad. In The Oath, she focuses on a taxi driver in Yemen.An affable,

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November ReviewsThese are the reviewsand other pieces I'mworking on this month.Amazon DVDs: AncientAliens - Season One [three-disc set], Head (part of A-merica Lost & Found - TheBBS Story), The Vampire Diaries - The Complete First Season [five-disc set], Phil Collins - Going Back: Liveat Roseland Ballroom, N-YC, and The Pillars of theEarth [three-disc set].Amazon Theatricals: Love & Other Drugs (Edward Zwick directs Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway) and The King's Speech (Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter).Still playing (or yet to open): Get Low, Hereafter, In-ception, Inside Job, The Kids Are All Right, Never Let MeGo, Nowhere

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