The Deadly Snakes - "Gore Veil". Instead of singing about rose-coloured lenses, the late, great Snakes imagine the opposite, a gore veil; it turns a ripe apple to blood & fire engines. Through this filter, the world looks more fragile, "calmly simple", but it also provokes an existential crisis. What am I for, what am I for if not to paint the walls with blood? ... What am I for, what am I for if not to wander through the rye? All this with wheezy organ and rattle-tat, exclamations of brass. "Gore Veil" feels like a formal questioning, an arbitrary exercise, the most arch kind of tale. A Wes Anderson movie, a fictional advice-letter, one stage in the Tour de France. The enjoyment of a feeling that is half-felt, half-imagined, in vivid (scarlet) colour. [buy Porcella]

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M60, the Montreal 60 Second Film Festival, launches its 2012 season on Thursday. While the screenings aren't til September, this is your chance to sign up to make a movie for the fifth anniversary festival. Anyone in Montreal can sign up - you then have one month to shoot a 60-second film. No fees, no jury, no judges, no prizes; every single finished flick will be shown on the big screen in September. Thursday's bash also sees us offering beautiful letterpress doorprizes, old-timey music, and bilingual storytelling from Cat Kidd and Confabulation. More info at our website and on Facebook. Hope to see you there!