Today is a lot better . Highlights of my week include:
- The Portland based indie band ''Portugal. The Man'' Their latest release The Satanic Satanist is on the very top of my 'feel good music' list at the moment. You can listen to the entire album on their myspace page.
My favorite tracks include 'The Sun' and 'Everyone is Golden'
- Public Enemies: Starring Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillard (who so happened to kick ass as Edith Piaf, a well deserved Oscar), Christian Bale. Christian Bale blew it, his accent was completely off in many scenes. Nonetheless, the movie had the right blend of realism and 21st century magic, portraying the era with some dignity.
- And last but not least, Eightball, by Daniel Clowes. One particular comic that I was completely captured by is Like A Velvet Glove Cast in Iron. I did some research and found that a musician under several aliases which include Victor Banana, Neil Smythe and Tim Hensley released an album based on the comics. Kind of impossible to find online because the fabulous man decided that his work should never be rereleased, and for him to just fall off the face of the universe. That was his plan. However, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron can be found on amazon.com as well as some of his work on cdbaby.com Anyway, my point was Eightball. Eightball is vicious and haunting. It evokes paranoia, but not so much confusion, which simply reminds me of some of the reasons I fell in love with Ghost World.
4 comments:
The Satanic Satanist! Christian Bale completely failing! The comic sounds both particularly haunting and divine. Love love!
Ahh longing to see Public Enemies! I've heard many mixed reviews, thus going in without any expectations (but how can the expectations not be high w. Depp/Bale?!). Anywho, I was just in Northern Wisconsin at my cousins' cabin and we drove by a few spots where they shot the film, and I became intrigued immediately!
Huh, the comic sounds interesting.
cool blog...where are you from?
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