Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Three Things I Currently Love

1. Go to this band's website http://www.myspace.com/loneydear and listen to the song "Ignorant Boy." It's so good. I saw them live last Saturday when they were opening for Andrew Bird (who, of course, was excellent) but they totally stole the show. This song is basically just "na na na na na na na na na na na na" over and over again but it was awesome. He had the whole audience sing it together-beautiful. They're even better live. Also check out their songs "Violent" and "I am John."

Speaking of the concert, I ran into everybody that day-I saw my kindergarden teacher at Robert's that morning, didn't even recognize her, then at the concert I also ran into this freshman from the high school who took a film class with me, like 5 years ago, (coincidentally she said she saw me at Robert's that morning too.... but seriously it was good to see her) and David Baker! I haven't seen the guy in forever (though we did talk over the phone right before our birthdays-he's 21 now). He's doing well though, going to school and illustrating comics, plus he's a huge Andrew Bird fan (I found out that night) and he still has his Hellboy hat! I love running into people. Old memories.....

Anyways on to number

2. This video:



It's awesome. A tribute to PTA's (Paul Thomas Anderson) films. Besides the fact that every film PTA has made has been a masterpiece, but the guy who edited this was genius. Seriously, knowing how hard it is to edit anything together, none the less clips (especially when it's from mostly 2-3 hour films), he does it perfectly. Better than most movies are edited. Why isn't this guy in the industry? The pace, rhythm, music (which are all important songs from the actual movies), the way that it shows different dialogue over different clips, and how all the clips work perfectly together, one after the other. This would make PTA proud.

3. The movie "The Fall", particularly this scene:



Great movie. Took over 4 years to make and filmed in over 20 countries with no special effects at all, it's a wonderfully directed, beautifully filmed (look at that cinematography-how did they pull that off!) movie, not to mention a great story (and Lee Pace, from TV's awesome, now cancelled-grrr-"Pushing Daisies" stars). It's about a guy whose paralyzed and manipulates a girl into giving him morphine to kill himself, by telling her an epic story in pieces.

Lastly, I wanted to post a video of my own that I made but it's taking forever to upload onto YouTube, so next time.

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