Wednesday Already? (Again)
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handful_ofdustA Book of Tongues: 754 thus far. Homing on on The Scene. It's going pretty good, so far. As I told sovay in yesterday's comments, I've begun thinking of Morrow as Liev Schreiber, aka the real Bear Jew--this definitely helps, in terms of visualization.;)
Since we're on the verge of losing our wonderful highspeed Internet, however--at least for a little while, until Steve can set up an alternative bundle through Rogers--I also spent some time searching for music by Juliette Lewis (both alone, and also with her old band, the Licks). Damn, man...much as people may have trouble with her performance style as an actress (me not necessarily being one of them), that crazy little Scientologist can really sing. And the tracks on her latest, Terra Incognita, are particularly wonderful--great production values, great presentation, genuine depth of emotion and interestingly layered lyrics.
Plus, I managed to find a studio version of her second PJ Harvey cover from Strange Days, "Rid of Me". Both this and "Hardly Wait" constitute two of my all-time favorite music-on-film sequences; they function especially gloriously within context, because they prove outright that her character, Faith, is A) just as talented as Lenny keeps claiming she is and yet B) exactly as toxic as Mace keeps telling him she is. I mean, c'mon! When your idea of an appropriate love-song is either crooning about how you're going to eat a guy's heart and/or howling that you're going to make him lick [your] injuries/'til you say don't you wish you/never, NEVER MET HER/DON'T YOU WISH YOU/NEVER, NEVER MET HER!...well, if I was that guy, I'd be out the door in less than a second. But then again, this is Lenny Nero we're talking about, here.
Which reminds me: I'm still working my way through the original 3:10 to Yuma, by slowish increments. The differences are as striking as the similarities; many of the lines are completely and utterly transposed, but they sometimes seem to have very different undertones. And then there are the odd stylistic/plot choices--having Alice show up in Contention, for example, for no good reason except to put her in immediate danger and have her on hand to act as this Dan's conscience. Ah, the 1950s.
Okay, back to it...
Amended to add: Make that 1,375, and I am taking a "break" (to do laundry, swap out dishes, etc.).
Since we're on the verge of losing our wonderful highspeed Internet, however--at least for a little while, until Steve can set up an alternative bundle through Rogers--I also spent some time searching for music by Juliette Lewis (both alone, and also with her old band, the Licks). Damn, man...much as people may have trouble with her performance style as an actress (me not necessarily being one of them), that crazy little Scientologist can really sing. And the tracks on her latest, Terra Incognita, are particularly wonderful--great production values, great presentation, genuine depth of emotion and interestingly layered lyrics.
Plus, I managed to find a studio version of her second PJ Harvey cover from Strange Days, "Rid of Me". Both this and "Hardly Wait" constitute two of my all-time favorite music-on-film sequences; they function especially gloriously within context, because they prove outright that her character, Faith, is A) just as talented as Lenny keeps claiming she is and yet B) exactly as toxic as Mace keeps telling him she is. I mean, c'mon! When your idea of an appropriate love-song is either crooning about how you're going to eat a guy's heart and/or howling that you're going to make him lick [your] injuries/'til you say don't you wish you/never, NEVER MET HER/DON'T YOU WISH YOU/NEVER, NEVER MET HER!...well, if I was that guy, I'd be out the door in less than a second. But then again, this is Lenny Nero we're talking about, here.
Which reminds me: I'm still working my way through the original 3:10 to Yuma, by slowish increments. The differences are as striking as the similarities; many of the lines are completely and utterly transposed, but they sometimes seem to have very different undertones. And then there are the odd stylistic/plot choices--having Alice show up in Contention, for example, for no good reason except to put her in immediate danger and have her on hand to act as this Dan's conscience. Ah, the 1950s.
Okay, back to it...
Amended to add: Make that 1,375, and I am taking a "break" (to do laundry, swap out dishes, etc.).
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Date: 2009-09-16 04:33 pm (UTC)She covered "Rid of Me" and "Hardly Wait"? Where can I find these?
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Date: 2009-09-16 05:04 pm (UTC)“Hardly Wait” (http://www.box.net/shared/xx1edxftr5)
“Rid of Me” (http://www.box.net/shared/97y3oby0fx)
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Date: 2009-09-16 09:14 pm (UTC)Downloaded and listened. God damn.
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Date: 2009-09-17 02:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-17 03:06 am (UTC)Of the songs on 4-Track Demos that are not included on Rid of Me, "Hardly Wait" may be my favorite. (I like "Reeling" and "Driving" very much; I'm not crazy about "Goodnight." I've heard very few of the B-sides from that era, but "Claudine, the Inflatable One" should totally have gone on some album.) You can see its echo also in
Just like that snippet of her doing "Born Bad" as Mallory Knox, in Natural Born Killers--I know people have problems with the film as a whole, but what I love most about it is that both Mickey and Mallory live their lives with CD-collection-on-infinite-shuffle accompaniment, like they're starring in a movie scored by their own minds, just jumping from cue to cue.
I have not seen this film. Clearly I should.