Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist could easily be the Juno of 2008. It has the makings of an indie comedy/romantic fun. Movie adaptation of a popular book, alterna-teens, and a great descriptions like - " Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist is a comedy about two teens thrust together for one hilarious, sleepless night of adventure in a world of mix tapes, late-night living, and, live, loud music." How can we go wrong with that? Michael Cera plays Nick, or the same character he always plays - a somewhat sweet and attractive, [...]
by roke Couldn't decide on a track today so I went with a video mp3 of Joe Hisaishi and a track from composer Mark Mothersbaugh . Hisaishi and Mothersbaugh are my two favorite contemporary composers. Hisaishi has done music for various Japanese films and anime (Kikujiro, Spirited Away). Mothersbaugh (an original member of Devo), has become a mainstay of all of Wes Anderson's movies but has composed various works for television and film including the theme song to Rugrats. Have a good one. SCRAPPING AND YELLING [...]
Movies: 300; Since I first saw the preview for 300 I have been yearning to see it. Sure I wasn't yearning enough to out to the theaters and see or to go out and buy it on DVD when it first came out, but I finally got it on my Netflix and I'm really glad I did. The movies is visually stunning, exciting, and a total man movie as was proven by Rachael's complete indifference to the film (she spent
Still having web problems but here's a little something for the weekend: Mark Mothersbaugh does a sterling job soundtracking Wes Anderson's movies & here's a top slice of Jazz- electro from the excellent Life Aquatic soundtrack. It's also featuring on a Honda advert at the mo. Would love to hear this on a club Soundsystem .. Mark Mothersbaugh - Ping Island/Lightning Strike rescue Op (Z Share) ( YSI ) The Glimmers have arguably been Belgium's finest Disc Jockey's for many years now- They've [...]
After 8 long months, LOST is finally (as bearded Jack would say) baaaaaack! The season 4 premiere was Thursday night, and what better way to start the season than a huge tower of papayas, a high speed car chase, and future Hurley yelling about the "Oceanic Six" (which explains the flashing sixes in the promos for the season). The episode set up season 4 by delivering a bunch of questions for us to ponder. Who heare on the freighter and who are the other three in the Oceanic Six are the biggest. So in keeping with [...]
A lot of bloggers post Holiday/Christmas mixes around this time, but since I've already been down that road before and over the weekend my hometown got about 8 inches of snow, I've decided to make a mix that evokes that wintry feeling. All of the songs on this mix in some way remind me of winter, snow on the ground, icicles, chestnuts roasting by an open fire, all that good stuff. For some reason that translates to distant guitar, synths, reverberation, bells, songs with "snow" in the title, all of which play a part in this mix. I [...]
It's only 2:00, yet I've accomplished oh so much already today. Perhaps a detailed outline of the morning and early afternoon's goings-ons will best illustrate my efficiency. 7:30 - I am awoken in order that I might prepare myself for the wonderful Turkey Trot. 7:40 - I am awoken for the second time this morning. 7:55 - This time I actually wake up. Third times a charm, eh? 9:00 - And we're off and running (i.e. walking)! 10:15 - And we're done. 11:00 - Food. Is. Good. Now if that wasn't a beast of a breakfast (see [...]
If Rushmore bent time and space with music from the British Invasion, Wes Anderson's third film pushes the method to the extreme of near timelessness using music, costume and prop design to create a sort of cartoon version of Manhattan. For The Royal Tenenbaums , Anderson moved on to baroque rock from the early seventies, helping to create a feeling of melancholy throughout the film, and cementing the label of 'melancomic' to Anderson's work (like it's meaning, this made-up label is both tragic and a [...]
One of the big misconceptions in use of soundtrack in film, is that the music should be a cue as to the time period the film takes place. If anything, Wes Anderson (like Scorsese, Tarrantino, et al.) uses music from a certain era to instead transcend time, or bridge today with what reminds of of a more innocent time (even though, it's often less so.) Anderson's first film, Bottle Rocket , did this to some extent, but it was his second film Rushmore , where he found the perfect context to [...]
The latest film from Wes Anderson, The Darjeeling Limited , comes out next Friday, and in anticipation of that I've reassembled all the music to each of his prior films, starting today with Bottle Rocket . Wes Anderson is a creature of habit, or perhaps I should word that differently... when Anderson finds something he likes, he sticks with it. Bottle Rocket began his long relationship with Owen Wilson, who's been a part of every Anderson film released thus far, and in light of [...]
An excerpt from Naomi Klein's latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The erasing of Iraq It's hard to believe - but then again, that was pretty much Washington's game plan for Iraq: shock and terrorize the entire country, deliberately ruin its infrastructure, do nothing while its culture and history are ransacked, then make it all OK with an unlimited supply of cheap household appliances and imported junk food. In Iraq, this cycle of culture erasing and culture replacing was not theoretical; it all unfolded in a matter of weeks. Like the prisoners [...]
Today's short story is from one of my favorite authors of short fiction and the man who inspired Robert Altman's Short Cuts , the brilliant Raymond Carver. Carver was one of the great writers of the 20th Century, a man who once described himself as, "hooked on writing short stories." Here is one of his better known and most highly regarded pieces, "A Small, Good Thing," with the full text and mp3s after the jump. Next week's short story is "The Lady with the Dog" by Anton Chekhov, whose death Carver himself immortalized in "The Errand." [...]
Twenty earthy and nutritious MP3s after the jump. Inspired by Lukas' post of the Ralph Records Goobers album last week, here's a companion album: Potatoes, an out-of-print collection of folk songs that was released on vinyl in 1987 and on CD in 1989 with a slightly different lineup. Here's the complete collection of material from the CD version (including folk songs by Reverend Howard Finster, Mark Mothersbaugh, Half Japanese, Bongwater, The Tinklers, The Residents, Snakefinger, and Negativland), along with a couple bonus Potatoes tracks sliced from my vinyl version [...]
Hey dudes, I'm new here to the site, and the guys have been kind enough to let me put together this year's holiday mix. I do love Christmas music; sorta fitting that it would comprise my first offering to you. I've tested it out, and she feels party worthy. Good for festive drives to the mall, or spicing up train rides to work. We tried to compile some new classics, without it sounding like
Vacation. Monteray Bay Aquarium. Jellyfish Exhibit. Zissou. Mark Mothersbaugh - "Ping Island / Lightning Strike Resuce Op" Tags: California , Mark Mothersbaugh , Team Zissou , Jellyfish
School is right around the corner and since we at MFKWCRG are huge on education, I've compiled a list of songs that will help you kids to read good. Personally, I'll be hearding to Illinois State University which is in a town by the name of Normal (thousands of pun possibilities there). Without futher ado: MP3 Mark Mothersbaugh - Hardest Geometry Problem in the World "I'm sorry. Did someone
(Caption: I didn't really have a picture for this entry, so I decided to commemorate this long lost sign that no longer hangs above the stage at Stubb's. I took this a year ago, completely ignorant of the fact that it would one day disappear forever and ever and ever...) Some fabulous songs from certain fabulous artists have extremely longwinded and complicated titles that really are completely unnecessary, but prove as a nice touch anyway. I have a few nifty examples of such christened tunes posted below in this nice little white space of [...]
Good movie music has the potential to save an otherwise floundering film. And if it doesn't, at least the lack of ticket and DVD sales will be countered by the wild success of its soundtrack. mp3 Radiohead- Talk Show Host From the Leonardo version of Romeo and Juliet . That one prevailing guitar riff is just fucking striking for some reason. While Leo and Claire were [...]
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