Archive for April, 2006
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
I love these lyrics and coupled with Kathryn Williams’s delicate vocals, the effect is gorgeous.
Old Low Light #2
In a room banging on about the world in words
There’s an old low light it flicks on and off
Like our opinions
Three hours without a word
Then you stroke my arm
There’s an old low light in me
And it switches on
It’s not visible to anyone but our love lives there
I can feel it shimmer
It’s old and quiet and it stares out like years
In a different city bed in my sister’s house
There’s an old low light it keeps me awake
Without the shape of you
Track four on a CD you made for me
There’s a note like light and it changes the air
And it makes me love you more
It makes me love you more
More, more, more, more
It’s not visible to anyone but our love lives there
I can feel it glimmer
It’s old and quiet and stares out like you
And it makes me love you more
More, more, more, more, more, more, more, more
You’re my old low light
And I love you more
repeat
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Thursday, April 20th, 2006
but this is so cute and thanks to Londonist for this.
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Thursday, April 20th, 2006
I don’t know why but I keep buying The Word magazine. Honestly, there is some good stuff in it sometimes (like the interview with the Pet Shop Boys in which I was astonished to read that Neil Tennant had come out in 1993 and here was me (who hadn’t spotted those Freddie Mercury clues) thinking he had been gay all along based on such evidence as It’s a Sin:
Heart: 
and working with Liza Minnelli.
And another interesting fact, David Tennant
named himself after Neil, I think that’s cool).
Anyway, David Hepworth’s digs at female singer-songwriters are bothering me. He had a pop at Laura Veirs last month (or so) but this month’s whinge about Neko Case is just bizarre. If you don’t get a song first time, the songwriter is apparently deficient and the proof of this seems to rest with his lack of understanding of these lines in Margaret Vs Pauline: “One left her sweater sitting on the train, the other lost three fingers at the cannery”. My interpretation of this is that one is so privileged the worst thing that could happen to her is that she loses her jumper while the other’s problems are a bit more serious which I don’t think is too hard to grasp.
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Friday, April 14th, 2006
My son…
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Sunday, April 9th, 2006
Andy and I watched Singin’ in the Rain last night (over Kiss Me Kate). By the end, we had mutually decided against received wisdom that it is one of the best films ever made.
The Broadway Melody Ballet is shoehorned into the final third. It has no real connection with the films of the twenties (except it is set in the twenties) because it doesn’t resemble film musicals of that period. I don’t really like it anyway (it hints at the pretentiousness of An American in Paris) except for a stunning Cyd Charisse shimmying around Gene Kelly. I can’t imagine such a statuesque woman being allowed near the big screen now but, my word, no wonder my dad remembers her fondly.
Of course, it’s not that there aren’t great bits in the film (the flashbacks at the premiere, Make ‘em Laugh, sound comes to Monumental Pictures, the preview of The Duelling Cavalier, etc) but quite a lot is average fare (I really want to like the cute teenage Debbie Reynolds but she doesn’t have the presence to match Gene Kelly’s overbearing personality). All right, Singin’ in the Rain is brilliantly indelible but otherwise? Moses Supposes? Beautiful Girl? All I Do Is Dream of You? Jean Hagen steals the show with her marvellous performance as Lina: “I can’t make love to a bush”, dubbing herself as Kathy Selden who is meant to be dubbing her, “I can shoo”, “I ain’t people”.
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2006
Buffy at her articulate best.
The best thing about season 7.
The good, the bad and the ugly of Willow.
Spike and Anya make fun of Giles.
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Saturday, April 1st, 2006
Hush (Joss Whedon)
The Gentlemen give us twenty minutes without dialogue but many things become evident without the need for words to be exchanged.
Who Are You? (Joss Whedon)
A tour de force from Sarah Michelle Gellar and a series of scenes that are perfect gems: Tara tells Willow that she is hers, Baith teases Spike with promises of leg buckling sex (except “it’s wrong”), Baith teases Tara (“so Willow’s not driving stick anymore”), Baith sleeps with Riley (and he doesn’t notice), Tara and Willow do a spell, Fuffy talks to Giles (“what’s a stevedore?”), and finally, Faith is very angry but who with?
New Moon Rising (Marti Noxon)
“this would be a sneaky cat”
“I’m overhelping, aren’t I?”
“pretty much now”
“I talked to Xander and he said you didn’t have a new guy”
“are you freaked?”
“do what makes you…h-h-happy”
“are you two involved?”
“but now is not that time, I guess”
“it’s extra flamey”
The Yoko Factor (Doug Petrie)
Spike divides the Scoobies and Giles gets drunk: “bloody hell”
Restless (Joss Whedon)
I could do without the cheese but dreams can be like this. Beautiful photography and score.
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