cheers

Moved to http://intotheswamp.tumblr.com/

The past is never as good as you remember it, but its certainty has its own comforts. Grease lets an in-his-prime Travolta loose in a world made up of the safest parts of the ’50s, a place that didn’t yet know the blood and distrust the ’60s and ’70s would bring its way. It’s filled with kids—well, “kids,” anyway—who’ve yet to know divorce, abortion, dead friends, professional disappointments, personal betrayals, and the slow erosion of dreams. It won’t last, and in its final moments, I get the feeling Grease knows this too.

“Well, what are we going to do after graduation?” almost-age-appropriate co-star Dinah Manoff asks. “Maybe we’ll never see each other,” another student laments. “That’ll never happen,” Danny assures them. How does he know? Because they have the together-forever promise of a song called “We Go Together” to send them off and up, riding in a dream convertible as they ascend toward the sky and into the future, with all its boundless promise. Then the movie ends.

- Keith Phipps from The AV Club putting a lump in my throat.

i talk about this film with my mum a lot

Jazz Hip Trio - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Found the poster HERE. Much love to Bacoso, who put me (and many others) onto this as well as Emiliano.

like vampire's blood

Kashmere's been one of my favourites for a while now. New shit, nicked from UK All Day.

Kashmere feat. Truth - Do You Understand

You can get this on the Three Years High and Rising compilation, available from Rapsploitation Sessions.

un amico.

In all my years as a member of fandom (in Lost and Runaways more than anything) I guess I never understood fanmixes. I tried one once, and let me say that it was an odd mix - I tried to tie in Some Girls' "Gonna Set My Soul On Fire" with the end of Runaways' first run, a weird reaction to a fan letter thinking that Nickelback was appropriate music for my favourite comic ever. Psshhaw.

Some Girls - Gonna Set My Soul On Fire

Anyway, I have found myself back on Livejournal for the first time in forever, seeing as I spent my Friday evening in bed reading Inglourious Basterds fanfiction. (Yes, I am aware I'm pretty chuffing sad saying that.) Then I found a pairing I liked reading about: the characters of Shosanna and Fredrick (yes, I repeat, I'm sad) that Quentin Tarantino has admitted that any other time in history, they could have fallen in love. So, fic after fic later and I ended up at... Shosanna/Fredrick fanmixes!

There's a couple of mixes that have really been doing it for me that I'm going to link you to - first of all, there's the Innocent Hearts mix by LJ user butchiemcgee, which uses music from Ingrid Michaelson, the Psychadelic Furs, Grace Jones and Ennio Morriconne, making a pretty fun selection of songs that could easily be your new-wave playlist for the time being. More deets HERE.

Then there's Truth in the Bleeding, a mix by LJ user piecesofalice, using music from The Pretenders, Elvis Costello, Die Artze and Andrew Bird, amongst others. It's been pretty much all I've been able to listen to over the weekend - that Andrew Bird song on the mix is gorgeous (20 plays in four days, which is saying a lot for me). Deets can be found HERE. Kudos to the two of 'em. Fandom rules!

download Innocent Hearts
download Truth in the Bleeding

PS. Yeah, I saw Basterds again recently and it grew on me something fierce. Image was found here at CHUD - is awesome.

mp3s, why notttt?!

So, flicking through my iTunes reminded me of these following songs. It was one of those nice little surprises, like your girlfriend waking you up with a bacon sandwich or like getting handed a tenner by a really cute dog.

Inner Life - Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Larry Levan 12" Remix)

Rihanna - Push Up On It

Jon - Meow Meow

N.E.R.D. - Untitled Jam (Live on Gilles Peterson, 2002)

Yup, that's the N.E.R.D. jam I promised to post aaages ago. Pssh, sorry. Or something!

shawty = charlieyou

As far as dumb songs from stupid YouTube videos getting stuck in your head, this is truly on some next level shit.

Found via Stuff You Will Hate!

"based on a true story"

Y'know, going through Sight & Sound's extended critics' faves of 2009 and given the amazing critical praise it had (despite little distribution), I'm surprised to see how few people lost their shit over Love Exposure. Because, um, look at it.

I need a spare four hours to experience this for myself.

damn

the 23rd psalm

Lost, Season 2, Ep. 10, "The 23rd Psalm".

"Yemi, I understand that you live in a world where righteousness and evil seem very far apart, but that is not the real world."

-Eko.

motorcycles, rock n roll and no lyrics

I love this shit. So should you.

not in portland

Lost, Season 3, Ep. 6, "Not in Portland".

"It won't hurt you to give me three minutes, will it -- knowing I have only 27 left?"

-Ben.

i want to spend time with you.

New Maya Arulpragasam. Album out this year. Colour me interested.

M.I.A. - There's Space For All Dat I See
(via Sound Verite)

My girl and I had our first date at an M.I.A. show. I always find that really cool.

reeeeeal life shit

So I haven't been keeping up much with This Week's Kerrang recently. To be honest, I wanted to make a few posts here and there - I wanted to share this with the world come Christmas time - but as always, apathy really got to me. I've been off at university working on the show, my dissertation, family stuff, money problems and, at the sake of seeming petulant, it sucks when nobody wants to read your blog no matter what. Really, I've just needed time to chill and watch some movies, hang out with my girlfriend and not think about FLFD/TWK. As a matter of fact, I don't even know what's going to happen with FLFD over the next six months - a lot of things I had planned have had to shift recently. "Life is what happens when..."

But I've been reading some awesome blogs - shout out to VINYL IS HEAVY, who've inspired me to write more about the films I see. There will be another podcast soon, maybe some of the Foot Village/Gallows stuff that I recorded for the show but we'll have to see. This is more of a freewheeling thing now, and whatever I want is going up on this. Which is fun!

I know this barely matters being the internet and all but I like doing this enough to write a bit of a fuss over it. I didn't listen to enough albums in '09 to make a list, but have my favourite song of last year just because it's great.

Jeans Wilder - Tough Guys

HNY.xx

songs i've been listening to lately, pt 3

Prince - Sleep Around

So much soul. Like three superb songs in one - thank Whatever for the shuffle button.