Holland, 1945 // Neutral Milk Hotel
But now we must pack up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on
I had a bunch of ideas for what that song could be, but I didn’t feel it was right for me to give Ryan a song to give to Michelle. And so I gave him a challenge and let him pick out a song for her. Ryan has a great taste and the song he picked out was You and Me by Penny and the Quarters. And I thought it was just great. So I told Ryan to keep the song a secret, and never share it with Michelle until we were shooting. So they day came to shoot the scene, Ryan had the song in his back pocket, and we captured the real moment where one person gives an other person the gift of music. The gift, because it came from Ryan, was personal. Michelle was touched deeply by it. What happens on the screen is a real, living and breathing, intimate moment.
Derek Cianfrance
Cosmonaut Grechko - Headphone Girl
How do you fall in love?
You don’t fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like falling through space. It’s like you jump off your own private planet to visit someone else’s planet. And when you get there it all looks different: the flowers, the animals, the colours people wear. It is a big surprise falling in love because you thought you had everything just right on your own planet, and that was true, in a way, but then somebody signalled to you across space and the only way you could visit was to take a giant jump. Away you go, falling into someone else’s orbit and after a while you might decide to pull your two planets together and call it home. And you can bring your dog. Or your cat. Your goldfish, hamster, collection of stones, all your odd socks. (The ones you lost, including the holes, are on the new planet you found.)
And you can bring your friends to visit. And read your favourite stories to each other. And the falling was really the big jump that you had to make to be with someone you don’t want to be without. That’s it.
PS You have to be brave.
Jeanette Winterson in Big Questions from Little People & Simple Answers from Great Minds
Song: “Falling” by Nitin Sawhney
Cat Power - “Willie”
The Greatest still is one of the most played albums in my collection.
I Want You (Bob Dylan Cover) - The Tallest Man On Earth
Happy tunes for the summer.
Shy Boys - Ride
These two ultra cool kids, Nichole McMinn and Brandon Biondo, out of Knoxville have teamed up to create some great throwback rock n roll with hints of shoegaze. Forged from some screwed up sleep patterns and housing arrangements the two make up the natural core of the two with drummer Chris Rusk of Royal Bangs poking in and out to provide some backing beats.
You can download all of their singles from their bandcamp, and there will be a very limited pressing done thru Brandon’s label, who has one of the best names for a label, Dracula Horse.
It’s a good thing tears never show in the pouring rain
As if a good thing ever could make up for all the pain
There’ll be no last chance to promise to never mess it up again
Just the sweet pain of watching your back as you walk
As I’m watching you walk away
And now you’re gone, there’s like an echo in my head
And I remember every word you said
This track is too, too good. Feel good with brilliant vibes! Clean, crisp, borderline psedo-house.
Tourist. - Your Girl
“Firewood” - Regina Spektor
love what you have and you’ll have more love
you’re not dying
everyone knows you’re going to live
though there’s still no cure for crying
I can’t stop listening to this record, especially this song.
And some weird randomness…my friend Jessie, who works at the wine shop around the corner from me is the guitarist and my friend Christina is the woman on the cover in the background. Overlapping networks always entertain me.
