Various things I wanted to pass comment on.
I've seen a few movies over the last few weeks/months that I thought deserved a mention:
"Things We Lost in the Fire". A really interesting and moving film.
"The Boat That Rocked". About a pirate radio station in the North Sea in the early 60's. Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Nighy are in it, as well as a lot of other people you've seen in lots of Brit films. The story is great and the music awesome. A fun movie.
I finally saw "Shaun of the Dead". How funny is that?
I recently sent PGL a NZ music cd featuring some good NZ songwriters. My top ten from the disc:
1. Welcome Home - Dave Dobbyn. The song was written by him in response to some backlash about immigrants to NZ a few years ago. I get verklemt every time I hear it.
2. Sinner - Neil Finn. I listen to this one over and over. I love Neil.
3. Arithmetic - Brooke Fraser. Such a pretty song.
4. No Ordinary Thing - Opshop.
5. Venus - The Feelers. This song was on the radio the first summer I spent in NZ. I will always remember getting to know my new family with this song in the background.
6. Better Be Home Soon - Crowded House. I don't actually know how they were able to pick just one Crowded House song.
7. Drive - Bic Runga. Love this song.
8. Not Many - Scribe. Hometown homeboy from Christchurch.
9. Swing - Savage. My nephews liked it so much they put it on their iPods immediately.
10. Give it a Whirl - Split Enz.
Honorable Mentions:
It's too Late - Evermore
Damn the River - The Phoenix Foundation. Love it for the blatant rip off of Dire Straits.
Sophie - Goodshirt
Wandering Eye - Fat Freddy's Drop.
Whaling - DD Smash
Why Does Love Do this To Me? - The Exponents
The funny thing about this CD is that some artists are represented multiple times. For example, DD Smash, Dave Dobbyn, The Exponents, Dave Dobbyn and Herbs are all featuring Dave Dobbyn. Same with Split Enz and Neil Finn, and Crowded House. Not to mention Tim and Liam Finn (Tim is the brother of Neil and founder of Split Enz, while Liam is either Tim or Neil's son. Liam also has a band called Betchadupa which isn't represented here). Bic Runga has a sister (Boh) who is the lead singer for Stellar*. So, the gist is that NZ is musically quite incestuous.
The other thing that's funny about it is that so many of the songs have been used as commercials. I listened to the CD the first time and said to myself "that's the ferry commercial", "that's the KMart commercial", "oh, THAT'S a KMart commercial too", "hey! the margerine commercial!" etc.
Anyway, hope you enjoy it. Listen for a while. It grows on you.
4 comments:
Glad to hear you enjoyed Shaun. Personally, I LOVE that flick. So hilarious. I fully expect you to watch it a few more times so that a line or two might sneak into your frequently quoted movies...
"You've got red on you..."
"There is no 'I' in Team, but there is an 'I' in Pie. And there is an 'I' in Meat Pie. Anagram of Meat is Team..."
"We're coming to get you, Barbara..."
That's all I have off the top of my head... Er, BRAINS!!! ...at the moment.
Shaun of the Dead is pretty great.
Oh, and speaking of -- that stuff you sent is pretty great! bk and I are both looking for that t-shirt.
I despise Australia!
Which t-shirt? The Four Square man? I can get it for you.
Oh, you mean the no crying in rugby shirt? I can get that too.
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