Friend Leland sends in this new bit of
one-word poetry, "Lion-eating poet in the stone den," to give "
Buffalo buffalo..." a run for its money...New
Psychic Envelopes activity—no, not the mega-single "Berlin Wall," but a double cover of Team Knucklehead and some unknown band out of Liverpool!...Finally saw
Once, and I concur with
Atkinson and the
Termites—loved this movie! Termite Matt points out that a version of "Falling Slowly" that stars Glen Hansard (of the Frames) and Marketa Irglova played on
The Tonight Show "doesn't have the same heat, the same exhilarating release of energy as the version in
Once." The song gets embedded in your head—
I was humming it as I walked home—and I think part of the reason is the very canny way it's presented in the film: We watch and listen as Hansard teaches the song to Irglova (they are nameless in the movie), at the back of the music store where she sometimes goes to practice piano; he sings out the parts for her before he starts playing the song proper, and this makes our encounter with the song as fresh as hers (as
theirs, really, since this is the first time they've played it together)—
we're learning it at the same time...
Once opens on Hansard playing Van Morrison's "And the Healing Has Begun"; here's footage of him singing VM's "
Astral Weeks"...Dizzyhead L. muses on
post-apocalyptic lit—and film—and TV—and
music...Dizzyhead
Thomas has a blog..."Things I Learned in 2002," a short prose piece by Dizzyhead/
Psychic E. chanteuse Sarah is the basis for this terrific
short film...She looks Asian!...I have a Dizzyhead meme/contest in the works...STAY TUNED...
Labels: Leland de la Durantaye, Michael Atkinson, Once, Psychic Envelopes, Sarah Manguso, Termite Art, The Frames, Thomas Beard, Van Morrison
