Films from yesterday
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petroniaAn Inconvenient Truth and Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man. Tuesdays at AMC are 1/3 off the regular price and both films are short, being documentaries. I recommend the first and if you're interested in the second (and it's feasible) watching them together in this order is a good angle to take, for... thematic reasons?
It's easy to make a quip re Al Gore giving good Powerpoint but - Al Gore gives good Powerpoint. ^^; Am conversant with the science but was nailed to my seat. Also suspect the comparative success of the film is not so much due to the message being compelling - although it is - than to the message being (finally?) timely. I don't know anyone who grew up in this town and isn't convinced the climate is changing through the simple exercise of walking around outside and remembering what it was like to walk around outside as a little kid. People think short-term and exponentials look linear if not flat over the short term, but if the curve is on the up-and-up then even the tangent is steep for all to see.
If this holds out you'll all be wanting to move to Montreal. Time to invest in real estate, ha, ha!
After seeing this movie Justin started talking about going to B.C. to plant trees for the summer. I didn't make the connection at the time but now I do. XD
The Leonard Cohen flick won't tell a fan much they don't know already, but the interviews are a pleasure to watch - he's one of those writers who speak in perfectly formed sentences, out of habit. Also if you want to see the Wainwrights, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Beth Orton etc. cover Leonard Cohen songs live; it's not a bad proposition. *g* (I thought Cave struggled the hardest actually, probably because his tonality is close enough that he has to work at not 'doing Leonard Cohen'. Martha Wainwright doesn't have this problem. XD I might get the soundtrack just for her rendition of "The Traitor". OTOH Jarvis sort of embraced a 'roffle I am Jarvis Cocker watch me sing Leonard Cohen' approach... I really liked what Antony did with "If It Be Your Will" but his stage mannerisms were so distracting I had to close my eyes to listen.
Bono was scary. But when is Bono not scary these days, it's that overwhelming sense of Bono-ness, when I see him all I can think is "Oshi, it's Bono! o_O;;")
Was of course reminded of more songs I should have uploaded, so... I uploaded more. XD "Chelsea Hotel No.2", "A Thousand Kisses Deep", and "Anthem". Which I may have uploaded today regardless, after having read that Jostein Gaarder op-piece. I prefer Old Lennie's rhetoric.
Lyrics behind a cut because they're long, but worth a read.
Anthem
The birds they sang
At the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what
Has passed away
Or what is yet to be
Ah the wars they will
Be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
Bought and sold
And bought again
The dove is never free
Ring the bells
That still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
We asked for signs
The signs were sent:
The birth betrayed
The marriage spent
Yeah the widowhood
Of every government
Signs for all to see
I can't run no more
With that lawless crowd
While the killers in high places
Say their prayers out loud
But they've summoned,
They've summoned up
A thundercloud
And they're going
To hear from me
Ring the bells that still can ring...
You can add up the parts
But you won't have the sum
You can strike up the march,
There is no drum
Every heart, every heart
To love will come
But like a refugee
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack,
A crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack,
A crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
That's how the light gets in
That's how the light gets in
It's easy to make a quip re Al Gore giving good Powerpoint but - Al Gore gives good Powerpoint. ^^; Am conversant with the science but was nailed to my seat. Also suspect the comparative success of the film is not so much due to the message being compelling - although it is - than to the message being (finally?) timely. I don't know anyone who grew up in this town and isn't convinced the climate is changing through the simple exercise of walking around outside and remembering what it was like to walk around outside as a little kid. People think short-term and exponentials look linear if not flat over the short term, but if the curve is on the up-and-up then even the tangent is steep for all to see.
After seeing this movie Justin started talking about going to B.C. to plant trees for the summer. I didn't make the connection at the time but now I do. XD
The Leonard Cohen flick won't tell a fan much they don't know already, but the interviews are a pleasure to watch - he's one of those writers who speak in perfectly formed sentences, out of habit. Also if you want to see the Wainwrights, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Beth Orton etc. cover Leonard Cohen songs live; it's not a bad proposition. *g* (I thought Cave struggled the hardest actually, probably because his tonality is close enough that he has to work at not 'doing Leonard Cohen'. Martha Wainwright doesn't have this problem. XD I might get the soundtrack just for her rendition of "The Traitor". OTOH Jarvis sort of embraced a 'roffle I am Jarvis Cocker watch me sing Leonard Cohen' approach... I really liked what Antony did with "If It Be Your Will" but his stage mannerisms were so distracting I had to close my eyes to listen.
Bono was scary. But when is Bono not scary these days, it's that overwhelming sense of Bono-ness, when I see him all I can think is "Oshi, it's Bono! o_O;;")
Was of course reminded of more songs I should have uploaded, so... I uploaded more. XD "Chelsea Hotel No.2", "A Thousand Kisses Deep", and "Anthem". Which I may have uploaded today regardless, after having read that Jostein Gaarder op-piece. I prefer Old Lennie's rhetoric.
Lyrics behind a cut because they're long, but worth a read.
Anthem
The birds they sang
At the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what
Has passed away
Or what is yet to be
Ah the wars they will
Be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
Bought and sold
And bought again
The dove is never free
Ring the bells
That still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
We asked for signs
The signs were sent:
The birth betrayed
The marriage spent
Yeah the widowhood
Of every government
Signs for all to see
I can't run no more
With that lawless crowd
While the killers in high places
Say their prayers out loud
But they've summoned,
They've summoned up
A thundercloud
And they're going
To hear from me
Ring the bells that still can ring...
You can add up the parts
But you won't have the sum
You can strike up the march,
There is no drum
Every heart, every heart
To love will come
But like a refugee
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack,
A crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack,
A crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
That's how the light gets in
That's how the light gets in
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Date: 2006-08-10 04:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-10 04:55 am (UTC)Chrissie hit the nail on the head; you're so overwhelmingly and startlingly cute. XD