October 19, 2005
A musical interlude:
1. Those twenty-two Elliot Smith bootlegs that leaked online the other day are wonderful. I don't know when or if they'll be officially released, but I hope they aren't cleaned up in any way.
2. The only time I ever turn on the Letterman show is to see certain musicians. The last time was when Tom Waits sang Make It Rain last year and then told a joke about an alligator; tonight, Antony & The Johnsons were on. They played You Are My Sister, and, as I expected, Antony sounded even better live than he does on the record. He was also on NPR last week; I was driving to school, and those opening notes of Hope There's Someone came on the radio just the sun came up over the horizon. It was a wonderful moment, and it made my day, even though I subsequently went on to just about fail my history exam.
3. I can't get Andrew Dickson's score for Naked out of my head. I'm hearing it now over various sequences in The Outlaw Son, which until now had been entirely silent. I think they'll still end up being silent, but this mental musical infusion is changing the way I've conceived the scenes, giving them new focus and purpose. I'm unsure as to whether or not this is a good thing.
4. I told Nick that instead of discussing a visual scheme for the film, I was just going to give him a mix CD and that we'd just talk about that instead, and he could light the film accordingly. I was only halfway joking.
Posted by David Lowery at October 19, 2005 01:06 AM
Comments
Man, I've got the 'Buffy' theme song in my head...
Posted by: Matt at October 19, 2005 05:02 AM
I always had mixed feelings about that music. It sorta annoyed me, but I like it now, thinking back on it. And the band's name was a Star Wars reference, which is sorta cool.
Posted by: Ghostboy at October 19, 2005 07:20 AM
Actually a couple of those songs are B-sides and three or four have been floating around on bootlegs for years. All the new stuff is beautiful and I to hope that if they release them they leave them just as they are.
Posted by: jmj at October 19, 2005 01:34 PM
i must find said bootlegs...
Posted by: brad at October 19, 2005 02:39 PM
You've got an e-mail in your inbox, Brad.
James, you don't have track names for any of the songs, do you?
Matt, I forgot to mention re: Buffy music - there are some good musical guests on the show, like Cibo Mato and Aimee Mann. And keep looking forward to the musical episode.
Posted by: Ghostboy at October 19, 2005 02:53 PM
Here are two very informative articles that have track listings:
http://www.nme.com/news/elliott-smith/21273
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1511555/20051014/smith_elliott.jhtml?headlines=true
Posted by: jmj at October 19, 2005 07:44 PM
Okay here's a more precise track listing:
1. Placeholder
2. See My City Dead
3. Abused
4. Either/Or
5. Georgia
6. Riot Coming
7. High Times
8. Angel in the Snow
9. New Disaster
10. I Don't Think I'm Ever Gonna Figure It Out
11. Whatever (Some Folk Song in C)
12. Another Standard Folk Song
13. No Name #6
14. Going Nowhere
15. The Worst Part Is Almost Over
16. ?
17. Thirteen (Big Star cover)
18. Trouble (Cat Stevens cover)
19. Taking a Fall
20. The Last Hour
21. Amanda Cecilia
22. Let's Get Lost
Posted by: jmj at October 19, 2005 08:08 PM
Awesome.
Posted by: Ghostboy at October 19, 2005 09:45 PM
nice stuff!
Posted by: brad at October 19, 2005 10:06 PM