I hope to do a blog every week or so with everything I'm listening to/watching/reading.
What I'm listening to:
Lupe Fiasco--Enemy of the State (A Love Story). I can't turn this mixtape off. I know it's nowhere near Food & Liquor or The Cool, but it's Lupe. His flow is better than ever on borrowed beats--this next album is going to be ridiculous.
Andrew Bird--Armchair Apocrypha. I'm not sure if Bird means eveything he says in his lyrics, but if he does, he is one deranged genius. And if his lyrics are just for fun, well then he's just a genius. Check out "A Nervous Tick Motion of the Head to the Left", it has the emotional punch with musicianship beyond belief.
Yo-Yo Ma--Bach Cello Suites. For work. It's awesome.
What I'm reading:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy--I hope McCarthy is immortal, because I haven't found an author whose imagery is as visceral and compelling as his. This book is downright bleak.
What I'm watching:
Magnolia--This movie hits so close on so many levels. Earl's dying confession makes me tear up. It isn't the best movie I've seen, but it's my favorite. "I loved her so. And she knew what I did. She knew all the fucking stupid things I'd done. But the love... was stronger than anything you can think of. The goddamn regret. The goddamn regret! Oh, and I'll die. Now I'll die, and I'll tell you what... the biggest regret of my life... I let my love go.This fucking life... oh, it's so fucking hard. So long. Life ain't short, it's long. It's long, goddamn it. Goddamn."
No Country For Old Men--I don't know how I hit my favorite and what I consider to be "the best" movie of all time in the same blog, but this movie is it. The imagery in this movie is so striking. Everything is so barren and dark, yet so beautiful. If you haven't seen it, do so.
Casino--What a mes. The characters in this story, that is, not the movie. Scorsese's most brutal movie yet. It isn't his best mobster film--that goes to the Departed, but it's certainly his most entertaining. It's just hard to like any of these characters, they're all terrible people.
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