“Llorando” in “Mulholland Drive.”
Today.
“Sail” by AWOLNATION. Color me obsessed.
College and Electric Youth Explain the Captain Sully Inspiration for Drive’s ‘Real Hero’
AG: [Laughs.] It’s amazing the coincidences that came together. Really, it started separate, as two ideas. On my side, I had this conversation with my grandfather, and he had been really moved by Captain Sully Sullenberger, who had crash landed that plane safely. He was the one who came to me talking about “a real human being and a real hero.” That was my grandpas’ words, so I should credit him for that. And at the same time, I was like, how can I make this into a cool song, something about a hero. Then after a couple months, totally coincidental, David sends me this instrumental, titled “A Real Hero,” already …
DG: I wanted to give a homage to that lonely hero that we see in movies like Mad Max … people who make their own choice and try to save lives. I want to give an homage. It was a coincidence.
AG: So really it came together like that, the first half of the song is very much Mad Max inspired. We are really inspired by films, and it was the thought of his character. And the second verse, the inspiration was Sully Sullenberger.
DG: When we finished the EP, I wanted to make video for the track, and I asked a friend from L.A. to shoot something inside the L.A. River.AG: That was a video concept we had had! [via Vulture]
“A Real Hero” by College & Electric Youth from the “Drive” soundtrack. See the film, get the soundtrack. Both are excellent.
Best Coast’s new music video kicks it.
Movie star Drew Barrymore has even caught sight of them, and has now directed a music video for the group. Both Barrymore and Best Coast have pulled out all the stops here and created a remarkable music video for the song “Our Deal.” Featuring actors Donald Glover and Arrested Development’s Alia Shawkat, this is quite an impressive endeavor.
The video reminds me of a mix between 1970’s cult classic The Warriors and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders. It tells the story of two rival Los Angeles gangs with Glover and Shawkat leading one, and actor Tyler Posey running the other. The story finds its stride when one of the gang members, Kick Ass’s Chloe Mortez, falls in love with rival gang leader Posey. With the opening shots of trains going along the outskirts of a crime ridden city, it imitates the Walter Hill directed movie perfectly. The final showdown between the two rival gangs is similar to the best scenes in Outsiders, and the narrative ends in an unlikely twist, proving that Drew Barrymore is a talented director. [via CinemaBlend]
“Unknown Brothers” by The Black Keys + writing + not leaving my ACed room + entertaining a teenage runaway = my Sunday.
Watch Bill O'Reilly and Lupe Fiasco Have It Out With One Another
The lesson? Reality TV can be OK. [via Daily Intel]
“So Well” by Dawes. Love new album. First album is brilliant.
The Willis Test Is The New Bechdel Test
A crude but often revealing method of assessing male bias in lyrics is to take a song written by a man about a woman and reverse the sexes. By this test, a diatribe like [the Rolling Stones’] “Under My Thumb” is not nearly so sexist in its implications as, for example, Cat Stevens’ gentle, sympathetic “Wild World”; Jagger’s fantasy of sweet revenge could easily be female—in fact, it has a female counterpart, Nancy Sinatra’s “Boots” — but it’s hard to imagine a woman sadly warning her ex-lover that he’s too innocent for the big bad world out there.* [music critic, feminist, and thinker Ellen Willis’ 1971 essay “But Now I’m Gonna Move” via Jezebel]
We met by a trick of fate
French Navy, my sailor mate
“French Navy” by Camera Obscura.
