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August 11, 2005
Found Sugar
Cultural items I am enjoying while I am supposed to be working:
* I've never quite connected with the long-polar-nights pop produced by Sigur Ros. I basked in it on a few early mornings, but always felt that it wouldn't fully resonate unless I set about on a steady pharmocological diet. But "Hoppipolla"... now that's more like it. Listen for the moment, two minutes and fourteen seconds in, when the orchestra returns with a gooey detonation, like a Twinkie tossed in the microwave.
* There's more aspertine at the "Internet First Look" for Elizabethtown, the new Cameron Crowe movie. The greatest virtue of Crowe's films is their innocent emotional fevers; they all feel as if they were shot the night after high school graduation. The "First Look" isn't a trailer so much as some scenes choppily strung together on an Elton John tune, but it carries the same buoyancy. The Kentucky setting works well for these images: no surprise that when Crowe films the South, it isn't a Gothic underbelly but a soft, warm playground, where you go to recover from sorrow. Probably not true, but it actually is pretty to think so.
| By mesh | 05:04 PM
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