Saturday, August 26, 2006

So let's see, this thing looks like it's working again. It wasn't before I went to catch Air Guitar Nation and loudQUIETloud: a film about the Pixies. More about these tomorrow, I just had the train ride from hell back from Edinburgh. Packed with pissed-up Snow Patrol fans and sundry other divots. Not pretty or clever. And people ask me why I don't like to go out, if you'd have been there then you would have seen a cast iron, maybe even titanium example. Wonder if the poor guy who had to go all the way to Stirling among this rabble and then change for Perth made it? First Scotrail really need to get their act together, the thought is making my neck pop. Time to calm down with some Bilko.

1 comment:

Per Hägred said...

Hallo from Malmo and thank you very much for a really good blog! The swedish word for air guitar is luftgitarr. A kind of related word is hockeyfrilla. And an other really good movie about music is this one (the first pressings of this dvd were destroyed during Katrina):
Lucero - Dreaming In America (DVD + CD)
From their troubled past, to the recording of their new album Nobody`s Darlings, Dreaming In America, by New York Filmmaker Aaron Goldman, serves as an emotional testimony of a band that makes music because they love it, they`re compelled to, and their lives depend on it. It is the story of a blue-collar rock group`s fight to exist and thrive since they formed in the late `90s. Dreaming In America starts with the band between labels and, though they had sold north of 20,000 records, the boys had not earned a single cent through royalties. Inspired by films like D.A. Pennebaker`s classic Don`t Look Back, Jem Cohen`s Fugazi documentary, Instrument, and the highly acclaimed Wilco movie by Sam Jones, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Dreaming In America takes a brutally honest look at a brutally honest band. It documents Lucero`s endless travels on the road, playing more than 250 shows a year and trying to find their home in an ever-changing music industry. Bonus CD Track Listing: Tonight Ain`t Gonna Be Good/Kiss The Bottle/Sixteen/Nights Like These/And We Fell/No Roses, No More/California/Hearts On Fire/Sweet Little Thing/In Lonesome Times/Tears Don`t Matter Much/Crystal Blue/The War (Liberty & Lament)