10 June, 2006

Pride & Prejudice by Jean-Yves Thibaudet

The soundtrack to the latest rendition of Jane Austen's book Pride & Prejudice is as gorgeous as the movie. If that statement seems ambiguous watch the movie (and by the way it's GORGEOUS!) The soundtrack builds off haunting piano tracks and tunes perfect for holding grande balls, and creates a world that threatens to wrap you up and consume you within its reality. It excites all the right emotions for the movie at exactly the right moments, and besides being completely wonderful soundtrack music, it is also gorgeous on its own. Striking all the right chords (literally), creating the perfect dramatic tension, rising to the occasion, ending with catharsis, and in between being just amazingly beautiful, this is the soundtrack for rainy days and solemn nights, for sunny mornings and long summers, the falling of autumn leaves and mid-afternoon naps, this is the soundtrack for life!

02 June, 2006

Survey Time, baby!

10 MOST PLAYED ARTISTS

1. Pixies
2. ZOX
3. Apollo Sunshine
4. Green Day
5. Rancid
6. Led Zeppelin
7. The Specials
8. Operation Ivy
9. Cast Of Rent
10. Bob Dylan


What was the first song you ever heard by 6?
The first one I remember was "Communication Breakdown" one night driving with my dad at like 1 am. There's nothing better than loud Led in the middle of the night in a fast car, these things are what rock 'n' roll's about.

What is your favorite album of 2?
Take Me Home.

What is your favorite lyric that 5 has sung?
Toughy, but it would have to be "you can take my money, you can take my time, but you can't take my heart it's in the city behind."

How many times have you seen 4 live?
Twice.

What is your favorite song by 7?
"Little Bitch".

What is a good memory you have involving the music of 10?
Watching the rockumentary on PBS and realizing how much I love the music and how annoyed I am by the man.

Is there a song of 3 that makes you sad?
"Fear Of Heights", but it's more of a happy/sad feeling that cannot be described in words.

What is your favorite lyric that 2 has sung?
"I know if I fall I'll call out to you."

What is your favorite song by 9?
"Another Day." It's just amazing the way the song climaxes with all of the music and feeling and the voices battling in unison (if that makes sense?). Amazing.

How did you get into 3?
I heard them on the radio, and then this guy I liked wore their t-shirt.

What was the first song you heard by 1?
"Where Is My Mind?" at the end of Fight Club. Mind-blowing.

What is your favorite song by 4?
"She", the percussion rocks.

How many time have you seen 9 live?
Well I've never seen the play, but I've seen the movie twice.

What is a good memory you have involving 2?
Seeing them live (which you can read about in this journal btw ;) My favorite part of the show was when Spencer dedicated a song to "All the people who thought the only way in this place was up all those FUCKIN' STAIRS!!" You kinda had to be there to get the joke.

Is there a song of 8 that makes you sad?
No. Op Ivy is pretty much celebratory/angry music, not sad music.

What is your favorite album of 5?
Nevermind. I know it's a cliche, but I love that album.

What is your favorite lyric that 3 has sung?
"not like the green so high above and below, now I am an airplane, am an airplane, oo-ee-oo-ee-oo!"

What is your favorite song of 1?
Hey/Debaser/Where Is My Mind?

What is your favorite song of 10?
Don't Think Twice It's Alright

How many times have you seen 8 live?
They broke up in the late '80s! So I guess the answer to your question would be zero. Zero times, baby!

What is your favorite album of 1?
Surfer Rosa.

What is a great memory you have concerning 7?
Playing DDR with my cousin to Little Bitch.

What was the first song you heard by 8?
Knowledge. But I actually heard the cover by Green Day.

What is your favorite cover by 2?
Where Is My Mind? by the Pixies. I wish I had written that song, freakin' amazing!