Nick and Norah's Endless Playlist
After a long and splendidly relaxing weekend in Phoenix visiting Jen, Adam, and Nancy Kate Burns (including a hike by Camelback Mountain, pictured above), Krista and I are back in the Bay and feeling refreshed. We're catching up on emails, watching the Alaska CruiseWest DVD Krista signed up for (hip hip hooray!), and listening to Nick and Norah's Endless Playlist, which we watched Sunday night with the Burns (and everyone loved it). Here's the trailer:
To me, one of the signs of a truly good novel/movie/story is when not every detail is 1) made ultra obvious to the viewer (this doesn't work for mainstream products, I realize, but I like it nonetheless) 2) meaningful. The second point is important, because all too often I feel like a story I am being told is made of 100% relevant details that all add up to some meaning, when life itself isn't actually like that. One of the hardest things about life, I think, is sorting things that are meaningful to me personally from those that are not, when they all may be meaningful to other people simply because of different values, backgrounds, or beliefs. Of course, a story can't be TOO full of "meaningless" details that don't feed directly into the plot, or it will just be confusing.
The music is also quite good, so I'm going to add a couple of the songs that we like best to the blog thanks to lala.com. Enjoy!
"Very Loud" by "Shout Out Louds"
"Our Swords" by Band of Horses
"Ottoman" by Vampire Weekend (I can't remember if this is on the Vampire Weekend album I got into a few months back or not; and Lala won't let me embed for copyright reasons, I'm sure, so here's
the link instead)
1 comments:
This movie is in my queue to watch next. I think Michael Cerra is adorable (Juno adorable, not Superbad adorable - worst movie EVER, which I know makes me so uncool for saying that). I love Band of Horses!! Their first album, which "Our Swords" is from, is stronger than their second one, imo. They are supposed to be amazing live. Did you know they are from SC?
Re what makes a good movie etc. - I completely agree, although sometimes you want something totally silly but you obviously go in to that with low expectations and such.
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