Please check out Lily Allen’s remake of ELO’s song Mr. Blue Sky. This is one of my favourite songs. It makes me feel happy on the worst of days and even if you’re already happy, maybe it will just make you feel like getting up and dancing. Even if you can’t dance… :)
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Monthly Archives: December 2007
Coincidence? I Think Not!
As I was listening to a song called You Never Give Me Your Money by The Beatles, I noticed toward the end a very interesting chorus:
One two three four five six seven,
All good children go to Heaven
It repeated various times and there was a similarity in it’s melody that I could not pass up to write about! If you listen to Dear Mr. Supercomputer by Sufjan Stevens, you’ll notice another chorus being sung quietly toward the end of the song as well:
1-2-3-4-5-6-7 All computers go to heaven
If you think you got the vision,
Put it in the conversation
1-2-3-4-5-6-7 All computers go to heaven
If you think you got the vision,
Put it in the conversation
I thought this was neat. Both sound very similar to me. Yes, the words may be different, but… well why don’t you take a listen? :)
Movie Review: There Will Be Blood
Okay here we go. It’s been almost a week since I said I post the review for There Will Be Blood. For that I apologize. If you have no idea what this movie is, be sure to check out the trailer.
“A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century Texas prospector (Daniel Day-Lewis) in the early days of the business.” -imdb.com
So you might think. A movie about people digging for oil? Can’t be too promising, right? Well this is where you’re wrong. There are so many themes surrounding this movie that I will have to watch it again to catch the ones that I missed. The biggest theme encircling this film is greed. The desire to always want more. And as the movie displays, nobody is saved from this desire. Bellow this is the theme of betrayal. We see that everyone lies to each other and there is no love for other humans. There is only love for the material objects they posses (or do not posses).
The story is very easy to follow, but you must be paying attention to the little details because they come back to haunt you later on in the film. I felt that the direction in which Paul Thomas Anderson took this was a clever one. Every moment was suspenseful. The music, at first, is very abrupt and frightening. But as the film progressed I realized that this was the way it had to be done. There is a sense of fear that flows subtly beneath the subtext. The work that these men did was very dangerous and I felt that it was truly portrayed properly.
Daniel Day-Lewis was superb. An award winning performance. He was mad, but in his eyes you could see the ambition, the need to succeed and have more. DDL captured his character so well, that it’s difficult to see him be any other person but this man. Paul Dano is extremely promising and we should all expect great things from him in the future. Playing his own twin, he manages to show a frightening side of the evangelist movement.
This movie is not for everybody. It’s geared toward a more mature audience, so I suggest you put your kids to sleep before watching this film. But you won’t regret it. This is worth it.
