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The bit that you skip #139: Jóhann Jóhannsson – The Beast
Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario was a hard sell in my house. My parents automatically dismissed it as a “racist movie” with stereotypes of Mexico. They thought the same of Soderbergh’s Traffic and I didn’t really insist on them watching the movie. Instead, I ended up in a half empty late function, the way I prefer them.…
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The bit that you skip #138: Hans Zimmer – Journey to the line
War movies are a tricky subject. How can you glorify such carnage without feeling remorse? Exploiting human suffering for box office results always felt off and I’m wary of the genre most of the time, even if I’ve indulged into a few of these flicks in the past. The one exception is Terrence Malick’s adaptation…
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The bit that you skip #137: Lenny Kravitz – Believe
Maudlin week part #7: We’ve been here before and it’s all meta. I leave Manotas by the bar. He can manage the drunken revelers with the premixed drinks I’ve left him, and if not, he’s clever enough to do his own drinks and keep ’em inebriated. Jess hasn’t been around for a while and she…
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The bit that you skip #136: Amerie – 1 thing
Maudlin week part 6: Billiards, Beyoncé as a skinwalker, and a brighter future. You don’t intend to lose friends. You just drift away, and before you realise, you’re no longer a pangaea. I haven’t seen Sam in about 12 years or so. We’re both going a bit grey in our hair, but give us a…
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The bit that you skip #135: Fastball – Are you ready for the fallout?
Maudlin week part#5: Stupidity as wide as Miramar’s beach. Love can make you do real stupid shit. That’s a given and it’s cliché. Love can supposedly make people better. That’s an even worse cliché and I think it’s bullshit. But what if it’s not love? What if it’s a midlife crisis in advance? And one…
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The bit that you skip #134: Third Eye Blind – Semi-Charmed Life
Maudlin week part 4: Beach parties, scars, and what a smile hides. The end of 98 was brutal. I had to stop my part time job at the computer lab because it was affecting my grades and the pay wasn’t enough to quit school. I had gone through a major break up with Jean in…
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The bit that you skip #133: Natalie Imbruglia – Torn
Maudlin week part #3: A chance re-encounter, overplayed pop hits, and huaraches. Mid February of 98 and the wind outside is a wild thing to behold. I’m at the cafeteria with Eliza, who is meeting Iris on the lower floor of the joint. She ponders for a moment what to get, and goes for chilaquiles…
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The bit that you skip #131 : Matchbox 20 – 3 AM
Welcome to “Maudlin week”! Part 1 is a pre-Santana-ed Rob Thomas and company banger. On one of his business trips, my dad bought me a couple of CDs. He got a sampler from a label, it was called “Rocktober” and had a bunch of bands on it. I remember The Tea Party, Sugar Ray (with…
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The bit that you skip #130: Georges Auric – Roman Holiday
The cursed movie. That’s the name my mum gave to Roman Holiday, a 1953 romantic comedy she saw as a kid. Sundays after church were for candy and cinema. My grandma would give her four children what little she could spare for them to have at least one day of carefree fun. Cinemas were divided…
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