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The bit that you skip #141: Lorne Balfe – Regan vs. Trebolt
The last trip I had with my parents was in 2011. We were in London before taking a bus tour around Great Britain and some parts near Trafalgar Square were closed for the day. On the distance, gaffers and dudes with smoking hot cuppas of tea stood around. One fellow was pointing towards St. James’s…
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The bit that you skip #140: M83 – Starwaves
The early 2010s weren’t good for neither Tom Cruise nor Joseph Kosinski. Cruise’s Day & Knight and both Jack Reacher flicks failed to catch momentum, and Kosinski’s visually impressive Tron Legacy was a box office disappointment (like all Tron movies, so maybe it’s a curse?) When I read that both Cruise and Kosinski would make…
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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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