Movies:
The wife caught these guys last night, doing their thing with Jekyll & Hyde. She had equally high praise for the live musical accompaniment and for John Barrymore's turn as the good Doctor (and his not-so-good antithesis).
They give the same treatment to some other silent classics- hopefully the success of this visit will inspire a return engagement with another movie from their repertoire.
TV:
We just got done plowing through the first two seasons of Lost, which were good fun in a 1930's movie serial kind of way. It's seems strange that a show built on the tried-and-true cliffhanger melodrama format is perceived as something fresh and new. Although given the stale lifelessness of most network offerings energy goes a long way, and Lost commits to its storylines in a way that would seem shocking if not for HBO's original dramas.
But is is a show with more appeal to a geek than a squarejohn citizen.
The moment that first captured my attention was an inexplicable polar bear attack...which is the same moment that caused the wife to throw up her hands in and cry out "what the hell is this?".
Music:
Grizzly Bear, Yellow House
Low key but alive & deep.
Califone
especially their last two,Heron King Blues & Roots & Crowns
If Tom Waits had drifted into spare, haunted Americana instead of Kurt Weil's 1920's Berlin speakeasy he'd sound like these guys. Well, not really...but their subterranean mythology seems to share a distant spiritual wellspring with Waits circa Rain Dogs/Swordfishtrombone.
I haven't been reading much lately, just throwaway genre trash I wouldn't impose on you. Maybe next time.
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