Music and Movies

The Brothers Martin - s/t
Woohoo! I am happy to have this. It's the brothers I talked about in the last blog entry. When they collaborate it comes out sounding something like The Cure. Most people would consider that a good thing. I love this music. I would not be unhappy if this is my favorite album of 2007. Just go check out their e-card and listen to the 4 songs they have on there http://www.toothandnail.com/brosmartin/ecard/

Joy Electric - Hello Mannequin
I am glad I finally got one of this guy's albums. It's a meal and dessert in one album. Plenty of hearty substance within the course and a wonderful amount of sweetness. I will definitely get The Ministry of Archers sometime, and maybe another one.

The new Switchfoot album came out in the last week of December. It's closer to what I like from them than Nothing Is Sound was, but like that album I probably won't buy it. I will definitely look into buying mp3s of some specific tracks, though.

Film-wise, 2006 was not as good a year for me at theaters. I saw movies much more socially last year, which was good. However, most of the experiences were sub-par. V for Vendetta, X-Men, and Snakes On A Plane were all entertaining, but I left the theater feeling wrong in some way. The films I enjoyed in theaters were Little Miss Sunshine and Superman Returns. There may have been another movie I attended last year, but I can't think of what it was. Oh wait. Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest. This one goes with the first set. Entertaining, but it felt very wrong. It's an incomplete movie. Other films with anticipated installments (Kill Bill Vol. 1, Empire Strikes Back, X Men 2, etc.) may end with unresolved questions and cliffhangers, but very few end without resolving anything. They tried to beef up the film with set pieces and action sequences. It was uneccessarily long and tried to fool people into thinking they had watched $9 worth of storytelling.

Thankfully, I have Netflix.

This year, I have already seen The Curse of the Golden Flower, Pan's Labyrinth, and Children of Men. Interestingly, all three are directed by foreign born directors. All three had some interesting substance to them, though I recommend the last two more than the first. Intense movies, the lot of them.