Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Little Miss Sunshine

Such an amazing movie, I'm not sure what I'd have done without Dwayne's vow of silence. He introduced me to Neitzche, while Uncle Frank redefined suffering. Its amazing how a good movie can change your wold view. On a side note, this is one of two unbelievably sad movies with 'sunshine' in the title, go figure.
I realized I hadn't done a Top Five in quite a while, so here's my Top Five songs for Angsty, Jaded, World-Weary, and above all, Sarcastic Teens:
  1. Telescope Eyes -Eisley (original edit, if it doesn't make you punch a wall in frustration, you've got the wrong one)
  2. Learning The Game -Leo Kottke ( Similarly, grown men weep when this song is played. I've seen it.)
  3. Sudden Death in Carolina -Brand New (not so much sad as a translation of numb fury put into sound-waves, listen to the beat, it just... carries you away, then the lyrics... just...listen.)
  4. Its Cool, We Can Still Be Friends -Bright Eyes ( The first of two hard Hitters by Bright Eyes, the pain and cold, sickening misery are enough to dwarf any you've experienced before)
  5. First Day of My Life -Bright Eyes ( The second Bright Eyes masterpiece, required because if any song ever written could lift your spirits after hearing such a profusion of misery and frustration, this is it, the most perfect love song ever conceived of in our generation)
That turned out to be a much darker list than I intended... at least its a step in the right direction.

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