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Stranger Than Fiction

An interview with Brian Reitzell and Britt Daniel in Harp about the music in Stranger than Fiction. My favorite part:

"The best thing about working on a movie is that you have a captive audience and they have to listen to the music," Reitzell continues. "You don't have that when you make a record."

"Right, they have to listen to the music the whole way through," adds Daniel. "Unless they walk out like I did during Garden State. I just couldn't take it, man."

Good stuff!

"This condition I got is crucial..."

A couple of things:

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  Adore
  As an addendum to last week's vox hunt--which I answered--another great love song, perhaps one of the greatest songs in forever: Prince's "Adore".
• The remix of Ciara's "Promise", featuring R. Kelly, is really very, very good: "Even though I'm Kells / and I've got all of these chicks chasing me".
• My favorite line from this last week's episode of The Office: Andy saying to Michael, "gonna go home, get my beer on, get my 'Lost' on".
• Ghostface's Fishscale, from last year, continues to offer up new favorites every couple of days, still, eight or however many months later. This week it's "Big Girl", with Ghostface doing his soulful thing over The Stylistics "You're a Big Girl Now".
• A fantastic post on The Tofu Hut about Amy Winehouse, whose "You Know I'm No Good" sounds so much better on Ghostface's More Fish, and whose "Back to Black" (the song, but also the album) is fantastic.

Vox Hunt: This Goes Out To All The Lovers

Audio:  Share a great love song.

Breakfast In Bed

Orange Juice's "Consolation Prize" gets my top vote for great (greatest!) love song ("I'll be your consolation prize--although, I know..."), but since I've already posted about it, I'll go tonight with Dusty Springfield's "Breakfast in Bed", from the so-brilliant-I-could-have-chosen-anything-from-it Dusty in Memphis:

You've been crying; your face is a mess.
Come in baby,
You can dry the tears on my dress.
She's hurt you again, I can tell--
Oh, I know that look so well.

Calling "Breakfast in Bed" a love song might be stretching it a bit, but it strikes me as a sort of reverse-gender "Consolation Prize", in a way: a main character who can provide only a shoulder to cry on or a hand to hold (or otherwise, as the case may be), but who will never be more than a part-time diversion. Though, as you'd probably expect, Dusty sounds a lot more confident, sexy & sly about her role as the other woman than Edwyn does about being his crush's fey best friend.