advice.

"In this life, just find something you really love doing. Then, simply learn to do it better than anyone else, and you won't have anything to worry about."

-Chet Baker




POSTED FROM NEW YORK, NY AT 11:43 PM

Fun times at All Points West

Some visuals...w/ Coldplay, from APW last weekend...smelly mud, but amazing.

-Alex





POSTED FROM BROOKLYN, NY AT 8:10 PM

Films (noir et les autres)

While writing and working on the new songs, I've been also watching a ton of old films that I had always heard and read about, but never had a chance to see. In recent weeks, I've watched "Amarcord" and "8 1/2" by Fellini, "Last Tango In Paris," as well as "Breathless" and "Band of Outsiders" by Godard. One of my favorite films of all time that is in my own DVD collection: "Jules et Jim" by Fançois Truffaut. There is something amazingly true and honest about these films. Admittedly, Fellini can be pretty odd and unrealistically dream-like at times, but the language and the writing has just hit me certain ways because it reminds of me of how some musicians phrase their lyrics-- a good song, lyrically speaking, phrases lines in a way that isn't out-right obvious in its meaning, but can be understood if thought about only for a few more seconds (does that make any sense??). I hope so. Here's a clip from "Band of Outsiders" ("Bande à Part" en Français).





-Alex


POSTED FROM BROOKLYN, NEW YORK AT 2:07 PM