From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #92 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Thursday, April 1 2004 Volume 04 : Number 092 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] donnie darko & gary jules ["me" ] Re: [loud-fans] donnie darko & gary jules [steve ] Re: [loud-fans] donnie darko & gary jules [Steve Holtebeck ] Re: [loud-fans] donnie darko & gary jules ["Bradley Skaught" Subject: [loud-fans] donnie darko & gary jules ok, so i know the list covered this EXTREMELY thoroughly some time ago, but i never saw it - until today. i was stuck at a friend's house waiting for a furniture delivery, and i ran across Donnie Darko while flipping through their DVD collection. 'sigh. waiting for delivery people. dum-de-dum' quickly turned into 'yeah yeah - put it over there - here's my signature - get out so i can finish this movie!' i all but kowtowed when the movie was over - and at various points during it. anyone else notice the orchestra tuning before the PTA meeting? that got a huge grin from me. awesome music choices, particularly 'Head Over Heels' when the kids exited the back of the short bus. of course, that may be partially because i could identify most of the songs in about 2 notes - they perfectly (frighteningly?) encapsulate my high school Listening Experience. what's equally notable, given the destiny-oriented linking of incidents in the movie, is that last night i happened to flip past, then land on, Jay Leno, who i am not too fond of. i stayed because i was trying to decide if he was him or an impersonator - he's heavier than i remember him, and has a lisp, which i never registered before. his musician last night? gary jules, who performed Mad World, which i was pretty sure was a cover, but i couldn't put my finger on why. suffice it to say that my jaw just about went through the floor when it showed up in the movie, and in the version i had just seen on leno. research shows that it belongs to Tear for Fears... figures. a good friend of mine more or less drilled them into my head for a few years (88-90 or so), and that was one of the pieces i liked. will anoyone roll in their grave if i say that i think gary jules does a much better treatment of it, given the lyrics? i hope not... i've since been calling, messaging, and e-mailing people who i think this movie will appeal to (admitedly, not everyone would like/get it) and demanding that they go rent it immediately. brianna, always a year or so behind schedule - -- An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels its votaries to take that line and you see their minds growing more and more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous anger to the next. Paul Valery, Tel Quel ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:51:15 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: [loud-fans] donnie darko & gary jules On Mar 31, 2004, at 2:13 AM, me wrote: > gary jules, who performed Mad World, which i was pretty sure was a > cover, > but i couldn't put my finger on why. suffice it to say that my jaw > just about > went through the floor whenit showed up in the movie, and in the > version > i had just seen on leno. research shows that it belongs to Tear for > Fears... figures. Great version, and it has been getting radio play here. Looks like it is on his album that was released last week. On the other hand, someone on the Audities list reported that the new Tears For Fears album has been caught up in the death of Arista and won't be coming out next week. Pity, as "Beatles via XTC" always gets my attention. - - Steve __________ It's amazing how many partisan Democrats and disgruntled former employees working under cover as career civil servants, spies and military officers have betrayed this president. It just seems to happen again and again and again. I mean, just think of the list: Rand Beers, well-known partisan Democrat and hack, Richard Clarke, self-promoter, disgruntled former employee, and "self-regarding buffoon", Karen Kwiatkowski, conspiracy theorist and all-around freak, Valerie Plame, hack and nepotist, Joe Wilson, partisan hack, self-promoter and shameless green tea lover. When will the abuse end? - Josh Marshall ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:47:53 -0800 From: Steve Holtebeck Subject: Re: [loud-fans] donnie darko & gary jules steve wrote: > On Mar 31, 2004, at 2:13 AM, me wrote: > > gary jules, who performed Mad World, which i was pretty sure was a > > cover, > > but i couldn't put my finger on why. suffice it to say that my jaw > > just about > > went through the floor whenit showed up in the movie, and in the > > version > > i had just seen on leno. research shows that it belongs to Tear for > > Fears... figures. > > Great version, and it has been getting radio play here. Looks like it > is on his album that was released last week. It was also the Christmas #1 in the UK last year. "Donnie Darko" came out way back in 2001, so I don't know how that cover has become so popular after the fact. It's been getting lots of radio airplay here, and I didn't know it was a TFF cover until a KFOG dj announced it as such.. Apparently it's on their first album, which I don't have, and isn't on the TFF greatest hits CD that I do have, so I guess the original wasn't a "hit" per se. Gary Jules' cover is really good though - -- his voice reminds me a little of Matthew Sweet. > On the other hand, > someone on the Audities list reported that the new Tears For Fears > album has been caught up in the death of Arista and won't be coming out > next week. Pity, as "Beatles via XTC" always gets my attention. The one song I've heard from it, "Closest Thing To Heaven", is really good, so that's too bad that the album was held up in the corporate shuffle. Hopefully they'll be able to turn that into positive publicity when it does come out.. it worked for Aimee Mann and Wilco! - -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 20:12:55 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] donnie darko & gary jules Steve Holtebeck wrote: >The one song I've heard from it, "Closest Thing To Heaven", is really >good, so that's too bad that the album was held up in the corporate >shuffle. Hopefully they'll be able to turn that into positive publicity >when it does come out.. it worked for Aimee Mann and Wilco! > > > It's my fault. They're just waiting till I have the money to buy it. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:50:24 -0800 From: "Bradley Skaught" Subject: [loud-fans] Weightlifting I just recieved a new ep from the Trashcan Sinatras (they did actually change the name from three to two words) called "Weightlifting". It has three tracks from the forthcoming album and an entire live show recorded a few years ago. I highly recommend the new songs, and I hope the album lives up to their promise. It seems like it's going to be a more successful version of _A Happy Pocket_, an album which I found unbearably dull. It's got the same kind of warm, strummy, mid-tempo vibe; but it's got a little of the kick from the first album as well--the poppier, hookier bits. More lively sound, too. I certainly don't expect them to approach the heights of _I've Seen Everything_ again (that album just gets more and more stunning to me every year), but i'm glad to hear they've still got the spirit and the goods. And, man, that guy has the most beautiful voice. The ep is available at www.trashcansinatras.com and they have a pay pal account to make it easy. B - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.645 / Virus Database: 413 - Release Date: 3/28/2004 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:57:22 -0800 From: "Bradley Skaught" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] donnie darko & gary jules I just saw this movie for the first time, too, and I was really taken with it. It's one of the most eloquent, daring and entertaining expressions i've seen of Christian morality in the real, working sense. Its ability to function on that level, and many others, without becoming self-serving or entangled in dogmatic thinking is really commendable. And, yeah, the music is wonderful. Funny enough, when I was told about the movie from a friend at christmas, he played me the "Mad World" sequence. We were both excited about the song and decided to look it up on the internet to see if it was available--imagine our surprise when we discovered that the song had just reached #1 in the U.K. the day we were looking it up (actually, because the search led us to a U.K. news site, it was actually #1 the day _after_ we were looking it up!) B - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.645 / Virus Database: 413 - Release Date: 3/28/2004 ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #92 ******************************