For my money, Nicolas Cage’s perfect role was as the intellectually challenged repeat offender in The Coen Brothers’ anarchic comedy ‘Raising Arizona’. He’s one of those male leads who never convinces me as a tough guy - the more macho he tries to be, the more ridiculous he looks.
A case in point is ‘The Wicker Man’ , a misguided remake of the 1973 cult classic Continue reading ‘NOT THE BEES’
“Whenever you have a problem in a story with character or plot development have a man come in the room with a gun─and if it’s a big problem make it a big gun.”
- Raymond Chandler
“For me, love, in most fiction, is a big gun” - Annie Proulx.
” - I don’t believe people need guns.
Nobody keeps a gun unless he intends to use it.
- That’s been my experience, Corella said. “
- Ed McBain (From ‘Heat’)
“All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun”
- Jean-Luc Godard
Gillian Welch, speaking on Radio Scotland’s ‘Brand New Opry’ (now ‘Brand New Country’) a few years back said:
“When I first heard old mountain music the first thing that hit me was the sound - the distinctive harmonies were sweet yet full force it didn’t sound weird to me - there was a lot of dissonance, a lot of balls out musicianship which is very similar to punk rock”
[Gillian Welch's last album was 'Soul Journey' 5 years ago - a new album is long overdue but unfortunately as far as I know there's nothing on the horizon]
Robert Wyatt is a national treasure and can always be relied upon to provide a lateral perspective on life and music. When interviewed on Radio Scotland a few years back this was his reply to the question - What Is music For?
“We are basically water animals - aquatic animals struggling on land. When we sea land mammals like whales we feel connected to the rest of the world via the atmosphere which is mainly water. Music provides an aquatic atmosphere - it fills a room the way water fills an aquarium and you’re sort of touching everything else with music. So music is a way of touching people”
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