BREAKING NEWS: You may not have noticed this year I'd been keeping track of every coffee I drank, and also every episode of television or movie I watched. Well I had. It was kindof fun and I was doing it using this app/website called DAYTUM which is oh so pretty and oh so created by Nicholas Felton, king of infographic nonsense. So that was neat except that the app actually is FUCKED AND CRASHES AND DELETES STUFF RANDOMLY ALL THE GODDAMN TIME AND NOONE IS FIXING IT AND NOW I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY FLAT WHITES I HAVE DRUNK SINCE THE END OF FEBRUARY YOU MOTHERFUCKER SO I GIVE UP ON THAT. It made me really sad, hey. So anyway that part of my year is over. I am trying to keep up with the tv and movies part though. Lucky you!
LIST NEWS: In March I watched movies I had already seen (Up In The Air, Superbad, Syriana) (oh hi who knew it was to be a bit of a CloonFestTM) and some I had not seen (Our Idiot Brother, Game Change, Friday Night Lights) and one in a cinema (50/50). There were documentaries, too! I saw Colour Me Obsessed at a pub in Brunswick and Children of the Tsunami at my home.
RANT BREAK: Of the things I saw for the first time, everything can happily sit in the good camp of very enjoyable and no regrets. Except for Colour Me Obsessed, which, oh boy, I don't know where to start. This was a documentary about The Replacements (the film was followed by a tribute band featuring Tim Rogers among others which was GREAT) and it was the pits. THE PITS! There was no music in it. NO MUSIC IN A MUSIC DOCUMENTARY. I don't care what the director says ("that was intentional" is what he said), it was a terrible idea, intentional or not. I don't see what his problem is with just admitting to not being able to get the rights or permission to show any photos, or footage, or I don't know.. even a fucking reenactment? It can be done well, hey. But anyway it was a big disappointment, I was actually wanting to learn something from the documentary before seeing the band. I didn't. Anyway. Here's a listier list hooray!
I SAW AMAZING MUSICAL PERFORMANCES IN MARCH: I struggle to rank them, they were all just super amazing.
• Bon Iver at Music Bowl: front row with 12000 peoples behind us, 9 piece band, insane strobe lights, just the most charming and surprisingly tall Justin Vernon, mind blown, marry me.
• Ryan Adams at Regent Theatre: Oh man, he is back, and he is going to destroy you with his heartbreakery and denim and comedy songs about his cat. YES HIS CAT THAT IS HOW GOOD HE WAS. Probably the only person I will tolerate talking about his cat. Ever.
• Bonnie Prince Billy at The National Theatre: pretty sure we all had staring competitions with Willy O from the fourth row, I don't know how anyone else went but he totally beat me. What a dude.
• Black Lips at the Corner: So much fun. Even with the very drunk crowd of very young and energetic youths (ew). The Bad Kids singalong on stage was just the best.
KBYE XOXO
