This post in no way validates that rediculous pulp that Stephenie Meyer craps out so that pre-pubescent girls, and adults who wish they were pre-pubescent girls, have something to swoon over at slumber parties. But, some of the bands and tracks on the third installment of the shit trilogy are pretty good, like this new track from the Black Keys. Overall, the soundtrack is as sullen and moody as any character Kristin Stewart has ever played- or will ever play.

http://eclipsesoundtrack.com

Tracklisting:

Metric – Eclipse (All Yours)
Muse – Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)
The Bravery – Ours
Florence + the Machine – Heavy in Your Arms
Sia – My Love
Fanfarlo – Atlas
The Black Keys – Chop and Change
The Dead Weather – Rolling in on a Burning Tire
Beck and Bat for Lashes – Let’s Get Lost
Vampire Weekend – Jonathan Low
UNKLE featuring The Black Angels – With You in My Head
Eastern Conference Champions – A Million Miles an Hour
Band of Horses – Life on Earth
Cee-Lo Green – What Part of Forever
Howard Shore – Jacob’s Theme
Battles – The Line
Bombay Bicycle Club – How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep
Fanfarlo – Atlas (Remix)
Cee-Lo Green – What Part of Forever (Remix)

I love it when I find great music in my inbox- and this track popped in last Friday after I’d put together the mixtape already. Since the album “O Ye Devastator” dropped today, I thought I’d give it a little plug here.

Doug Burr – Red Red

It’s not a real Friday Mixtape, but here’s eom tracks I was just listening to:
Kurt Vile – Hunchback
Beach House – Norway
Light Pollution – Oh, Ivory!
Midnight Masses – Preacher’s Son
Minus The Bear – Into the Mirror
Pepper Rabbit – Red Wine

I missed a track on this week’s Friday Mixtape. Those of you who downloaded the zip file got it, but it was left out of the post.

James Yuill’s This Sweet Love made an appearance on Grey’s Anatomy this week, and his new Earth & Fire version of Turning Down Water For Air remixes acoustic tracks from the album as electronic, and vise-versa. The acoustic version of This Sweet Love was in the mix this week.

James Yuill – This Sweet Love (Earth Version Remix)

I like:

Trivial tidbits (from myspace)
* The video was shot all stills – roughly 3225 still photos for the entire video, using one camera, hanging from the ceiling for the main body of the movie.
* It took 4 weeks before shooting to create an animated computer generated storyboard for the video, with 3d dummies for the characters.
* It took only 2 days of shooting for the live actors on set to re-create the 3.5 minutes computer sequence, frame by frame.
* Some of the bed sheets used in the video were taken from Oren’s own bedroom and are now considered collectors items, worth at the moment not very much and therefore used as bed sheets.
*Each of the wonderfully talented people above have worked on the video for a fraction of their normal rates (except Oren who worked for his normal rate of zero).

The woman is Israeli  model/actress Shir Shomron

Again, rom myspace:
Oren was originally looking for a petit, black haired actress who would look small inside the bed frame and contrast the white sheets with her dark hair. Shir happened to be a very tall, very red-haired person. She was hired immediately. She was the best thing that ever happened to the production as mid-way through the first day of shooting she began to animate her own movements, bringing new life to the existing sketches.

Oren Lavie – Her Morning Elegance