Welcome to Friday. The end of the week. This week, it’s also the end of the month. It’s also leap day. Once every four years, or something like that. The pickin’s was kinda slim for this week’s mixtape, and I had to really forrage around for some new stuff to post. In the end, there is stuff from artists I’m pretty excited about before, but after a few listens each, I’m not sure about these new tracks. I guess that’s what the mixtape if for- a week’s worth of listens sometimes improves my disposition on a song. Anyway, I’ve got nothing else to comment on, so I’ll just get to teh point: the Friday Mixtape.
In a move that really surprises no one, it seems the RIAA and the record labels it represents have been holding out on the artists that the labels themselves are supposed to be representing. Hundreds of millions of dollars in legal settlements have been paid out to the RIAA, but some artists claim they haven’t seen a cent. Read more here and here.
Described as: Surreal retelling of the Bluebeard fairytale… only creepier… This video if from 2005, but I just stumbled across it today. I’m posting it because of the fairytale reference. I like fairytales- especially the macabre ones.
Norah Jones can sing, Norah can play piano and punk-rock guitar, and now we know: Norah can act.
She’s currently starring in My Blueberry Nights alongside Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman. She plays disenchanted young woman encountering many different kinds of relationships while crossing the country rather aimlessly. The soundtrack stretches across genres, with Cat Power, Amos Lee, Ry Cooder, Otis Redding, and… Norah Jones appearing. An insteresting side note to it is the EPK Bluenote records put out recently to promote the soundtrack. In it, Jones talks about how she came to get the lead in this interesting film, and has some interesting behind the scens views on the soundtrack.
Overall, I thought it was a good film, and Jones holds her in the cast. The brightest point in the film by far though is Natalie Portman playing a slick, distrusting gambler.
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Jamie Kohns on February 29th, 2008
Welcome to Friday. The end of the week. This week, it’s also the end of the month. It’s also leap day. Once every four years, or something like that. The pickin’s was kinda slim for this week’s mixtape, and I had to really forrage around for some new stuff to post. In the end, there is stuff from artists I’m pretty excited about before, but after a few listens each, I’m not sure about these new tracks. I guess that’s what the mixtape if for- a week’s worth of listens sometimes improves my disposition on a song. Anyway, I’ve got nothing else to comment on, so I’ll just get to teh point: the Friday Mixtape.
