Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:

[sus]

Who's the bird lady? I don't remember that bit. Never clocked his name was Garfield either. Is that mentioned in the film or only in the credits?

Parrot girl. Old tits.

 

[version]

I was listening to that REM song he dances to in the club and found out the guitarist actually uses one of Kurt Cobain's guitars in the video.

 

[luka]

Oh! I didn't notice him getting together with her

 

[sus]

Did you finish the film? They sleep together in the end scene, then he goes out onto the balcony for a smoke.

 

[woops]

@suspended were you pissed off that the cake says 76 not 73.

 

[luka]

Really!

 

[version]

Weird connection to Rich mentioning Dan Rather the other day too,

"What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" is a song by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. from their 1994 album Monster. The song's title refers to an incident in New York City in 1986, when two then-unknown assailants attacked journalist Dan Rather, while repeating "Kenneth, what is the frequency?".

 

[sus]

What did you guys think of The Songwriter? Jeremy Bobb.

 

[luka]

I remember the credits rolling so I definitely finished the film but I didn't notice that part. Must have been subtle.

 

[version]

Prominent in the guitar solo, Peter Buck uses Kurt Cobain's Jag-Stang that he received as a gift from Courtney Love after Cobain died; he plays it upside-down as Cobain was left-handed.

 

[luka]

What did you guys think of The Songwriter? Jeremy Bobb.

That was the best bit

 

[IdleRich]

He's English... he was in Red Riding Trilogy - which is also a very good, grimy corruption conspiracy thing come to think of it

 

[sus]

@suspended were you pissed off that the cake says 76 not 73.

WYM?

sidenote: His hatred of the homeless, and his end-scene fate as homeless, gotta be connected, right?

 

[IdleRich]

Weird connection to Rich mentioning Dan Rather the other day too,

It is weird cos I was thinking about that song too. But I didn't mention it when I saw the film cos I thought it sounded a bit crazy.

 

[luka]

Jeremy Bobb (born May 13, 1981 in Dublin, Ohio) is an American actor who has appeared?

 

[sus]

I wonder—I wonder if part of the obsession with conspiracies, with discovering an all-powerful cultural monopoly/conspiracy elites, can be read as him trying to find a justification for his own failures. If he wants to be a songwriter, or an actor, and has instead ended up in "the bad version of the life I was supposed to live," well?

 

[woops]

Dan Rather

nothing to do with anything

 

[version]

But yeah I reckon he's the dog killer, like when he says "Just cos someone kills dogs it doesn't mean they kill people" as though he's defending him.

He keeps seeing women barking at him like dogs too. The women who chase him out of the bathroom are all barking and snarling and the woman in the pool at night who sticks her leg out like the Owl's Kiss also starts barking at him.

There's also the bit where the daughter of the wealthy guy who disappears is at the club and someone comments on her being there despite her father's disappearance and he says something about people doing strange things when they're in pain.

 

[IdleRich]

But I thought of the song cos I'd read the name Dan Rather for the first time in years I guess.

 

[sus]

I wonder—I wonder if part of the obsession with conspiracies, with discovering an all-powerful cultural monopoly/conspiracy elites, is trying to find a justification for his own failures. If he wants to be a songwriter, or an actor, and has instead ended up in "the bad version of the life I was supposed to live," well?

Same with "why'd that hot blonde girl take off without saying goodbye?" All we see is 1) she finds an excuse to kick him out of her apartment, 2) he tries and fails to kiss her goodbye, 3) she makes up some excuse about hanging out tomorrow, 4) she's gone. It's a classic rejection, up to the abrupt move-out and "keep quiet" symbol—but maybe this is the point at which we oughta assume he's no longer reliably narrating.