Five years ago 28 Days Later came out. I really liked the movie because it made me wonder what I would do if I was one of the handful of survivors and what I would do to survive. That was also the first time I had ever seen Cillian Murphy in anything (his haircut was really cool in that movie). He’s been in some dumb movies like Red Eye, but he was also in a really good movie called Intermission. The movie has a bunch of Scotish and Irish actors that you’ll recognize. Its one of those movies that shows 5 different people’s lives intersect and I thought it was pretty damn funny.
I just read that they’re making a sequel called 28 Weeks Later, and I just watched the trailer here. While it doesn’t look like the sequel will have any of the eye candy from the original cast, I think it will still be a decent movie.
Pitchfork has up an interesting interview with Jarvis Cocker here. His album was released today in the U.S.
Jarvis is never short on wit and interesting observations. They talk about how he came to making a solo album, the chance of Pulp getting back together (not likely), the recent Pulp re-issues, and his domesticated life. Cocker now lives in Paris with his wife, Camille Bidault-Waddington, with whom he has a son, Albert. Cocker hails from Sheffield, England. Sheffield musician Joe Cocker used to babysit Jarvis when he was little, although they’re not related.
Last week Jarvis posted that he’s looking for local opening acts for his North American tour dates. If you’re interested, go here for more information.
On Friday night my sister and I saw Lily Allen at the House of Blues in San Diego. I was really excited to see her play. Look at these Lily Allen wannabe’s…
Lily Allen opened her set with LDN, and the crowd went crazy and everyone started dancing. I knew I would get to hear every song of hers that I liked, because she only has one album. I think she might be getting bored of her songs, so she threw in a couple of covers (Blondie - Heart of Glass, Kooks - Naive, Keane - Everybody’s Changing). She was so funny, she could be a stand-up comedian. People say she’s fat, but she’s not. She’s totally normal sized. She introduced “Friend of Mine” by telling this story of how when she was in school there was this girl that pretended to be her friend, but then behind her back was talking all this smack about her. And then she giggled and said,”Now I’m a famous singer and she’s addicted to crack.” Then she started the song. My face hurt from laughing. She started off the concert by saying,”I’m so drunk”. Then she proceeded to continue doing shots of Jagermeister throughout the night. She must not have been that drunk, because she remembered all the words to all the songs and her voice sounded great.
The opening act was a group call The Bird and the Bee. They are a jazz influenced electro pop duo. The lead singer, Inara George, has the sugary sweet vocals of Nina Cardigan or Emily Haines of Metric. Greg Kurstin is the keyboardist and is a producer, he’s worked with Beck and the Flaming Lips. I guess the good singing voice runs in the family, Inara is the daughter of Little Feat’s Lowell George. I wouldn’t recommend this band to my husband since he likes most of the music I like but where he likes the heavier music, I like the softer. This is definitely chill music. I bought the album at the concert and have been listening to it all weekend.
