Oh can you hear me darling, won't you save me...

[dotinthesky]

I saw a wonderful movie yesterday. The rarest of things happened afterwards: I wanted to go to HMV immediatly and buy the soundtrack. Lost in Translation had The Jesus and Mary Chain, Death in Vegas, and a whole lot of indie bands on the soundtrack. Not just thrown into the movie aswell - it made perfect sense where each song was placed.

***

I feel like watching the Oscars this year. I boycott it every February/March, but I've got a feeling about this one. Something is going to happen. Spectacle, for God's sake!

***

Before we went to the movies, Kevin and I went for a coffee and snacks in a cafe in Soho. There was the usual gay dating going on around us, and an ABBA tape on the deck. Kevin got a latte and a smoked salmon paninni. I drank a cappucino (damn, i don't know how to spell that.) They played ABBA's S.O.S. and it made me think of knitted sweaters. And chanel haircuts. Even though S.O.S. fitted so well in another favourite movie of mine (the Swedish movie "Together") it could have just as easily been part of the soundtrack for "Lost in Translation". When we got home, I turned on the radio and S.O.S. was playing again.

I think every child born in the 70s has a place in their heart for ABBA. You might never buy a tape or cd by them, or attend a musical inspired by them, but when you hear ABBA you are thrust back into your mom's car as she drove you to kindergarden. ABBA were kitsch, but they recorded all their songs and were professional musicians. That makes them slightly better than your abismal pop idols today. When I hear an ABBA song, I can sense the pain behind their wife-swapping lives. When I hear Liberty X, I can hear the toilet flushing afterwards.

Comments

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

They tried something similar in England recently. This band of 10 year olds, but there was a lot of criticism...

[4q.livejournal.com]

hmmm in the 80's you could do anything!!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

people were a bit more innocent, weren't they? I was such an innocent kid. Kids nowadays grow up so fast.

[4q.livejournal.com]

I was too, god I didn't know anything till I was in junior high!!! and even then...I remember in grade seven asking what a whore meant. ha! now at age 6 and 7 kids tell their parents to fuck off!!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Maybe there's just too much info in the air...

Michelle ----> gotta go!

Same words, same feelings, everyday for you!

♥

[4q.livejournal.com]

<<33 I will have to learn to make real hearts so I can send them your way...

have a lovely evening...same time, same place tomorrow

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

here's the code for the heart:

&
hearts
;


but put them one after the other.

[4q.livejournal.com]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I am so happy...

let me try this... &hearts:

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

no... not :

;

[4q.livejournal.com]

okie hmmmm

♥

did that work?

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

YES!

[4q.livejournal.com]

yay!!!!!

what would I do with out you?

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

You would have to make me up, I guess.

[4q.livejournal.com]

ha ha...I suppose I would. but it would be no where near the real you. I don't think I could have invented someone as lovely as you

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I'm just good with words... I can also be moody, stroppy sometimes.

[4q.livejournal.com]

stroppy?

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Throw tantrums and be nervous for very little.

[4q.livejournal.com]

oh right! well that's okie. I would just yell back at you, we would cry, and then go get some yummy food

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

ha, we'd be eating Thai food a lot then.

;)

[4q.livejournal.com]

hey I have no problem with that

when I went for thai food on friday I had the best hot and sour soup I have ever had

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

it's making me want some now too...

hhmmmm... hungry.

[4q.livejournal.com]

I am not hungry yet but I have a granola bar to eat later, it has yogurt in it...

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I went thaiiiii...

*wipes saliva off chin*

[4q.livejournal.com]

ha ha! oh no I have you drooling!

Don't make me start craving thai too! I think once I am on weight watchers no more thai! :(

[4q.livejournal.com]

oh it didn't work! what' the thing behind the hearts?