drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me.
I saw Scott Pilgrim the other night and was completely floored and entertained for the entire film. It’s a mixture of everything that I really do love in life and media. And I’m a sucker for girls with an affinity for hair dye. The film is really a love letter to all babies of the 80’s. Everything we love, laugh about, listen(ed) to and enjoy both then and now is encompassed in a brilliant, well written, funny and really wonderful film. Probably my favorite film ever, and a welcome change in the din of my current life.
Now, these articles are generally about music, so we’ll return to it, but not really ditch Mr. Pilgrim. The soundtrack is a love letter to Canadian musicians, primarily the truly prolific Toronto music scene. We as Americans tend to lose track of how many artists we just assume are from the states, who are really from Canada and quite a few from Toronto and French Canada (lots of love for Vancouver too, Shiloh above all!). Now I’ve been to Toronto, I love the city, I love the scene, the streets, the everything of that city. I love how Much Music still does have music videos, unlike MTV, the rotten, evil twin of all things wonderful in Canada. Last time I was there for 5 days and I discovered 4 artists that are huge musicians to this day. Now Metric, a toronto band, has been referenced in previous entries and the “Black Sheep” single is worth the purchase alone. But you get probably the best song from Broken Social Scene ever, possibly the most beautiful, crestfallen song I’ve ever heard and bless that band for it. The Sex Bob-Omb songs are distorted in only the way that Beck can do (a la devil’s haircut) and performed wildly by the faux band itself. Every song has a charm that is immediately addictive. You walk out of the theatre with songs in your head, if that describes the situation adequately.
The songs, the story and everything revolve around a central idea to that is present in the comic books. Theme being, love and life are: hard, heartbreakingly funny, full of villains but brilliantly colorful, surprising and only consistent in their ability to change at break neck speed.
And for that, Scott Pilgrim is my favorite film so far in my short time on this earth. For what it’s worth anyway, I liked it.
Broken Social Scene is on repeat, through the HDJ-2000’s and it was a bit of a rough day. Been actually a lot of bad days strung together. But as I’ve mentioned before, I like the bad days, because one day, maybe tomorrow, will be one of my good days.
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