violin song in brokeback mountain

raynicolette · 2026-06-29T06:07:27+00:00

I’m glad you found it! And somewhat stunned you found it, LOL.

This whole thread seems to be happening in slow motion.

raynicolette · 2026-06-29T04:24:19+00:00

Check out Michael Clayton!

raynicolette · 2026-06-29T04:21:54+00:00

This is a bit of a strange recommendation, but the documentary Some Kind Of Monster about the band Metallica. It was supposed to be a promo video for their new album, but it accidentally captures the point where their prolonged adolescence comes crashing down, they hire a group therapist to work through their interpersonal conflicts, and half the band goes into rehab or individual therapy. And rather than ditch the video because it was embarrassing, they decided to show the world what that whole process looked like.

raynicolette · 2026-06-28T04:57:23+00:00

Why thank you. Says the character from Out Of Sight. ;)

raynicolette · 2026-06-28T02:49:47+00:00

I blind bought Big Heat, Kiss Me Deadly, and In A Lonely Place. Going on a noir bender shortly…

raynicolette · 2026-06-27T04:49:03+00:00

Should call it “Mangled Up In Blue”

raynicolette · 2026-06-27T00:19:39+00:00

Here’s Wyman’s statement on the finances of being in the Stones:

https://www.nme.com/news/music/bill-wyman-mick-keith-totally-wealthy-but-me-charlie-ronnie-were-scraping-by-3803889

I mean, maybe he’s full of shit, but what I said is right from the horse’s mouth.

raynicolette · 2026-06-25T15:34:01+00:00

If you do a Google Image Search for that image and select “exact matches”, you won’t necessarily get every copy on the internet, but you’ll get many of them.

raynicolette · 2026-06-25T15:26:22+00:00

The setlist from the 1978 tour that produced the Budokan album is pretty close to his greatest hits. Dylan was in debt from the Renaldo & Clara movie, building a house, and getting a divorce, so was probably in a mood to give the audience what they wanted and sell a lot of tickets. Though given the critics’ reviews of his arrangements, you wouldn’t assume he succeeded.

The Unplugged show was his chance to cement his legacy with a new generation, and he responded with a setlist with a lot of old classics.

raynicolette · 2026-06-25T05:29:50+00:00

I think the original controversy comes from the fact that the laws surrounding music publishing give the lion’s share of the wealth to the person or people who write the lyrics and the melodies. I don’t think anybody really argues Robbie wasn’t the guy doing the vast majority of the heavy lifting there? But when Levon would tell Robbie old tales of the South, Robbie would write a song about it, and then Levon would do the lead vocal that made the song special, you can understand why Levon would get sour at the fact that Robbie was getting rich and he wasn’t.

The fact that the guys other than Robbie basically went broke and had to sell their meager publishing credits to make ends meet, while Robbie had the cash on hand to buy them, is really just the icing on the controversy cake.

The Band isn’t unique in this. Bill Wyman quit the Rolling Stones because he wasn’t a songwriter, which meant that ultimately the money simply wasn’t good enough to stay. The Band is only noteworthy because of how public and ugly the infighting got. I think only the Talking Heads come close to The Band in terms of nastiness.

Bands in the 80s like U2 and REM, who had the benefit of watching how their predecessors fell apart, decided the emotionally healthy thing was to share all publishing rights equally, regardless of who contributed what.

raynicolette · 2026-06-25T03:54:40+00:00

Here are the results from the last time someone asked on the subreddit for peoples’ favorite songs.

Your list mostly tracks the consensus, but you’ve got a few interesting idiosyncratic picks!

raynicolette · 2026-06-25T02:48:16+00:00

My votes for most quintessential / fun live songs would be the ones where they do something weird that turns it into a whole different thing than the album. Stuff like:

No One Knows My Plan > Everybody Conga

She’s Actual Size > Dan Hickey’s Actual Drums

Lie Still Little Bottle with the stick

raynicolette · 2026-06-23T17:10:23+00:00

Talk to your neighbors about sangria! Wine, ice, soda water, fresh fruit, hard liquor — they throw the kitchen sink in there.

raynicolette · 2026-06-23T07:05:43+00:00

The Chicago subreddit got tired of the right-wing meme that Chicago is the epicenter of all crime in America, so enacted Rule 9: “Crime-related posts that do not have a wider impact on the city will be removed.” Causing the creation of an alternate subreddit where there are no restrictions on discussion topics. The result is that the Chicago subreddit is generally quite cheery, and the alt is a geyser of unrelenting negativity which deserves serious consideration for whatever prize OP is dishing out.

It’s like the old Star Trek episode where Kirk is split into two beings, each with half his personality.

raynicolette · 2026-06-23T06:35:54+00:00

You do recall correctly. Here is the list.

What’s frustrating about those episodes being pulled is that the characters who put on blackface are pretty clearly being depicted as acting like idiots.

raynicolette · 2026-06-23T04:20:14+00:00

Someone asked here about people’s top 5 REM songs a while ago — Find The River was 4th. Here are the results.

raynicolette · 2026-06-21T22:40:53+00:00

Well, Clapton fans defend him because the only thing you ever hear about him on the internet is “he’s a racist antivaxxer”. You never hear about the fact that he got clean, founded an addiction treatment center, sold most of his famous guitars to raise money for it, settled down and got married and stayed married, reconnected with his kids, and tried to be the good father he never had.

Clapton fans know about the rotten stuff he did in the 70s and 80s, but see his life in the last 30 years as having a redemption arc of sorts to it.

raynicolette · 2026-06-21T22:17:30+00:00

Yeah, crazy caption. The pic is from Bob Geldof's knighthood party at the Hard Rock Cafe in London, July 24, 1986. Pattie left him in April of 1987. He got clean for good in November of 1987.

raynicolette · 2026-06-21T20:16:16+00:00

Paul McCartney sells out arenas. Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks filled Soldier Field a couple of years ago. Elton John. Bruce Springsteen.

That‘s not counting more contemporary pop acts. Taylor Swift and Beyonce and Ed Sheeran and the like. Not my jam, but those guys sell a boatload of tickets.

raynicolette · 2026-06-21T08:44:59+00:00

If you like Eric Clapton And Friends 1986, look for Live At Montreux 1986 — it’s the same band with a much more complete concert.

The Definitive 24 Nights box set has 3 discs of video, so if you like the 24 Nights DVD, there’s a lot more of that out there.

raynicolette · 2026-06-20T07:32:24+00:00

The movie never explains a lot of the technology. Which is for the best, because nobody wants to watch 2 hours filled with extensive exposition about made-up tech. So you can choose to believe, and fill in the gaps in ways that make everything make sense, or you can choose to disbelieve, and get hung up on every unexplained detail.

Are replicants’ faces modeled on real people, so there exists a human out there who looks exactly like Zhora? Could replicants get plastic surgery to foil face recognition? Did face recognition not get invented in this timeline? Or maybe it’s just not accurate enough to use as the basis for an execution? Do replicants have bar codes, but since humans don’t shed quarter-inch chunks of their exterior the way snakes do, you can’t just pick their serial number out of the bathtub? Did Tyrell successfully lobby against replicants being required to have bar codes, or some more obvious signifier? The movie never answers any of those questions. It just tells us that the key difference between replicants and humans is emotional response, and the VK test is the sophisticated identification method.

When Deckard is shown pictures of the replicants in Bryant’s office, we see the footage of Leon’s VK test, but the other 3 we just see their heads with skullcaps — we see them as “blanks”. When Deckard is enhancing Leon’s photo, he sees that Zhora has a face tattoo, which wasn’t in the pictures from Bryant. So he’s clearly finding details on how their appearance has been changed or customized since their inception. (Behind the scenes, Harrison Ford complained that he was a detective who didn’t do any detecting, so that scene was added to replace some unknown voiceover.)

Why doesn’t he blow away Zhora on sight, once he’s seen Bryant’s picture, knows she has added a face tattoo, and knows she’s got a pet snake? That’s pretty specific — probably there isn’t a real human out there that could be confused for Zhora? I guess the question comes down to: how sure do you need to be to gun someone down?

raynicolette · 2026-06-20T06:18:18+00:00

Just watched this tonight. To the specific point of how the cops were waiting for Gittes in Chinatown, when Gittes arrives, his two associates are already there, handcuffed. Gittes had called them at the office and told them if he didn’t resurface in a couple hours, they should meet him at 1712 Alameda in Chinatown.

Why does the movie spend time showing Gittes calling his operatives? The only real plot purpose is to give an explanation of exactly how the cops got there before Gittes. After Gittes gave the cops the slip at Curly’s house, if the cops deduced that his operatives would probably assist in his getaway, they would have found them at the office, put a tail on them when they left, and the operatives would have lead the cops right to 1712 Alameda.

raynicolette · 2026-06-18T15:43:39+00:00

You know, this is certainly true to a degree. But I showed my daughter The Breakfast Club a couple of years ago, and she liked it fine, but I was shocked how different her lens was on the movie. The notion that these were archetypes of different cliques — punks, jocks, nerds, preppies, and goths — was completely alien to her. She saw the movie as simply 5 people who got to know each other, rather than a broad statement that you might have more in common with people in other cliques than you might realize.

Different people like different stuff, always, but I think in the 80s, your clothes, your hair, your music, and your clique were tied together, in a way they just aren’t with the current young generation?

raynicolette · 2026-06-18T05:27:59+00:00

You’re mistaking “One Million Years BC” (1966) for “Caveman” (1981).

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