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French Friday the 13th


Posted by Lyle On May 13, 2011

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While some are obsessing over Triskaidekaphobia we are dealing with our Frechadekaphobia...  Yup, fear of all things French.  To help us get over our fear (our redouter as they say in uh, France), today's blog will be Frenchtastic.  Oh where to begin?  Maybe I'll start by buying giant novelty french stuff and arrange it into an appetizing still life to make the French seem huge and wonderful.  Nope I'll just feel small and insignificant in a strange world... take that Sartre!  

Let's start big, in a slightly less literal way shall we?  Oui, we shall!  Over at the Cannes Film Festival (when is someone gonna fly me over to that?) the new Pedro Almodóvar movie "The Skin I Live In" is a selected feature. The big BRM news there? The movie features Chris Garneau and his version of Elliott Smith's "Between The Bars."  Here's a clip of Chris playing the song in, yup, Paris:

Also at Cannes, but not in competition, is the new film from Le Jódie Fóster "The Beaver."  You haven't heard Frightened Rabbit until you've heard them with Mel Gibson and a talking trash picked puppet.  I can't write anything after that line, just click:

Ok... I have bigger things to be afraid of... I'm starting to feel better about the French.  What else does BRM have going on at Cannes you ask?  How about the new Gus Van Sant film "Restless" that actually has "Wisconsin" by Bon Iver.  Bon might have a new record and a new tour coming up, but why talk about that when I can show this clip of this kid who is definitely not French playing it:

Man. I really could of written off that trip, I can right?  I mean it looks like that Woody Allen movie they are showing could be good!   Ok, another BRM thing going on at Cannes is the sushi documentary (huh?) called "Jiro Dreams Of Sushi" featuring both Max Richter and Philip Glass.  How are the French going to handle that?  French sushi?  Zoikes.


Finally, we leave the Cannes train as it is time to talk about Ensemble.  Why? Cause they are French? Yup,  that is all it takes!  This is still a heavy office rotation record.  Not to out obscure an entire week of Pitchfork... but this totally itches the "sorta shoegazey Penguin Cafe Orchestra but even smarter" itch I had this winter.  Ok, I admit it... this is Douglas... Lyle was walking around on his phone (no Bluetooth, don't worry), so I jumped on his keyboard.  I honestly love the berets and baguette out of this record.  Listen... I got nothing cynical to say about this one.  

Ensemble "En Attendant L'Orage":

Now back to your regularly programmed blog already in progress.

Viva La Blog!

-Lyle

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