The Smiths Project: I Know Its Over

One of my favorite Smiths songs re-imagined as David Lynch soundtrack torch song. "I Know It's Over" with it's sense of longing and attachment, loneliness and the unquenchable desire for connection is one of Morrissey's most genuinely affecting songs.

This is also one of Janice's best recordings, gorgeous vocals as always, but less-compressed, and with air to to move around in and breathe. Her Smiths project makes the internet better.

David Lynch and the Death of Film

The Village Voice has a great little piece on David Lynch. Here's how they describe Inland Empire:

In thrall to the vanishing art of 35mm cinema, they failed to appreciate the extraordinary variety and visual richness of Inland Empire, with its encyclopedic investigation into the spatial and textural possibilities of video as video, not a low-rent replacement for film: the distortion of objects looming in the foreground and evocative ambiguity of background shadows; the unique beauty of a video dissolve and the dissolution of forms in “overexposed” light. To dismiss the medium of Inland Empire is to miss the message. Just as Mulholland Drive can be read as a cautionary tale about the effect of movies on consciousness, Inland Empire speaks to the isolation and fragmentation of the post-cinema psyche, the splintering of self in the matrix of the Internet. As such, it may be the first movie masterpiece that doesn’t properly belong in movie theaters.

Who says Art Films are dead?