Fence Portal » addicts http://www.fenceportal.org Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:29:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Last Night’s and This Morning’s Recommendations (R. Wolff) http://www.fenceportal.org/last-nights-and-this-mornings-recommendations/ http://www.fenceportal.org/last-nights-and-this-mornings-recommendations/#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:31:15 +0000 rwolff http://www.fenceportal.org/last-nights-and-this-mornings-recommendations/ Just stepping in for a moment to recommend some things.

Last night: this intensely well-acted and plainly emotional narrative film called Sherrybaby, with Maggie Gyllenhaal (sp) as a young, trashy, recovering heroin addict just out of jail trying to stay clean and get back to being close with her daughter. Not a manipulative moment in it, as far as I could tell with my fairly sensitive emotional-manipulation meter-reader. Not a clever film, but very dense and varied.

This morning: recent album Real Emotional Trash from The Jicks, Steve Malkmus‘s band. He’s got such good sound. I love him. I used to be irritated by his narrative songs, the ones with little stories about quirky characters, a la Rocky Raccoon, but I’ve even capitulated to loving those now. My children adore “Willy Hopscotch” off this album. I still prefer the more abstracted songs. But I’m so glad he’s back to guitars.

What these have in common: Emotion. Ex-addicts. People with kids.

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