I come out of LJ hiberation to tell you all that one of the Lucksmiths farewell gigs has been recorded for prosperity. It was the one at the Factory Theatre in Sydney (that's the one I went to!) and ever since I discovered Moshcam I was hoping they'd record this. My wish has come true!



That's Untidy Towns, one of their earlier tracks and one of my favourites. The whole concert is online here. They play 30 songs, including Frisbee, which features Marty Donald on vocals!

A few movies I've seen recently:

Gran Torino - I sort of wanted to see it, then forgot about it, until one day someone said I looked like the girl in it, and then I had to watch it, if only to see if there was a grain of truth to their statement or whether it was a case of 'all Asians look alike' striking again.

No, Sue and I don't look exactly alike, but we have a similar hairstyle, and then even my mother thought there was a resemblance, so eh. Maybe. Anyway, it's not one of my favourites, but I thought it was a good film. It's interesting to note that many people like to argue 'but they always play the same person' when dissing someone's acting skills, yet Clint Eastwood seems to inhabit the same kind of roles and no one disses him. (They're probably too afraid. He's scary.)

I understand why the ending had to be like it was, but come on, who didn't want to see Clint Eastwood tear that gang a new one?

Transformers 2 - terrible movie. I had to sit only four rows back from the screen, and so this movie gave me an actual headache, I kid you not. It was just seriously pointless. The only funny bit was the joke about going to find the frat boys some tighter shirts. Haha.

Green Card - I saw this so I'd be able to agree/disagree when any criticism of future marriage-of-convenience romcoms inevitably contain the judgement that Green Card did it better. I'm not writing all of the similar films off, but Green Card is pretty damn cute. Andie MacDowell played someone with an actual personality; Bronte's not particularly lovable, but at least you knew who she was.

I had been feeling lukewarm toward it, but then the ending won me over. I'm such a sucker for uplifting music. To those who ask if Bronte went to France afterwards, I say of course she did. Listen to the song!

It's obviously not Gerard Depardieu's best work, but I was charmed enough to want to seek out his million other movies, so I watched Cyrano de Bergerac, and oh my God. International Sex Symbol? Hell yeah. I see it, I really do. Cyrano is just too awesome for words, and Depardieu is awesome as Cyrano. If you want to understand why he's the biggest star in France; watch it.

I kind of want to have my own personal Depardieu film festival, but tracking down a lot of his earlier work is difficult. Torrent films rarely come with subtitles, and my French is nowhere near good enough to watch them unaided. Hell, even having French subtitles would help enormously, but no such luck. Might be nothing for it but to keep a careful eye on SBS TV listings.

So I watched Music and Lyrics, which did nothing if not prove that Hugh Grant still does it for me.

You know, I'm glad that he has no range except Slick Evil Hugh and Nice Fumbling Hugh and the extra attractive bit in the middle, Snarky and Wry-Funny But Ultimately Harmless Hugh. I've been expertly conditioned by Richard Curtis movies to expect a certain charming character, and honestly, if he plumped for a dramatic role I don't think I'd be able to process.

STAY TRUE TO YOURSELF, HUGH.

Guys, let me tell you about this most awesome website I discovered yesterday night at 1am.

It's called Moshcam.com and it's basically a archive of concert footage taken at various venues around Sydney. They've got video from hundreds of gigs available free to view anywhere in the world. As far as I can tell, they have complete gigs separated into different clips for each song in the set list, and it's all high quality, professionally edited stuff.

They've got Nine Inch Nails, Stereolab, The Hives, Tegan and Sara, Ben Harper, Stars, The Dandy Warhols, Youth Group, The New Pornographers, The Living End, Sneaky Sound System, The Pipettes, Amanda Palmer, Patrick Wolf, a whole bunch of others and, two of my personal favourites, An Horse and Little Red.

I discovered the website because the Lucksmiths are playing their last Sydney gig ever at the Factory Theatre, which is a venue where they have Moshcam. I really, really hope that gig gets recorded, 'cos it'd beat the pants off any pocket camera footage I could get.

Here's a clip of An Horse at the Annandale Hotel, 12/10/2008. They're playing Horizons, my favourite of theirs at the moment.



Post your favourites!

The Lucksmiths (the guys in the icon, and my favourite band ever - Last.fm doesn't lie) are breaking up after sixteen years.

This makes me so sad that right now I can't think about anything else.