to inspire wild things and to take heart of them...

again, being on this weird spiritual journey of getting connected with what or who i think or thought i am and to move and grow from that wretched place they call "then". maybe not spiritual, but you can feel the energy derived from the enterprise. admittedly i've been so far behind on the things that replenish me, maybe for the past 10 years... that i've more or less felt empty... perhaps i've been running on empty. without petrol and grinding down the machine that is me.

I don't know, maybe i've lost the plot or simply lost direction. I've been persistently dead set against having a garmin GPS in my car... and i think it stems from the fact that i want to retain my purportedly excellent sense of direction.

but having a sense of direction would, i think inevitably mean being rather retrospective, because you know where you've been and how to plan your escape route... but what about life's mysteries which simply show up and take you places? places you've never been or opportunities that even allow you the privilege of being blessed by something completely different?

i start today with this band, "Arcade Fire". the music's amazingly gut-wrenching and uplifting. i still haven't gone through their entire catalogue to truly think they're excellent but from what i've hear i love the dynamics... quite easy to pin down, but it takes a certain amount of inspiration to get it in the right order and they seem to have done it.

the question is how did i get to this point of being introduced to Arcade Fire? just my love for trailers. i came across this new movie that coming out sometime in october by spike jonze... "where the wild things are", which is a screen adaptation of the children's book by maurice sendak. i've never heard of it, but now i have and for some strange reason i feel so utterly rewarded. not only was it a good trailer, i found out it was a great book that i'm going to look for at either kino or borders, i found out about Arcade Fire how supplied the song for the trailer... recorded especially for the movie...

the song used in the trailer was "wake up" by arcade fire and it rocked. plus having tony soprano being carol, one of the wild things in the movie and in the trailer, can't be a bad thing.... here's the trailer if for your viewing pleasure":-

and if you really want to keep it and view it in glorious HD, click here.

so is this post about the movie or the song? I don't really know or care. do you? i think it's just telling me that i'm on to something. maybe i should keep at this and surprise myself every day... and it sure beats doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

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these last few days of the week have been harrowing and i'm hoping it'll end with a bang tomorrow. actually, with a few drinks here and there and a couple of laughs. this has been my pre-ccupation for the past few weeks.... it started last year when i saw the trailer for madonna's directorial debut. "filth & wisdom". it's gotten quite a panning, but what drew me to it was this irresistably loud and cacaphonous band... gogol bordello. with their lead singer and main man, eugene hutz, kicking up a shit storm. so i've been hooked since. so i checked them up on youtube and... jumping jeepers!! they really are as advertised....

so we start of with... supertheory of supereverything from their 2007 release Super Taranta...



then we head of with... start wearing purple from their debut album, Voi-La Intruder...



then this one from the movie and Super Taranta... wonderlust king... with an aged withnail...



finally to see them pull it off in the flesh... wonderlust king on david letterman



... and this ditty... not a crime...on Jools Holland's show and from Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike...



so i've been little aloof about things since... well, since... but this is sort of relateable and a welcome relief. so here's to eugene and the gang for making handlebar moustaches fun since 2002. =)