tonight Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros are playing the Mayan in Los Angeles. here are a couple of nonsensical videos (or, if you really think about it (i.e. do drugs) are they sensical??? nahhhhh……) from their eponymous debut, Up From Below. also, the chanting guy in the beginning of Desert Song is real footage of Sharpe’s father getting his om on with little baby Edward in his arms, which kind of gives you a sense of where the singer is coming from… literally.
just in case you couldn’t figure out the plot (likely), here’s the full synopsis for the second video from ESATMZ’s Myspace post: Part 2: Kisses Over Babylon is the second installment of SALVO!, a 12-part feature-length music video series from Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros. Kisses picks up in the same desert wasteland world, ravaged by drought. Edward is arrested by two Minors (police from Ursa Minor) for the murder of his own father, and taken to a water-labor prison. There he reunites with Brother, his long-ago friend, and rallies the prisoners to a frenzied prison break. Edward and Brother escape, followed closely by the the mysteriously recalcitrant prison guard Croc…
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros have released a new video for Kisses Over Babylon. it’s the second release in a scheduled twelve part opus where Edward is wandering through the desert of his own ego or something incredibly pretentious and self-involved like that. don’t get me wrong, i’m really digging on the Edward Sharpe et al, and i’m totally looking forward to their upcoming show on December 14th at the Mayan. (tickets are still available here. last show sold out if i recall correctly, so pick them up fast.) Kisses Over Babylon also totally has an Ennio Morricone sound to it, which is awesome and makes it hardly surprising as to how much the video looks like it was directed by Sergio Leone.
we’ve posted the first video for Desert Song previously, but you (kind of) need to watch them in order to follow the narrative (?), so here are both. i’d like to reiterate that the chanting guy in the beginning of Desert Song is real footage of Sharpe’s father getting his om on with little baby Edward in his arms. kind of gives you a sense of where the singer is coming from… literally. (the video for Kisses Over Babylon is after the jump)
suh-fucking-weet… this is too amazing for words. good thing, too, because i’m a pretty bad writer. tonight cinema maestro Ennio Morricone directs a complete orchestra through renditions of his amazing film scores. security at the Bowl is pretty lax since you can bring in wine and food and stuff, so feel free to bring a pistol in case some gringo is lookin’ atcha wrong. (*SORRY FOLKS, GUESS THIS WAS CANCELLED. OH WELL, NO ONE ACTUALLY READS THS SITE ANYWAY.)
suh-fucking-weet… this is too amazing for words. good thing, too, because i’m a pretty bad writer. tickets go on sale this Sunday, the 20th, at ticketmaster here. (ed. note: my mistake, there is a presale on right now. password is BAD.) *update*: there are half price tickets currently available through Goldstar at the link here.
To celebrate the release of Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, for which we anticipated smashing box office returns since nothing else worth seeing opened this weekend (X Games 3D: The Movie?), we have teamed up with Filter Magazine to give one lucky winner a copy of the film’s soundtrack along with some other Inglorious Basterds goodies. To Win: Add your favorite Quentin Tarantino quote to the comment section in the original posting HERE before noon today PST. We’ll be selecting a winner at random. (p.s. I’m not seeing anyone thinking outside of the box, here, people. No quotes from True Romance? That’s a god damned crime.)
One US Winner will receive: (we don’t ship outside of US)
-One special edition David Bowie 7″ vinyl for featured song, “Cat People”
-One copy of the official soundtrack on CD
-Two IB movie posters
Ennio Morricone – Theme from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
To celebrate the release of Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, for which we anticipate smashing box office returns since nothing else worth seeing opens this weekend (X Games 3D: The Movie?), we are teaming up with Filter Magazine to give one lucky winner a copy of the film’s soundtrack along with some other goodies.
As evidenced by the eclectic soundtracks to such previous films as Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and Kill Bill, Tarantino is a huge music fan and treats music as an important character in each of his films. He’s chosen hella awesome spaghetti western aficionado Ennio Morricone as his particular muse this time around, which should be a fairly amazing match to a WWII torture-porn-slash-comedy. Oh, and, uh, for some reason there’s a David Bowie song from that weirdo Cat People movie from the eighties. Quentin, Quentin… When will you stop trying so hard to be so cool? You had us at hello. See the tracklist below.
Also, if you’re in Los Angeles go visit Amoeba Records in Hollywood TONIGHT, August 20th. Tarantino is there for a special signing and an exclusive midnight screening of the highly anticipated film. Actually, unless you just want to look through the windows, don’t. It’s way sold out. WTTD just likes to tease.
Now then, as for our big deal contest:
One US Winner will receive: (we don’t ship outside of US)
-One special edition David Bowie 7″ vinyl for featured song, “Cat People”
-One copy of the official soundtrack on CD
-Two IB movie posters
Inglourious Basterds Tracklist:
The Green Leaves of Summer – Nick Perito
The Verdict – Ennio Morricone
White Lightning – Charles Bernstein
Slaughter – Billy Preston
The Surrender (La Resa)- Ennio Morricone
One Silver Dollar (Un Dollaro Bucato) – The Film Studio Orchestra
Davon Geht Die Welt Nicht Unter – Zarah Leander
The Man With The Big Sombrero – Samantha Shelton and Michael Andrew
Ich Wollt Ich Waer Ein Huhn – Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch
Main Theme From Dark of The Sun – Jacques Loussier
Cat People (Putting Out The Fire) – David Bowie
Tiger Tank – Lalo Schifrin
Un Amico – Ennio Morricone
Rabbia e Tarantella – Ennio Morricone
TO ENTER:
Simply comment on this post anytime before NOON (pacific time) on MONDAY, AUGUST 24th with your favorite quote from any Tarantino flick. We will select the winner at random and notify them via email.
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