If you are the type of writer that needs music in the background while you weave your tales of whatever, I found a great soundtrack.
“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis is quite brilliant. It sounds less Hollywood than any soundtrack I’ve heard lately, as the more established composers tend to recycle the same few bars of notes throughout every film.
Just the other day I caught “Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade” and I had to double take to make sure I wasn’t listening to “Jaws”. That silly John Williams.
This music would be excellent to play in the background of anything, really. If you don’t believe me, either go see the film, or check it out on Itunes where you can hear the 30 second samples. It doesn’t seem to be on Amazon.mp3 downloads as of yet, otherwise I would have purchased from their DRM-Free site. If you do elect to buy it, you can buy single tracks however, the whole album seems to be worth the 9.99 price.
I am currently writing to this.
Even though I didn’t hear it until I was well into my 20s, there is just something identifiably 1970s about that music.
She’s my wifes favorite singer. She peaked somewhere between 1973 and 1983. My wife left Taiwan in 1970, so that’s the music she remembers - the clip is from a variety show she did in the late 80s or early 90s to revive her career.
I’m working on a post with translations, but that one is about being separated from a new love. The image is that the memory of the person is tickling her heart like a little ant walking across it all the time. Kinda wierd in Enlgish, but Chinese are much more in to nature imagery in the pop music than we are.:D
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