it's easy to let the best of yourself slip away

this is maybe one of the best covers ever. not to mention how amazing the intro to the track is. this is my favorite elvis song. sung by the boss. its his favorite elvis song too. i almost died when i first heard it.



---> bruce springsteen - can't help falling in love (elvis presley cover) <---

www.brucespringsteen.net/

at last

today's inauguration ceremonies were amazing. i love these people. and i'm so freaking happy i can call this man my president.



and what a perfect song for their first dance as the first couple of this nation.

---> etta james - at last <---

it's our destiny

slumdog millionaire was SO CUTE. i loved everything about it, including the soundtrack + score (i guess i'm catching up with soundtracks now, eh?)



---> mausum and escap - a.r. rahman <---
---> paper planes (dfa remix) - m.i.a. <---



the very end was a beautiful bollywood sequence that i just want to watch over and over.

tell me, friend, can you ask for anything more?

bruce springsteen might as well get ready to thank the academy again. his song of the same name for the wrestler is so incredibly beautiful.



---> the wrestler <---

while i'm at it here's some other songs the boss did for movies. he won an oscar for "streets of philadelphia" from philadelphia and "secret garden" from jerry maguire is just plain awesome.



---> streets of philadelphia <---
---> secret garden <---

www.brucespringsteen.net/

movie soundtracks 2k8

i love movie soundtracks. i wasn't so on top of them this year as in pervious years. i do want to discuss three of them; one score that i love, one soundtrack that i love and one soundtrack that is terrible but has one absolutely amazing song on it.

firstly, my love for hans zimmer knows no bounds. his score for frost/nixon is so beautiful.



---> the numbers - hans zimmer <---

the good soundtrack is tropic thunder. it is amazing and chock full of songs i've always loved, and some guilty pleasures too. it also has a few songs i've never heard before that are wonderful.



---> the name of the game (the crystal method's big a** t.t. mix) - the crystal method <---

and now the soundtrack that is terrible: twilight. (we won't get into the movie itself. haha. i may have loved it but i'll never tellll). the soundtrack, which made bank, is filled with mediocre rock songs. actually, it's the kind of stuff i would have liked in high school (for shame) so i guess i can see how it made so much money. it does, however, have one shinning light, namely iron & wine.



---> flightless bird, american mouth - iron & wine <---

how the music producers convinced sam beam to put his song on this shitty soundtrack i will never understand.

www.hans-zimmer.com/
www.thecrystalmethod.com/
www.ironandwine.com/

chestnuts roasting on an open fire

i work all day today and then i fly to my parents' house for christmas tomorrow morning, so this might be my last chance to post some christmas music. i'm going to post a few favorites.

my all time favorite:

---> the christmas song - nat king cole <---



---> you're a mean one, mr. grinch <---
---> last christmas - wham! <---
---> skating - vince guaraldi trio <---
---> run run rudolph - chuck berry <---

i posted this last year too, but it's just so damn good.

---> christmas wrapping - the waitresses <---

i'll see you in another life, when we are both cats.

the end of vanilla sky always kills me.



"it was sophia who never fully recovered. it was she who somehow knew you best. and like you she never forgot that one night where true loved seemed possible."

cameron crowe soundtracks are always boss. this one is particularly good, and his song choice for this moment makes it all the more heartwrenching.

---> spiritualized - ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space <---

www.spiritualized.com