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The Clarion
March 2, 200S
Art & Entertainment
Music review
Reworked Bowie songs highlight
‘Life Aquatic’ sound^ack
By Matt Rutherford
Entertainment Editor
‘The Life Aquatic’ soundtrack (Mark
Mothersbaugh’s 5''' Wes Anderson accompanied
soundtrack) has proven to be more striking and
discordant than the ‘Royal Tenenbaums’ official
soundtrack. While being the Mothersbaugh
junky that I am, I admit I had some trouble seeing
the some of the musical correlations. This album
is with out a doubt Mothersbaugh’s most
cluttered to date. ‘The Life Aquatic spilts its
hours long running time between score pieces
that seem almost a little too adorable, and older
rock songs that are sure to bring back great
memories.
The instrumental score pieces only take up a third of the album. All of which were
composed by to Anderson regulars Mark Mothersbaugh and Sven Libaek, who adds a
more jazzy feel to Mothersbaugh’s contemporary use of the harpsichord along side pop
rock. While the score pieces are overly “cute” they still convey music that could be used
for a large budget movie.
Mothersbaugh s soundtracks are known mostly for using 60’s and 70’s pop songs.
This time, he chose to incorporate the talents of Iggy and the Stooges, Devo, and David
Bowie to name a few. Bowie being the absolute center piece of the album, was a wise
choice. Even better only one song is actually sang by Bowie. The rest of Bowie’s songs
are completely redone, and sang by Seu Jorge who also plays the lone guitar in each
track.
Personally 1 think Seu Jorge is what makes the album work. His recreations of
Bowie s classic songs are amazing. TTie guitar almost makes Bowie’s work sound a
smidge like Bob Marley, making the entire island feel the film emits more realistic. Even
though Tlie Life Aquatic soundtrack is slightly cluttered and the tracklisting could
stand a bit of rearranging, it pulls off exactly what the film needed for a boost of flavor.
I’d give this album a 9 out of 10.
Dear Tex,
Man, your truck is big. How can I be cool
as you? Also how can I keep my whites
there whitest? |
—Sick of Staini
Dear Sick of Stains,
I want to let you know that 1 do have the j
biggest truck on campus. I would like to
think that I do anyway. I don’t consider
my self a “god” or anything, I wouldn’t
mind to be but 1 am not like that. I am just|
a good guy. You need to use Tide to wasM
your sheets. It always works for me. Hav^
a nice day!
—Te)i
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Million Dollar Baby an Eastwood directed success
By Matt Rutherford
Entertainment Editor
Don’t make the mistake of falling for
the trailer and think ‘Million Dollar Baby’
is another Rocky rip-off. The story takes
place out of the ring, and deals with
finding one’s confidence after utter
devastation.
Clint Eastwood, who both directs and
stars with Oscar winners Hillary Swank
and Morgan Freeman, plays a failing
boxing coach who is fired in the begin
ning of the movie, shattering his ego.
Frankie, (Eastwood) goes into hiding in
his dilapidated gym, the Hit Pit, in a
rundown section of Los Angeles.
The gym is kept up by Scrap
(Freeman), in return for a place to sleep.
The film is narrated by Freeman, which
echoes ‘The Shawshank Redemption’.
This was the only short coming of the
entire film. Nevertheless, the narration is
well done and adds a nice touch to the
film.
Eastwood’s use of color was
amazing. The gym changes colors with
Frankie’s mood and everyone in the film
evolves from wearing black to white. The
colorful evolution each character goes
through makes the film as pleasing to the
eye as it was for the mind.