It’s not really about music per se, but what the hell: I get my Ebert on, blurbing perhaps too densely about Brick and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang for a Flak rental recommendations feature.

I like the noir life. I like to boogie.

Spoon “The Book I Write”
Wreckless Eric “Whole Wide World”
Stranger Than Fiction soundtrack at Newbury Comics. (and at iTunes.)

This is a little different.

I want to talk about a movie, Stranger Than Fiction, I saw over the weekend, which is my favorite film this year. I think you should see it too, although maybe this post is more for people who’ve already seen the movie and can tell me how they felt about it.

I’m gonna start with the music and sorta ramble from there.

There will be very, very spoily spoilers that give everything away and will make you sad if yr the kind of person who doesn’t want to know that Vader is Luke’s father before going to see Empire or that the butler did it, etc.

On both counts consider yrselves forewarned.

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