POLL: The Clean vs. The Chills

i guess this answers my question

Liz has missed an appointment to have an abortion. She has to keep her child, and neither her boyfriend Geoff nor child's father Neil are too happy about it. She can not decide which partner is better for her, and Neil makes a proposal to her when they attend the wedding of her best friend Prue and Mike. She probably prefers Geoff, but he is preoccupied with his girlfriend Bryony, who returned from abroad. Another friend, Ant, has written a script for documentary film, which is directed by a German and in which topless women, well, talk about their lives.

apparently copies of the soundtrack can be had for less than $10, or it could be assembled -- probably without too much trouble too.
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back to guns
why are there so many guns?!

http://www.imdb.com/reviews/109/10908.html

movie sounds pretty boring tbh

idk i kinda like slice of life indie when its done well

anyways an undertone of mordant dark humor I think helps offset the chipper cheerful guitar pop that Kiwis specialize in. They are punk rockers after all

slice of life and a cup of ammo

what is there to do in dunedin but watch scorsese movies?

pomplamau5 on fire today

mordant dark humor doesn't really explain the tons of guns enough for me

check out the prices on this book!!
http://www.amazon.com/Positively-George-Street-Matthew-Bannister/dp/0790007045/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323200018&sr=8-1

Woah at prices! Glad I bought it when it came out. So yes, I read it a few years back. Good stuff. Nice personal take on the histories of loads of bands and people whose lives/tours crossed paths.

To this day I don't think I've knowingly heard a Sneaky Feelings song though.

here's one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVCHn7-qBB8

That book looks amazing! Too bad it's so expensive and it doesn't appear to be in any north american libraries either.

No idea about the gun thing -- I've never pictured NZ as a place with lots of guns, but, then again, a lot of it is rural....

Do you really think the gun imagery is disproportionate, though?
I mean, have we considered the number of gun songs during roughly the same period elsewhere in the world?

Somebody should do some research and then write a book about it

i nominate nabisco

apparently copies of the soundtrack can be had for less than $10, or it could be assembled -- probably without too much trouble too.

I have that CD, is there a Sandbox Leonardo or such like?

goooood question -- why don't you make one

you guys i have to tell you something
i bought a copy of that book for $24 this morning and i have confirmation that it is on its way from dunedin
(willing to loan within the midwest, mrs advance and henriettalinita)

still would like to discuss the gun imagery
I mean, have we considered the number of gun songs during roughly the same period elsewhere in the world?
is there a way to search this? any librarians know the answer to this question?

I think that would be complicated. I mean, I do feel like in a period/scene where the archetypal band is the sex pistols, gun imagery might not be too rare?

I will definitely take you up on the offer to borrow that book at some point!

Only database I can think of with searchable song titles is Spotify. I don't know if you can combine with searching by year.
Ah ha http://www.spotify.com/us/blog/archives/2008/01/22/searching-spotify/

you can search by song title on allmusic, but I'm not sure how far that'd get you

i mean none of the songs i noticed containing gun imagery have titles that would suggest heavy artillery
except for one, and even that is debatable (point that thing)

Just off the top of my head: That's when I reach for my revolver, Machine gun (slowdive), uh...
well there's this
http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Shooting-Songs.html

copacabana
hahaha oh geez

maybe this is a red herring, who knows. i just heard like 3 in one day and it seemed unusual.

am I missing the gun reference in pink frost?

isn't there a gun? i'm not super familiar with that song! you would know better than i would.

I don't think so...she's dying but I always thought that song was about gaia and I don't think you can kill gaia with a gun

also i would not put "the man who shot liberty valance" and "copacabana" within the same musical framework, whereas these flying nun songs are at least somewhat related

like i said, there may be nothing there and i am letting my imagination go (too) nuts

it would not be the first time

anyway i am looking forward to reading this book

cough

i have that book, i like it.

there's a gun in this plus some other weapons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWGHvFHMiNk

fake eyeball, that's quite a rattle you've got. hope you feel better ;)

Book arrived from Dunedin today in the following wrapping: (from the outside in, all taped shut elaborately)

Brown mailing paper covered in stamps
Cardboard sleeve for book about stamps of indigenous people
plastic bag
brown paper

Lots of photos, not long, no idea how anyone would pay $384 for it but w/e. Looking forward to reading this evening!