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I brought a paralysing hangover home last night from a weekend of Weimar hedonism and 35mm debauchery. Nick and I went over for the Berlin Film Festival to see the final version of Hallam Foe.
The first time I saw it was in the wee cinema at the GFT with three other people, scribbling ideas for lyrics on a scrap of paper. This time it was in the huge cinema by Potsdamer Platz with sixteen hundred people, who all gasped, sighed, laughed and winced in the right places. Jamie Bell manages to take a slightly creepy character and make him appealing. He's essentially a Peeping Tom, but there's something about the way he's played that makes you feel that it's OK because he's a good guy, really. David MacKenzie has a black sense of humour that I like a lot. There is a scene that is the sickest, funniest, most twisted sex scene I've seen in a film. Not in real life, but definitely in a film.
Hallam Foe won the Silver Bear prize for best music. The song we wrote for it was only a small part of an astounding soundtrack put together by Domino records (AKA best label on the planet). I think I now have a new favourite moment of music in a film: it's the appearance of the song "Here On My Own" by u.n.p.o.c.. The last time I felt those tingles sitting in a cinema was when "Needle In The Hay" sound-tracked the wrist slashing in The Royal Tenenbaums. u.n.p.o.c. is part of the Fence Collective from Fife along with James Yorkston and King Creosote who are also on the soundtrack. Psapp, Sons & Daughters, Juana Molina, Bill Wells and Orange Juice are also among around 30 Domino bands that appear at different points in the film.
I bumped into my cousin in the pub. That doesn't seem too weird, but I live in Glasgow and Aki lives in Athens, so it was odd to walk up to the bar in Berlin and find him standing there. He's a musician too: a drummer, who probably holds the record for the most amount of kick drum hits in a second. If drumming were ever to be used as a WMD, you'd want him on your side.
I saw the FF annual that Anna put together tonight. Very cool. That girl has style.
"Here On My Own" can be heard here http://www.myspace.com/unpoc
Alex
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