Weird experience yesterday while shopping
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Weird experience yesterday while shopping
So, yesterday I was shopping in Polo, looking at jeans and t-shirts. All of these trendy/preppy stores play borderline offensively bad music. Only this time I heard a song from LiT over their speakers.
I was shocked
It put me in my place and lowered my feelings. It took me a second to remember where I knew the song from. The movie has such an impact that merely a song from it can bring back memories. It made me feel happy and sad at the same time -- bittersweat. An unpredicted set of emotions weathered me. Anyone here have an experience like this? It was great
I was shocked
It put me in my place and lowered my feelings. It took me a second to remember where I knew the song from. The movie has such an impact that merely a song from it can bring back memories. It made me feel happy and sad at the same time -- bittersweat. An unpredicted set of emotions weathered me. Anyone here have an experience like this? It was great
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This sounds like something out of the Twilight Zone and at Polo no less! Yikes!lost in translation wrote:So, yesterday I was shopping in Polo. . .
I can't say I've heard any LiT music while out anywhere.
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Trust me, I couldn't believe it. I see you're from Boston -- me too. This was up in the Kittery, NH outlets. I did pick up some nice stuff (and at nice prices too, hahah)Suntory wrote:This sounds like something out of the Twilight Zone and at Polo no less! Yikes!lost in translation wrote:So, yesterday I was shopping in Polo. . .
I can't say I've heard any LiT music while out anywhere.
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I also experience this when I hear LIT music. I have yet to hear it by chance in public, though. Yesterday, I worked from home and had LIT on in the background. I hadn't watched it in several weeks. I, too, had a bittersweet feeling. I was sad at first but then took comfort in seeing Bob, Charlotte and Tokyo again. The music really is such a vital element in this movie. It can create and evoke a mood in me that is almost beyond words.lost in translation wrote:. Anyone here have an experience like this? It was great
I wanted to stay home again today but I forced myself to head into the office. Maybe tomorrow I will "work from home" again.
The soundtrack to LiT is just pure class and I feel is a vital part to the movie and how it portrays the characters emotions, Ive got a chunk of the soundtrack on my mini disc and each song just takes me back to the first time I saw the movie.
Relating to hearing that song, I was sat flicking through the movie channels like 4 days ago and Shallow Hal was on, I caught the 30 second scene where they are dancing in a club, and the song playing is Phoenix - Too young, when I realised what it was, and where I'd heard it, had such an impact on me, reminding me of kareoke, my favourite scene in LiT.
Relating to hearing that song, I was sat flicking through the movie channels like 4 days ago and Shallow Hal was on, I caught the 30 second scene where they are dancing in a club, and the song playing is Phoenix - Too young, when I realised what it was, and where I'd heard it, had such an impact on me, reminding me of kareoke, my favourite scene in LiT.
theres nothing more than this
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Listening to the soundtrack can be moving just like watching the movie. The song selection is perfect. The introduction song in particular. Hearing that song makes me think of the whole movie. And then of course there's the last scene that gives me an empty feeling. I remember that feeling was stuck in me for a week after my first viewing. I can't really put words on the feelings that come over me.KKDallas wrote: I also experience this when I hear LIT music. I have yet to hear it by chance in public, though. Yesterday, I worked from home and had LIT on in the background. I hadn't watched it in several weeks. I, too, had a bittersweet feeling. I was sad at first but then took comfort in seeing Bob, Charlotte and Tokyo again. The music really is such a vital element in this movie. It can create and evoke a mood in me that is almost beyond words.
I wanted to stay home again today but I forced myself to head into the office. Maybe tomorrow I will "work from home" again.
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Absolutely!CHris! wrote:The soundtrack to LiT is just pure class and I feel is a vital part to the movie and how it portrays the characters emotions, Ive got a chunk of the soundtrack on my mini disc and each song just takes me back to the first time I saw the movie.
Phoenix - Too young, when I realised what it was, and where I'd heard it, had such an impact on me, reminding me of kareoke, my favourite scene in LiT.
The Kareoke is also my favorite scene. So that song means something special to me. Weather it's good or bad -- I don't know
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yea, same for me, although I love the kareoke scene, and the the song in the background, the very first song in the film as bob pulls up, Death in Vegas - Girls, was just the perfect choice to open the movie with. Everyrytime I hear it, it gives me such a relaxing and comforting sensation, it is probably my favourite song atm, closely followed by a few others from the LiT soundtrack ;Dlost in translation wrote:Listening to the soundtrack can be moving just like watching the movie. The song selection is perfect. The introduction song in particular. Hearing that song makes me think of the whole movie. And then of course there's the last scene that gives me an empty feeling. I remember that feeling was stuck in me for a week after my first viewing. I can't really put words on the feelings that come over me.
theres nothing more than this
The "LiT" soundtrack and being elsewhere
I had been in a restaurant with my husband and the music being piped in was "Sometimes" by My Bloody Valentine (the music in the taxi after the karaoke on the way back to the hotel). It was strange hearing it out of context like that, but I too immediately placed the point of origin.
More interesting though was hearing "More Than This" - the Roxy Music version in "Matchstick Men" w/ Nicolas Cage. I somehow turn the movie on just at that scene to hear the music.
I still like the Bill Murray rendition better. It was heartfelt and had more meaning than the rushed version.
More interesting though was hearing "More Than This" - the Roxy Music version in "Matchstick Men" w/ Nicolas Cage. I somehow turn the movie on just at that scene to hear the music.
I still like the Bill Murray rendition better. It was heartfelt and had more meaning than the rushed version.
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You just reminded me! In the car I once heard the Elvis Costello song (Peace love and Understanding) that Bill sings during the kareoke scene. He sounds so much like Elvis Costello that I actually thought it was Bill.Silver wrote:I had been in a restaurant with my husband and the music being piped in was "Sometimes" by My Bloody Valentine (the music in the taxi after the karaoke on the way back to the hotel). It was strange hearing it out of context like that, but I too immediately placed the point of origin.
More interesting though was hearing "More Than This" - the Roxy Music version in "Matchstick Men" w/ Nicolas Cage. I somehow turn the movie on just at that scene to hear the music.
I still like the Bill Murray rendition better. It was heartfelt and had more meaning than the rushed version.
How did I forget this?
edit: And Matchstick Men was a good movie
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I love that song too. So perfect for the introduction scene. It makes me think of what's coming and therefor makes me feel kind of shakey. I guess that's just the feeling this movie has on me.CHris! wrote:yea, same for me, although I love the kareoke scene, and the the song in the background, the very first song in the film as bob pulls up, Death in Vegas - Girls, was just the perfect choice to open the movie with. Everyrytime I hear it, it gives me such a relaxing and comforting sensation, it is probably my favourite song atm, closely followed by a few others from the LiT soundtrack ;Dlost in translation wrote:Listening to the soundtrack can be moving just like watching the movie. The song selection is perfect. The introduction song in particular. Hearing that song makes me think of the whole movie. And then of course there's the last scene that gives me an empty feeling. I remember that feeling was stuck in me for a week after my first viewing. I can't really put words on the feelings that come over me.
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the intro song, Girls - Death In Vegas, is just a superb song for this movie, and for the intro. The 'aah-aah' is hypnotic, it sounds like ocean tide, it immediately gives that insomniac dreamy feeling. The right music is essential in an atmospheric movie, Sofia Coppola rules.
My laptop wallpaper is a beautiful photograph of the Tokyo skyline at night which includes the Tokyo Park Hyatt where much of the movie was filmed and the skyline is dotted with those wonderful red aircraft warning lights. I've also downloaed the mp3 of Girls by Death in Vegas. I can sit at work or on a plane or in a hotel room and look at that skyline and listen to that song and recreate much of the feel of watching the movie in just a few minutes.
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Can you share the picture?Lost in Boston wrote:My laptop wallpaper is a beautiful photograph of the Tokyo skyline at night which includes the Tokyo Park Hyatt where much of the movie was filmed and the skyline is dotted with those wonderful red aircraft warning lights. I've also downloaed the mp3 of Girls by Death in Vegas. I can sit at work or on a plane or in a hotel room and look at that skyline and listen to that song and recreate much of the feel of watching the movie in just a few minutes.
The photograph at http://tokyoyakei.cool.ne.jp/tokyo/toty ... yo-s-1.jpg was taken from the Tokyo Park Hyatt and shows some of the same buildings seen in the scene where Charlotte is sitting on the window ledge.
This is my current wallpaper and is a photograph of the Tokyo Park Hyatt. It's the building with the three towers. http://tokyoyakei.cool.ne.jp/tokyo/fuku ... ter-16.jpg
You can find many beautiful wallpaper images of Shinjyuku at http://tokyoyakei.cool.ne.jp/tokyo-shinjyuku.html.
Enjoy.
This is my current wallpaper and is a photograph of the Tokyo Park Hyatt. It's the building with the three towers. http://tokyoyakei.cool.ne.jp/tokyo/fuku ... ter-16.jpg
You can find many beautiful wallpaper images of Shinjyuku at http://tokyoyakei.cool.ne.jp/tokyo-shinjyuku.html.
Enjoy.
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OH MY GOD that is an amazing site! I'm going to link to it.
I will probably spend HOURS looking at all those photos of Tokyo.
Since lord knows when I'll ever get to go it's the next best thing!
Lost in Boston did you take all those photos?! Or who did?
And would you like to register and be an official member?!
I think I now count 3 people from Boston on this forum.
I will probably spend HOURS looking at all those photos of Tokyo.
Since lord knows when I'll ever get to go it's the next best thing!
Lost in Boston did you take all those photos?! Or who did?
And would you like to register and be an official member?!
I think I now count 3 people from Boston on this forum.