New Music Find: Jens Lekman

Swedish indie musician.

His music is guitar-based pop with samples & strings.

The lyrics are some of the wittiest I've heard; romantic, funny, a little depressing.

Visit Jens Lekman site

Clowes Interview

CLOWES INTERVIEW

Crazy Runs in the Family

Paranoid in the sub-a-cultcha.

It's amateur hour at the house of Chris

Been watching lots of movies lately

"Jubilee"
Written and directed by Derek Jarman
Synopsis -- "Sex, drugs and punk rock. Add violence and time travel and you have Jubilee."

Favorite parts:
1) Adam Ant ... dreamy bastard

2) "Her parents were Christians, so she was born with a hang up."

3) The post-crucifixion Jesus Christ impersonator becoming the meat in a mass orgy

4) The amount of unfiltered dick

5) The Slits vandalizing and being fucking adorable about it

Least Favorite Parts:

1) The rest of it

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"Stranger Than Paradise"

Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch

Synopsis -- "About a self-styled New York hipster (John Lurie of the Lounge Lizards) who is paid a suprise and unwelcome visit by his pretty Hungarian cousin. A strange affection grows between the two exiles as they travel between New York, Cleveland and Florida. With a final ironic twist, they are at the end, back where they began."

Favorite Parts:

1)The 8 MM look of the movie

2) U.S. versus Hungarian culture

3) Willie's apartment

4) "It's Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and he's a wild man, so bug off."

5) Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell On You" ... he is a wild man.

Least Favorite Parts:

1) Too damn long for me. But I am kind of a simpleton whose ass falls asleep at the drop of a hat.