Music Monday: Inside Llewyn Davis

So here's a treat for Monday.  NPR is streaming the soundtrack for "Inside Llewyn Davis" - the upcoming Cohen brothers film.  The movie focuses on fictional folk-singer Llewyn Davis, played by Oscar Isaac, emerging in the Greenwich music scene in the 1960's.  Like O Brother, Where Art Thou?, this Cohen creation has a soundtrack produced by T Bone Burnett.  The album is a compilation of classic and new folk songs mostly performed by Oscar Isaac, but also featuring the talent of Justin Timberlake, Marcus Mumford, Carey Mulligan, Stark Sands, and a host of others.

The soundtrack as a whole is just delightful!  But here are a few stand outs:


"Fare thee well (Dink's Song) - Oscar Isaac and Marcus Mumford.  A few lines into this song, my eyes actually welled with tears.  It's just an intensely sweet song and this duet is fantastic - easily my favorite from the album.  Also, with the announcement of their break, this may be the last "new Mumford" we get for a while.  But seriously, these two should cover something or do a whole album together or something.  If for some reason, the streaming doesn't work for you, here's their cover on YouTube:

"The Last thing on My Mind" - Stark Sand.  Plain ol' lovely folk music

"Five Hundred Miles" - Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, Stark Sand (all three staring in the film).  Lovely song - no, not The Proclaimers' "500 Miles."  This offers some lovely harmonies, the first song of JT's I've actually liked, and [oh my word!] Carey Mulligan's sweet voice!  "Mr. & Mrs. Mumford" need to be a thing at some point.

"The Auld Triangle" - Chris Thile, Chris Eldridge, Marcus Mumford, Justin Timberlake and Gabe Witcher.  A great folk a capella that includes Mumford and JT - I think they just checked every box in one song.

Farewell - "a previously unreleased recording" of Bob Dylan's "Farewell."  Love Bob Dylan; love this song!

Check out the soundtrack and let me know which were your favorites :)

10: Farewell, pt. 2. "Vale Decem"

As I said, my flatmate and I recently bid David Tennant a fond farewell from Doctor Who.  And we did it in style.



[One of my favorite pics of Tennant with the chapter heading of my current book...
which is coincidentally (?) by Doctor Who guest-writer, Neil Gaiman :]



My coworker let us borrow this fantastic TARDIS-disappearing-mug.

Seriously, the TARDIS is sitting on the street outside Rose's house

...and then you put hot water in it and the TARDIS vworps into space (the other side of the mug).

Complete with sound effects - if you're cool like that and do the sound effects ;)

(Thanks, Jennifer, for adding to the festivities!!)



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Then, I printed some cute and funny pictures for our "backdrop."

I also did a quick (and shoddy) rendition of the TARDIS.

And, of course, Allons-y!

I had the soundtrack from Season 4 playing when Beks got home (fabulous stuff!)

And made our own little 3-D glasses.

Without even conciously thinking about it, I was already wearing "TARDIS colors"

and Beks put in her TARDIS earrings.  Such fun!

Then we settled in with pizza and chocolate for the End of Time 2-parter.

Oh wow!!  Brilliant.

Sad.  Funny.  Poingnant.

And Brilliant!

"Vale Decem" - Farewell to Ten

In love with this song... and even more so with it's latin lyrics.



After crying through the "End of Time," we spontaneously jumped right into "The Eleventh Hour."

I'm pleased to say we enjoyed Matt Smith from the get-go.

But as they say, "My only problem with Matt Smith as the Doctor... is that he isn't David Tennant."

We look forward with hope, but back with fondness.

I can say it now more than ever:  Ten is my Doctor.

Vale Decem,  Salve Undecim.