{"id":4088,"date":"2010-07-11T16:54:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T08:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2010-07-11T17:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T09:00:21","slug":"fred-edward-fredward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/11\/fred-edward-fredward\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred + Edward = Fredward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heidi and I went to see “Rev on The Road”, a local presentation of some films from the Revelation Perth International Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The double bill included: The Family Jams<\/a>, a music documentary focussing on Vetiver<\/a>‘s 2004 tour with Devendra Banhart<\/a> and Joanna Newsom<\/a>; and Stingray Sam<\/a>, an episodic musical space western.<\/p>\n

The Family Jams had a rather disjoint start, but later revealed itself to be a wistful and charming travelogue that manages to sincerely capture the life experiences of a close group of musicians and friends.<\/p>\n

My favourite song from the film was probably “Bridges and Balloons” by Joanna Newsom. Here’s a video for it:<\/p>\n

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Stingray Sam was more focussed on entertainment with imaginative writing, good humour, and balanced pacing. The musical numbers (from the Billy Nayer Show<\/a>) were particularly entertaining.<\/p>\n

Episodes 1 & 2 of Stingray Sam are online on Cory McAbee’s homepage<\/a>. My favourite song from the series features in episode 2; here’s a video:<\/p>\n

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Heidi and I went to see “Rev on The Road”, a local presentation of some films from the Revelation Perth International Film Festival. The double bill included: The Family Jams, a music documentary focussing on Vetiver‘s 2004 tour with Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom; and Stingray Sam, an episodic musical space western. The Family Jams … Continue reading “Fred + Edward = Fredward”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-13W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4235,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions\/4235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}