This is dusk, just as the fireflies begin to come out. The sound is turned off because I took it from inside. I don’t see them often because I go to bed so early. They always seem magical to me.
“We forced the stars to align. We were all on our own tour, and we’re like, ‘we really wanna make this work.’ ...The most replenishing part of this project was, just, the complete trust. Everybody wanted to understand each other, and nobody was, like, pushing an agenda.” – Phoebe Bridgers
“If one person was having a thought – ‘I don’t know if this is good, it’s probably terrible’ – it was, like, ‘No! Be the boy genius! Your every thought is worthwhile, just spit it out.”– Lucy Dacus
“It’s safer to create as part of a collective. Because what you lose in control, you gain in possibilities, and input, and ideas... knowing that I can only take a third of the credit for the songs that we made makes me feel entitled to be proud of this music. I feel grateful that they were willing to be in that creative space with me and give me the ability and reason to feel that.” – Julien Baker
So I was trying to find this on my blog and it turns out the video of this that I reblogged a few years ago has now been taken down. I will not stand for this. From the Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis concert (held in 2013 to promote the Coen brothers’ movie), here is the rather prescient “Please, Mr. Kennedy”- a song about an astronaut not wanting to go to outer space, performed (in part) by two actors who eventually went to outer space (in Star Wars).
Things that shouldn’t go unnoticed:
-Elvis Costello was not involved with the movie Inside Llewyn Davis in any way, shape, or form, and yet he gets to sing lead on this song from the movie because... he’s Elvis Costello (and Justin Timberlake, who sang on the original recording, presumably wasn’t available)
-T-Bone Burnett, the legendary music producer who also put together this concert, is also there, contributing absolutely nothing but a few handclaps and the weight of his presence.
-Every time Adam Driver sings “ahhhh,” he whips his head past the microphone. I can’t deal with this.
-Oscar Isaac, who plays the titular character, spends most of his time alternating between the too-tall microphone Adam is using, and the just-right microphone that the living Elvis is using, and consequently is hardly audible. But it’s okay, he seems to be having a good time. (I like when T-Bone puts his hand on his shoulder, as if to hold him in place.)
-Wait, who’s that backing band? Could it be... Punch Brothers?! Towards the end of the song, Chris Thile breaks out into one of his trademark dances, swaying his entire body from side to side. This is proof that the man will rock out to anything, even a song as silly as this. (Something we should all aspire to do, tbh.)