File under: kind of useless post floating out there for no good reason. That “special place where movies and music meet.”
The old gits in noise-rock band Sonic Youth have a lot of famous friends and they want you to know about it. They recently finalized the tracklist for a compilation album on the Starbucks label called, Hits Are for Squares. that comes out later this summer. Famous movie people with ties to SY like Gus Van Sant, Allison Anders and Chloe Sevigny (she was an X-girl model once) and a bunch of musicians we won’t bother to list picked the songs for the album.
You scan them all and, you go OK, Keener is friends with Spike Jonze, etc., etc., But Diablo Cody? What the fuck is she doing here? Does that not reek of last-minute, “hey, let’s get this new sort-of punk-rock-ish chick to pick a song.”
Whatever, hey, Michelle Williams lives in Brooklyn, near us, AND likes Sonic Youth???
“Bull in the Heather,” selected by Catherine Keener
“Disappearer,” selected by Portia De Rossi
“Superstar,” selected by Diablo Cody
“Stones,” selected by Allison Anders
“Tuff Gnarl,” selected by Dave Eggers and Mike Watt
“Shadow of a Doubt,” selected by Michelle Williams
“Tom Violence,” selected by Gus Van Zant
“Mary-Christ,” selected by David Cross
“World Looks Red,” selected by Chloe Sevigny
Of course Diablo Cody picks ‘Superstar’ – the song featured in her movie…lame.
heh, no doubt, right?
Oh, haters… I loved that an SY song (a rarity, no less) was on an album that debuted at #1. Growing up in suburbia (pre-internet) soundtracks were a great gateway to new, cool music.
So think of the children!
Good point Erin. I had the same experience growing up as a kid and so it was a great window. But we were to look at everything logically, there would be nothing in the world worth making fun of. 😉
i like Cody actually, she gets hated on too much.
Judging by the tracklist, Michelle Williams has the best taste of any of them. “100%”, Mike D? That’s really the best you could come up with?