I'll be the fox by the road, I am.

My best friend Audrey sent me this wonderful little surprise yesterday, exclaiming that I would love it. I did.
I just became aware that the lyrics is about a fox who gets hit by a car and then the fur is used to make a coat. I cried a little.

Everything Everything - Tin (The Manhole)

Of Moons, Birds and Monsters

What a truly amazing song. Although the album Oracular Spectacular has been out for quite a while now, this is one of the last songs that stuck with me. And as I so often find, music that grows on me stick for the longest of time.

Why'd you cut holes in the face of the moon base?
Don't you know about the temperature change
In the cold black shadow?
Are you mad at your walls
Or hoping that an unknown force can repair things for you?
Pardon all the time that you've thrown into your pale grey garden?
If the ship will never come you've got to move along

Even a bird would want a taste of dirt from abyssal dark
The prick of a feather could make a kingdom burn and the bloodshed start
The falling apart
Made me a shadow in the shape of wonder
The waves of black
If she's going under I can hold my breath till the sky comes back
Or drown like a rat, rat, rat
He's a rat!

To catch a monster
We make a movie
Set the tempo
And cut and cut its brains out
It will inspire on the burning pyre
Half the distance
Half the motion
Communication
It's easy as the ocean

The Shins will change your life.

Yes, I'm referring to the movie "Garden State", where the lovely and dorky Natalie Portman practically pushes her headphones on Zach Braff. 
I love that scene, where they first meet. I love how they meet. In general, I love first meetings where people talk about great music.
I love The Shins, although I had not been listening to their music for long before I found this very quote by Natalie Portman, which then led me to watch the movie. 
Such a great movie, with such a great soundtrack! 

When I first started to watch it, my first reaction was getting a wee bit sceptical, since Zach Braff is in it (I did not know he had the lead role, I didn't know anything besides that Natalie Portman was in it - and I love her). Not that he is a bad actor or anything, I have only seen him in "Scrubs", and I guess I am a bit judgmental when it comes to actors who play in comedy series.. But he fits this part, and played it well. Later on I found out that he actually is the director and writer, so there goes my judgment! Amazing work, he absolutely got my new found respect!
And Natalie.. oh Natalie. She's one of my favorite actors, but after seeing this, I totally developed a femme-crush.

I wont spoil the whole plot, but I can say that this is a movie about about being numb to life and then start living. One of my favorite subjects. 
SEE IT, and on that note, I'll leave you with a few of the great songs from the soundtrack. 

Coldplay - Don't Panic


Frou Frou - Let Go


The Shins - Caring is Creepy


The Shins - New Slang


This next song by Postal Service did not feature on the soundtrack, although it was on the trailer.  The cover version, by Iron & Wine, is to be found on the soundtrack, but I prefer the original. 

Postal Service - Such Great Heights
 

Oh, and since we're on the subject of The Shins, I'll share one of my absolute favorite songs of all time: Sleeping Lessons