Red Mosquito

kreng wrote:has this been posted before?

http://www.stereogum.com/1443872/matt-b ... eams/mp3s/

psychobain wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:This album is MUCH more accessible than High Violet.

new song to appear on the Hunger Games soundtrack:

new song

http://prettymuchamazing.com/music/the-national-lean

psychobain wrote:new song

http://prettymuchamazing.com/music/the-national-lean

Stunning song

ridleybradout wrote:

psychobain wrote:new song

http://prettymuchamazing.com/music/the-national-lean

Stunning song

Yeah great song, will have to dl that when it's released.

ps Jennifer Lawrence is so fucking hot...

Hard to Find was used in the last episode of Arrow.

Humiliation is a helluva song.

This album has not clicked for me yet

This was my #1 album of 2013... Great show at Red Rocks, too. They clicked for me the moment I first heard Boxer.

Just attended a screening of Mistaken for Strangers. What a great movie.

theplatypus wrote:Just attended a screening of Mistaken for Strangers. What a great movie.

What's the narrative of this documentary?

Matt brings his brother Tom along to help out on the road. Tom is a wannabe filmmaker and decides he wants to take the opportunity to make a documentary about the band, but he just fucking sucks on every level. It becomes instead a documentary about this really lonely guy, with huge potential, who simply let every opportunity pass him by, and his resentment towards his brother's success. It's a sweet, sad, often laugh-out-loud hilarious and always poignant story about disappointment and anger, with The National and their music as a framing device. I'm not the biggest National fan ever, but this is one of the greatest documentaries I've ever seen.

I heard an interview with those two a couple of weeks ago. It sounds like an awesome doc.

Glad it's finally widely available... I'll be watching this tonight!

theplatypus wrote:Matt brings his brother Tom along to help out on the road. Tom is a wannabe filmmaker and decides he wants to take the opportunity to make a documentary about the band, but he just fucking sucks on every level. It becomes instead a documentary about this really lonely guy, with huge potential, who simply let every opportunity pass him by, and his resentment towards his brother's success. It's a sweet, sad, often laugh-out-loud hilarious and always poignant story about disappointment and anger, with The National and their music as a framing device. I'm not the biggest National fan ever, but this is one of the greatest documentaries I've ever seen.

I have heard nothing but positive reviews about the documentary and they are doing a fairly strong press tour behind it; I will be away for the local showing but will certainly get around to it soon.

oasisfan35 wrote:

theplatypus wrote:Matt brings his brother Tom along to help out on the road. Tom is a wannabe filmmaker and decides he wants to take the opportunity to make a documentary about the band, but he just fucking sucks on every level. It becomes instead a documentary about this really lonely guy, with huge potential, who simply let every opportunity pass him by, and his resentment towards his brother's success. It's a sweet, sad, often laugh-out-loud hilarious and always poignant story about disappointment and anger, with The National and their music as a framing device. I'm not the biggest National fan ever, but this is one of the greatest documentaries I've ever seen.

I have heard nothing but positive reviews about the documentary and they are doing a fairly strong press tour behind it; I will be away for the local showing but will certainly get around to it soon.

I watched this last night - happy to report it lived up the hype

I couldn't help but see Tom as Jack Black. I loved when he was framing the other band members up for still shots

Just finished watching it, and it IS funny in a pathetic way. "Hey, Moby!" cracked me the fuck up

I thought of Tom more like Phillip Seymour Hoffman's character from Boogie Nights... without the gay kiss.

Perfect movie length, I think Matt gets brother-of-the-year honors, and the plot really wrapped up nicely.

That was brilliant. I see it was edited by Matt's wife, along with Tom, and all band members are listed as producers. It was so good I have to doubt Tom's ability to pull it off Han Solo...

I need to go back to this album. Still haven't seen the doco