I just saw someone describe Julien Baker’s voice as something that “could make them believe in God” and genuinely genuinely I’ve never heard a better way of expressing how her music makes me feel.
tommy loves classic rock and all that yes but he also loves jimmy buffett
for most of his life he pretended it was the fun songs about getting drunk (margaritaville, boat drinks) that were his favorite but in reality it was the slow, romantic ones (come monday, lone palm)
he puts jimmy buffett on while he and buck are cooking dinner one day, half as a joke. buck laughs at tommy because he knows the words to every single song
until slow boat to china comes on, and tommy takes buck into his arms for the slow dance they never got to have at the wedding
it starts out joking but it gets more earnest as the song goes on. tommy croons into buck’s ear about wanting to drift aimlessly on a boat with him all to myself, alone
and by the end of it buck is so worked up by the tenderness and so in love that he turns the stove off and drags tommy to bed right there and then
The only bright spot in MAESTRO is Carrey Mulligan. Cooper's LB is all surface, no substance. Matt Bomer does more in his 5 minutes of screentime than Cooper does in the whole movie.
The movie covers smth like 50 years of Leonard Bernstein's life and even though it namechecks a lot of his achievements, i didnt get a sense of the person at all. Its more infodump than entertainment. There's some lovely camerawork in the b/w part of the movie (first 30 minutes?) but that's about it. Kinda sad that Bradley Cooper cdnt deliver another beautiful musical film like A STAR IS BORN. His instincts were so much better there. This felt like a mess. A powerpoint presentation of a movie.
Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major III. Rondo: Allegro
Jascha Heifetz with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
this concerto was popularized in england in the nineteenth century by Joseph Joachim, the hungarian violinist & conductor, whose concert holmes & watson have attended the evening before resident patient begins
this is the piece that holmes is thinking of in the barbershop, which is played on the soundtrack and which holmes plays on violin at the end of the episode