Way Past Tuesday
But damn is she somethin’ — Kaki King — We just watched “August Rush”, whose contrived plot is almost as unbearable as the beauty of the undiluted love and music, which are transportive in places, however saccharine at times. The actors are all really musicians, save for the main character, who actually played his pieces though was overdubbed and had hand-double moments all by this woman Kaki King, a white girl from Atlanta. Simply amazing. No video of hers quite captures the movie’s magic, but if you like it, noodle about after her; it’s worth it. And the joy on the boy character’s face at his creating this music seems utterly genuine, his faking the fingering as real as any faker I’ve ever seen (because it IS real — to a point) — which may sound like damning with faint praise but is entirely other; give him more than the 6 months it took him to learn this from scratch and he probably could play it for real for real … Wowza.
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I have not seen the movie – but love the video clip. What cool guitar fingering… I’ve seen Spanish guitarist do the percussion thing with the guitar – but she is quite unique. I will certainly check out the movie.
And just for the record – I tried, but really can’t dance to this…
Comment by bird brain — January 9, 2009 @ 6:24 am
Never thought of that … There WAS a little dancing in the movie, but it had more to do with various kinds of music, embodied not just in our implausible child prodigy with his gift for 5-7 time, and his missing parents (one rock, one classical), but hokily in a wanna-be-scary skank of a Robin Williams character waxing rhapsodically philosophic about the vibrational harmonies that tie the universe together. Parts of the movie broiught tears to my eyes (but I’m a creampuff), parts were wincingly laughable, though earnestly so.
Comment by el kib — January 9, 2009 @ 7:10 am
Mrs Rakkity and I saw the movie in the theater, and really enjoyed it. We had no notion of the “dubbed” fingering–the playing was as real as could be. We may rent the DVD and see it again, we liked it so much.
Comment by rakkity — January 10, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
I live in Fairfield , CA. that is the Northren part. I live in Northren CA inland area with some ocean ifneulnce, summer days are hot between 90 to 103F & winter days between 40 to 50 F.After reading where you are all from I’m not sure I picked the right color. Does any of that sound like wear any of you live?
Comment by Cassia — October 24, 2015 @ 5:19 pm