@900blueberry I absolutely agree! I'm a record collector... And the feeling of holding a brand new record in your hands, feeling the anticipation trembling through your fingers as you hold it, just being beside your stereo listening to the record start to finish in one sitting... Looking at your worn out favourite records... Those experiences nothing in digital format can ever replace. KEEP RECORD STORES ALIVE!
I think Marketa is a beautiful woman. She looks so natural, untouched by plastic surgery and her eyes just have an intensity. She is so unwesternized-I love it.
Yeah. Glen Hansard has been around with The Frames since the 90's. Brilliant band. You should check them out. Glen and Marketa are The Swell Season now. Again with great songs.
oh my gooooosh i can't believe they were like regular indy musicians playing sf. i've been to that amoeba dozens of times. i can't believe i missed em!
THIS IS SCARY MAN!!! He says his standing behind a Lee Hazlewood cd, and I didn't know who he was so i googled him and found out that Lee died August 4, 2007. And then i thought it most have been around the same time as this preformance, so I looked and as you can se this video is from August 4, 2007..... scary
Yeah, pretty much. You can read more about it on the Wikipedia page for Once film. :) Marketa had never acted before and Hansard had only been in one movie and that was back in 91. Cillian Murphy was supposed to play Hansards part originally but pulled out and so Hansard got it instead. He's a friend of the writer/director and was originally just gonna write the songs and share some busking stories. :)
@kahaanii There's some wonderful things to discover on here! I recommend watching Once. It's their movie with all the songs on it- it's not quite a musical because the songs aren't random, they're musicians in it. The movie is enhanced by the music- which is all BEAUTIFUL.
Its a Japanese brand guitar. When they were in Japan the makers of the guitar were ashamed when they saw the state of it and tried to present him with a brand new top of the range model before he went on air. He refused it as they failed to grasp that it holds huge sentimental value to him. He used it as a young lad busking on the streets and fair play to him has kept it with him always as it never let him down during his nobody days.
I always loved how raw it sounds. Not in term of the quality. But its just inperfect as it is perfect. I don't know how i should put it. but Its just so Purely from their hearts!
It seems that the dvd release of the movie is creating a whole new fan base for them, and due to people talking about the quality of the SS shows recently as well..
@TheAccelerated What are you talking about? Sometimes no matter how much two people love each other it doesn't work. Sometimes it causes more pain to stay (for both) and the only option is to leave the person. That was part of the point of the film.
