The Black Swan

If you thought Center Stage was scary...

I came across a couple of pictures whiles googling Rodarte after hearing on the grape vine that they did costumes for a ballet (ballet costuming is my dream job and Rodarte are amazing). I didn't even recognize that it was Natalie Portman, I thought it was an actual production and she was a ballerina. But no. I really can't wait to see this movie. Oh and Winona Ryder is in it too :)

Band Of Horses-- Sydney Concert

I saw Band of Horses on Thursday night at Enmore theatre, and I'm still buzzing from it three days later. "Why?" you may ask, WELL not only was it brilliant, amazing and excellent, and not only was I right in front of the stage, but I'm pretty sure that its the best concert I've ever been to (yeah, I said it) a title previously held by Kings of Leon.

The sound was great, it helps if you're in front of the bassist (who looked like Adrian Brody and changed his bass after every song) and seemingly the 'man-of-the-moment' Ryan (guitarist and keys) who was met with many a drunken audience member such as the "RYAN! RYAN! 2008 MAN! TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHTTTTTT! legend" guy.

The crowd was great, not full of (many) pretentious hipsters, which meant my friends carefully styled mohawk wasn't the elephant in the room. The crowd even rebelled against the security guard attempting to prevent one person doing the lighter trick to a slow song, by flashing a torch in their eyes, however, once (lead singer) Ben Bridwell started serenading lighter-person a third of the audience and their lighters joined in.

Just a side note, (guitarist) Tyler Ramsey looks like jesus:

But back to the this pathetic excuse for a review...

The stage looked great with the slide shows of landscapes and tour pictures, really suited the music and created a great atmosphere. All their songs were great, the songs they chose from their previous two albums blended into the rest of the set perfectly, this included-- shall we say "popular favorites" like Ghost and General Specific, which is still one of their best ever, I'm glad they played it. Their song 'the Funeral' was the highlight of the concert, it was the song everyone was waiting to hear and everyone knew the words to.

However, there was a slide guitar sitting in front of Ben (first name basis as of now) that wasn't even touched during the concert. I'm partial to a bit of slide guitar and was hoping I'd see and hear it being played... but no apparently not.

Oh and the support band (the Gentlemen of Fortune) were... they were alright. The keys player needed a Broadway Danny Rose sober-special to get him to play the right notes but other then that they were quite good, they sounded kind of seventies actually-- like the Rolling Stones circa '78 (ooh musical pretentiousness).

But yeah, this "review" does the concert no justice, you need to take my word (yes me, a stranger who you don't know but you stumbled upon my blog while trying to find stills from Alice in Wonderland so now you're entitled to listen to my opinions) for it.... because it seriously was sooo goooooood.