Playing a Show, Playing a New Song: "I Want to be Like King Solomon"

Hello there! Long Live Logos is playing a show at Soda Bar in San Diego on April 28, 2013 (SODA BAR SHOW). It's been a little while since we've played a show. I can't wait. We'll mostly be playing brand new songs that we've never ever ever never played.

We're playing a brand new song entitled "I Want to be Like King Solomon." The song is about wanting to be like King Solomon of the Old Testament. He was King David's son, the second king of Israel. He was known for his extravagance and wisdom.

Here are the lyrics…yes, they might sound a little silly, but it's fun!

I Want to be Like King Solomon

I wanna make love with all the beautiful girls of the world
Like my hero King Solomon
I wanna be rich, super rich, yea you know what I mean
Like my hero King Solomon

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
I wanna be like King Solomon

I wanna be the smartest guy in the fucking world
Like my hero King Solomon

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
I wanna be like King Solomon

What you gonna do with all that ass?
What you gonna do with all that cash?
What you gonna do with all them brains?
I'll figure it out

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
I wanna be like King Solomon

Like he said, nothing really matters
Like he said, only God really matters

The Place Beyond the Pines: Review

The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) Review – 4/12/2013

(NO SPOILERS)

At this point, how can you not be excited to watch The Place Beyond the Pines—directed by Derek Clanfrance—when it stars Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper? I think they should have tried a little harder to get Jessica Alba instead of Eva Mendes, but that’s just me, and Rose Byrne made up for it anyway.

   It seemed like Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper were on the fast track to being C-List Hollywood hacks. Let me explain. The Notebook was one of the first movies that really made me cry, and I have been grateful ever since—I loved that movie! That was the first time I saw Gosling in a film, and he was just charming, and I am in love with Rachel McAdams. But still, it was “just” a tearjerker, chick flick, and it could have been easy for Gosling to keep playing the sweat heart.

   I first saw Cooper in Wedding Crashers, and I must say I often rewound (can you rewind DVDs?) his scenes. He’s just fucking hilarious in that movie. Cooper could have easily let himself be cast into that “bro”/”jock” role that he plays so well forever.

   Gosling was so great and strange in Drive, and Cooper was perfect in Silver Linings Playbook. Needless to say, both dudes have come a long way since their early days, and now they’re badasses, so I was expecting The Place Beyond the Pines to be pretty good. The movie delivered on the goods! Right from the beginning the movie gets exciting, and you obviously begin rooting for the “bad” guy (humans are so predictable). The movie follows Gosling as a carny motorcyclist that finds out he has a child in one of the small towns the carnival stops at. He seems like a guy that doesn’t have much direction in life. He finds some purpose in trying to provide for his family. He gets in trouble; that’s where police officer Cooper comes in. Both of the protagonists (it’s almost like two movies) are faced with moral dilemmas, and Clanfrance does a great job of eliciting a grand drama and emotion from the script.

   Something happens right in the middle of the movie that makes you wonder what the rest of the movie is going to be about, but Place isn’t amateurs at work. I think it was Roger Ebert that once said something like the following: a good movie can’t be too long, and a horrible movie can’t be too short. Some might think this movie could have been a little shorter, but it was a great, epic movie with some good twists and a satisfying ending.

   I especially liked Sean Bobbitt’s DP work. He set up strange scenes where it almost felt like you were Gosling or at least a part of his entourage, and his epic landscape shots play well with the emotional landscapes of the characters. I must say the wardrobe people were pretty awesome (the way Gosling’s character dresses the whole time gives this movie a realistic, raw feel). The acting was good all around. Although the story was a familiar one, there were enough novelties so that it didn’t seem too familiar; plus the acting and, again, Rose Byrne made up for it. And I would just like to say that Ben Mendelsohn seems to be in everything these days (Girls [TV], The Dark Knight Rises, Killing Them Softly, Animal Kingdom, Killer Elite). Keep it up Ben!

   Go watch this movie.

ROSE BYRNE

Dark vs Dark

I had a sick feeling in my gut…
I HAD a sick feeling in my gut…
I had A sick feeling in my gut…
I had a SICK feeling in my gut…
I had a sick FEELING in my gut…
I had a sick feeling IN my gut…
I had a sick feeling in MY gut…
I had a sick feeling in my GUT.

I drove to the localest, closest liquor store and bought a 40 of something…anything.

I sat alone in my car and washed a Xanax down with a swig of beer. I'll drink this beer nice and slow.

I drove to Tijuana, Mexico. I found an English speaking, middling drug dealer and bought a couple roofies; I bought five roofies; I put them in an Altoids box. I bought a couple bottles of tequila and got myself a hotel room.

This seemed like the near end.

I drove back to California the next morning. I got home, and no one was home. I got on my computer and searched for  the most beautiful girl on my Facebook friends list. It had to be a girl I liked, as well as found attractive. She had to be nice; she had to be beautiful; she had to be nice; she had to be beautiful; it had to be…her.

So I found her. I drove to wherever she lived. We "ran into each other."

"Oh, well hey what are y'all doing tonight?" It was a weekend.

"Oh, well hey we're all hanging out…you know so-and-so, right?" She was the fly, and I was the spider.

"Yes. I know so-and-so. I'll call him up. I'll see you there."

"Oh, well hey see ya later."

"Oh, well hey see ya later."

I called, and it was all set. We'd meet at a bar. We'd party after. I'd giver her a roofie. I'd take her to a hotel, and she'd "willingly" have sex with me.

This all seemed like the near end for me.

Afterwards, I'd head over to that cliff and go for a dive, and then it would really be the end for me. And that would be it.

It all went well and right and the way I planned it, and everyone had fun, but something went "wrong" the morning after…

"Hey, you. Come back to bed."

I was about to leave the room. I was about to leave her and everyone else forever. I was about to be forever gone.

"Where are you going?"

"Uh…I don't really remember what happened last night," I lied.

"Oh, well hey, let me remind you," she beamed at me.

Years flashed by, as the cliff waited for me to jump off of it.

The end kept seeming further and further away.

We had gotten married and all that. We had had kids and all that. She had fallen in love with me and all that. I had already been in love with her (and a million other girls) and all that. We bought a car and all that. We bought another car and all that. And then we bought yet another car and all that. We bought a house and all that. We bought some dogs and cats and all that. We went to church and all that. We went on vacations and all that. She did what she did and all that, and I did what I did and all that.

She died one day. I never told her about roofie-ing her–––––––––––––she seemed to like me–––––––she seemed to love me for god's sake–––––––––––––––and I loved her too, and I didn't want to ruin anything for her.

I found my little Altoids box in a corner somewhere, and I opened it with my old, crusty, wrinkly, hurting fingers. I dumped the remaining four roofies in the toilet; I flushed them; I sat down.

I barely got up. I barely stood up. I walked over to a fine mirror we had in our room, and I asked myself aloud, "Why does it seem like it's always DARK vs DARK?" I cried for several centuries.

And then I just hoped a light would shine on me, over me, through me, out of me–––––forever.