![]() (Her name is May and pineapple is her favorite fruit and May 1st is also his birthday. ![]() Every day, for the entire month following the fact, he buys a can of pineapple with an expiration date of May 1st. The most curious of Cop 223’s post-breakup rituals revolves around pineapple. He visits the street under her window and kicks rocks around glumly, reminiscing on the good times they had together. He develops a worrying attachment to his beeper (okay fine, I admit it, I had to look up how these things work), which has taken a vow of silence. Even after the break-up, he calls in on his ex’s family, who always happen to be on their way out (doubt), reluctant to be the ones to tell him that she’s not there at all. It understands that trailing not far behind rejection is denial, loneliness, plummeting self-interest that a bad-weather shelter need be hastily constructed, that silly rituals do the important job of anchoring us to the earth in the violent cloudbursts of grief.įor Cop 223, it’s as if someone has shifted the floor under him a couple of meters, and this floor happens to be in to a subway station. It knows how aching a first heartbreak is. But there is a reason (a number of reasons, actually) why every great contemporary auteur – Quentin Tarantino most famously has declared his undying love for it, and Barry Jenkins has spoken about it at length as well – cites Chungking Express as a key inspiration in their own filmmaking.įor one thing, it’s gentle and earnest, in a really human way. ![]() ![]() With a superficial watch, Chungking Express can easily be written off as unambitious, purposeless, lacking the substance to merit the ardent praise heaped upon it. It was a Daft Punk cover, there was a videographer there, this is the internet - so even on a night that seemed more about chill relaxation, and for a song that came with a self-doubting intro, this take’s well worth its document.I was not expecting to see content like this on Reddit, what I consider a post-adolescent online platform, but when I did, I knew that this was how I’d be digging myself out of this bout of writer’s block.įirst, the video itself: a montage of scenes from the 1994 Hong Kong film Chungking Express, specifically stitching together all of the appearances made by Cop 223 – perhaps the forefather of today’s beam-me-up-softboi simps – overlaid with the Daft Punk track “Something About Us” from their 2001 album Discovery. Despite this being a friendly gathering without pro sound, everything on that roof struck as perfectly calibrated, from acoustics to backdrop, so Andrea’s “I’m afraid of this next song” intro confessed an unfounded fear. Twin Sister went first, and worked through a ten-or-so-song set that featured one new one, many from their excellent EPs, and this cover of Daft Punk’s “ Something About Us.” The track’s spaced-out, mildly funky groove is a sort that Twin Sister toys with in their own work - seeing them live is appreciating how locked and versatile their rhythm section is, flipping easily from space disco to dampened funk or driving songs with kraut-like insistence. A good 50+ people turned up for this last minute post-midnight get together thrown by the kids at Infinite Best Recordings, for a BYOB affair boasting a set from fast rising and ever-improving Twin Sister and their frequent showmates Holiday Shores (who were somehow everywhere I was this past weekend: this roof on Frost Ave., opening for the morning benders at Music Hall Of Williamsburg the next night, and playing again hours later at Bruar Falls’ 1-year anniversary/dance party at 2AM). I was in a car to Greenpoint within the hour. I was thisclose to making it a couch night on Friday, when I read an email at 11PM about a rooftop party in Brooklyn where Twin Sister would be playing.
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