Control
Control is playing at the Roxy starting this Friday. I highly recommend seeing it if you have an interest in Ian Curtis, Joy Division, black & white film, epilepsy, depression, button-down shirts, and/or artists who die tragically young.
I saw it last month in a packed theatre at Le Festival de Nouveau Cinéma in Montréal. Although parts hit a little too close to home, for reasons I’d rather not divulge, I loved it. Stunning cinematography, good music, and a sad story equal fantastic in my book. I’d see it again.
Since Control is coming, that means Wristcutters is leaving and I need to get my sorry ass down there before Friday.
I leave you with one of Joy Division’s most famous and frequently covered songs:
“Love Will Tear Us Apart”
lyrics by Ian Curtis, 1979When routine bites hard
and ambitions are low
And resentment rides high
but emotions won’t grow
And we’re changing our ways
taking different roadsLove, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart againWhy is the bedroom so cold
turned away on your side?
Is my timing that flawed
our respect run so dry?
Yet there’s still this appeal
that we’ve kept through our livesLove, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart againDo you cry out in your sleep,
all my failings expose?
Gets a taste in my mouth
as desperation takes hold
Why is it something so good
just can’t function no more?Love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again