Take notice Yahoo! that a response from Jens to an e-mail I sent two months ago is not spam! Jeeze. I love this guy!
My E-Mail:
I think you’re beautiful, but it’s impossible to make you understand that if you don’t take my hand I will lose my mind completely.
That’s not to you, but to a future girlfriend, hopefully. BUT I hope you are feeling much better my friend, you make great music. And when you are fully recovered I hope you make a stop by Boston Massachusetts for a show! You have some big fans out here buddy.
glen,
i hope that future girlfriend will not leave you over misheard words. be sure to art-i-cu-late the words heavily.
see you in boston, hope to make it there as soon as possible.
cheers,
jens
Found on his official website:
There’s a few of my songs in Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut “Whip it”. Drew was really nice, she flew me out to LA, we had a cup of coffee and she showed me some clips from the movie. Usually I say no to film synchs because you just get a short synopsis from someone’s agent’s agent, and I always feel awkward my song will end up in the wrong context. You know, I write my songs for specific people, I find it hard to find them applied to someone elses story. But Drew listened to my concerns and we discussed the scenes she had in mind.
At some point our conversation drifted away and I think we were talking about monkeys, and it just struck me right there and then how surreal my life has become. And how absurd it is when anyone expects any kind of real compensation in this business. Compensation for what ? I’ve been touring on and off like crazy, I’ve put so much work into recording and writing. And in the end what I make my money from is talking to Drew Barrymore about monkeys…
The soundtrack is compiled by Randall Poster, who put together the soundtracks for the Wes Andersson movies among others. His soundtracks are like amazing little jukeboxes of random goodies. I haven’t seen the movie but it seems to be falling smoothly into the category of American movies about teenage love and alternative sports. From Breaking Away to Bring It On.
Jens Lekman’s Official Website
Just a quick note about the previous entry, please be aware that I live in Melbourne, Australia these days and I can’t fly halfway across the world for a slice of cake. As much as I’m in it for the fun of it, I was hoping to for once make some money here to support my tours that I always lose money from. Basically, if you want to book me for a wedding anywhere outside of Oceania this upcoming year you should start sweet talking that rich uncle of yours right now.
Also, I want to set up as many shows as possible in Melbourne and Australia the next couple of months. And I noticed earlier this year that there’s a lot of small festivals in peoples gardens and living rooms, I want to do stuff like that. Small shows where I can try out new songs and new arrangments. Give me a shout if you got something !
No topic for this month, I still have a few hundred e-mails from the last months that I need to go through. So if you want to write, choose one of the previous topics.
Haha I love this guy.
Boston based shows/fests – DIY, punk, noise
Kids Like You & Me (KLYAM) 