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Sonic Youth on Juno Soundtrack

Karina Longworth
By Karina Longworth posted 10 months ago
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The Playlist passes along word that Sonic Youth’s cover of The Carpenters’ “Superstar” has made it onto the Juno soundtrack album. The song plays a key role in my favorite part of the film, the friendship between Ellen Page’s pregnant teen and Jason Bateman’s 30-something would-be adoptive father, through which Juno learns perhaps the most important lesson of being a wise-beyond-your-years teenage girl: you can only be precocious and adorable and interested in some older dude’s past life as a minor rock star for so long before said older dude starts getting That Look in his eyes every time you come ’round.

Still, it seems a *little* weird that a song that was originally recorded for a compilation disc would now end up on another compilation disc. Or maybe it doesn’t. I don’t know. The whole point of this post was to have an excuse to embed Dave Markey’s video for the song, which I love, and have loved since I was Juno’s age.

People at Denver: AJ Schnack and Michael Azerrad

By Kevin posted 1 year ago
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Beginning with the premise that “the whole truth is the best truth, AJ Schnack and Michael Azerrad made the film Kurt Cobain About A Son. Schnack directed, using the audio from 25 hours of interviews Azerrad did with Cobain for the book Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana. I had a chance to talk to them about how they used the film to show Cobain as a real person seperate from the superstar icon, and how one of their goals was to break the “rockumentary” mold.


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Starz Denver Film Festival, Spout podcast, Kurt Cobain About A Son, AJ Schnack, Michael Azerrad