Monday, February 23, 2015

A wet martini in a paper cup

A music documentary of the band The National. I don't like The National, they are the critical darlings of the past 10 years, but people like me see them as pretentious indie rock bullshit. I picked this up because of the good ratings. What a gem. And it ain't much of the band, but on the center stage is the hero of the day, the film director, singer Matt Berninger's 9 years younger slightly irritating little brother, a metalhead, Tom Beringer, who with his drinking, antics, carefree attitude and crazy-cool questions (Do you have your wallets on stage?) is deliciously out of the professional The National set-up.

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