Sure, of course I know a girl who listens to Joy Division when she is kinda down. She shouldn't be too alarmed by that, and I am sure she isn't, cause where I come from listening to yesterdays soundtrack (the feverish fridays and destroyer mondays of doomed eighties teenhood) is actually a quite adorable thing to do, even now. Also I think she is in good company, Anton Corbijn must have those same moments over and over. But not now, since his first feature film 'Control' , his portrayal of the troubled singer Ian Curtis (of Joy Division), won the title of Best European Film at the festival of Cannes. Based on 'Touching from a Distance' by Ian's wive Deborah (and now co-producer), shot in moody black and white, the film received a standing ovation at its premiere.

Nice detail, Sam Riley (born in 1980), who plays Ian (died in 1980), appeared also in '24 Hour Party People' (the film of Manchester in late seventies into the eighties) where he played Mark E Smith. Mark E Smith of the Fall still lives. Well, sort of, since he makes the same album over and over and over for the last 25 years.

Life is sorta funny I guess.

Tags: New wave, Eighties