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Half day at "work" led to watching a mostly undefinable, possible second half of the Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There. I think I agree with a reviewer who says "I fear that this will be a film that will really interest people who already know about Bob Dylan, and that it will sort of fly over the heads of everyone else", and another who believes "the more you do know about what's out there about Bob the more you'll be able to make the connections with the scenes". I was mainly watching it for Heath Ledger and Cate Blanchett. But a specific scene of Richard Gere's made the biggest impression: the funeral scene with My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James joining Calexico for a distinctly Bon Iver-esque rendition of Goin' To Acapulco.







Which led me to spotify My Morning Jacket after disregarding some musical freebies of theirs I have, half buried in my music library somewhere but didn't have cause to listen to.

The 2008 Evil Urges album is unexpectedly ecclectic, and although James (or, Yim Yames) still has very little on The Mr Justin 'Bon Iver' Vernon he slinks in nicely next to recent discovery Dead Mans Bones, a Ryan Gosling "side-project", of similarly haunting folk-type persausion, that will see me happily through Halloween and beyond.