Song of the Day: "Streets of Your Town" by The Go-Betweens · Jun 8, 09:40 PM by Don
I was watching the Australian movie, Jindabyne, last night and noticed a familiar song being played during a cookout scene. It was “Streets of Your Town” by The Go-Betweens. I’m not sure of the exact reason for using the song. It was purely background music and I couldn’t even properly pinpoint what song it was until their was a lull in the characters’ conversation. Some of the lyrics resonate with the film, which is based on Raymond Carver’s short story, “So Much Water So Close To Home,” in which a small group of fishermen find a dead girl’s body. This couplet could fit, but, then again, it would fit with most stories:
Don’t the sun look good today?
But the rain is on its way
Like almost any story, the movie begins with a pleasant status quo, but then that status quo is disrupted.
The first verse could speak to the fact that a local electrician/serial killer drives around Jindabyne and the surrounding areas searching for young girls to murder:
Round and round, up and down
Everyday I make my way
Through the streets of your town
Admittedly, I may be stretching things a bit. But it’s fun to look for such connections, especially in the absence of a reason from the filmmakers for the song’s inclusion.
mp3: The Go-Betweens – Streets of Your Town :: from Live in Lund (1988)
Then, this morning, I read this news item about Lynda Carter acting as a real-life Wonder Woman:
The actress who played Wonder Woman on TV in the 1970s says she didn’t do anything extraordinary when she discovered a body this week on the Potomac River in Washington. Lynda Carter tells The Washington Post she was alone in a boat when she saw the body Wednesday. She says she didn’t have a cell phone with her, so she yelled to some fishermen and asked them to call police. Carter waited until rescuers arrived and directed them to the body. District of Columbia police say the body of 47-year-old Helen Johnstone of Washington was found floating on the river Wednesday. The medical examiner’s office has not declared an official cause of death. Carter says she “did what anybody would have done.”
Here’s the first video created for “Streets of Your Town”:
And the second:
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