Remembering Jeff Buckley, fourteen years on.

So last year I made a promise to myself that one year from that day I'd have the following picture framed and on my wall.



Well, I managed to half fulfill that promise. I have the framed picture, but just don't have a wall to hang it on at the moment. But that will change soon (hopefully) when Matt and I find a place to live in Sydney.

One bottle of red down, contemplating whether or not to start on a second and the main thing that comes to mind when I think about Jeff this year is the impending biopic. Will it be any good? The last update I've heard is that Jake Scott (son of Ridley) is taking on directing duties. The guy has pretty awesome music video chops - he lists R.E.M.'s Everybody Hurts, Radiohead's Fake Plastic Trees, Tori Amos' Past The Mission and The Smashing Pumpkins' Disarm videos on his resume, so he obviously has good taste.

There's been a bit of speculation about who will play the lead role. Most recently I've heard rumours that Reeve Carney (the lead in the Spiderman musical on Broadway, which, not to brag, Matt and I just recently saw) is a contender. He's got the looks, he's got the voice, he's relatively unknown... it could work. What do you think?

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  1. The first thing that i thought actually when I saw that picture of Buckley was that he looked a little like James Franco! Reeve Carney could be good though! I love the song from Spiderman - Rise Above!

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  2. Yeah, Franco is a bit of a Buckley doppelganger, but I think they want to find an unknown actor which is good (as long as he's handsome and can belt out a tune!).

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