The Killers’ New album: Day & Age

Las Vegas should be proud, the sin city rockers have put together another killer, excuse the pun, record.  The album is said to be a continuation of Sam’s Town, “its like looking at Sam’s Town from mars.(Brandon Flowers, vocals)”  Day & Age was just released on Monday, November 24, 2008. The album hits you with track after track of guaranteed living-room dance floor action, and does not stop.  As always, their lyrics are intriguing, their beats are hot, their chorus’ crash and the sound is vicious.

Personal favorite off Day & Age: Track 2: “Human”

I’m Mister Lonely

From a Beatles cover band at B.B. King’s in NYC to an Elvis wedding chapel on the Las Vegas shimmering strip, human beings are drawn to the act of imitation.  And who doesn’t like an impersonator?  It was W. Wotton who said, “Man is, of all creatures, the most mimical.” Supposedly, it is also the best form of a compliment.

Compliment or not, what really lies behind the mask of impersonation? This is the focus for Harmony Korine’s 2007 film, Mister Lonely.  Diego Luna plays a Michael Jackson impersonator who, during a show at a local nursing home meets Marilyn Monroe and is instantly enamored. So much, in fact, that he joins her, James Dean, Charlie Chaplin, and the Queen of England (to name a few) in a commune “where everyone is famous”.  The hodgepodge of characters decide to build a performance in hopes the world will come to see, and it is here that reality jades their utopian fantasy.  

The film acquired ambiguous reviews so it’s left to the viewer to decide for themselves.