One of the hazy thoughts that kept returning over the course of four days in Dingle involved the sense and importance of place in music, and Wild Beasts succeed in capturing something of the beauty and strangeness of their native Lake District with their elliptical soundscapes.
When the film debuted at SXSW American trade mag Variety recognised it as part of a specific local genre: "the increasingly familiar patter of Kiwi comedy: dogged naivety, nervous politeness, hazy thoughts that trail off like vapor".
And the erased line, still barely visible beneath, had an eloquence of its own, since it smudged the space in a way that suggested pentimenti, second thoughts, a hazy penumbra of light and shadow.
It feels like Buckley has taken what happens in our heads – that hazy muddle of fleeting thoughts and memories, background noise and half-caught sensory impressions – and cast it in three dimensions.
He'd been writing songs for months -- hazy adolescent memories and thoughts about anxiety and young love.
Gyllenhaal tries his best but he's lumped with dialogue that would make Zach Braff turn his nose up ("Do you ever feel like everything is a metaphor?") and ultimately he's playing less of a character and more a collection of hazy-eyed stoner thoughts.
As in his successful solo career, Mr. González manages here to entertain some fairly puckered thoughts under cover of hazy beauty.
"The world drips down like gravy / the thoughts of love so hazy," Mascis sings on "Repulsion," the college-radio killer that bursts out at dead center from a track list of otherwise middling hardcore and folk.
Wasn't all this just kind of a hazy and confused, pathetic and ill-thought quest for love?" My words cut my man-whore to the quick.
