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Jason Falkner Don’t Mind: “Cold Souls”

falknerlogo2Even though he likes to pick and chose his projects carefully, Jason Falkner has had an amazing run of recording dates—both on solo albums and as a sideman with the likes of Beck, Air and Paul McCartney—that would turn most musicians pea green. And Falkner has also been a crucial part of critically lauded releases by ’90s indie-rock heroes Eric Matthews, the Grays and Jellyfish, as well as getting his feet wet with original Paisley Underground cult combo the Three O’Clock. Falkner has a stellar solo set due out this summer called All Quiet On The Noise Floor that threatens to pass his previous solo release, I’m OK, You’re OK (from February), like a slow runner being lapped on the bases by a real speedburner. Falkner is guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with him and our 2008 Jellyfish feature.

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Falkner: Cold Souls is an extraordinary film from last year. The psychedelic story of Paul Giamatti playing himself and finding the weight of his soul to be simply too much of a burden. He comes across an article for a medical procedure that extracts your soul and stores it for you until you want it back. Chaos follows … A wonderfully preposterous story but also a cautionary tale, as no one really knows where all the body and mind manipulation we are seeing in real life will lead! Can’t be viewed with rational lenses; it’s potentially too much for your chickpea-sized brain to digest. One of my favorite films in quite some time.

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