Never On Sunday

Frankie Avalon said hooker, so i guess it's time for another round of "soundtrack for a movie that sounds like an hour and a half of my brain i'm glad isn't filled with scenes from..." Never On Sunday.

Lots of academy award nominations and stuff. Pygmalion but from a hooker with a heart of gold perspective? No thanks. Quick wikinopsis: american guy falls for greek prostitute, convinces her to not be a prostitute, she finds out it was a ploy by Noface the pimp 'cause she's a bad example for all the other prostitutes what with her independence and personal rather than subservient choices and goes back to being the role model for all those young entrepreneurial prostitutes who don't need a pimp, and Homer says i guess i was wrong, yay Greek prostitutes. I'm sure i'm missing some subtleties or nuance or something, but still no thanks.

I'm gonna just pretend like it's an enthnomusicological survey of Greek popular music written by Manos Hadjidakis. He's your standard orchestral type composer, but he legitimately wanted to write modern music for a traditional folk instrument. The theme song won its Best Song Academy Award, and Melina Mercouri for Best Actress at Cannes in 1960. Still, no thanks.

The music is great though. Bouzouki is a long-necked fretted lute, flat top/rounded bottom. For you guitar players out there, imagine Ovation made a mandolin with a fretted broom handle.

Hide the jacket when you throw it on at your next dinner party and trick your friends into thinking you're just real keen on 60s Greek experimental pop. I don't throw dinner parties, but you might. Ya mas (that's Greek for cheers).

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