.nicebreezedc's “Movies” nails a lost indie-theater era.
. Its stick-in-your-head chorus: “Places where we used to be able to watch movies / la la la la la la la la.”Nice Breeze—which also includes guitarist John Howard and drummer Martha Hamilton, who are married and live in Ballston—has been cranking out delightfully unpolished indie rock for around nine years. “Movies” appears on their latest album,
, and is among the group’s more immediate tunes. One of its shout-along moments is a line about going to seefor ten straight nights, which turns out to be a true story. “I was unemployed and living in a group house near there,” says Fox, who now lives in Columbia Heights. “I dragged everybody to that movie. Because it was good!”
Part of the song’s charm is that it’s not purely celebratory. “Movies” nails the scruffy appeal of those theaters: tiny rooms, bad sightlines, a sprinkler casting a shadow on the screen—it was part of the experience. “All of us that age remember all of those places,” says Howard. When he heard Fox’s lyrics, “I thought right away, oh, this could be—‘hit’ is the wrong word, but this is a song people might dig.
Meanwhile, Fox says his film-watching habits have changed pretty dramatically since the indie-theater glory days of the ’80s and ’90s. “Basically, the song is a long way to say I don’t watch many movies anymore in theaters,” he says. “I just think there’s a lot of crap being made. I don’t know, I haven’t seen too many movies in a while.”
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