FOOL FOR YOU ANYWAY by FOREIGNER Story by Kevin Densley
Tina told me one of her favourite songs was a ballad from the album, Fool For You Anyway; for a while, I listened to that song repeatedly and thought of her.
I’M IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE by BRYAN FERRY Text by Thuy On
It’s a song about the frisson of sexual and romantic connection and what’s so piquant and poignant about it is that the film is about dashed opportunities for such possibilities.
SOMETHING CHANGED by PULP. Text by Thuy On
With the murmurings of chatter from other tables around us, our own conversation flowed smoothly, a stream without pebbles to impede the course.
GAMBLE EVERYTHING FOR LOVE by BEN LEE. Story by Torre DeRoche
This love felt frightening. This love felt dangerous, even. And gambling everything for it – including my own life – felt reckless. But still.
EVERYDAY FORMULA by REGURGITATOR Text by Thuy On
As I pulled up to the Astor cinema and circled around for a park the band’s Everyday Formula reverberated through the tinny stereo system: My whole world's cheap and phony/ Dear hearts get lost and lonely/ I'll get what's coming to me soon.
I NEED A LOVER by JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP Story by Zoe Krupka
I wish I could tell you that it was our differences that eventually tore us apart. Her love of big hair and the power ballad, my love of The Residents and holding my mohawk in place with airplane glue.
LOVE AND AFFECTION by JOAN ARMATRADING Story by Vin Maskell
In that dark small house for two single souls I found that I was in love. It had taken three years of house-sharing for the obvious to dawn on me.
DREAMS by FLEETWOOD MAC Film by Jesse Maskell
Clawing for the echoes of what was; an ode to imperfect romance...a short film by Jesse Maskell
DON’T THINK TWICE IT’S ALRIGHT performed by THE INDIGO GIRLS Story by Molly Galea
Over fifteen years, brick by determined brick, we built a life out of thin air and intentions. When I first met you, my mother could not tell her friends her eldest daughter was a lesbian. Talking to her friends, she would shorten my girlfriends’ names to androgynous mysteries. Jo. Nic. Lou.
A WHITER SHADE OF PALE by PROCUL HARUM. Story by Luke Davies
I was like another brother to Jessica. She fancied my band mates more than me, so that was bit of a drag. We did share a love for one particular song, though.