Four great songs from HBO's amazing mini-series, "The Jinx"
The HBO mini series, The Jinx* is hands down, the best documentary on HBO, ever.
(Historic as well, just stay tuned to LA daily news 2015-16.)
However, at the moment, I just cannot get that opening track, called Fresh Blood by Eels, out of my head. What a perfect choice for the title sequence by the brilliant filmmakers, Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling and Zachary Stuart-Ponier. Brilliant.
Fresh blood is an eerie, weird, bizarrely sexy, insanely visceral and balls-to-the-wall menacing as hell song that means business.
(1) Opening Song/ opening credits "Fresh Blood" by Eels
Click here for viewing of Title Sequence and opening credits before they take it down.
(2) ""You Ain't Lost" by Band of Skulls -
(3) "Bones" by Kittie Harloe - (The Jinx Chapter 5 closing credits song)
(4) "The Gambler" by Karl Hyde & Yannis Philippakis -
And they also used moody music by "Saw Lady" who posted this on her FB page re: an early trailer video for the series: "Can you hear my saw (starting at 9 seconds in and continuing to the end)?"
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And then there's the music-free Robert Durst's (now famous) "bathroom"confession scene:
(Note: The better cut of this has been taken off the internet. You'll have to do with this one. Shakespeare lives on. In one form or another.
*What IS "The Jinx?" *From Wikipedia: The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, generally referred to as simply The Jinx, is a 2015 HBO documentary miniseries about Robert Durst, written by Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling, and Zachary Stuart-Pontier. The series was also directed by Jarecki, who previously directed All Good Things (2010), which was inspired by the life of Durst.
(Historic as well, just stay tuned to LA daily news 2015-16.)
However, at the moment, I just cannot get that opening track, called Fresh Blood by Eels, out of my head. What a perfect choice for the title sequence by the brilliant filmmakers, Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling and Zachary Stuart-Ponier. Brilliant.
Fresh blood is an eerie, weird, bizarrely sexy, insanely visceral and balls-to-the-wall menacing as hell song that means business.
Four more great song/videos used in the HBO MINI SERIES, THE JINX.
(1) Opening Song/ opening credits "Fresh Blood" by Eels
Click here for viewing of Title Sequence and opening credits before they take it down.
(2) ""You Ain't Lost" by Band of Skulls -
(3) "Bones" by Kittie Harloe - (The Jinx Chapter 5 closing credits song)
(4) "The Gambler" by Karl Hyde & Yannis Philippakis -
And they also used moody music by "Saw Lady" who posted this on her FB page re: an early trailer video for the series: "Can you hear my saw (starting at 9 seconds in and continuing to the end)?"
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And then there's the music-free Robert Durst's (now famous) "bathroom"confession scene:
(Note: The better cut of this has been taken off the internet. You'll have to do with this one. Shakespeare lives on. In one form or another.
*What IS "The Jinx?" *From Wikipedia: The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, generally referred to as simply The Jinx, is a 2015 HBO documentary miniseries about Robert Durst, written by Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling, and Zachary Stuart-Pontier. The series was also directed by Jarecki, who previously directed All Good Things (2010), which was inspired by the life of Durst.
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