If New York drives you positively mad and you have been dreaming of Michael Cera for 5 straight years, perhaps you could still remember this 2008 teen movie, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. A straight bass player in an “all queer” band called the Jerk-Offs, Nick O’ Leary (played by the ‘Juno’ boy Michael Cera) is a teenager from Hoboken, New Jersey. His life was totally dependent on music, love and New York. His recent break up with Tris made him all the more trapped in creating breakup mix CDs and later on met Norah Silverberg, who happened to love Nick’s taste in music.
New York and Indie Music
After its theatrical release on October 2008 with $11 million gross on its debut weekend, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist’s original soundtrack became a sudden talk of the town. In fact, online gaming communities such as binguez were abuzz with the ‘indie rock’ tracks from the Vampire Weekend and Submarine. The screenwriter, Lorene Scafaria is said to have added a few ideas for the film and went on to include tracks from Bloc Party and Frou Frou. However, in the final cut of the film, most of the music has been cut down by editor Myron Kerstein and music supervisor Linda Cohen. The music was chosen based wholly on the objective of finding “the best music you haven’t heard yet.” Songs that are included in the playlist are from bands based in New York City. Several tracks from the album such as Submarine’s “Xavia” became one of the banner songs of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, next to Ottoman by Vampire Weekend.
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist songs are listed below:
Track listing
· “Speed of Sound” –Chris Bell
· “Lover” –Devendra Banhart
· “Middle Management” –Bishop Allen
· “Ottoman” –Vampire Weekend
· “Riot Radio” –The Dead 60s
· “Fever” –Takka Takka
· “Xavia” –The Submarines
· “After Hours” –We Are Scientists
· “Our Swords” –Band of Horses
· “Silvery Sleds” –Army Navy
· “Baby, You’re My Light” –Richard Hawley
· “Very Loud” –Shout Out Louds
· “How to Say Goodbye” –Paul Tiernan
· “Last Words” –The Real Tuesday Weld
· “Nick and Norah’s Theme” –Mark Mothersbaugh

dance it up mami!!!! and drink it up too! happy birthday! I love you!