MUSIC/AUDIO

I've been thinking a lot about music--it can add so much to the sentiment of a section: sadness, confusion, cohesion, or the exact opposite. I'm going to be jotting down the name and artist of everysong I come across that inspires me with regard to this piece.
Jens Lekman: Maple Leaves
This song is about a guy who is totally in love with the girl he's singing to, but keeps misinterpreting everything she says and thinks. The hook of the song is "You said we were just make-believe.....but I thought you said maple leaves." I'll bring a mix cd tonight with other stuff I can't remember.

I think this song has a really special sentiment, one I would like to see expressed in the piece, and that I think watching "the anniversary party" will reinforce. Strong emotions, misdirected, the ways in which people will never understand each other, and the ways they all try to cover it up.

small talk, empty conversation, knowing looks, totally misfired knowing looks; long, deep, sordid, craggy histories, and the degrees to which everybody knows/doesn't know about them. The dynamics of relationships can be so rich and varied here. how to express it??


Also in terms of audio, I think using found sounds would be great -- clinking, talking, mingling, etc. But also sounds that wouldn't be present at a dinner party, but have to do with a night like that. For example, cars on the road, maybe a pre-recorded conversation that took place in a car between two people on the way to the party...something about "I can't wait to try that frisee salad she's been working on" or "you'd better not make me sit next to that boorish idiot this time"......or even farther back in time...two people are having a stifled and angry duet, for example, and the audio becomes a conversation they once had as young lovers, naive and hopeful.