December 2009
56 posts
Last Free Night Of 2009 - It's All About Pairings
Wine, Cadbury chocolate biscuits and Shaun of the Dead. Face it: I’M YOUR GIRL.
MONIQUE
Saw Precious today. Je-zus! It is a fucking hard film to watch, but Monique’s performance is worth it. It’s a very good film, but she is the sole aspect (in my opinion) that is great. And really, the other good performances in the film are in response to her. Her scene towards the end, with the hand gesture - it’s brilliant. You get to see a character, who at this point in the...
Three Girl Rhumba
Wow, today’s show was some kind of special:
Artist / Title
The King Khan & BBQ Show - Invisible Girl
Kurt Vile - Monkey
The Pink Mountaintops - Holiday
Plants and Animals - Bye Bye Bye
Atlas Sound - Walkabout
Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love (worst name ever) - Document 19
Sin Fang Bous - Advent in Ives Garden
Coconut Records - Wires
Kings of Convenience - My Ship...
All My Friends... Like That Song In That New Noah...
Ok, what are we doing for New Years Eve? I’m thinking, super simple drop-in-style drinks somewhere. Local 510 or Milk Tiger? Angela says somewhere where we can “eat ribs and burgers, yuuuuuuhhhm” and with that I agree. @jfsmeadows and @benmillen, Thioni - are you guys still in town? Lesley, Laurna? Rey, Ramin? Preems? Brendan and Jen? Or, BREN? Jamie - are you going to Sundre or...
I wish Heston Blumenthal could have observed me cooking Christmas Eve dinner.
Like in that Christmas Carol: "Do You See What I...
Fish vadge, right? Photo credit: buddy Colin.
Favorite Tweet ever? “Can’t wait to see Guy Ritchie’s Poirot starring Jason Statham” from Peter Serafinowicz http://twitter.com/serafinowicz/status/7101787183
Tagged In This Post: Lindsay, Colin, Mike, Mom,...
It really wouldn’t be Christmas Eve dinner (the big dinner in my fam) without the following: Me taking HOURS to cook a meal I have never tried before, making everyone wait because oh I dunno, I didn’t bother with a recipe or similar, and have wasted tons of expensive ingredients and set off the fire alarm and spilled chicken stock all over the floor and bruised my arm on the counter as...
Yeah Tai Shan, I know just what it’s like:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1237838/Head-heels-The-Giant-Panda-did-roly-poly-sleep.html
Adele Lurves The Holidays Part Zwei
Or really, Adele just loves holiday-related cable: Uncle Buck on one channel, Jamie Oliver pranking Gennaro on another… man alive! On the same level as that Obama special from last night.
…What would you do without my blog, right?
Anyway, they just pulsed bay leaves, vanilla, lemon and orange zest, cinnamon and nutmeg, put it through a sieve and made it into a ‘sugar’ and...
"Hi-5 Bo!"
You know who I love? Oprah. Michelle Obamaz. BO! Also love over the top gingerbread houses. Op’s Christmas at the White House special = so much fun for me! Also, have made french toast with the stollen. I shhhtttooohhhl the idea from… no kidding, came up with that on my own, just wanted to make that obvious (and never tiring, right?) joke.
Love how dazzled Oprah is by this visit. Me...
Micael Palin on BBC’s Hardtalk - what is the material of his jacket? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/8418247.stm
Mammadele (Imagine My Great Southern Accent)
Drinking the Lo Vielh (http://www.closdugravillas.com/thewine.htm) and eating toasted stolen (made by Aviv… ps. Avivie, is there marzipan in this? SO TASTY! Glad I bought 5) with salty butter and watching a show on the making of/literary accuracy of the new Sherlock Holmes. Huge fun of the Jeremy Brett TV version, but this looks good. Tosker (TOSKER!) from Our Friends In The North is in it!...
The Single Best Sentence I Have Ever Submitted For...
“Only the girl seemed really into it.” - Me. Used in an essay response for an exam. Come on, it was about the dance sequence in Band of Outsiders.
(I’m kind of right?)
The essay was actually not bad. Like, I re-read it and started giggling. Granted, I was giggling because I bombed the other 75% of the exam. Good thing I find my own failures REALLY REALLY FUNNY, right?
Rhodia notepads
hodgepodgelodge:
These are my shit. All day, every day.
I always roll with a No. 13 and a No. 16.
Fuck a Moleskin.
Rhodia Drive
PAUL SMITH!!!! But, still love Moleskin. Sorry friend.
Fishtown
Sorry skidlets (Corynn?) here is the playlist for December 15th, everything I played was AMAZING, and you should definitely check these songs out:
Band / Song Title
Silver Starling - Ghosts
Hot Little Rocket - Saints
Heat-Ray - If Love Is The Drug
The Neckers - Share Secrets
Kurt Vile - Monkey
Sonic Youth - Leaky Lifeboat (for Gregory Corso)
de Vries - Girl In The Fur Skin Rug
Sleep Whale...
On the air on CJSW 90.9FM, or www.cjsw.com
Playlist posted here post 6pm!
Good Day For Nerdy Links
Favorite Vulture headline of 2009: “Robin Hood Trailer: Gladiator II”
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/12/robin_hood_trailer_gladiator_i.html
I remember seeing Gladiator and Robin Hood: Men in Tights with Grandpa in theatres, so I AM SO ON BOARD FOR THIS.
Don Draper is in A Single Man. As if this movie could look turn into any more of an Esquire special edition wet dream...
www.thefuckingweather.com SERIOUSLY →
SUGGESTION
Whoever is in charge of www.nerdboyfriend.com should be gagging over The Wilby Conspiracy (1975) - hopefully they can find an amazing picture, I sure as hell can’t. This movie has it all: Michael Caine, Sidney Poitier AND Rutger Hauer. A-maz-ing!
Ghosts of Shopping Past
hodgepodgelodge:
Landscaping overgrows, walls develop mildew, ceilings cave in—a building can be shut down, but that doesn’t make it go away. Brian Ulrich’s photographs of closed-down malls and big-box retail stores reveal the potential ghost towns lying inside successful shopping complexes all across America.
Ghosts of Shopping Past
Mythical White Stag
MacGruber apparently the best SNL film since Wayne’s World… according to blogger.
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/12/blogger_macgruber_movie_best_s.html
This is why I love the Daily Mail: “Mythical White Stage found in the forests of Gloucestershire” WITH PICTURES! The first two sentences are amazing:
“White stags have long been associated with mythology...
Really? More Of This?
Guardian’s top ten films of the decade… only agree with numbers 6 and 9!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/gallery/2009/dec/04/top-10-films-of-noughties?picture=356434292
Holy Shit. The Decade IS Over!
NY Mag’s cultural moments of the decade:
http://nymag.com/arts/all/aughts/62506/
Decade did start pretty well:
2000 - January 21: Mary Harron’s American Psycho premieres at Sundance, presaging 2008’s Wall Street bloodbath. Star Christian Bale becomes aughts box-office wunderkind/anger-management poster boy.
March 22: NBC cancels short-lived but hugely influential Freaks and Geeks, firing...
Bits And Bobs
Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne, how did I miss this?
http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-book21-2009sep21,0,5939629.story
I find stories about Harvey Weinstein’s excessive profanity super entertaining, here’s a good one:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/12/harvey_weinsteins_helpful_word.html
And update: the Daily Mail also features a number stories on...
NUR FILMS →
Daily Fail Dot Co Dot UK
Jesus fuck. I love a lot of British stuff that they over there - “across the pond” as it were - would probably find pretty tasteless. Or just ordinary. Perhaps a bit of both? Well whatever UK, that’s just me.
I guess you could call this a “guilty obsession” but I wouldn’t. I would call it “fun aspect of my weekly routine number 14” - yes, I check...
YAY!
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Best snowstorm day ever! Inglorious Basterds DVD comes out on the 15th! Got off the hook about grad school (super)! Found Beaufort in my fridge! New cold weather coat! Polanski is out! GOOD STUFF!
Why I Love The World's Worst Film Critic →
Watched This With My Hands Clasped To My Chest,...
Just got out of Fantastic Mr. Fox. It is stupendous! A few thoughts before bed:
When was the last time that I saw such a clever film?
Michael Gambon is a terrific actor.
Thankful that I still have that Brie De Meaux fox-with-a-bowtie sticker on my broken phone. Never replacing this phone.
If I had to pinpoint my favorite detail, it would be this: “Jungle Spices” is perhaps the...
Giant Grin
First this:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/07/weve_got_quentin_tarantinos_in.html
Then this:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/12/quentin_tarantinos_inglourious.html
And here’s the script:
http://twcawards.com/assets/downloads/pdf/Inglourious_screenplay.pdf
Just Some Stuffs
Jesus. Watching Christopher Columbus (Dir. David MacDonald, 1949) and it is the worst ever. Maybe I’m just food drunk, but shit this is terrible. They just discovered hammocks. And cigarettes. If I washed up in San Salvador I wouldn’t be like “oooh, I wonder what these are for?” I WOULD LIE DOWN IN THE HAMMOCK and then smoke a cigarette (did they give people the cancer in...