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| I didn't post this yesterday, because of my intense greatness.
Here is a video compilation of my cat doing naughty and sometimes amusing things, with lolcat macros on top.
She's being bad as I write this. HOW APPROPRIATE.
Also, she really did trick-or-treat last night, as a devil (aw, awwww, cape.) She went and saw her kitty-boyfriend downstairs, who is my favorite cat OF ALL TIME.
But here is the video of her being a LOLCAT for Halloween. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Here is the photo of the earrings I've done lately. Tell me if you would like some (and email me your address) I know at least Althea I promised earrings from holiday_wishes, and adiasplat asked about them. I've got a bunch of the first row, but basically only what you see of the rest. You'll have to probably twist my arm to get my two favorite tools or the coke bottles...but might as well try your luck, eh? | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| I just want to squish his face, because it looks like pudding.
(Elaine's take on Daniel Craig) | | comments: Leave a comment |
| This is so exciting! I have new, loving homes for so many of my paperbacks now!
A few years ago I tried to give them to the second hand bookstore, but honestly, they are always so overrun, they didn't take nearly as much as I would have liked. And ... of course ... I immediately spent the credit (you get more credit than you would cash, blah blah) on more books. ... | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I have not heard anyone use chillin' so earnestly in a long time (maybe ever).
There were stupid guys. They were painfully stereotypical frat boys...and there was no one here to roll eyes with me! | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Vincent D'Onofrio has got to be great for six degrees. Well, he links to The Player anyway, which can get you anywhere you need to go. We've seen him in The Velocity of Gary (not believable at all as a porn star), The Salton Sea (as the creepy, nose-less Pooh Bear), Strange Days, Mystic Pizza, and Full Metal Jacket as the recruit who loses it.
Best known to us, I'm sure, as they guy who played Edgar (the bug in a human suit) in Men in Black.
At IMDB, for a pic. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| Except for very few special and scathingly intelligent people,
YOU WILL GO TO HELL FOR WRITING IN BOOKS THAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE TO USE.
[sigh]
I hate the people who leave all their annoyingly peppy bright purple sticky notes in the books they return, too.
woo. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| Movies that rule (from my recent viewing):
I'm not giving summaries. That's what Brian is for (and AMG, when he's not available). Maybe more later. This is all I had time for before class.
Oldboy
This has ... maybe the best fight scene I can remember. Although smaller than the famed Kill Bill one...it's pretty much in one take, and everyone is just awesome. (Mid-battle, after the main character is stabbed in the back and falls to the ground)
[Poke, poke] "Is he dead?"
[He jumps up and beats on them more, only removing the dagger at the very end of the scene)
I won't lie, we were excited to get fried dumplings after that movie. Not as excited about food as the next one, though. Awesome. Apparently Korea's version of Japanese shock cinema (or whatever) is ACTUALLY cool and great. (SHUT UP, AUDITION! NO ONE LIKES YOU!)
See it now before it becomes painfully hip.
Dimensions of Dialogue
A short by Jan Svankmajer, the amazing creator of the awesomeness that is Alice (BRILLIANT stop-motion version of Alice in Wonderland) and Little Otik (an elaborate retelling of a fairy tale), I hear that this one was really about power, or domination, or some such.
I think it was about the man made out of vegetables totally being OWNED (eaten/chopped up and then vomited out again) by the man made out of KITCHEN UTENSILS. I'm just saying.
Also great is a DUEL between clay heads, featuring such devious items as a shoelace, toothpaste, and butter. DUN DUN DUNNNNN!
He's Czech, thus great.
Tampopo
Most delicious movie ever. We cooked up delicious TampopoRamen afterward. The main storyline is possibly the best version of Shane ever. There are interspersed vignettes about ... almost any food situation you can think of. Brian tells me this movie (like any/every Japanese movie?) is about modernization (well, at least it wasn't about the bomb), but the plot was fun and great without that. It's everything a Stephen Chow movie WANTS to be. The erotic scenes with food were amusing- they cycled very well between gross, hot, and just silly.
Primer Holy shit. Holy shit. Brian watched the whole thing with commentary, read a ton of stuff online, and then we worked out...some of it. Awesome. Time traveling minus the sci-fi world (or Shatner, etc) and with all the obvious (and many less than obvious) questions/paradoxes/inconsistencies covered for. Brilliant. It needs to be watched many more times. The guy who wrote it is just ridiculously great.
Safe
Todd Haynes really is that cool. There are lot of similar themes (and styles...and the main actress?) from Far From Heaven- and that's not a bad thing. Julianne Moore is great (as usual), although this was toward the beginning of her more legit starring roles. Her talent is well-showcased. To me, one of the best parts was her eyes while she was having panic attack/hyperventilation things.
It's probably impossible to not bring up Douglas Sirk in talking about this (or Far From Heaven, although that more so)- the color palette, so awesome. Brian and AMG compare it extensively to Red Desert (although probably more than just the setting feel is similar, but thanks AMG), so...a current director making movies like Antonioni, everyone wins.
Mifune
In (pretty pure!) Dogme 95 style with a more palatable storyline. Iben Hjejle (best known to us all, I'm sure, as Laura in High Fidelity) is great as the prostitute. But who doesn't love a hooker?
Speaking of which, on the agenda for tonight: My Life to Live (1962) Godard film featuring the amazing Anna Karina, who "turns to prostitution to pay her rent." | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| THE FIX IS IN
Keep clicking around here (even if it shows you a picture of the self-titled cd) to listen to the new okgo cd Oh no which comes out 8/30.
My verdict: pretty great. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| This is a first draft, NOT in order (the numbering is to keep count!)
Telling me how cool I am is okay. Criticizing...less okay.
Katie’s Top 100 Movies:
(In no particular order)
1) Bad Education
2) Heathers
3) True Romance
4) Pulp Fiction
5) Better Off Dead
6) Hudsucker Proxy
7) O Brother Where Art Thou
8) Fargo
9) Carnival of Souls
10) Empire Records
11) Schizopolis
12) Welcome to the Dollhouse
13) Kingdom (Riget)
14) Brazil
15) Celebration (Festen)
16) The Saddest Music in the World
17) High Fidelity
18) Umbrellas of Cherbough
19) Se7en
20) M
21) The Big Heat
22) Scarlet Street
23) The Bride Wore Black
24) The Matrix
25) Bob the Gambler
26) Royal Tennenbaums
27) Run Lola Run
28) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
29) The Incredibles
30) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
31) Monsters Inc.
32) Can’t Hardly Wait
33) Aladdin
34) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
35) Memento
36) The Player
37) Short Cuts
38) Touch of Evil
39) Clue
40) Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
41) Apocalypse Now
42) Evil Dead 2
43) The Game
44) Ghostbusters
45) Barton Fink
46) Amadeus
47) Big Trouble in Little China
48) Labyrinth
49) Bridget Jones’s Diary
50) The Killer
51) Bringing Up Baby
52) Bubba Ho-Tep
53) Buffy the Vampire Slayer
54) Repo Man
55) Battle Royale
56) Mallrats
57) Clerks
58) Three to Tango
59) Just Write
60) Videodrome
61) City of Lost Children
62) Amelie
63) A Very Long Engagement
64) Kiss of the Spider Woman
65) Disturbing Behavior
66) L.A. Confidential
67) The American Friend
68) Mildred Pierce
69) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
70) Deep Red
71) Ikiru
72) Home Fries
73) Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
74) Muppets Take Manhattan
75) Napoleon Dynamite
76) Tommy Boy
77) Office Space
78) The Princess Bride
79) Quiz Show
80) RoboCop
81) Romeo + Juliet
82) Six-String Samurai
83) Sling Blade
84) Stalag 17
85) State and Main
86) The Limey
87) Hard Eight
88) Wag the Dog
89) The Wedding Singer
90) This is Spinal Tap
91) Waiting for Guffman
92) The Great Outdoors
93) Witness for the Prosecution
94) Eyes Without a Face
95) Frailty
96) The Night
97) Ju Dou
98) Hero
99) Love’s a Bitch (Amores Perros)
100) Lock Stock/ Snatch | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| There's only one teensy [not actually teensy] problem left to do before engineering math [5:30], so...posting.
I think I'm going to have to update about movies I see...so many neat ones...and so little interesting stuff otherwise.
Licensed to Kill-
Extremely interesting documentary interviewing men who have murdered gay people. There was more variation in those people than I would have thought, but similar things came up across many of them. We watched this in psych, and soon I will be writing a paper on the psychological funtions that the negative attitudes of heterosexists serve, using this as examples. I'm looking forward to it.
The Red Shoes -
British musical [sort of?] from the late 40s. Its wild success [it was the highest grossing British movie in the US until recently, and ran for YEARS in theaters here] is responsible for MGM's obsession with making musicals in the 50s. It's not exactly a musical; the main plot includes a ballet company/ composer/dancer. One of the few movies I've seen in which the play-within-a-play is shown basically in its entirety [that being Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Red Shoes']-- and the whole thing was fantastic. They took advantage of the fact that we're watching a play in a movie...great sets with no scene changes, etc.
Highly recommended to people of the Derek/ Trina variety.
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