this movie has been looping on my dvd player since the torrents came out. "be kind rewind" is my second favorite film this year. the above trailer features michel gondry sweding his own movie's trailer.
the below is the original "be kind rewind" trailer:
pinoy movies i want to swede:
1. temptation island 2. bituing walang ningning 3. bagets 4. shake rattle and roll 3 5. batch '81 6. maynila sa mga kuko ng liwanag 7. kakaba-kaba ka ba?
lauren's chuwariwap. ugh. look at her. you can imagine how washed up she'll look in five years' time. her face is always puffy, like she's constantly nursing a hangover. HATE.
loving this audio book to bits. he made it sound like a radio play. LOVE it. what if bruce campbell was cast in an a-list romcom in which he plays a sagely doorman with richard gere and renee zellweger with mike nichols directing? groovy. so far, the below is one my favorite bits:
bruce: when you think of it mike, this is a romantic comedy but there're nothing that says you can't have some zingers...some moosh-moosh to get the flick a little kick in the ass.
mike: moosh-moosh?
bruce; yeah. it's my pal sam raimi's term. it's when he uses everything available to jazz up a scene, to goose it. you add moosh-moosh.
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been following the progress of "let's write a sawng" on the riverscuomoalone channel on youtube and it is a lovely thing to watch. he started a call to action for people to write a song with the theme "80's radio" and he'd walk everyone through it step by step. each episode came out every week or so and followed the progress of the song as it was being written. people, i.e., regular youtube users would send in their responses via video and rivers would pick the best ones. he'd critique it in the succeeding episodes and finally use the best responses to develop the song further. it's beautiful to watch, really. finally in episode 8, the work-in-progress is uploaded with a rough edit of some generic 80's video. swak. episode 10 uses clips from the patrick dempsey classic "can't buy me love" (the awesomeness that is the african anteater ritual), but i like this version better:
the dancing is ten different flavors of awesome.
rivarz is so fond of distorting his voice by slowing it down/speeding it up all the time. and he also bitches a lot about his batts dying or running out of memory on his memory stick or his computer dying on him. i don't know why that's so funny. he's also wearing a harvard t-shirt in the above clip. that's so hot, dammit.
wassup wassup - so if you've seen the music video for weezer's "pork and beans", you might be wondering who the hell all these people are in the video. i know i did. i guess my internet people geek quotient isn't all that high as i was only able to recognize the daft punk reference, miss carolina 2007 and that cartoon banana at the end. thanks to the music video, i became appropriately intrigued by the personalities appearing in it. did some serious youtube-ing and came across so much awesomeness.
first, here's the "pork and beans" music video:
ok, am still working out the kinks as to some of the people in the beginning of the video, but so far we've got...
"black ninja"
"numa numa" from gary broisma
ryan weber and michael "dorkman" scott
daft hands. the kickass "harder better faster stronger" video
and daft bodies...
miss south carolina 2007
chris crocker's "leave britney alone!" meltdown
juddson laipply's "the evolution of dance"
the wonderfully deep-voiced tay zonday's "chocolate rain"
the awesomeness that is LIAM KYLE SULLIVAN as kelly in "shoes"
everything i like except for charlie the unicorn, which i fucking hate for reasons only known to me.
awesomeness all around. but what would have made the "pork and beans" music video even cooler would be a sequence with the cebu prisoners.
1. "the sopranos" does anyone know why "the sopranos" never aired on hbo asia? empire magazine has this on # 3 on their list of 50 best tv shows of all time (btvs on # 2 and the simpsons on # 1). to be honest, i had the subtitles on during the first season. i'm on season 3 on my dvd, but i still find several lines incomprehensible without any form of annotation. for example, five boxes of ziti = 5 grand. all these goombahs look the same (except paulie, he's my favorite). i still can't tell which one is johnny sack. business relationships and transactions aside (really, sometimes it's too complicated for me to follow), i really like this show. i especially enjoy tony's sessions with his shrink, dr. melfi. it makes me feel safe. i wish i had a shrink like that.
most marked side effect so far: not being able to get the word "gabagoo" out of my head.
2. joni mitchell the day after my party, i had this urge to put on some joni mitchell. i had previously downloaded "travelogue", but i've kept it unchecked on itunes because i just never got her. you know you're getting old when joni mitchell (and i'm not counting "blue" here because most everyone i know exited their adolescence listening to this) starts making sense. and please don't draw comparisons to the emma thompson character from "love actually" because that's just bad luck.
3. audio books once i read "the two towers" while listening to the audio book (the redundancy worked for me at the time) and caught a huge-ass typo in the text i was reading. (two entire lines in the book switched places.) i think the space the audio files take up on my ipod has something to do with my not wanting to download audio books. that and i'm constantly on shuffle mode. a friend's recent experience with listening to "brokeback mountain" on a plane (had him in tears, soaking his eye mask) turned my attention back to audio books.
first i downloaded max brooks' "world war z: an oral history of the zombie war". now i'm thinking - zombies, check. the fact that the book is an oral history makes it a perfect audio book. wrong. i got bored ten tracks in. they were going for the orson welles "war of the worlds" feel, but i didn't buy it. henry rollins, alan alda and rob reiner contribute their voices, but i didn't get far enough to hear them. better off read? don't think so. the allegory felt too much like a euphemism. so it was ⌘A delete for this audio book.
i liked mary roach's "stiff", her book on cadavers, but i haven't come across her new one, "bonk", otherwise i'd be reading it instead of listening to it. that said, yes i'm enjoying this one immensely.
looking forward to hearing this. have you seen his old spice commercial? it's gold.
the cover for their third eponymous studio album. l-r: brian bell (i call this look "70's soul"), professor pat wilson, "i shot the sheriff" cuomo, and scott looking like an ex-con as usual.
so three songs into the leaked red album and i'm cussing him out yet again. to be honest, the cussing started exactly one minute into the first track. how's that for arts and crafts, indeed. my knee-jerk reaction - for better or for worse, this shit is some of the most ambitious songwriting ever to come from his anti-social ass. then again, a lot of it sounds disturbingly like the jerk-off material ryan adams put out as dj reggie. hmm, maybe he's been listening to dotcomotherfucker on itunes who knows. such blasphemy! oh, rivz.
namechecking debbie gibson in the lyrics AND referencing rick astley? (it's not considered a spoiler if it's an album, right?) he still knows how to hit where it hurts. i keep waiting for him to start singing about girls wearing abercrombie and fitch, but "heart songs" is my favorite song off the album, easy. then there's "thought i knew". who is that singing!? scott??? oh my fucking god and how dare you make me cry! i need a cigarette, but way to delegate, rivz. good for you.
it's a rap album, no wait it's an opera, no wait it's brian wilson's "smile", no wait, this song is over five minutes long! it's an epic! it's "beowulf" with guitars. it's an "oeuvre" if there ever was one. "the greatest man that ever lived" - fuck, with a title like that it has got to be nothing short of epic. i can almost hear him smugly saying, i bet you didn't think i could benchpress that many musical genres in under ten minutes, did you! HAH! well well well mr. cuomo, it's about fucking time you quit being such a passive-aggressive songwriter and just put your hubris out there for all the world to hear. humanity is sure to benefit.
yet another reason why we love blair and why we love to crucify little j. and go eric! (was anyone still surprised? hello.) but what a moment! nate was absent (like anybody cared) and so was chuck (he was missed). i love chuck. he toes the line between being the devil's advocate and being the devil himself (LOL).
spoiler: the part where i most wanted to stab jenny through the eye was her self-righteous little speech in front of blair at the end. yeah right - the only reason why she thought it wasn't worth it was because SHE LOST. ahahaha! sociopath to the next level.
heidi: i heard that you went to lauren's birthday from a co-worker. and i was like, first of all i don't believe this. like are you- you're kidding. you have to be kidding. of all the people in the world, being like a sister to me and like a best friend to me and being spencer's sister...
stephanie: i'm sorry, like, what do you want me to do? like we do have fashion in common.
dude, i don't think i've heard of an ex of yours that i didn't really like. not because you fucked them, but i get the suspicion that when you broke up, their lives had somehow been improved. don't know why i get that impression.
i like leona naess, i like parker posey, but my favorite is beth orton. i've been listening to her since 2003, but she never really hit me the way she did yesterday while i was lying down on my couch, pre-nap. yesterday's musical requirement was for something relaxing, but not sad bastard. "folktronica" - how perfect for a sweltering sunday indoors. depending on how you hear it, she has a lot of sad bastard songs, but i didn't mind it so much because, well, i might as well face it - because of the "-tronica" part. makes you feel like you've got one foot in a field and the other on the gutter. or that fetus in the "teardrop" music video by massive attack.
honestly, her face is annoying.
my top 10 beth orton songs:
1. "thinking about tomorrow" - one of those long-ass songs that i don't mind. 2. "daybreaker" - this just makes me think of sitting on a beach, while it's still cold. 3. "sugar boy" - this is pretty sad bastard, but what the hell. it's sweet. 4. "i wish i never saw the sunshine" - she said she heard ronnie spector singing it and went out and did her own version. 5. "dolphins" - it's also a cover, sung with terry callier 6. "concrete sky" - ryan sings back-up. 7. "don't wanna know 'bout evil" - i think of the bbc series "human remains" whenever i hear it. 8. "conceived" - though i haven't listened to it in a while. 9. "pass in time" - i think my brain blocked out this song for a while, but it somehow found its way to my frontal lobe. 10. "it's not the spotlight" - just a nice little song with guitar and the tronica bits done away with.
k, it's only streaming, right. which kind of sucks. my mix is a combination of some new stuff (i know), some old ones i'm new to, and a new take on an old hat. here is the tracklist. go have a listen!!!
1. "pictures at 5" - carolyn mark neko case's ex-bandmate. i like her better. she's funnier and sadder.
2. "overkill" - colin hay loved this song when it came on an episode of "scrubs".
3. "i'll kill her" - soko this cute fransh girl wants to keel that beetch blond girl.
4. "aretha, sing one for me" - cat power hated her first cover album. that said, i think her new covers album is amazing.
5. "lazy line, painter jane" - belle and sebastian this song is amazing. i knew i needed to include a storytelling song, and this was one of them (the other one didn't want to load properly). i love how the first verse is barely a whisper but by the time the second verse comes in, there's big old 60's girlgroup voice that comes in unexpectedly (monica queen).
6. "back to you" - coconut records hell yeah, that jason schwartzman. i like this track because it's weezer-esque.
7. "lover in the snow" - rivers cuomo crunchy like rick ocasek.
8. "your ex-lover is dead" - stars a song officially in the tita canon.
9. "come pick me up (steal my records n shit)" - dj reggie too lazy to listen through "come pick me up" in its entirety? well this song is only 41 seconds long, and has the essence of the original mix, which is, "steal my records and shit".
10. "this is not a test" - she&him hell yeah, that zooey deschanel. she collaborates with m ward (the him in the she&him). her voice is warm, warbly and charming. put this at the end cause it ends the mix on an optimistic note ;)
read all about his wonderful adventures and life on tiger_pillow!
soon to be seen in his own 30 seconder animated interstitial and comic strips! before that can happen, his handler (me) has to learn how to draw him first.
he's already friended some of my friends off my f-list. mostly girls, because he loves the ladies ;)
during my lunch hour smoke break, i took a side trip to the nearest books for less. was delighted to see the store carried LULA magazine. i've read about this magazine and its creator/editor-in-chief leith clark before and grew curious. the magazine's website is pretty - www.lulamag.com !!!
didn't anticipate the magazine would be such a hefty book, though, so that was a pleasant surprise. i thought it would be this little british fashion magazine. it's awesome. it's like a picture book! lots of eye candy and lots of pretty. lots of stuff in it that we love, too : art, music, books, film and interviews with interesting people. the lay-out is clean and simple. it's definitely this week's find. (the one i got is the most recent back issue lol - with kirsten dunst as guest editor, so it's mostly all about her hahaha) anyway i love it. at 249php, i think it's sulit.
took a photo because i couldn't afford this top hahaha
i have not been able to fit into these jeans since 2001! they are my official "skinny" jeans.
recent media favorites (and not so favorites):
over the holy week, i read and finished this book:
haven't read murakami in the longest time.
downloaded the leaked torrent files of the new portishead: i can't say it's my favorite. i find it kind of spooky, hahaha! i did like one track though, "deep water", because i guess it sounds most unlike them. album sounds great during the nighttime though.
also ever since watching i think i am most like the jason schwartzman character (jack), but my favorite brother is adrian brody (peter). i loved it whenever jack shared his "fiction":
peter: (softly chuckling) jack: what part are you on? peter: nothing yet. it reminded me of something and i related to it.
peter: well i'm not too crazy about the part where i start screaming at the mechanic. that never happened. jack: well the characters are all fiction.
jack: i'm working on a new short story. i wrote the ending but i don't know how it starts. francis: read us what you got. jack: whatever happens in the end, she said, i don't want to lose you as my friend. he looked into her eyes. i promise i will never be your friend. no matter what. ever. her voice cracked. if we fuck i'm gonna feel like shit tomorrow. that's okay with me, he said. he lifted her shirt over her head. i love you, she said. i'd never hurt you on purpose. he nodded. i don't care. he would not be going to italy. that sound okay? francis: yeah...it's hard for me to judge the ending without knowing the rest of it. peter: i like how mean you are. jack: the characters are all...thanks.
i really heart this film.
so i downloaded this huge-ass file containing ten cd's by the kinks. i never really cared about their singles, but the ones that sound like the stuff from the movie are top drawer. elvis costello did a cover of "days".
so yesterday all i had to eat was chopped up cabbage with onions. i'm seriously off to cook eggplant now.
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