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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
Big screen: Night at the Museum
- Ben Stiller must work out because he appears to really haul ass in that one scene.
- I don’t care. If it has Owen Wilson in it, I’ll watch it.
- Earth Wind and Fire is always good party music.
- I’ve never worked a solo night shift and that’s probably a good thing. I can see how your imagination could totally get the better of you.
- Some fifth thing that I forget. That movie was funny, but didn’t exactly have staying power.
Little screen TV on DVD: Northern Exposure
- Wow, it really does hold up over time.
- That doctor was one whiny pain in the ass.
- It is funny to see places you know so well on TV.
- The romance is amusing, but it was so not the best thing about this show.
- When this show was good, it was brilliant. Really freakin’ brilliant. The last episode of Season 1 just blew my mind. No, really. It was amazing.
Little screen DVD: Citizen Kane
- They don’t make movies like this anymore. There might be a reason for that.
- Of course it’s Hearst. Duh.
- “I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.”
- The Third Man is a much better movie.
- J. never gets the obscure movies, and THIS he got. I found that mildly irritating.
Little screen DVD: Grizzly Man
- People should stay away from bears.
- People should stay away from bears.
- People should stay away from bears.
- People should stay away from bears.
- People should stay away from bears.
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Saturday, November 11th, 2006
Spoiler free.
- Remember I (heart) Huckabees? Dustin Hoffman is making some terrific offbeat choices in his movie career.
- My irrational fondness for Will Ferrell has increased threefold.
- Those Gyllenhaal kids came from quite the gene pool. What a couple o’ hotties.
- If well done, stories about how you can’t escape fate make for great movies.
- Pay attention, people. Tell a girl you like her cookies (that is not a metaphor) and sing her a little song and you WILL get lucky. Duh.
I really, really, really liked this movie. I loved Emma Thompson, Queen Latifah, the guy who played the best friend, the story, the writing, the staging, the wacky graphic effects, everything. Loved it. I would say more, but I promised spoiler free, and spoiler free I shall remain. Go see it.
[tags]Stranger than Fiction[/tags]
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Saturday, November 4th, 2006
- “All other countries have inferior potassium!”
- Borat’s Khazak compatriots might be dorky, but some of the Americans in this movie, hoo boy. Yikes.
- I totally get the technique of letting a joke run for a long time, but that doesn’t always mean it works.
- Maybe we should laugh more at the outrageousness of racism when we are confronted with it. Cracking up all over the place because racist remarks are so out of line as to be unbelievable could be a really effective deterrent to racism. Maybe.
- Chickens are always funny.
[tags]Borat[/tags]
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Monday, October 9th, 2006
Hi Pam,
I saw from your recent post that you are interested in traveling to South America. I thought I would pass along our website, which we launched a few months ago.
On The Road Travel (www.ontheroadtravel.com) is a resource for culturally-focused independent travelers. We have local editors who keep our content up-to-date and provide unique cultural insights. Although we are only covering three countries at the moment we have plans to expand throughout Latin America shortly.
Enjoy!
Jen Hamilton
Founder, On The Road Travel
www.ontheroadtravel.com
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Sunday, August 27th, 2006
The biggest obstacle between me and my paints over the past few years hasn’t been time or even, really, money. It’s been finding a place to work. About two months ago I moved into a little basement space that’s seven blocks from my front door. And finally, things are starting to come together the way I want them to. It’s pretty painful to think about getting on a plane just when I’m learning how to use my materials again.
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While I’m being all alt-kultcha, I heard a track by Dave Bazan on the radio the other day and I really like it. Go here and select Selling Advertising from the play box in the top right corner. Them’s some scathing lyrics, Mr. Bazan. Ouch.
[tags]art, painting, oil paints, wax medium, studio space, Dave Bazan[/tags]
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Friday, August 25th, 2006
If you think you don’t want to see a play about semi-pro wrestling, especially one that has an overtly homoerotic subplot, well, to my stunned surprise, you’re wrong.
Last night I was lucky enough to catch Piledriver at the Cap Hill Arts Center. I found it wildly entertaining. Oh, sure, it’s obscene. It’s rife with profanity. It openly represents and explicity discusses gay sex. And there’s a whole lotta body slammin’ going on - after all, it’s about semi-pro wrestling. But tangled in all the showy head banging and theatrical bouncing off the ropes, there’s a good story, rich character development, and loads of laugh out loud humor.
The unlikely hero of the show is the writer. Harvey is a lumpy, aging, ex drag queen with crazy hair who sets up all the story lines around each night’s show. My friend K - who invited me to tag along - is an editor and writer and the two of us cheered like crazy when ever they made writing gags. (I didn’t mention the whole audience particpation thing.) Something that had us both hysterical? A scene where the wrestlers are arguing about the plot line. Harvey interupts with something like:
You don’t like the plot line? You don’t like where things are going? Well, F**K YOU! It’s my show. I’m the writer and you’ll follow the story EXACTLY THE WAY I TELL YOU TO.
Close enough.We were also big fans of this classic bit of ridiculous snark:
Do I look smaller to you? That’s because I’m WALKING AWAY!
The play is funny, raunchy, well staged, well acted, engaging, and, simply, a really good time. But hurry up, it’s only on for two more nights at CHAC. Get tix here.
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