Friday , February 26, 2010
Snapshot: Listening, Watching, Reading, Wearing, Wanting
+ Kat
Listening: Ladyhawke (awesome show!); the Fire Engines; the Fall
Watching: The Sundance winner Sin Nombre, which was pretty good, pretty violent, and pretty intense...I was really distraught through much of the movie, in a kinda good way when you're sucked into a movie even though you can guess its plot from the beginning. The acting and direction are so adroit, though, that it still completely involves you. I just wish it didn't have ill-defined girl characters that acted idiotically for plot convenience. Seriously, this is the 21st century; you'd think we'd be over this by now?
Reading: Mary McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood. I gotta thank LJ for turning all of nogoodforme onto The Group. I mentioned The Group to The Most Literary Person I Know, and she said that McCarthy's essays and memoirs were a knockout as well. And she's right; they're great reads, really smart and sharp and fierce (not "fierce" in a fashion way, but "fierce" in an iconoclastic way). She's just got such a tough intellect. I ordered a ton of McCarthy's nonfiction from Paperbackswap and am wending my way through the small pile.
Wearing: I'm saving all my exciting clothes for next week: this week it's just a black and white buffalo plaid flannel, riding boots and J Brand jeans.
Wanting: Someone to help me untangle myself from the wreckage of my first act of my zinester epic screenplay. Revision is hard.
+ Laura Jane
Listening: Fausty Faust Faust Faust: mostly So Far, but also Faust and Faust IV. Life is so much better when it is spent listening to Faust. I love Faust! Faust are the second-greatest band of all time after the Beatles! FAUSTTTTTTT
Watching: I Love You, Man, which was the greatest film of all time; Role Models, which was definitely not the greatest film of all time (it was surprisingly bad, actually; what's the deal, David Wain? Why can you not direct a funnier movie? You're David Wain! You're a funny dude!); Season 4 of The Hills, binge-ily on DVD. My favourite moment of the season is when Stephanie Pratt doesn't know whether she owns a hamster or a guinea pig, and tells LC, "She used to be a hamster, but now she's a guinea pig!"- such flawed logic, She-Pratt!
Reading: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike; The Daily Puppy; Yoko Ono's Twitter
Wearing: Purple hoody, red Le Tigre polo & brown wingtips from Honest Ed's
Wanting: Spring for realz; also summer; maybe both
STEPHANIE PRATT IS SO VERY CONFUSED:
Tags: David Wain, Faust, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, Honest Ed's, John Updike, Laura loves Faust, Stephanie Pratt, Yoko Ono
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I thought Role Models was hilarious. But I guess that's just me.
By Kristen on March 29, 2009 5:49 PM
i didn't love 'role models,' but i think it's david wain's best movie by far. 'wet hot american summer' was hugely disappointing for me, and 'the ten' is just god-awful (so to speak!).
By Liz
on March 29, 2009 10:05 PM