Sunday , June 13, 2010
Snapshot: Listening, Watching, Reading, Wearing, Wanting
+ Kat
Listening: Max Richter, Memoryhouse; Mary Timony, Mountains (really great January music); and for some reason I listen to "La Isla Bonita" about once a day lately
Watching: I have been busy producing a short that is shooting at the end of the month, which ironically doesn't give me a lot of time for movies. I did see The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which was "meh" for me. And I also watched Elizabeth: The Golden Age, which was visually grand and dramatically flat. What a waste of Cate Blanchett! I am going to see Werner Herzog's My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? this weekend, and perhaps Police, Adjective. What is going on in Romania, man? They are coming out with some awesome movies these past few years!
Reading: The first book I read in 2010 was Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee. This is a very strange book with which to begin a new year, it was so good but so bleak. I also re-read Smart Girls Like Me from Bunnyshop's own Diane Vadino, and it's as great and clever the second time around as the first. I also read The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin, which, in light of my TOO LOVE FOR YOU project of 2010, seems to be required reading. This had the peculiar feeling of not quite relating to the author, but still valuing a lot of her insights and experience. Which is a valuable experience in and of itself, of course.
Wearing: I'm still in my pajamas! Pajama Friday!
Wanting: Another bowl of cereal.
There's crazy, and then there's Werner Herzog-crazy:
+ Liz
Listening: "Wichita Lineman" by Glen Campbell (SADDEST SONG EVER)
Watching: Youth in Revolt, which I hated about three times less than I hated the book. It's fun to watch because of Michael Cera, if you love Michael Cera, but once it's over you're all, "Grrr, fuck off!"
Reading: Best American Short Stories 1999
Wearing: my "Slutty Neil Young" outfit. As if Neil Young weren't slutty enough already!
Wanting: a Beatles Rock Band Penguin (see below, 1:39 on), probably my number-one dream pet in all the world.
Is it nerdy that I totally get the chills when they're about to go over the cliff?
+ Laura Jane
Listening: An interesting turn of events that would have inspired my naive past-self to call the Lame Police on my awesome now-self is that my this week's Beatles Songs of the Week are "Boys", "Besame Mucho", and "Free as a Bird." WHO KNEW???
Watching: A lot of quality shit along the lines of Julie and Julia and the entirety of Season Six of Entourage
Reading: Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman, which references both The Madcap Laughs AND "20th Century Man" by the Kinks. Does this strike anyone else as a little SUSPECT????
Wearing: This week I learned a very valuable lesson, which is that if you sluttily wear a low-cut white v-neck t-shirt with a leopard-print bra, and then you scrap it up with Iron Maiden Vans, you will feel like the Sexiest Man Alive! In other news, boy are my eyebrows ever killer!
Wanting: I want Ringo Starr to die, so I can feel something.
DOESN'T THIS JUST SAY EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING ABOUT THE BEATLES????? ARE YOU CRYING?
PS: The other day I was listening to "Free As A Bird" on the subway and it was George Harrison's guitar solo and it a) blew my mind and b) made me so sad about George Harrison's death! "The world really lost a great guitar player when George Harrison died," I thought.
Tags: Bunnyshop, cereal, Glen Campbell, jammers, Laura loves the Beatles, Mary Timony, Michael Cera, sluttiness, Slutty Neil Young, the Beatles Rock Band penguin, Werner Herzog
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Leave it to Michael Cera to be a Gemini
By Laura
on January 8, 2010 12:35 PM
Lazy reader's version:
Listening: Sleep's "Holy Mountain", early Richard Pryor via "Evolution/Revolution"
Watching: National Geographic's "Relentless Enemies"
Reading: "A Savage Peace" about 1919 and "Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries 1900-1969"
Wanting: To misbehave in an extravagantly chaotic manner.
By Masonic Youth on January 8, 2010 4:27 PM
i watched Julie & Julia this week; enjoyed it. Also watched 2012 - despite knowing what was gonna happen, as with all blockbusters, found myself shouting at the screen. hmm. i just can't not cheer for john cusack.
By jenn. on January 11, 2010 3:31 AM
"I want Ringo Starr to die, so I can feel something" is the best thing i have read in weeks! genius!
By kerrry on January 15, 2010 9:28 PM