| amazing Meltdown show |
[17 Feb 2011|12:29am] |
Oh my god, I love Don't Stop or We'll Die. Paul Rust is such an awesome frontman... I'm sad they only got to perform 4 songs.
It was awesome to see Scott Thompson and to see that he is doing so well after beating cancer. Funny that he looks better than most of his fellow KITH members...Should be seeing Dave Foley next week but for some reason that is less exciting than Scott.
Then Reggie Watts came out as a surprise guest. I am really fascinated by the fervent fan base of Reggie because I like him only okay, but audiences uniformly lose their shit over him. He is like Andy Kaufman with a hip hop sensibility and without the antagonistic baiting of the audience. And I don't throw around Andy's name lightly. Reggie is undeniably talented; he can improvise a song with a sicker beat than anything on the radio using only his mouth and a synth box. Conversely, the casual, off-the-cuff nature of his act can make it seem like he isn't really trying. I saw him do a solo show once which was frustratingly short and not particularly funny, though he did bring it a lot harder tonight. His act isn't based on joke set-ups with punchlines or stories with hilarious beats peppered throughout, watching Reggie is like channel surfing; he shuffles through bits and pieces of different accents and characters talking without saying anything, intersperses inspired musical riffs of multiple genres, and throws in an occasional poignant satirical quip about pop culture and society at large. In this way his act is like a postmodern mirror of our society. So why am I only lukewarm on him? I guess he is just not quite my style, though I do like him... Cereberally, I embrace it, physically, it makes me want to dance, but I think the hype has somehow overdone it for me.
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[11 Feb 2011|02:49am] |
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i want to write but i dont know what to write about... none of the movies ive seen recently have inspired me to write a review, except for please give, but i dont think i could write a good enough review of it to do it justice. i could write something fiction, but i dont have any ideas.. sigh
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| 80s face |
[04 Feb 2011|02:35am] |
recently i have been addicted to this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbdWt3UDXhs
adam ant is really freaking handsome and was widely regarded as such in the 80s... i feel like he has a really 80s face. i think he would still be regarded as handsome but i do think there are certain looks that go in and out of favor. i dont know if i really like the way guys look these days. im hard pressed to think of young actors whom i find attractive...
people always tell me i look like someone in a rensaissance painting, which i dont find very flattering. so i have a semetic, old world look, but i really want to look like a WASP. one time someone said they didnt think i was jewish because my nose isnt too big... people are really fucking dumb. i find myself identifying as white although when i think white i think WASP. slight cognitive dissonance there.
the other thing i hate that i get all the fucking time is that i look really young, and then the person tells me it a compliment. no, its fucking not a compliment at this age. it means you are taking me seriously and you think i am a kid. just because I do not wear make-up or dress up i look like a kid apparently.
why do people think its ok to comment on your looks or your body?? this especially goes for women's bodies which are considered community property. people comment on my chest a lot... its basically my friends so i dont get so mad but like, is it appropriate? no. i havent gotten too many negative comments thankfully, because i mostly conform to what is acceptable by society's standards... but its annoying.
i want to re=write this to make it more coherent but i dont feel like doing that right now...
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[01 Feb 2011|01:38am] |
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ughhh I cant wait to move out of my current place so i can delete my Facebook for good. I feel like i still need it to communicate with my asshole aptmates but i pretty much fucking hate them and 99% of the people I know at this point...
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[13 Jan 2011|02:02am] |
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i am going to oregon for a while starting next week. should be a welcome change. i feel like i was attacked with mustard gas thanks to my flatmate's cooking. i have a long line of things i am pissed off about and as soon as i forget one the next one steps up. grr
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[11 Jan 2011|12:06am] |
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i said hi and he said i and i shook his hand and said i enjoyed the show and im a fan and he asked it wasnt too much? and i said no trust me im a fan of everything you do and he said thanks and he asked me my name and i told him and then i turned away to not take up too much of his time but he was pleasant and i love him
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[01 Aug 2010|03:29pm] |
he said that he likes that im grounded
i think im grounded to a fault
more like im smashed flat on the pavement
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[27 Jul 2010|02:04am] |
I am having a lot of fun writing my movie blog lalamovies.tumblr.com
i really want to update it a couple times a week from now on, which i have done this week. im trying to rally people to read it but i dont know if it will appeal to anyone but me and people veeery similar to me...? its really easy to get discouraged but when i feel good about it and get a little goofy about it, it is fun.
i am working on making a paper doll but i dont have a scanner or photoshop, so once I get it drawn i have no idea what to fucking do. im not cutting out the original! it's too big and the paper it's on is too thin, gah. I really want to scan it, clean it up, maybe add color an print it on thick paper so it can be functional, its going well so far.
i am also hating many other aspects of my life, but im glad ive shot some creativity into my days.
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[04 Jul 2010|01:17am] |
visit my movie blog
CLICK MEEEE
I will try to update this multiple times a week. knowing people are looking helps me stay motivated.
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[22 Jun 2010|12:03pm] |
I had the weirdest dream last night... I wish I could remember it all but I can't. Also, the thing that is weird about some of my dreams is that sometimes I am me, or sometimes I inhabit a character that I also view from a third person viewpoint at other parts of the dream... so it makes less sense that way... and I am also multiple characters in the dream...
Anyway I feel like I need to write it out, so...
At the beginning part I was working as a hairstylist in a really run down salon run by my friends who are twins... things were okay but sort of tenuous and dangerous as I will explain later. Everything was going alright but then it was the end of summer and the twins had to leave to go back to school, and so the salon was shutting down but I was left there thinking, what am I going to do? I don't want to be in this place alone! (ok this sort of seems like an allegory for my life when I put it this way, but let's not read into it)
There was this couple around who wore long black Matrix like coats, but they had zippers that were razor sharp... so when they would hug each other they would open their coats and fold each other into their coats... eventually I believe the man killed someone...?
Then the other part of the dream was that there was a youngish, handsome man, reminded me of Lee Pace, but it wasn't him. He lived around where the beat down desert salon was where I worked, and anyway, he had a family who were beat down, didn't work, were lazy; he was at odds with his family. I guess my brain is racist because this family an the aforementioned couple were all Latino/a... lol. So this young man somehow came to find a young blond girl who was a Dakota Fanning type. He was trying to protect her, even though it made his family mad because they want him to take care of them.
So, he tries to reconcile, or at least play nice, with his family, and they gather in the desert to have a big picnic. They each provide some things to eat, and the man provides chicken which makes he family happy since they can't afford meat.
So, they are all eating and enjoying their food, but something is off. They look at the chicken they are eating... The man then reveals that they are not eating chicken, but they are eating the blond girl! I could see her in my head lying on the sand not too far from the picnic, and parts of her arms and legs are cut off with skin hanging off...
The family freaks out and says she needs to go to a hospital immediately, but the young man picks up part of her severed arm that still has skin hanging off it and says something like "but what about this? you're going to waste this meat?" He is really distraught too, and is debating whether it is more humane to take her to the hospital or let her die. Then in the dream it cut away to a billboard nearby and you can hear the most horrible, gut wrenching screams imaginable coming from the girl.
So, he decides to rush her to the hospital, and at this point it's really like I'm watching a movie, and he's running around and pushing her around in a wheelchair, and as I'm watching this I'm sobbing hysterically as well, because it's so horrible. But then in my dream I'm still thinking it's a good movie but I wish they didn't have Dakota Fanning play the girl.
Then I woke up.
From Dreammoods.com
Cannibalism
To see cannibalism in your dream, symbolizes a destructive and forbidden desire or obsession. In a literal sense, cannibals consume people's lives, along with their energy. Thus, this dream may then denote an aspect of your life (career, relationship, children, etc ), which is consistently draining your enthusiasm and vitality.
Desert
To dream that you are walking through a desert, signifies loss and misfortune. You may be suffering from an attack on your reputation. Deserts are also symbolic of barrenness, loneliness and feelings of isolation and hopelessness. The desert landscape may also be a metaphor for feeling deserted and left behind.
Hairdresser
To dream that you are a hairdresser, suggests that you are imposing your ideas and opinions on others. Perhaps you need to work on your self-image and improve on your image. Alternatively, it refers to your attitude toward your own sexuality.
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[14 Apr 2010|01:00am] |
I went to the UCB theatre again tonight and it was fucking epic as usual. Doug Benson had the most fucking awesome guests on "I Love Movies"-- the cast of "Party Down," including sexy ass Ken Marino and Martin Starr who plays my fave character, sci-fi nerd Roman. When my friend and I were waiting to get into the show before I knew he was going to be on, he walked by me and I said to her "that guy is totally on a TV show" and she shrugged... I really want the "Party Down" DVDs now though! Honestly I'm still in fucking awe.
And then CDR was sooo fucking awesome... I need the CDs from most of the performers! Chris Fairbanks, some British guy named ???, Matt Braugner, who made my friend laugh so hard she cried, super adorable Nick Thune, and Podcaster extraordinaire and epic comedian Marc Maron... oh my god it's still unbelievable that I got to see all this so close up and all in one night. I've pretty much seen almost all of my most favorite comedians... I still need to see Stella (fat chance with them being NY snobs) and Maria Bamford and I can then die happy... :)
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[19 Mar 2010|06:10pm] |
done with school for a week... happy about that although life is still pretty boring...
watched some good/ok movies recently... 2010, district 9, up in the air, princess and the frog... actually i havent watched enough movies recently but its hard to think of ones to watch.
listening to roxy music a lot even though i wasnt so into them before... blah blah blah
i want to get a hair cut... my hair is so gross right now... but i dont know what kind of cut i want. i dont have any hairspiration, especially with my crappy hair qualities
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[20 Jan 2010|05:28pm] |
its just another wednesday
nothing good is going on
skipped all my classes
cuz i dont wanna go out in the rain
woke up with my throat burning
and a headache
let the cantaloupe become encased in mold
due to my laziness and negligence
more canned food for me
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[16 Jan 2010|02:00am] |
I am EMOTIONAL because I just watched a movie I fucking love called "Twin Falls Idaho," and I have the urge to write about it.
I first saw this movie a few years ago randomly on HBO. The sound was very quiet so I had trouble making out all the dialogue but the imagery was so evocative that it had me hooked.
Since that first viewing, the movie would come into my head at times, and I caught myself thinking about it so much recently that I caved in and bought the DVD.
It was everything I remembered and more. I don't even want to discuss what it is about because it is so powerful that I don't want to lessen it. Too bad it is an independent, humble movie that no one has heard of, while bombastic bloated films like you know what are polluting the public consciousness.
Anyway, I am so glad I watched this movie again. I feel entranced and almost like I need to watch it again right away. I would love to share this movie with somebody.
In fact, I should have a double feature of this movie and "My Own Private Idaho," haha.
In other movie viewing news, I have continued my quest of watching dystopian movies. I saw "The Running Man," which is a solid Schwarzenegger flick, the overrated "Escape from New York," and rewatched "Children of Men," which I find unbearable as it manages to be both mumbly and ear-splittingly loud at the same time. I only watched it because my dad really wanted to see it, and it was amusing how he took the anti-immigrant stance while watching it... not that I disagree. Additionally, I watched "Serenity," which I liked but didn't love. I unconsciously resist the "Firefly" world even though I love a lot of Joss Whedon's work. Am I put off by the Western aspects or the hype? Tell me.
And since I'm listing all the movies I've seen recently, I also watched "Big Fan" since I am a Patton Oswalt freak. A really good, solid, small scale film.
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[15 Jan 2010|03:36pm] |
i feel really jittery from drinking coffee... usually im ok but for some reason it really got me this time.. so i'll update. sorry for the scattershot feel of this post ugh
i bought some stuff online recently, and it is so fun when it finally arrives. i bought andy warhol's popism, a love and rockets comic anthology, and the dvd of twin falls idaho, a movie i could not get out of my head since i saw it on hbo years ago. i bought this stuff partially to get myself off the computer, but thats only worked to mild success right now. i bought love and rockets because i want to read more comics and i want to be inspired to draw more. i bought one of jamie's books because jamie's style is cuter (very reminiscent of archie which i love). for those who don't know, love and rockets is a long running underground comic series about a barrio, written by brothers jamie and gilbert hernandez. i think most people think of jamie's work when they think of love and rockets; that could just be me but i dunno. i don't know much about gilbert's work but i think there are fantasy elements to it... it seems more out there. i havent read too much of the book i bought yet; i bought the second anthology of jamie's work since that was what i saw recommended as a starting point. i like it a lot so far, if i like this whole book i'll probably buy another one.
and it did get my drawing a bit, i started drawing but then got tired of it quickly. back when i liked manga and when i was in middle school/high school i used to enjyo drawing a lot but then mostly stopped which is pretty sad. i tend to have the most success drawing from photographs so i have a realistic basis, but the whole endeavor seems somewhat futile to me... i dunno why. i should do it for the love of it, not for some means to an end. it's quite sad actually.
if i were a good artist i would draw a graphic novel based either on edie sedgwick's life or something based on andy warhol's factory... i think edie's life would make a really compelling story because of the tragic deaths of her and her siblings like minty and the one whose name i forgot ><;; a story of the three untimely deaths of the sedgwick kids would be awesome to write and draw... too bad i don't feel my talent could do the story justice ;_;
the popism book might be further inspiration though... i read part of it in a library once, and anything having to do with andy or his superstars is immediately fascinating to me.
blah blah blah blah blah... im boring
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| 100 points for people over 75 |
[30 Dec 2009|05:09am] |
My sleeping schedule is SO. FUCKED. UP. It's almost 5 AM and I'm wide awake. I swear I keep vampire hours, it's really bad because I'm gunna be a mess when school starts.
Anyway, since I can't sleep, I've decided to update. I recently watched "Rollerball" and "Death Race 2000," two movies which are fraternal twins. Both were made in 1975, both are in the dystopian genre, both are centered around deadly sports wildly adored by the masses, and both were remade into horrible (I've heard) films earlier this decade. I really enjoyed "Rollerball." The society in that movie is completely controlled by a group of corporations (New World Order allusion?)and the titular game is used to convey to the viewers the futility of individual effort (media to suppress the working class). I liked the execution of the movie; the main character's search for answers; the action of the rollerball games and the like was quite good.
"Death Race 2000" was also fun, but pretty minor and underdeveloped story wise. It's an exploitation movie though, so what would one expect anyway? I liked the different personae and costumes the racers wore, but the concept of the game didn't make much sense. Basically, the racers collect points by mowing over pedestrians, but since everybody knows the race is going on, they all stay inside to avoid getting killed... Would the game really be that popular with such minimal carnage? The remake changed it so that the competitors are prisoners on a prison island who have to destroy the other racers, which makes much more sense, but other parts of the plot (Jason Statham's false imprisonment, other dumb ass modern action movie trappings) don't really work. I think the concept of the death race would be more interesting if they didn't feel the need to force a sympathetic protagonist into the movie; just have the competitors try to destroy each other to see who is the last one standing, forget the prison island (it's more interesting with volunteers), make killing pedestrians a bonus or a side effect and not really worry about that part either way, since it is amusing.
I'd still recommend both movies. B-movie vixen and Warhol superstar Mary Woronov plays Calamity Jane in "Death Race 2000," which is awesome in and of itself. It was also David Carradine's break-out movie role.
Another dystopian movie I saw but don't have much to say about is Woody Allen's "Sleeper." Amusing, but also minor.
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| Back again |
[23 Dec 2009|04:37am] |
...I still want to start a new blog, but registering for sites is so annoying so I'm back for now.
As part of my dystopia movie kick, I finally watched "The Matrix" tonight. First thing I did was look at the tiny font runtime on the bottom of the box and moaned. I have a firm belief that any length over two hours for a movie is pure self-indulgence on the part of the director. But that's a theory for another time. Anyway, I sat down to watch the movie, and I wasn't very impressed. I'm a Keanu lover and apologist so that's not the reason why; however none of the performances blew me away now that I think about it. The kung fu action is of course enjoyable but I hate gun violence. The real reason I didn't like the movie was because it basically played out as Metaphysics/Philosophy 101, which is like, I already had this conversation when I was 17 and thought I was deep. Or whatever. I'd probably give it a B-; there is no way in hell I'm watching the sequels.
Here is the rundown of my genre specific watching, semi guided by this list. Compiling this list made me think about the fact that a person's idea and definition of a dystopia and what they hope to see in a dystopia movie can vary greatly, which is why I think a lot of the movies on this list are iffy... To me a dystopia is a highly dysfunctional society characterized by inequality and oppression, with either a government with too much control, anarchy, or extremely powerful corporations. Inequality can be economic inequality, caste systems, and the like, and oppression can be oppression of the individual or censorship, etc. When I watch a dystopian movie, I want to gain a clear feeling of what it would be like to inhabit said society and of what makes that society so dysfunctional. Dystopian movies often take place after an apocalypse, but I separate post-apocalyptic movies from dystopian movies because I feel the society in a dystopian movie should be more fully formed to suit my first preference. I also love the sense of dread instilled by watching how the characters are trapped in the society, often with no way out, as it often reminds me of our own society. This is why I love evocative movies like "Blade Runner", which has influenced every noirishly styled sci-fi to come after it, or the insane mind-fuck of "Brazil". Of the ones I've seen, "They Live" is most like our society (except for...uh...one detail... Just watch it).
Previously seen dystopia movies (That I can remember):
A Boy and His Dog (more post-apocalyptic than dystopian...?), Alphaville (sexy French noir dystopia!), A Scanner Darkly (which made my mind explode due to Keanu, Winona Ryder, and RDJ all being in a movie together), Artificial Intelligence: AI (horrible movie, and I don't consider it a dystopia, just a Blade Runner wanna-be), Blade Runner, Brazil, Children of Men (well half), Dark City (debatable...?), Delicatessen, Gattaca (more of an anti-utopia than dystopia), Idiocracy (my dad and I argue the most over whether this is a dystopia or not; he says it isn't because there is no class stratification and no one is oppressed, but I say it is because it is still a dysfunctional society and they are inherently oppressed by their idiocy), The Matrix, Minority Report, Robocop (I want to say this movie reminds me of Judge Dredd, which is a fucking awesome comic book dystopia), Soylent Green, They Live (why I wear sunglasses), Total Recall (three boobed lady!), Twelve Monkeys (um... more like pre-post-apocalyptic?), V for Vendetta
Okay if that looks like a jumbled mess it's because it is. And not all of my above statements were written very clearly but I'm just trying to get them out for now... Many more movie ruminations to come
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[14 Dec 2009|01:22pm] |
Going to a Coen Bros triple feature tonight~
i really need to start blogging more, keep writing more... i dunno if im gunna keep it here or get a new blog though, like my blogspot one
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[25 Nov 2009|02:51pm] |
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I loooove Thanksgiving week. Glory Glory
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