O Pioneers?
I know I have mine.
Happy New Year from Oomingmak and the Cocteau Twins (wrong cold planetary pole for the beastie, but a spam ad for quiviut articles of clothing actually came up when I searched for this video!)
If you read too much poetry, you instantly thought of Marianne Moore when you saw that word.
O to be a dragon. Indeed.
Let's hope that the Noughties which are leaving us won't be replaced by the Nasties.
That would just suck.
That would just be a total Horkheimer.
Happy New Year to all Sentient Beings and their Sentient Appurtenances!
May Chase or some other fanged creditor not be the first one to call you on New Year's Day!
Repeat after me: you're not a deadbeat. You're just achieving the holy state of deadbeatitude! It's like samadhi. Well, almost.
Snerk it up.
Lee rented a bunch of movies lately and I can say The Hangover was one of the worst movies I've seen in ages. It's sort of hard to be totally unfunny when you make a really dumb comedy. Usually, one just stumbles upon at least a few laughs in the bumbling and bubbling meander of drool. But that waste of space manages to dodge every laugh. Or at least it did for me. It's as though G4 had made its first feature film, aimed at its core audience 14 year old pathological masturbators. Or maybe a 14 year old pathological masturbator wrote it. With one hand. While wearing a latex masturbation glove on the other as a keyboard handicap.
District Nine was much funnier than The Hangover, due in part to the really rickety performance by the main human protag. Was it just me, or was he totally off-balance for the first thirty movies of the film? The direction, in general, was really spotty for the first thirty minutes of the movie, but after you're sure the director gets how hackneyed the allegorical components of his movie actually are, and the picture suddenly decides it's really an action film with a sick sense of humor, it starts to work. The protag plays it oddly, rather as though he wanted to create a South African space alien apartheid Steve Carrell.
I think I spelt Steve's surname wrong.
Oh well. Let's start out the New Year's with false orthography, false hope, false grandeur and the rest. Works for me.
I only caught the ending of S. Darko, so I don't know how it compared to Donnie Darko, but I was happy to see the movie ended with a Cocteau Twins song ("Heaven or Las Vegas").
Happy Snew Year.
Here. Enjoy some dayglo Buddhahood. And some Compassion for the New Year. It has to be born. All by itself.
Some early Cocteaux, with a tinge of Siouxsie and the Banshees influence to it, no?
Some Tibetan throat-singing. Tuvan. You can thank Bjork for getting throat-singing in the forefront these past few years.
And what good's a New Year without a little Green? Scritti's ex at Shepherd's Bush in 06.
I fell asleep to this pretty song this afternoon, watching it on Lee's Zune.
Although 2009 felt more like this. I loved this song/video the moment I experienced it. Wasn't it during a Superbowl? I remember even my one uncle who was in his eighties at the time loved it.
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happy new year, bill!
and good bye to the
noughties
i must confess that i watched THE HANGOVER at the drive-ins last summer and maybe it was the company, the beer, or being beneath the stars i thought this was one funny gross-out comedy that works on the same level of PORKY'S
i thought the docu direction of the 1st third and last third of DISTRICT 9 was the most effective
the middle section turned into a very good action film
but the docu sections approached the goofiness of the main character and the seriousness of the subject matter with a level set of honesty i found refreshing
make it a good transition to the teens
it is 9:30 pm here in california and i'm counting down
happy new year, richard!
well it's coming your way anyway.
re: hangover. it must also be a hetero thing.
about the porky's comparison. yeah, it should have one of those dollar store dollar perfume generic touts like "IF YOU LIKED PORKY'S..."
it's marketed to death now in its "afterlife" too. with tie in contests and everything.
i gag everytime i "relive" it through the 'mercials.
district 9 probably suffered in my eyes b/c it was so hyped.
i thought it was some "deep" or thoughtful movie. i had no idea it was just a fun little action film. the apartheid allegories and ironies might be an eye opener for kiddies but aren't going to do anything for the rest of us.
the movie had no theme really. it meandered. you're being too kind, i fear, by seeing it as a triptych.
i don't think it will age well at all.
it already reminds me of robocop too much and that's less than a day later.
for some reason i thought jackson had directed it and was shocked at the shoddiness, but then was relieved to see he only produced.
i haven't really seen any great movies lately, richard, but a few good ones.
i suppose it's my fault as i've not been looking hard. i just see what's on the tube or what lee rents.
the few good ones? mostly on ifc i think although they run mostly cack too.
oh manhattan was on today. and annie hall.
but that was hardly a first view.
i may actually go the theater to see avatar which will be a first in years. but i suppose it's worth seeing in a theater, no?
now i want to go look up a "best of 2009" movie list to see if anything sounds even remotely interesting.
xo
bill:
maybe THE HANGOVER is a hetero thing but i have many women friends who also found it funny
dunno maybe chalk it up to my having pretty crude tastes
agreed with DISTRICT 9 but maybe it'll age better and the movie got better in my estimation after watching it
perhaps i need to watch it again
ROBOCOP sucks period never got into it
AVATAR is no great shakes as a flick but it is a gorgeous flick so indeed see it once on the big screen and in 3d
my favorite movie of 2009 is THE ROAD which barely got any decent distribution and so-so reviews but i think it an incredibly beautiful film
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