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Kiss me, Hot-Handed God of Cops.
So recently font has been conducting a seminar in Introduction to Hong Kong Cinema every time we speak, and last night's lesson, now that she has mostly exhausted the art films, was John Woo's Hard Boiled. It features a tender and moving love story between two cops in between a lot of two-fisted gunplay and slow-motion shots in which many, many, many, ( Read more... ) -
Snow day.
A few weeks ago, my boss, in the manner of so many guilt-ridden noncustodial parents, attempted to buy the love of our creative team by becoming super-lenient. Instead of letting us stay up late eating ice cream and watching horror movies, he told us we could work from home every day if we wanted, provided we could make it to the office within 30 ( Read more... ) -
friendslist what is wrong with you?!
I know you're trying to protect your little feelings but you can't run away.Come on, people, not a single person on my flist is hyperventilating that HP and the Deathly Hallows is out on July 21, less than six months from now! I had to get the news from Google News, and within approximately three seconds -- I mean, I only read the headline -- I was ( Read more... ) -
movie response: children of men
There was a time in the fall and winter after the 9/11 attacks that I spent a lot of time awake at night and cruising dark back roads with the radio going, too scared to sleep, too scared to stay still. I kept waking up from dreams of babies bleeding from their eyes, of bellies like rotten gourds. I listened to Art Bell on late-night AM, even ( Read more... ) -
Ain't there no more.
Season's greetings, people of LJ. I will not bore you with long tales of my Xmas travels except to say that I discovered, entirely by accident, that our company's lead proofreader spent her holiday in the same negligible Louisiana town where I was born, which town I passed through briefly, and it feels rather like having someone peep into my ( Read more... ) -
Bad luck comes down the road.
I was awakened at two this morning by the voices of four guys arguing in the alley just beneath my bedroom window. There was the one whose friends believe needs to sleep it off, and then a chorus of helpful voices (the one who wants to walk him to his house, the one who wants to find his car, the one who alludes to woman trouble). About this, they ( Read more... ) -
Pull me out of the lake.
I just had a conversation with font about Radiohead covers (she played me John Darnielle's attempt at "No Surprises," an interesting failure, and then Gillian Welch's "Black Star," which is so beautiful and sad it makes me want to die) and then today I came upon these clips of the University of Arizona marching band doing:
1. airbag and paranoid ( Read more... ) -
Earth's the right place for love.
Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all of you ( Read more... ) -
Y'all don't know my struggle.
So my new employer does this thing where you work 40 hours in four days the week before a holiday weekend so you can have a four-day holiday instead of your company-paid three-day. Which is awesome, except that I am already up to Hour 24 at the end of Tuesday. The good thing is that I would have worked this hard whether we were flex-weeking it or ( Read more... )