I saw "the wackness" at the film festival yesterday. it reminded me of caitlin. then I saw "largo." it reminded me of elliott smith. the former was good. i imagine it will either receive way too much hype or barely make waves. it's difficult to tell which extremes people will gravitate toward. and the latter, according to the director who ( Read more... )

every day above the dirt is a good day; even a groundhog can tell you that ( Read more... )

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so, it turns out i'm just too good of an old woman to be cast as anything else, ever ( Read more... )

hard work good and hard work fine, but first take care of head.

smoke two joints, my friends, for soon you may be dead.

so, gas prices are going up because we're in an oil crisis, right? there's a war, there's a recession, right? the production costs and shipping costs and refinery costs, if these are all going up, so must the price of gas, right ( Read more... )

this is pretty much the first year in a very long time i've made a definite effort to go see movies that are being hyped as potential oscar winners. the last couple years have seen some decent (i hear) films like the Aviator and the Departed and Blood Diamond, but I never got around to checking any of those out ( Read more... )

I went to see the Royal Shakespeare Company perform King Lear with Ian McKellan as Lear (howleeeee shiiiiiiit). On Thursday I'm hoping to get in to see them do The Seagull with McKellan as Sorin. A couple weeks ago I saw the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane dance company perform, and in another week or so I'm probably going to see this puppet show called ( Read more... )

so, i was standing behind the counter at my work, and two japanese kids in school uniforms came up to me and asked me to fill out their quiz. this happened to me once freshman year, and the questions were like "how many hours a week do you study?" etc., etc. so i agreed. the first one hands me his sheet of paper. the first question is "How ( Read more... )

So, friends, once again the summer is almost gone, and that means that so are the saturday night screenings at the Hollywood Forever Cemetary. So, I've never been, and on Saturday, September 15th, their showing THE EXORCIST. Yes, in the Cemetary. So let's go. It will be all kinds of creepy fun ( Read more... )