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Forgive me girls I am confused stiff and pissed and lost and loose
Thanks to the limited selection available on Quickflix on demand, I'be just finished watching "Girl, Interrupted". I didn't much like it the first time around and my opinion hasn't changed. But it's kind of interesting in a heart-breaking way to think about how depressed teenage girls became zeitgeist-y for a moment there. This, "Prozac Nation", " ( Read more... ) -
Nobody broke your heart. You broke your own because you can't finish what you start.
As Kelly drove me home this morning, we lamented the awfullness of having to be adults. And so I've spent the afternoon back tracking through the last 10 years so I don't have to think about how soon, how very very soon, I will be 30. And that surprised me - that I've had this journal for 10 years. I didn't make it that far through the archives ( Read more... ) -
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It was only because I was scrolling down through the last few entries on this terribly neglected little digital patch that I remembered, "Bugger! 'Written on the Wind' started an hour ago...." It's on now and it's a glorious print. Poor broken Robert Stack. Dorothy Malone dancing with complete abandon while, just outside her room, her father ( Read more... ) -
They're going to send us to prison for jerks
I don't know how to describe my opinion of "Four Lions". I laughed. I thought it was clever. But I left the cinema thinking, "I cried and quietly shook for days when 52 people died in London and an innocent man was held down and shot 7 times in the head ( Read more... ) -
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Holy shit. You go out to watch "Plein Soliel" and then come home to find that the way your country is going to be run is about to change completely. I'm trying to remain optimistic and hope that a Labor minority government will be formed with some lefties so that, in conjunction with The Greens holding the balance of power in the Senate, the change ( Read more... ) -
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Oh. HELL. yes.
Australia is getting its own Amazing Race!
Coming soon: 1 ridiculous audition video in which I force Shane to make an idiot of himself alongside me. Awww, that's the definition of love, innit? -
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Man, you know you got it tough when the dilemma du jour is whether or not you should go ahead and subscribe to the 2010 Sydney Theatre Company season. Seriously though, Blanchett doing Chekhov and Phillip Seymour Hoffman directing "True West ( Read more... ) -
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Yes. Just yes.
Everything included here = yes.