godthedog

Yes. You can also watch Baadasssss!, a movie by Mario Van Peebles about that movie being made, also featuring The Office's Rainn Wilson as a crazy hippie. As for another title to add to the list, add on Five on the Black Hand Side or you could watch 'baadasssss cinema', a documentary by isaac julien about the blaxploitation movement.

petey wheatstraw foxy brown coffy (i think that's the one where pam grier puts the guy's junk in a pickle jar, but it may be another one) the ultimate one, of course, is 'sweet sweetback's baadasssss song'. it's a lot of fun. holy shit does that movie hate women.

top 5 bjork songs: 1. pagan poetry 2. bachelorette 3. headphones 4. pleasure is all mine 5. i miss you i've probably done that list before.

i would too, but there's no challenge in that.

maybe it's just one of those things i'll never "get." i do love me some aquemini. tori amos, 'to venus & back' (mixing the live and studio stuff into 1 album): bliss juarez suede datura 1,000 oceans precious things cornflake girl bells for her mr. zebra sugar purple people i think i have a stronger attachment to that album than most other people who have heard it. mostly because the live cd is really good for long-distance driving.

outkast, 'stankonia': gasoline dreams so fresh, so clean ms. jackson snappin' & trappin' i'll call before i come b.o.b. humble mumble ? i don't like this album very much.

it seems to me that tommy was just the pesci character from 'raging bull', without the more tender dimension to it. like, they just took the scene where he was slamming the car door on someone's face, and decided to play on that for 2 hours. he's not doing anything different with it. i don't think de niro was playing the same person he'd been doing before, but i get a sense that there's not a lot of character depth there. he's definitely relying on a lot of mannerisms and such without a lot of psychology going on. it's sort of a one-note performance, other than the granny glasses there's no way he really changes through the film. i'd attribute that more to the script for not giving him all that much to do though. 'goodfellas' gets a free ride on character a lot just because it's got great actors in it, but there isn't much to grab on to, most things are done in aid of the overall style. it certainly doesn't approach the kind of depth you get with 'the godfather', where you get a really solid sense of who the people are and what kind of decisions they make and why.

wow. even outdated wrestlers grow up and get new professions.

i distinctly remember a beatles solo episode of '8 track flashback' on vh1 ten years ago, where david cassidy rattled it off as a piece of trivia. then they showed the video for "back off boogaloo." which is a great song.

oh, snap.

i liked 'broken flowers' a lot the first time i saw it. so much that i saw it again at the theater the next weekend (which i haven't done since 'ghost world' in 2001, and that shouldn't even count since that was playing at the student center which only cost me $2). but seeing it again, there was absolutely nothing there and it just bored the shit out of me, so i left after 45 minutes or so. top 5 uses of voiceover narration: 1. badlands 2. the big lebowski 3. taxi driver 4. amelie 5. jules & jim 2-5 vacillate a little for me, but number 1 cannot be disputed. absolutely the best thing about a very very good movie. top 5 shittiest piece of shit i've watched in the last month: 1. crash 2. crash 3. crash 4. crash 5. crash

loss was always my favorite.

what happened to minnesota in those rankings? did they get good while i wasn't looking?

tom petty, 'wildflowers': wildflowers you don't know how it feels it's good to be king only a broken heart house in the woods hard on me don't fade on me crawling back to you wake up time jeffy buckley, 'live at sin-e' (somewhere inbetween the ep and the 2-disc set): be your husband mojo pin grace strange fruit eternal life calling you the way young lovers do je n'en connais pas la fin i shall be released

a totally unnecessary attempt to cut 'revolver' to less than 15 minutes: "taxman" "eleanor rigby" "i'm only sleeping" "for no one" "got to get you into my life" "tomorrow never knows" come to think of it, you could just cut it down to a mccartney solo album and wouldn't have a single weak point (except maybe "good day sunshine," which i still like a lot for personal reasons). too bad he wasn't this good again for three years.

following up on the beatles thing, i've also found out that 'a hard day's night' is the most fun album they ever did. that shit is giddy.

it occurs to me that 'let it be' is a better album than 'magical mystery tour'. this despite the fact that the latter had 3 of the best songs the beatles ever did, and the former isn't even that good. that's how bad the filler on 'magical mystery tour' is. holy shit is it useless. it's like if ween did some really clever parody of a beatles album. "blue jay way" and "your mother should know" are especially weenlike.

who exactly has had the most worthy remaster treatment? i don't follow these matters at all, so i have no answer. i'm just curious what people have to say.

there's an album my mom has called 'christmas favorites' that has some very nice versions od the standards. mahalia jackson does "o holy night," tony bennett does "my favorite things," and robert fuckin' goulet does "angels we have heard on high." a few weeks ago i saw a copy of 'christmas on death row', on vinyl, for like 8 bucks. i have yet to forgive myself for not buying it.

i have. except for the last part about something clicking and wanting to listen to it. i'm pissed that "kinetic" isn't on itunes. i love that song.

i've only been here 3 months and i don't even like football.

these are the interesting cities within 7 hours driving distance from pittsburgh, where i currently live: philadelphia new york* chicago* toronto washington, dc* baltimore* cleveland indianapolis i'd like to take a weekend road trip of some sort to at least one of these places in the spring. i'm wondering what other people think i should go to (like, a list of 3). star indicates cities i've been to before, but i'm more familiar with some than others (i don't even know if baltimore should count, cause i just visited there for a day 8 years ago). pittsburgh is also a surprisingly robust and interesting city. urban enough to walk around in without any trouble finding things to do, but not suffocatingly urban (there's always either a river or some thicket of trees no more than 300 feet away). the roads and traffic fucking suck though. suck horribly.

my 'war & cinema' class is having a fake conference at the end of the semester to present our papers, and my classmate & i are trying to think of titles for our panel. so far we have Suck My Robotic Dick: Flesh and the Machine "We All Want to Have Sex with Our New Robot Masters, I'm Just the First to Admit It": Inverting the Human/Machine Body Politic Death/Metal: Popular Music and Fantasies of Wares Hard, Soft, and Wet "A Robotic Dingo Ate My Baby": Queer Theory, the Nuclear Family, and Nintendogs

bob ross on youtube is the most amazing thing in the history of things. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCY0pXwN_bw fucking fuck that's soothing. like a gentle rippling pond of warm clear water on my penis.

projection rooms are awful sites of all sorts of depravity. most of the student workers i knew in the film department at college had several stories of projection room making out and/or sex. and at the movie theater where i worked in high school, there was the college-age projectionist who offered to show me her cunt. i said no, cause i was scared and she was really skanky. she was totally toying with my innocence, and in retrospect i should've let her take advantage of that. and this movie is way overrated. marc forster seriously needs to tone down the hyperdramatic slow-motion musical montages. he did it in 'finding neverland' too and almost ruined it. it's like he saw the last cheesiest 3 minutes of 'american beauty' and said to himself "i want to make moments like that from now on, only moments like that, my films will be nothing else because moments like that are always the best part."