godthedog

just to make it easier, i only chose the tracks on 'the pod' that counted as real songs. i do love lines like "A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P-Q-S-T-A-L-L-I-O-N, i am the stallion, mang" and "on my dick you should sit," but it's just noodling.

Aguirre, the Wrath of God surprised this one wasn't taken yet, especially after it was mentioned in the comments that didn't warrant a thread. i kept meaning to pick it up, just didn't get around to it till now. herzog is alternately awe-inspiring and frustrating, usually within the same movie. this one i think has by far the best story to prop up the kind of surreal images he does so well(the monkeys, the ship in the tree, etc.), and when he's doing that, there's nobody else like him.

there was a really great movie in here screaming to get out, but it was surrounded by some clutter. i think it would be pretty much agreed that this is as good as the franchise is going to get, simply because the joker is your best shot to get things right. nobody sums up what the batman universe is all about as good as he does, and every other villain seems tame in comparison. on the one hand, they handled the joker stuff as well as it could possibly be handled. not just in the way ledger played him, but the writing of the character was spot-on. even simple lines like "i wanna drive" were perfect little additions. his behavior is pretty much lifted from the killers in 'funny games', and that's not a bad thing. on the other hand, it's the fucking joker and he warrants his own movie. showing the arc of harvey dent & the origin of two-face is fine, but how are you going to make two-face seem like a genuine threat when the joker's out there? who gives a shit about two-face when pure fucking evil is running rampant through the city? if ever there was a case when you could break the new "two villains per movie" rule, it's the joker. this really hurt the structure of the movie when also: christian bale's growling in the batman costume is out of control. it's comically bad. it bothered me a little in the first one, but he has so many grand speeches that he has to make (especially in the last 15 minutes or so) that it's just impossible to take seriously.

even on UCB, she wasn't all that funny. she held up her end okay, but never really stood out. she definitely does not deserve to be the most successful of the 4 on that show. and even if you go to the sunday UCB improv shows, she doesn't do much.

Duck Amuck this doesn't even need an explanation. who has ever gotten sick of watching this? it's fucking perfect. the end.

just finished this. lo and behold, it's really good. i felt cheated by the anticlimatic non-fate of the kid, but the last paragraph of the book (before the epilogue, i mean)...good god, that was lovely and disturbing.

5 of 5 for pearl jam: 1) no code 1a. "hail, hail" 1b. "red mosquito" 1c. "sometimes" 1d. "around the bend" 1e. "habit" 2) vitalogy 2a. "better man" 2b. "nothingman" 2c. "corduroy" 2d. "last exit" 2e. "tremor christ" 3) ten 3a. "black" 3b. "porch" 3c. "once" 3d. "release" 3e. "garden" 4) vs. 4a. "rearviewmirror" 4b. "elderly woman behind the counter in a small town" 4c. "animal" 4d. "go" 4e. "indifference" 5) pearl jam 5a. "come back" 5b. "life wasted" 5c. "world wide suicide" 5d. "gone" 5e. "inside job" -------------------------- 5 of 5 for ween: 1) the pod 1a. "dr. rock" 1b. "captain fantasy" 1c. "pork roll egg and cheese" 1d. "right to the ways and the rules of the world" 1e. "alone" 2) the mollusk 2a. "she wanted to leave" 2b. "buckingham green" 2c. "the golden eel" 2d. "mutilated lips" 2e. "ocean man" 3) godweensatan: the oneness 3a. "l.m.l.y.p." 3b. "birthday boy" 3c. "marble tulip juicy tree" 3d. "squelch the little weasel" 3e. "you fucked up" 4) quebec 4a. "happy colored marbles" 4b. "the argus" 4c. "zoloft" 4d. "it's gonna be a long night" 4e. "if you could save yourself, you'd save us all" 5) chocolate and cheese 5a. "baby bitch" 5b. "spinal meninghitis (got me down)" 5c. "voodoo lady" 5d. "what deaner was talking about" 5e. "the HIV song" ----------------------------- i was bored at work this morning.

yeah, i'm totally taking 'the spirit' and 'terminator 4' in future rounds.

i see people like this all the time in pittsburgh. usually traveling in pairs or threes, haven't had a shower but always have good teeth, are very precise and polite in their vocabulary, usually have a dog with them. they're common enough that there's a name for them, i can't remember what it is. i fucking hate these people. my money is going to the 40-year-old guy on crutches with the drinking problem who's panhandling because he can't get work--not to the little tourist shits who think it'll be an "adventure."

if you crack open his skull and let him live, he'll probably be a vegetable. so you can eat him then, while he's still alive.

i wasn't expecting much...thought the first one was just sorta there, and didn't think it warranted a sequel...but i enjoyed this one quite a bit. it's still a little on the slight & mindless side (not existential or weighty like 'spider-man 2', and not meant to be), but a lot of fun for what it is. they transition from action scene to action scene really well, in a way that makes sense and develops naturally. i was never waiting for the next big set piece, because the characters were interesting and funny. and i was never waiting for the action to just stop (like i sometimes do when it gets to be too much), because it's really inventive and well done. this, to my mind, is exactly what a summer movie should be. it knows what you come in for, and does it well.

if that's what you're looking for, you should definitely check out 'in the mood for love'. totally lyrical and heartbreaking. but yeah, sofia coppola's really good for wistful longing. i love the scene in the elevator where they're saying goodbye and they're not sure how much contact is appropriate.

i've noticed that church-sponsored biblical reenactments and softcore porn have exactly the same production values. same video cameras with the same grain, same soft focus to make all the surfaces shiny and cover up any cheap flaws, same way that candles make little sunbursts on the screen. my fiance's church runs a video loop of the last supper when there's communion, and it when jesus picks up the cheap shiny chalice it seriously looks like he's trying to get you drunk and seduce you. it's creepy.

Ghost World hey look, it's scarlett johansson when she's not trying to remind us all how hot she is. maybe i love this movie more than i should, but i think it's great. i love the way it takes its time with storytelling, wandering a lot. i love the hazy not-in-high-school-but-not-in-college kind of "what the fuck do i do now" uncertainty, and even when i watch it now it still feels very familiar to me.

i had a female friend i would affectionately call "bob." we would say things like, "bob has bitch tits."

you could also ask how to find the "right to privacy" in the first ten amendments, and how that allows abortion.

i think he meant for fun. those don't count.

i cannot believe it. i was going to pick that. i cannot believe somebody else would think to pick that. it's not even a feature. ugh. In the Mood for Love sad, romantic, and gorgeous to look at. watching maggie cheung go out to get noodles in slow motion is a sight to behold. this is why wong kar-wai used to be awesome.

just from the itunes samples, she seems to have a nina simone thing going on.

is that the golden pantry on broad, close to vision video?

but there's a whole slew of unlikely things that become worse because you're farther away from public services. what if your house catches fire? what if there's a flood in the area? what if your kid is home by himself and starts to drown in your backyard pool? and so on down the line. those don't add up to reasons to keep a firehose, sandbags, and a lifeguard in your home, they're an implicit part of the more general risk of living far away from things. why is the fear of burglers or robbers any more urgent than those things, such that you need a gun but not, say, a firehose?

This is 110% how it's done. I'm not sure how I feel about this business. On one hand I think regulation is smart, because fuck-all if I want idiots with heavy-duty weapons. On another hand, I think national standards for guns can be problematic because of the reasons Agent laid out; in a major urban area, I might see guns-4-all as a miserable idea quite likely to backfire horrifically, but in rural areas where you're 20 minutes from supposed authority, there's absolutely common sense working there. On a mysterious third (gripping) hand, my roommate borrowed a friend's AR-15 with a reflex sight this weekend, and it's kind of the best thing ever. After playing with it for 5 minutes, I totally get why people shoot stuff. i'm sort of in the opposite mindset. i can more understand somebody in an urban environment wanting a gun for protection, because, well, gun violence is just much more likely to happen there. a month ago a house across the street from me got 4 bullet holes plugged into it. as somebody with a wife-to-be sleeping beside me, it's a scary thing wondering how i would be able to protect myself and her from something like that. people in rural areas, at least to my understanding, just don't get nearly as much crime (especially violent crime). it takes a lot of effort to drive out into the middle of nowhere to rob and/or kill somebody. do people in remote areas really stay awake at night with that same kind of fear? i don't ask that rhetorically, i really don't know. i'm also pretty confident that gene could kill 2 men with his bare hands, so i don't know what he's worried about.

i like the logical transition from 'red shoe diaries' to sue johansen.

wow. that might be the worst one-two punch post on record in this folder.

i seethe with jealousy.