I am back in Philly after a week and a half in the southern U.S. We had a good time, traveling around from Houston, TX, to Lafayette and New Orleans, LA, and to Austin, TX. Ate a lot (seafood, beignet pastries) and I bought things I don't need (film and art books, as well as CDs like Duran Duran's Arena and Thank You, Guns n' Roses The Spaghetti Incident?, The Knack's Get the Knack, and The Doors's The Soft Parade. So Eureka! A skeleton, ghetto version of my films viewed chart . . . Fireballs and Tsunami is hideously obsolete, since I've been away from the luxury of an Ethernet connection. While in LA, Jeremiah and I watched the DVDs of Go (1999) (Doug Liman's MTV editing gives me seizures, but it's oh-so-good), Amy Heckerling's Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) (teen dramedy) and David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986) (Jeff Goldblum's eerily good at being an insectuous scientist . . . but Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983) is better (and Debbie Harry of Blondie co-stars!). We watched Friday (plotless, but Ice Cube makes it enjoyable) in Austin; also in Austin, a bunch of us were lucky enough to hang out at the Alamo Drafthouse (there's no basement in the Alamo Drafthouse) to see Raiders of the Lost Ark . . . it's good, but I prefer Temple of Doom. To get my Cary Grant / Tony Curtis fix, I recently watched Operation Petticoat (1959) - the two of them are so suave it's ridiculous. I started James Cameron's The Terminator (1984) last night, but have yet to finish it. Hey, there's a Terminator 3 coming out next year . . . I hope Guns n' Roses does the soundtrack.
Duran Duran, Pop Trash
Gary Numan, The Pleasure Principle
Cyndi Lauper, She's So Unusual
Alphaville, Forever Young
The Vaselines, The Way of the Vaselines
Juliana Hatfield, Only Everything
P.J. Harvey, Is This Desire?
The Rolling Stones, Hot Rocks
Frente, Marvin the Album
Destiny's Child, The Writing's on the Wall
The Cars, The Cars
The B-52s, Cosmic Thing
Duran Duran, Arena
The Doors, The Soft Parade Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
L7, Hungry for Stink
The Dandy Warhols, The Dandy Warhols
The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
Ace of Base, The Sign
The Waitresses, The Best of the Waitresses
Belle & Sebastian, Lazy Line Painter Jane
The Fad, The Fad The New Wave: Pop Music of the Early '80s
Goodbye Girl Friday, Mr. & Mrs.
Naked Highway, Hyperbollocks
Duran Duran, Pop Trash Classic Alternatives: '80s 12" Extended Rare Mixes
Phil Collins, Hits
Genesis, Turn It On Again: The Hits
Ladytron, Light & Magic
Ladytron, 604
The Go-Betweens, Before Hollywood
Beck, Midnight Vultures
Duran Duran, Seven & the Ragged Tiger
Abba, Arrival
The Cardigans, Long Gone Before Daylight
The Psychedelic Furs, All of This & Nothing
Air, Moon Safari
The Knack, Round Trip
Blondie, Parallel Lines
The Psychedelic Furs, Forever Now
The Donnas, Spend the Night
Nancy Sinatra, California Girl
Tatu, 200 KMH in the Wrong Lane
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Organisation
John-Manuel Andriote, Hot Stuff: A Brief History of Disco
Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Jean Kilbourne, Deadly Persuasion
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation
