I Love You to Death is on Comedy Central. Hells yeah! Marlon (Keanu Reeves): "If we're gonna waste the dude, we oughta get paid for it. I mean, that's the American way, ain't it?"
In other news ... NYU students: I am co-editing the university's newest film theory and criticism journal. If you have an original piece for publication --a film review, analytical essay, and/or other film-related material -- please email me. Thanks!
Call me a spoilsport. I watched the Olympics' introduction tonight -- and during the opening ceremony, various Native American tribes performed ritual dances. Immediately afterwards, white actors were ushered in to reenact the 19th century settling of Utah. Did the Olympics planning committee think it would be slightly ironic to remove Native American tribes from the stage and bring in white settlers? Odd...
Man, and I was in such a good mood after making my bitchin' mix tape. This is why I don't watch the Olympics!
My flamboyant mix tape came out just to my liking! The tracklist is as follows:
Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough George Michael - Freedom 90 New Order - True Faith, Bizarre Love Triangle Duran Duran - Union of the Snake Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut The Knack - My Sharona Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus, Enjoy the Silence, Policy of Truth Duran Duran - Planet Earth Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love The Flying Lizards - Money Soft Cell - Tainted Love The Replacements - I Will Dare Blondie - Call Me Nena - 99 Luftballons Mission of Burma - Max Ernst New Order - Blue Monday Erasure - A Little Respect Duran Duran - Girls on Film
I still have a bit of space left on the tape. Any suggestions?
I'm so excited to make a mix tape later today! It will include rockin' 80s beats by New Order, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, George Michael, The Cars, Erasure, Billy Idol, The Knack (technically, 1979), The Clash, Stray Cats, The Go-Go's, The Replacements, as well as some of those random 80s hits like "Tainted Love," "I Melt With You," and "Der Kommissar."
This is AWESOME!
"Black and orange stray cat sittin' on a fence, ain't got enough dough to pay the rent. I'm flat broke but I don't care, I strut right by with my tail in the air. Stray cat strut I'm a ladies cat, I'm a feline Casanova hey man that's that! Get a shoe thrown at me from a mean old man, get my dinner from a garbage can."
Tonight was NYU's Color Sync student film festival. There were about a dozen films screened - by far, the wittiest movie was about a young man and his close relationship with his cat. More tomorrow!
I'm going to be late because I've been listening to "Just Can't Get Enough" by Depeche Mode on repeat all morning. If you don't own it, buy it, download it, wear the T-shirt. I'm seriously thinking about making up a dance to the song.
Emily put a Duran Duran poll up! You know you want to choose which DD member has the biggest ego. Don't you?
I was reviewing my site stats today, and realized over the past few weeks, I've gotten 72 hits from people searching for photos of a nude Audrey Tautou (the actress from Amelie), 57 requests for Diana Riggs nude, not to mention a ton of queries for nude photos of Russell Crowe, Penelope Cruz, Wil Wheaton, Jennifer Connelly, Chris Klein, and the actresses from Mulholland Drive. (By blogging this, I am further manipulating the search engines. But I thought it was too odd not to mention - especially since I am unfortunately lacking in a collection of nude celebrity photos). However...I did receive an autographed, glossy 8x10 photo from David Lee Roth when I wrote fan mail to him in 1992. But David Lee Roth is clothed in the photo.
I must have listened to my tape of Duran Duran's Seven & the Ragged Tiger ten times in the past two days. "Somebody shaking my tree, maybe that somebody is me. I'm standing in the light, but I'm making a break for the shadows on the cinema wall! They should be mine, but I'm not that tall. Now I'm saying this in private - if i had a car I'd drive it. Insane!!!"
Intrigued by the neverending sirens and helicopters this afternoon, Jeremiah and I ventured towards the World Economic Forum brouhaha. There were countless police officers on foot, bikes, vans, you name it. There was a big crowd of protesters, surrounded by a couple hundred police officers equipped with nightsticks, handcuffs, tear gas, the works, not to mention a ton of paddywagons, correction buses, and news reporters. A ton of protesters got arrested. It's pretty wild ... I can still hear the sirens wailing. We took a lot of pictures and I will post them later today!
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
