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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
11:31 am	I've Had It / And You Can Have It *gulp* I just made a horrible, horrible discovery. I made a big boo-boo. If you'll excuse me now, I have to go ram my head into the wall a few times... Current Music: Grandmaster Flash - Freedom (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
11:47 am	Soon Everything We've Known Will Just Be Swept Away Hey, it is Movie Friday! (There's a holiday involved; leave it alone...) The most exciting new film this week by far is Michael Mann's latest, Public Enemies! John Dillinger robs banks! The Circle is showing Buffalo '66 free on the Green (3rd & Boston) this Wednesday around 10:30, and the theater is holding over Chéri, starring Michelle Pfeiffer in a Stephen Frears (The Queen, The Grifters, High Fidelity, Dangerous Liaisons) film based on two Colette novels. Running low on dough? The dollar theater has two good films, Duplicity and State of Play. Films I've seen and recommend include, from least to best, Up, The Hangover, Drag Me to Hell, Star Trek, and, especially, Easy Virtue and Away We Go. (At the dollar theater, I still need to see The Soloist and Monsters vs. Aliens.) Have a great long weekend! Current Music: Bjork - Cocoon (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
9:26 am	I Fell in Love With You / Before the Second Show Hey, who is that movie star smack dab in the middle of the front page of the Tulsa World? Why, the beautiful brilliant lilbrigid, that's who! ;) Current Music: Stevie Wonder - I Was Made to Love Her (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 29th, 2009
10:43 am	Death of the Ringtone / This Ain't for iTunes / This Ain't for Sing-Alongs Monday Morning's Ten Tunes With my iPod on shuffle, these are the first ten songs of my work week... 1) Radiohead - Exit Music (For a Film) 2) Todd Rundgren - Marlene 3) Radiohead - Climbing Up the Walls 4) Green Day - American Eulogy 5) Bruce Springsteen - You'll Be Coming Down 6) Radiohead - Lucky 7) Kanye West - Stronger 8) Kanye West - Celebration 9) Todd Rundgren - Black Maria 10) Amanda Blank - Might Like You Better (Again, the ol' shuffle ain't quite cutting it, eh?) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Did you know I'm dating a film star? Oooo la la! Current Music: Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love (Comment on this)
Friday, June 26th, 2009
10:19 am	You're a Vegetable / I'm Gonna Eat You / You're a Vegetable It is Movie Friday! Not much new. If you're a moron, there's some new movie with robots. Otherwise, there is Away We Go. It has slackers, pregnant women, John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Maggie Gyllenhall, director Sam Mendes, and a script co-written by Dave Eggers. Obviously, this is something of the anti-Transformers, thank goodness. Need a decent blockbuster? The midnight movie at the Circle Cinema tonight and tomorrow is Back to the Future. They also have a free showing of Mad Hot Ballroom Thursday at 2 PM. Stupid work! Films hanging around I recommend, in reverse order, include Up, The Hangover, Drag Me to Hell, Star Trek, and, especially, Easy Virtue. The dollar theater has Monsters vs. Aliens and The Soloist, and the IMAX has, aw, never mind... Current Music: Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
9:23 am	I Can Feel Very Clearly / But No Longer See I finally finished it last night, and now lilbrigid has a one-disc Sonic Youth sampler to ready her for the concert next month. I agonized and finally worked it to the following track list. Song title is followed by the album where the tune made its debut, and any title after that is the actually disc I used as a source. If the two albums are different, it is because I think the second has a sonically superior version... I'm a nerd. 1) Death Valley '69 - Bad Moon Rising ( Postpunk Chronicles: Going Underground ) 2) Shadow of a Doubt - EVOL ( Screaming Fields of Sonic Love ) 3) Into the Groove(y) - Ciccone Youth's The Whitey Album ( Screaming Fields of Sonic Love ) 4) Schizophrenia - Sister 5) Catholic Block - Sister 6) Teen Age Riot - Daydream Nation ( Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground ) 7) Silver Rocket - Daydream Nation 8) The Sprawl - Daydream Nation 9) Kool Thing - Goo (Mobile Fidelity gold disc of Goo ) 10) 100% - Dirty 11) The Diamond Sea - Washing Machine 12) Incinerate - Rather Ripped 13) Malibu Gas Station - The Eternal Thanks to long songs, the compilation is over 76 minutes but merely 13 tunes long... Before you complain too much, let me tell ya, that was tough. I determined it had to be chronological to give a sense of the band's evolution, and I wanted to include the few major singles the outfit has scored. Additionally, it had to flow like a good album. Give it a shot - it can drive you bonkers, especially if you already live in the neighborhood! I'm off... Current Music: Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
10:05 am	I Waited for a Thousand Years / For You to Come and Blow Me Out My Mind If you had told me last week that I would like Easy Virtue much more than I did Up, I never would've believed ya... Current Music: Led Zeppelin - The Battle of Evermore (Comment on this)
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
11:36 am	And It Keeps Coming / And It Keeps Coming / And It Keeps Coming / Til the Day It Stops On the plus side, staying in to eat on Sunday meant less crowds and some delicious lemon pancakes. On the minus, it means we missed out on the strange, confused stares we get when lilbrigid and I go out together on Fathers' Day... Current Music: Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place (5 Comments |Comment on this)
9:37 am	The Man in the Suit has just Bought a New Car / With the Profit He's Made On Your Dreams Monday Morning's Ten Tunes With my iPod on shuffle, these are the first ten songs of my work week... 1) AC/DC - Love Hungry Man 2) Steely Dan - Daddy Don't Live in New York City No More 3) The Rolling Stones - Rough Justice 4) The White Stripes - The Nurse 5) The White Stripes - I want to be the Boy to Warm Your Mother's Heart 6) Kanye West - Touch the Sky 7) Led Zeppelin - Bring It On Home 8) Kanye West - Good Life 9) MIA - Mango Pickle Down River 10) Green Day - The Static Age Have a great week, all! Current Music: Green Day - The Static Age (Comment on this)
Friday, June 19th, 2009
10:00 am	When the Moon is Round and Full / Gonna Teach You Tricks That'll Blow Your Mongrel Mind Hey, again, it is Movie Friday! The bad news? The best film of the year, The Brothers Bloom, has left Tulsa. You snoozed, you loozed. ...and I still need to see Up. Two intriguing, acclaimed films hit the AMC today. Rudo y Cursi teams up the two male stars and the co-writer of Y Tu Mama Tambien in a comedy drama involving brothers and soccer. and Easy Virtue, a filming of the Noel Coward play starring Jessica Biel and the on-fire Kristin Scott Thomas (who tore it up last year in Tell No One and I've Loved You So Long...). Want to try out something cool? (Okay, maybe cool is the wrong word to use...) On Wednesday, June 24, the Circle is putting on a free outdoor showing of Rumble Fish on the Green at 3rd and Cincinnati. No, it is not the greatest film, but it was shot in Tulsa, and the price is right! Films still showing I recommend, from least to best, include The Hangover, Drag Me to Hell, State of Play, and Star Trek. The dollar film has two movies I'd love to catch, The Soloist and Sunshine Cleaning. There are good movies around, so you have no excuse to rot your brain watching Land of the Lost or The Proposal! Have a great week! Current Music: Blur - Trouble in the Message Center (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
10:37 am	Restart and Re-Boot Yourself / You're Free to Go Happy Bloomsday, all! Current Music: The Thermals - When We Were Alive (Comment on this)
Monday, June 15th, 2009
10:42 am	Slicing Up Eyeballs - Oooo-woah-oooo-oooo Okay, now that I have some time to breathe again, today marks the return of... Monday Morning's Ten Tunes With my iPod on shuffle, these are the first ten songs of my work week... 1) Lamb - Trans Fatty Acid 2) Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Town Cryer 3) The Beatles - All My Loving 4) Bruce Springsteen - Bobby Jean 5) David Bowie - Let's Dance 6) The Band - Unfaithful Servant 7) Big Joe Turner - Shake, Rattle, and Roll 8) Them - Gloria 9) Bruce Springsteen - Hungry Heart 10) Loretta Lynn - Out of My Head and Back in Bed Have a great week! Current Music: Bob Dylan - Buckets of Rain (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 12th, 2009
9:42 am	Catch the Sun Before It is Gone / Here It Comes / Up in Smoke and Gone / Catch the Sun Hey, it is Movie Friday! And whadyaknow, there's some stuff I still need to see! The new film that perks up my ears is 12, a restyling of 12 Angry Men by the great Russian director Nikita Mikahlkov (An Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano, Burnt by the Sun). It is at the Circle, and due to some wacky scheduling, I only have one night to catch it (Thursday), but oh, I'll be there. Otherwise, yes, my own personal crazy schedule means I still need to see The Hangover, Drag Me to Hell, and Up. Great films I recommend include Duplicity, State of Play, Star Trek, and, especially, the divine The Brothers Bloom. Have a great week! Current Music: The Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
3:10 pm	It Should've Been / Could've Been / Wores Than You Would Ever Know You know, I really hate sites that insist on approving you before you can be a member. After waiting twenty minutes, I just withdrew my membership from one. I know, I'm unreasonable, but... Current Music: Bjork - Immature (6 Comments |Comment on this)
10:14 am	The Lights Are On / But You're Not Home The play opens tonight. *gulp* Current Music: Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) (15 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
2:29 pm	Why Can't It Just Be Cool and Free Us? Just when you thought the dumbest event in my state couldn't get any dumber... Have you seen The Brothers Bloom yet? Bought your tickets to Sexual Perversity in Chicago? Well, get on it! (What are you waiting for? SERiously...) Current Music: Pavement - Hit the Plane Down (2 Comments |Comment on this)
9:32 am	So Take Me Home / Don't Leave Me Alone / I'm Not That Good / But I'm Not That Bad Two Things You Need to See The Brothers Bloom Don't argue; just watch it. Sexual Perversity in Chicago in Tulsa. Yes, the very sexy lilbrigid is in it, so you know it is going to be great... Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night at the PAC, with a matinee on Sunday. Now get ta hoppin' already! Current Music: Santana - El Nicoya (Comment on this)
Friday, June 5th, 2009
10:21 am	I'm Diseased / I Don't Mind Good golly, it is one incredible Movie Friday, and no, I most certainly am not thinking about the horrifying pile of steaming crap that is Land of the Lost! The film I've been anticipating most this summer hits town! And no, I'm not a brainless 16 year old, so I'm not talking about the new Terminator, Wolverine, GI Joe, or Transformer dud. I'm talking The Brothers Bloom! It is at the AMC, and you know I'm going to find a way to catch it! The other promising new film hitting Tulsa is the comedy grown ups are going to go see. No, again, not Land of the Lost... The Hangover. And yes, I still really need to see Up and Drag Me to Hell, but I've been deathly ill this week, so cut me some slack, huh? Films showing I can personally recommend include, in reverse order of quality, Duplicity, State of Play, Star Trek, and especially, Sugar (at the Circle). If you're low on cash, the dollar theater has I Love You, Man... Current Music: Miles Davis - Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
10:03 am	Prince Couldn't Get Me to Change My Name So, this guy and I were talking this morning, and we were amazed that we were both avid fans of The Edge back in 1992. Anybody else remember this show? (Yes, that is a pre-Friends Jennifer Anniston there...) My memory seems to remember an hour-long block of this with The Ben Stiller Show, another program I dug at the time, but that could just be my mind playing tricks on me... Current Music: Pixies - Bone Machine (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 1st, 2009
9:59 am	In Theory, I Respect Your Right to Exist / I Will Kill You if You Move in Next to Me Monday Morning's Ten Tunes With my iPod on shuffle, these are the first ten songs of my work week... 1) Steely Dan - My Old School 2) The Rolling Stones - Cool, Calm, & Collected 3) Derek and The Dominos - Have You Ever Loved a Woman 4) The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want 5) The Strokes - Alone, Together 6) Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - The Fire Down Below 7) Elvis Presley - Trying to Get to You 8) The Smiths - Still Ill 9) Elvis Presley - My Baby Left Me 10) The Band - Look Out Cleveland (Ever suspect the iPod shuffle feature doesn't work all that hot?) Have a great week, all! Current Music: The Band - Look Out Cleveland (2 Comments |Comment on this)