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Today was a good day on the car radio. I spend a good 2.5 hours in my car in traffic daily, so a good radio day is a damn good day overall.
It was a lot of those songs that make you envision yourself on a cliff with the copter-cam spinning around you, like in that "Pregnant Whore" (AKA Britney Spears) video. You know...'verse...chorus...verse...chorus a little louder...string section kicks in...chorus in a higher key...finale...soft whispery reptition of the last line'...that sort of song. They were all over the place on the FM.
And the best part was that I was on the freeway, with the windows rolled up, so there was no way of anyone ever knowing how much I was enjoying the slough of Kelly Clarkson and Journey...at one point Meatloaf's "I would do anything for love" came on and I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Mmmmm...guilty pleasures...mmmmmmm....meatloaf...
And now, to entertain herself, Heather will reccomend 6 and 'un' or 'de' or 'in' reccomend 4 'I've seen them on Showtime 20 times and I just keep watching' movies of the summer:
RECCOMENDED-
1. "Easy":
A delightful indie with a soap-opera plot and the perfect blend of twenty-something cynnicism and idealism. For the ladies there's some fantastic romance...and a turtle, and for the fellas it's practically soft-core porn, so there you go.
2. "The Punisher":
Shocked, I was SHOCKED that by time I realized what the hell I was watching, I was actually enjoying myself...it's pretty much 'Desperado'in that it's a series of randomly violent episodes, and at the end, when John Travolta gets his violent comeupons you can 'mute' and add your own lines, such as "And that's for 'The General's Daughter!" or "Take that L. Ron Hubbard!"
3. "Kinsey":
Actually, it's on pay-per-view but whatever. So good, this movie is so good. It makes you want to go out to your local library and read the Kinsey Reports cover to cover, not that I'm a pervert, it's scientific goddammit! Plus there's something fascinatingly creepy about Liam Neeson making out with a younger man, even to gay men I suspect.
4. "Super Size Me":
If you have not seen this...bad doggie, Bad! You just gotta see it, it's funny AND scary as hell, a combination that Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson have been failing at miserably for years. BONUS: Morgan Spurlock's new show, "30 Days" on FX ( I think MTV tried to do something similar, but got all...well MTV about it and made it trite)
5. "Runaway Jury":
Suprisingly good for Yawn Grisham (forgive that joke, it's late). Very twisty, so warning, DO NOT WATCH WITH ANDREA, she WILL know the ending before you. And John Cusack is the ever uber cute (and still single) everyman, *sigh*.
6. "House of Flying Daggers" (a rental...so I cheat, you try coming up with 10 movies you've watched on Showtime):
Even if you don't like art house martial art romances, promise me you'll at least fast forward to and watch Ziyi Zhang's dance with beans hitting the drums, pleeeeease...thank you, I luv you, buh bye. :)
NOT RECCOMENDED-
7. "American Girl":
You think 'Jena Malone, trailers, a suicide attempt on Flinstones Chewables, this is GREAT.' NO! Back away from thuh tee vee, This is actually not a good movie, not at all, just a bunch of indie veterans' excuse to make fun of trailer trash and call it 'edgy', but I'd like to take the opportunity to quote Jena Malone's only good line in the thing, "....don't say chinaman!... Say china-person." CLASSIC, I watch it every time for that.
8. "Beyond Borders":
Oh! Oh my God, OH MY GOD, it's gonna end now right? This is the part where it ends...yeah I can see it...ending...wait, no! No! Not ten years later! NOOOOOO! I love all of the humanitarian intent behind the movie, but hot Clive Owen/Angelina Jolie sex scenes juxtaposed with a Cambodian baby holding a hot grenade...yeeeah...not so much. You know what, Angelina dies at the end, wearing her Lara Croft outfit and a Russian hat. There, I ruined the ending, now you can't watch it, you'll thank me when you're older.
9. "Surviving Christmas":
I must confess, maybe at the end zombie John Lennon and Jim Morrison come out and do a ska rendition of "Sleigh Ride" that makes it all worth while, you'll have to see for yourself, I didn't stick around to find out.
10. "Paycheck":
John Woo should be beheaded and his remains piked on the Tower of London...then we should all do extreme close-ups of them at TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE TIMES!!!! (wait, is that a mixed metaphor?).
-So go forth, and veg in front of cable my friends...veg. (mmmmmm...veggies).
PS: 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' is getting good reviews....yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay "My" Johnny (calm down Andi)!
It was a lot of those songs that make you envision yourself on a cliff with the copter-cam spinning around you, like in that "Pregnant Whore" (AKA Britney Spears) video. You know...'verse...chorus...verse...chorus a little louder...string section kicks in...chorus in a higher key...finale...soft whispery reptition of the last line'...that sort of song. They were all over the place on the FM.
And the best part was that I was on the freeway, with the windows rolled up, so there was no way of anyone ever knowing how much I was enjoying the slough of Kelly Clarkson and Journey...at one point Meatloaf's "I would do anything for love" came on and I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Mmmmm...guilty pleasures...mmmmmmm....meatloaf...
And now, to entertain herself, Heather will reccomend 6 and 'un' or 'de' or 'in' reccomend 4 'I've seen them on Showtime 20 times and I just keep watching' movies of the summer:
RECCOMENDED-
1. "Easy":
A delightful indie with a soap-opera plot and the perfect blend of twenty-something cynnicism and idealism. For the ladies there's some fantastic romance...and a turtle, and for the fellas it's practically soft-core porn, so there you go.
2. "The Punisher":
Shocked, I was SHOCKED that by time I realized what the hell I was watching, I was actually enjoying myself...it's pretty much 'Desperado'in that it's a series of randomly violent episodes, and at the end, when John Travolta gets his violent comeupons you can 'mute' and add your own lines, such as "And that's for 'The General's Daughter!" or "Take that L. Ron Hubbard!"
3. "Kinsey":
Actually, it's on pay-per-view but whatever. So good, this movie is so good. It makes you want to go out to your local library and read the Kinsey Reports cover to cover, not that I'm a pervert, it's scientific goddammit! Plus there's something fascinatingly creepy about Liam Neeson making out with a younger man, even to gay men I suspect.
4. "Super Size Me":
If you have not seen this...bad doggie, Bad! You just gotta see it, it's funny AND scary as hell, a combination that Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson have been failing at miserably for years. BONUS: Morgan Spurlock's new show, "30 Days" on FX ( I think MTV tried to do something similar, but got all...well MTV about it and made it trite)
5. "Runaway Jury":
Suprisingly good for Yawn Grisham (forgive that joke, it's late). Very twisty, so warning, DO NOT WATCH WITH ANDREA, she WILL know the ending before you. And John Cusack is the ever uber cute (and still single) everyman, *sigh*.
6. "House of Flying Daggers" (a rental...so I cheat, you try coming up with 10 movies you've watched on Showtime):
Even if you don't like art house martial art romances, promise me you'll at least fast forward to and watch Ziyi Zhang's dance with beans hitting the drums, pleeeeease...thank you, I luv you, buh bye. :)
NOT RECCOMENDED-
7. "American Girl":
You think 'Jena Malone, trailers, a suicide attempt on Flinstones Chewables, this is GREAT.' NO! Back away from thuh tee vee, This is actually not a good movie, not at all, just a bunch of indie veterans' excuse to make fun of trailer trash and call it 'edgy', but I'd like to take the opportunity to quote Jena Malone's only good line in the thing, "....don't say chinaman!... Say china-person." CLASSIC, I watch it every time for that.
8. "Beyond Borders":
Oh! Oh my God, OH MY GOD, it's gonna end now right? This is the part where it ends...yeah I can see it...ending...wait, no! No! Not ten years later! NOOOOOO! I love all of the humanitarian intent behind the movie, but hot Clive Owen/Angelina Jolie sex scenes juxtaposed with a Cambodian baby holding a hot grenade...yeeeah...not so much. You know what, Angelina dies at the end, wearing her Lara Croft outfit and a Russian hat. There, I ruined the ending, now you can't watch it, you'll thank me when you're older.
9. "Surviving Christmas":
I must confess, maybe at the end zombie John Lennon and Jim Morrison come out and do a ska rendition of "Sleigh Ride" that makes it all worth while, you'll have to see for yourself, I didn't stick around to find out.
10. "Paycheck":
John Woo should be beheaded and his remains piked on the Tower of London...then we should all do extreme close-ups of them at TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE TIMES!!!! (wait, is that a mixed metaphor?).
-So go forth, and veg in front of cable my friends...veg. (mmmmmm...veggies).
PS: 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' is getting good reviews....yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay "My" Johnny (calm down Andi)!